Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies: The Challenges of Empowerment Promotion in Mozambique

Holanda Maschietto, Roberta

This book uses the concept of empowerment as a means to understand peacebuilding in Mozambique. In order to do this, it first traces the different discourses on ‘empowerment’ and proposes an analytical framework based on multiple levels of analysis and a dialectical view of power. Second, it examines how the process of state formation and, later, peacebuilding have shaped the spaces for local empowerment to occur in Mozambique. Finally, it offers a detailed analysis of a national policy called the District Development Fund (the ‘7 million’), designed in the context of decentralization and aimed at reducing poverty in this country. This case study helps reflecting on the long-term and derivative effects of peace both in institutional terms as well as at the level of the everyday. The holistic approach to empowerment offered in this book and its application in the case of Mozambique will be of interest to both academics as well as practitioners of peacebuilding and development.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-06-27

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349956845

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-94951-9

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 297