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Southern Voices:
Mozambique: There’s More to Peace than Silencing the Guns
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“We hadn’t understood the war, and now we didn’t understand the peace. But everything seemed to be going well, after the guns had fallen silent.”
This quote from Mia Couto’s famous 2000 book, The Last Flight of the Flamingo, remains a pertinent reminder of the many challenges faced by Mozambique’s peacebuilding process.
Following the end of Mozambique’s civil war over two decades ago, the country has come to be seen as a model of successful peacebuilding. Years of high economic growth and relatively peaceful elections seemed to indicate that the country had achieved sustainable peace.
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