The following materials provide information that participants on the travel study seminar are reading in preparation for their trip. The information ranges from a description of the physical environmental, people and culture of Guatemala, to the warnings listed by the US Department of State, to the Guatemala Peace Accords, to human rights organizations. Please visit the sites to learn more about what this group will be studying. Upon their return, stories will be posted about their travels, learnings and findings.

Web Links

• CIA World Factbook
• Demanding Economic Justice for Guatemala
• Environmental Degradation and Land Distribution in Guatemala
• Guatemala Peace Accords
• The Coffee Industry in Guatemala and Mexico
• U.S. Department of State
• Young Adults Serving in Mission in Guatemala

Suggested Readings/Videos

Esquivel, Julia. 1982. Threatened with Resurrection: Prayers and Poems from an Exiled Guatemalan. Elgin, Ill.: The Brethren Press.

Esquivel, Julia. 2002. Secrets of God’s Reign/Algunos Secretos del Reino. Washington, DC: Epica Task Force.

Hooks, Margaret. 1993. Guatemalan Women Speak. Washington, DC: Epica Task Force.

Precarious Peace: God and Guatemala. This video is a case study of violence and hope. Produced by Rudy and Shirley Nelson. The Catticus Corp. Distributed by Vision Video, Worcester, PA.

Wilkinson, Daniel. 2002. Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala. Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Co.