Frictions and hybridity in Mozambique’s post-war peacebuilding: From civil war to precarious peace

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10246029.2022.2158747

Manuel Francisco Sambo

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ABSTRACT It has been about three decades since Mozambique transitioned from a brutal civil war and one-party rule to peace and democracy. Although Mozambique has not relapsed into another large-scale civil war, sustainable peace and democracy in the country have become ever more elusive. In 2013, military clashes between Renamo and the Frelimo-led government resumed and prompted a new peace process, whilst poverty and inequalities are rampant, authoritarianism is on the rise, and an Islamic insurgency erupted in the northern region. Accordingly, while some scholars still praise Mozambique’s post-war peacebuilding as successful, others have claimed that peacebuilding failed. This article evades the binary of successful or failed liberal peacebuilding in Mozambique. Instead, it applies the concepts of friction and hybridity to offer an alternative way of reading the 30 years of peace (building) in Mozambique. The article argues that frictions in values and interests between the international/liberal peacebuilders and local (non-liberal) elites have resulted in a negative and unstable hybrid peace, that is, a precarious peace in Mozambique.

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莫桑比克战后建设和平的摩擦与混杂：从内战到岌岌可危的和平

摘要莫桑比克从残酷的内战和一党制过渡到和平与民主已经过去了大约三十年。尽管莫桑比克没有再次陷入大规模内战，但该国的可持续和平与民主变得越来越难以实现。2013年，Renamo和Frelimo领导的政府之间的军事冲突重新爆发，并推动了新的和平进程，与此同时，贫困和不平等现象猖獗，威权主义抬头，北部地区爆发了伊斯兰叛乱。因此，尽管一些学者仍然称赞莫桑比克战后的建设和平是成功的，但另一些学者则声称建设和平失败了。这篇文章回避了莫桑比克自由主义建设和平成功与失败的二元对立。相反，它应用了摩擦和混杂的概念，为解读莫桑比克30年的和平（建设）提供了另一种方式。文章认为，国际/自由派和平建设者与当地（非自由派）精英之间的价值观和利益摩擦导致了消极和不稳定的混合和平，即莫桑比克不稳定的和平。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

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