Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 
Author-Name: Adedokun, Ayokunu
Author-Email: a.adedokun@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University
Title: Emerging challenges to long-term peace and security in Mozambique 
Abstract: 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: Peacebuilding, Poverty, Political Exclusion, Security Sector Reform,
	 Mozambique, Natural Resource Boom
Classification-JEL: D72, D74, F52, N47, O55
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20170310
Number: 2017-015
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2017/wp2017-015.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2017015