Rigoberta Menchu accepted a position in the Guatemalan government defined as being a "goodwill ambassador to the peace accords," a reference to the 1996 brokered peace as a result of decades of civil war between largely Quiche Maya indigenous people, and a series of US-supported military regimes. Rigoberta Menchu won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature for her work, "I, Rigoberta Menchu," a semi-autobiographical account of a child caught in decades of the conflict that took the life of over 200,000 people in Guatemala. Supporting the 1996 peace accords, which reduced the role of the military in government, was one of the campaign promises offered by President Oscar Berger.