Transformation from Within

In this chapter I want to explore the process of peacemaking that took place between the Sandinista government and the resistance movement YATAMA in the East Coast of Nicaragua, a conflict often referred to as the ‘Miskito problem,’ named after the dominant indigenous group of the Atlantic seaboard. Within that conflict I will pay special attention to the work of the Conciliation Commission, a group of religious peacemakers who served as intermediaries at both a local and national level between Yatama leaders and the Sandinista government. This is a story within a story, about peacemaking in a war within a war…