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The signing of the General Peace Agreement in Rome in early October 1992 marked the formal cessation of Mozambique’s 17 years of intermitant warfare. The implementation of most of its key provisions was placed in the hands of the United Nations, which was called upon to facilitate the process of demilitarization and the movement to democracy. Echoing this development, the international donor community, through the committee structure set by the peace agreement, was to take an unprecedented role in the shaping of the resolution of the conflict. Burdened from the outset by considerable difficulties, ranging from a manifest reluctance on the part of the Mozambican parties to cooperate to bureaucratic mismangement by the international community, the momentum of the peace process virtually ground to a halt in its first year. Nevertheless, in spite of significant delays, the UN mission was able to complete its mandate with the holding of the country’s first democratic elections in October 1994.
We have done all the West can ask: what more can we do?
Joachim Chissano, 19901
Our war was organized by foreigners and now our peace is being organized by foreigners.
Carlos Cardoso, October 19942
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Alden, C. (2001). The International Interlude, 1992–94. In: Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230500945_3
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