Abstract
This chapter analyzes and explores the capacity of the societies to support the processes of negotiation on the diplomatic front and construct a culture of peace. Naturally, there is no intent to suggest that this participation could displace the diplomatic negotiations. Ffa-mal negotiations are irreplaceable and, just as the military negotiations that led to the construction of measures of confidence for the prevention of conflicts, they should be respected for their specific logic. What is argued here is that the environment for such negotiations should be subordinated in the most rigorous sense to political will that would simultaneously express the commitment of the peoples of both nations to a jointly binding destiny that extends beyond the signing of an agreement of peace, as a permanent guarantee of its effectiveness.
| Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
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| Title of host publication | Security cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Resolving the Ecuador-Peru conflict |
| Place of Publication | Miami |
| Publisher | North South Center Press - University of Miami |
| Chapter | 9 |
| Pages | 195-209 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1-57454-064-5 |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 1999 |