Working Paper #2017-015
Emerging challenges to long-term peace and security in Mozambique
Mozambique's transition from civil war to peace is often considered
among the most successful implementations of a peace agreement in the
post-Cold War era. Following the signing of the 1992 Rome General Peace
Accords (GPA), the country has not experienced any large-scale
recurrence of war. Instead, Mozambique has made impressive progress in
economic growth, poverty reduction, improved security, regional
cooperation and post-war democratisation. Mozambique has also made
significant strides in the provision of primary healthcare, and steady
progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Notwithstanding these stellar achievements, Mozambique still faces a
large number of political, social and economic problems: poverty,
unemployment, natural resource boom, increasing political exclusion,
dependence on foreign aid, and low access to social and economic
services and facilities. This paper unpacks these challenges and the
implications for Mozambique's long-term peace and security.
- Keywords
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- Peacebuilding
- Poverty
- Political Exclusion
- Security Sector Reform
- Mozambique
- Natural Resource Boom
- JEL codes
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- D72
- D74
- F52
- N47
- O55
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Adedokun, A. (2017). Emerging challenges to long-term peace and security in Mozambique (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2017-015). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=6386