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If the signature of the Peace Accords in 1996 ended the thirty-six-year internal armed conflict between the State and the guerrillas, the peace in Guatemala remains nonetheless quite relative. After the genocide and the counterinsurgency campaigns, numerous Mayan peoples today are facing new threats related to the arrival of natural resource projects in the country. For many, they are the expression of a war by other means. This M.A. thesis looks into the resorts to the past used by activists mobilized to recover their lands and to protect their territory in the post-conflict period. Indeed, the renewal and the transformation of the violence in times of peace brought some inhabitants of the Ixil area to reflect differently on the recent and distant past. This investigation explores the narratives formulated by these militants and the functions of historical memory as a tool for political advocacy which enables to confront past and present violence. In order to do so, this study first analyzes a book originating from a process for the recovering of historical memory by a group of survivors of the internal armed conflict, then, the resort to historical memory by the inhabitants mobilized for the defense of their lands, and, finally, the role of the new generations within the memory and territorial activism in the Ixil area.