One of the greatest legacies of the Sandinista Revolution was agrarian reform. Despite the amount of land redistributed, this process happened without any form of legal documentation to support the transfer of property from one owner to the next. The end of the civil war, the peace accords and the transition of power from left to right-wing parties produced conflicting policies that would bring high levels of complexity to the system of land tenure in the country. The case of the state-owned sugar mill, Ingenio Victoria de Julio – El Timal is of one the most emblematic examples of how slow and inefficient Nicaraguan institutions have been in solving land tenure issues in 26 years.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Este trabalho trata de conflitos coletivos rurais e de acordos construÃdos para sua pacificaÃÃo em um processo de mediaÃÃo estatal. Inicia pela histÃria de 150 anos de fraudes e grilagem no Pontal do Paranapanema, acompanhando a transformaÃÃo da luta de resistÃncia dos posseiros em grandes ocupaÃÃes de terra lideradas pelo Movimento Sem Terra (MST), num conflito coletivo de grandes proporÃÃes que ganhou as manchetes nacionais e internacionais em 1995. A partir daÃ, traÃa um perfil histÃrico dos principais atores sociais envolvidos â sem-terra, fazendeiros e Estado â e resgata as circunstÃncias que culminaram na elaboraÃÃo de um Plano de AÃÃo Governamental, construÃdo a partir de propostas negociadas entre esses trÃs atores, que incluÃa a retomada pelo Estado das terras devolutas estaduais em poder dos fazendeiros e o assentamento gradual das famÃlias acampadas. Esse Plano de AÃÃo que se pretendia pacificador deu inÃcio a uma espiral de conflitos e acordos que parecia tendente ao infinito. Num esforÃo de compreensÃo desse processo, a nova forma de aÃÃo estatal, iniciada com a experiÃncia de execuÃÃo do Plano, e as dinÃmicas sociais daà resultantes foram minuciosamente reconstruÃdas com recurso Ãs falas dos atores e imagens que retratam os principais episÃdios. A narrativa prossegue atà o ano de 1996, quando as primeiras mil famÃlias envolvidas naqueles conflitos comeÃam a ser assentadas em lotes definitivos e a situaÃÃo ganha ares de normalidade. O Plano de AÃÃo enfim cumpria seus objetivos de pacificaÃÃo. Ao final, o trabalho analisa os vÃrios planos em que esses conflitos se desenvolveram, com fatores relacionados simultaneamente a questÃes pessoais ou coletivas; aos aspectos de honra, prestÃgio e carisma; aos aspectos de poder econÃmico e polÃtico; aos valores e cÃdigos morais compartilhados nos grupos sociais; e aos jogos de cenas e espetÃculos voltados ao pÃblico externo, em que a imprensa exercia papel fundamental. Analisa tambÃm a aÃÃo de mediaÃÃo estatal desenvolvida, as prÃticas dos mediadores e os dilemas relacionados à dualidade do agente estatal na condiÃÃo de mediador-executor dos acordos referentes ao Plano de AÃÃo. Em conclusÃo, o trabalho apresenta algumas reflexÃes sobre as condiÃÃes de possibilidade de uma prÃtica estatal de mediaÃÃo de conflitos no Brasil. / Rural collective conflicts and agreements conceived to its pacification within a process of state mediation is the subject of the present work. It is introduced by the history of 150 years of frauds and illegal land appropriation in Pontal do Paranapanema, follows the landholders struggle of resistance transformation into huge land occupation process led by Movimento Sem-Terra (MST), within a collective conflict of great proportions, registered in national and international headlines in the 1995 news. Then, it traces a historical profile of the central social actors in field â landless workers, farmers and State agents â and rescues the circumstances that led to the construction of a Plan for Government Action, based on negotiated proposals among these three actors, which included the reclaiming of those land due to the State that were under the farmers possession, and the gradual settlement of the camped families. That Plan, intended to be peacemaker, started a spiral of conflicts and agreements that seemed to stretch till infinite. In the effort to understand this process, the new way of state action, initiated with the execution of that plan, and the resulting social dynamics, were reconstructed in its minor details, by the actors speeches and images that pictured the main episodes. The narrative goes on until the year of 1996, when the first thousand families that took place in those conflicts are definitively settled in rural settlement and the situation turns to normality. The Plan of Action fulfilled its objectives of pacification, at last. In the final part, the work analyses the several plans in which these conflicts were developed, with simultaneous factors related to personal and collective issues; to honor, prestige and charisma aspects; to economic and politic power aspects; to beliefs and moral codes shared by the social groups; and to the showing off and scenes directed to external public, when press acted key rule. It also analyses the action developed by state in mediation, the mediatorsâ practices and the dilemmas related to the duality of the state agent in the dual rule of mediator-executor of the agreements originated by the plan. In conclusion, the work presents some reflections about the conditions of possibility for a state practice in mediation on conflicts in Brazil.