Bilateral donors and aid conditionality in post-conflict peacebuilding

The case of Mozambique

Bibliographic Data

ID4846571
AuthorsChristel Manning (0000-0001-9251-7426, Georgia State University, corresponding author), Carrie Manning, Monica Malbrough (Georgia State University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume48
Issue1
Pages143-169
Publication date2010-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x09990255
OpenAlexW2136807822
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited26

This article examines the role of bilateral donors and conditional aid in Mozambique's successful post-war peace process. The literature on peacebuilding has tended to privilege the role of UN missions in explaining the outcomes of post-civil war peace processes. The important role that bilateral donors may play in determining these outcomes has not been thoroughly studied. In Mozambique, donors with country experience, knowledge of domestic political actors and constraints, and a shared commitment to a successful outcome, were indispensable to the success of the peace process. The article details this engagement, arguing that it was not UNOMOZ alone, but UNOMOZ as supported by the flexible responses of these donors, that provided an effective third-party guarantee of the peace agreement in Mozambique. It briefly discusses the broader implications of this finding for understanding international peacebuilding efforts

Conditionality · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · International relations · Outcome (game theory) · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing) · Process (computing) · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration

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