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This paper assesses the situation five years after the peace accords in Guatemala. The author uses a conceptual framework of five factors expected to have relevance for the implementation of peace accords: content of the accords, political will and capacity to implement the accords, ownership of the accords, institutional mechanisms for making peace sustainable and third-party involvement. The author argues that there is a need for third-party pressure on the elite-dominated government to implement reforms and that rather than the UN, the international donor community should enforce such pressure in a post-settlement situation.