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There has been much written in the 1990s on humanitarian assistance as a neutral and non-partisan intervention which should not take sides in a conflict situation.1 In particular, since the end of the Cold War, there has been more insistence on the part of humanitarian agencies that emergency relief be non-political and alleviate the suffering of civilian victims, without favouring or endorsing any of the parties to the conflict. At the same time, with the creation of the UN’s DHA, ‘humanitarian diplomacy’ was recognised as an important tool in peace-keeping and has become a factor in the resolution of internal conflicts which have provoked complex emergencies.
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Some right-wing organisations and private individuals in the US supported RENAMO during the conflict. A small number of missionary groups worked and provided assistance within RENAMO areas. This support had minimal impact in humanitarian terms and was used predominantly for lobbying and political purposes. See Kathi Austin, Invisible Crimes: US Private Intervention in the War in Mozambique (Washington, DC: Africa Policy Information Center, 1994).
Derrick Knight, Mozambique: Caught in the Trap (London: Christian Aid, 1988), p. 68.
Chester A Crocker, High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992), p. 250.
William Minter, The Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) as Described by Ex-Participants (Washington, DC: 1989).
Cameron Hume, Ending Mozambique’s War: The Role of Mediation and Good Offices, (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1994), p. 39.
Morozzo della Rocca, Mozambico: Dalla Guerra Alla Pace — Cronaca di una Mediazione Insolita (Rome: Edizioni San Paolo, 1994).
Office of Federal Disaster Assistance, Southern Africa Drought Assessment Country Report: Mozambique (Washington, DC: Agency for International Development, 1992), pp. 90–108.
ICRC, Maputo, Mozambique, Actividades do CICV em Moçambique, March 1992, June 1992.
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Barnes, S. (1998). Humanitarian Assistance as a Factor in the Mozambican Peace Negotiations: 1990–2. In: War and Peace in Mozambique. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26882-5_6
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