It's ten years today that the final peace accords were signed in Guatemala, formally bringing to an end 36 years of civil war. BBC Mundo has posted an article marking this anniversary. They interviewed three of the participants of the panel discussion we organised in early December in London with Canning House: Yolanda Aguilar, Dominga Vasquez and Guillermo Chen.

We'll be tracking any other articles covering the passing of this moment and pulling together some of the assessments and analysis of what's changed in Guatemala since the signing of the Peace Accords a decade ago.

Reuters correspondent Mica Rosenberg certainly sums up the bleak side of the coin in the article: 'Violence plagues Guatemala decade after war's end'.

"Ten years after the end of a civil war that killed about a quarter of a million people, Guatemala is still racked with violence, and struggling to overcome corruption, drug smuggling and poverty. Criticized by a presidential hopeful [Otto Perez Molina] as close to becoming a "failed state," Guatemala has yet to meet most of the sweeping development goals promised in peace accords between the government and leftist guerrillas signed on Dec. 29, 1996."

There has been a lot of coverage and reflection on what has happened in Guatemala over the last ten years in the Guatemalan media. These are various links to news stories we've found on the Peace Accords.