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Jan de Vos van Gerven (1936 – 24 July 2011) was a Belgian historian, who lived in Mexico from 1973 until his death in 2011. In 1995 he became guest-advisor to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) during the peace talks between the EZLN and the Mexican Government. ==Career== Jan de Vos was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1936. He grew up bilingual in Dutch and French. He achieved his PhD. in the humanities at the University of Leuven, Belgium. In 1973 he came to Chiapas, Mexico, as a missionary priest. Over time, and in relationships with the indigenous Mayans of the Lacandon region, he adopted an outlook influenced by liberation theology.
During his life in Chiapas he did research and wrote many books on the history of the Lacandon region and processes that led to the Chiapas conflict. In 1986, he received an academic prize (the ''Premio Chiapas'') and in 1992 he received the national ''Juchimán de Plata'' prize. Having made a reputation by writing on the Lacandon Jungle, he was invited as a permanent guest advisor by the EZLN during the negotiations between the government and the EZLN in San Andrés Larráinzar in 1995. (see also the San Andrés Accords) As a distinguished person in the region he entered the Consejo Consultivo (Consultative Council) of the EU/Chiapas development project Prodesis around 2004.() In her answer to a question in the European Parliament, Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner referred to Jan de Vos to underline the transparent and democratic character of the project:
During an interview in 2007, however, de Vos was very critical of Prodesis's way of operating, and sceptical about the possible results. In his opinion, the people in the Lacandon region have been betrayed too often (which is a strong sentiment in the region) and Prodesis is making the same mistakes as predecessor-projects like PIDDS and the Cañadas programme. In the last years of his life, de Vos worked at CIESAS ((Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social )) and resided mainly in Mexico City, but he often returned to San Cristobal de las Casas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan de Vos (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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