Acordo Geral de Paz Mozambique 1992 (ePub)

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, Uppsala University (Department for Peace and Conflict Research), language: English, abstract: Mozambique gained independence from Portugal following an antifascist coup in Lisbon in 1975. The Portuguese colonialists departed in haste leaving behind 'a mess of underdevelopment, impoverishment and extreme vulnerability'. From independence until 1992 the new government run by the Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frelimo) faced a vicious armed insurgency incubated by the White minority rulers in neighbouring Rhodesia (Renamo). The Rhodesian regime was uncomfortable with the breakdown of White colonial rule in Mozambique and by the support that Frelimo gave to Black nationalist rebels inside Rhodesia. After seventeen years of civil war the belligerents finally struck a deal to end the fighting. This assignment aims to analyse first in what way the General Peace Agreement for Mozambique addressed the security dilemma and commitment problem. Secondly, reasons will be presented as to why it was so fundamental to address the distribution of political and military power in the peace agreement. Finally, it is argued that the settlement failed to address issues of transitional justice.