Why Guerrillas Negotiate: Lessons learned from the Salvadorian Civil War

Violent Non-state Groups Seminar Series

Joaquín Villalobos is a Salvadoran former politician and former guerrilla leader. He was one of the main leaders of the People's Revolutionary Army that emerged in El Salvador in the early 1970s and later one of the main military strategists of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. He played a major role in the negotiations that ended the civil war in El Salvador. He has served as a consultant on peacemaking efforts in other countries (Colombia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Bosnia, Northern Ireland), as an advisor to the Center of Cooperation Initiatives for Development at the University of Alcalá de Henares, and as a member of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC, USA.