Milburn Line Interviews with Harvard Human Rights Journal

Harvard Law School Human Rights Journal -- The Harvard Human Rights Journal’s second interview is with Milburn Line, executive director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. Director Line has more than 15 years of experience working with communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, Colombia, and other nations.

 HHRJ spoke with Line about peace and justice concerns in Guatemala: the current health of Guatemala’s justice system, historical legacies of conflict, and the incorporation of Mayan justice practices. Our editors have divided this interview into three parts, to be run at regular intervals. In this first section,  Line discusses how the historical legacies of conflict have affected Guatemala’s development in the realms of peace and justice. (Full Story)