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Post-War Mozambique: Designing Peace, (Re)Distributing Power (?)

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This chapter covers the post-1992 Peace Accords period and discusses how the institutional changes brought up in the context of peacebuilding have altered the opportunities for local empowerment to occur. More generally, it contests the ‘success story’ label attributed to Mozambique, questioning, instead, what has changed in terms of power redistribution after the Peace Accords. The institutional reforms that took place consolidated a state that is still very distant from the masses. The detailed discussion presented regarding development and democracy reforms in the country further illustrated how formal changes do not necessarily entail more substantial changes at the level of the everyday life. This chapter concludes with statements from everyday people regarding what has changed for them with the advent of peace.

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Maschietto, R.H. (2016). Post-War Mozambique: Designing Peace, (Re)Distributing Power (?). In: Beyond Peacebuilding . Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94951-9_5

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