Dos Justicias: Coordinación Interlegal e Intercultural en Guatemala

Dos JusticiasThis book was produced in a collaboration between the authors, the Indigenous Mayoralty of Santa Cruz del Quiché, and other indigenous authorities in the municipality. In the text “Promesas y peligros de la coordinación: Derecho indígena, inseguridad y la búsqueda de justicia en Guatemala” I reflect on different aspects of debates and practices around interlegal coordination in Guatemala, setting them in the current Latin American context. In “Video comunitario y coordinación jurídica en Quiché”, Carlos Y. Flores analyzes the role that the appropriation and circulation of audiovisual materials by k’iche’ communities plays in Mayan law. The book is accompanied by a DVD of the film “Dos Justicias: los retos de la coordinación”, which documents a paradigmatic case of coordination between the Mayan legal system and the official state justice system that was filmed by members of the community and later edited and complemented with additional materials,

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