Frictions and hybridity in Mozambique’s post-war peacebuilding
From civil war to precarious peace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12337623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manuel Francisco Sambo (0000-0002-5924-1736, Doshisha University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-114 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Security Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1024-6029 • E-ISSN: 2154-0128 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10246029.2022.2158747 |
| OpenAlex | W4315699786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
It has been about three decades since Mozambique transitioned from a brutal civil war and one-party rule to peace and democracy. Although Mozambique has not relapsed into another large-scale civil war, sustainable peace and democracy in the country have become ever more elusive. In 2013, military clashes between Renamo and the Frelimo-led government resumed and prompted a new peace process, whilst poverty and inequalities are rampant, authoritarianism is on the rise, and an Islamic insurgency erupted in the northern region. Accordingly, while some scholars still praise Mozambique’s post-war peacebuilding as successful, others have claimed that peacebuilding failed. This article evades the binary of successful or failed liberal peacebuilding in Mozambique. Instead, it applies the concepts of friction and hybridity to offer an alternative way of reading the 30 years of peace (building) in Mozambique. The article argues that frictions in values and interests between the international/liberal peacebuilders and local (non-liberal) elites have resulted in a negative and unstable hybrid peace, that is, a precarious peace in Mozambique
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Hybridity · Insurgency · Peace and conflict studies · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Religion, Society, and Development
Beyond Peacebuilding
Transforming Mozambique
Quality Peace
Understanding Quality Peace
Planning and Peacebuilding in Post-War Mozambique
What has Changed with Peace? Local Perceptions of Empowerment in Mozambique
Mozambique’s post-war success story
The Impact of Socio-Economic Inequality on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
Mozambique’s security challenges
Mozambique
Settling Civil Wars
The Duration of Civil War Peace Agreements
Income inequality, redistribution and domestic terrorism
Civil War Settlements, Size of Governing Coalition, and Durability of Peace in Post–Civil War States
International peacebuilding and the ‘mission civilisatrice’
The ‘basket case’ and the ‘poster child’
Stopping the Killing
Mozambique
Compromised Peacebuilding
Institutionalizing Peace
Ending Civil Wars
Evolving doctrine and modus operandi
Reconciliation in Mozambique
Mozambique
Give War a Chance
Civil war peace agreement implementation and state capacity
Proto-guerre et négociations. Le Mozambique en crise, 2013-2016
Mozambique
Rooted in Poverty
Democracy and armed conflict
The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945-1993
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |