From liberal peace to Ubuntu: The turn needed for effective conflict transformation in Mozambique
| dc.contributor.author | VILANCULO, ANSELMO | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Ukasoanya, Grace (Educational Administration, Foundations, & Psychology) | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Anyaduba, Chigbo (Peace and Conflict Studies) | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Byrne, Sean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-31T19:49:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-31T19:49:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-08-16 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2023-08-19T02:25:05Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Peace and Conflict Studies | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines Mozambique’s violent political conflict by exploring why it remains locked in a protracted conflict despite the 1992 and 2019 peace agreements. These peace agreements were developed to address the protracted violent political conflicts that have enveloped the country since its independence from colonial Portugal in 1975, conflicts that trace their origins to colonization. The 1992 and 2019 peace agreements were unsuccessful in bringing sustainable peace to Mozambique because they were exclusively founded on liberal peace principles. In addition, surveying both agreements this study notes that the negotiation of both agreements prioritized statebuilding and political peace, while glossing over the contextual root causes of the conflict, marginalizing the local actors and peacebuilding dynamics that ensure social peace. Therefore, this thesis argues that Ubuntu, which is based on people’s local knowledge and embedded in the culture of Indigenous people, can contribute to building sustainable peace in Mozambique as part of a multi-track peacebuilding process. The marginalized Ubuntu indigenous peacebuilding philosophy and practice embodies qualities such as humanness and empathy and is founded on the values of unity, justice, ethics, and education and is critical to guide the peace efforts in Mozambique. I arrived at these arguments by analyzing both peace agreements guided by frameworks such as social cubism, Critical and Emancipatory Peacebuilding (CEP), and Critical Qualitative Methodology (CQM) that embodies autoethnography. Autoethnography as a research method, assists in systematically exploring my stories, life, and work experiences as an academic growing up in a war zone to understand my cultural and social experiences of war and peace. | |
| dc.description.note | October 2023 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/37536 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ubuntu | |
| dc.subject | Conflict transformation | |
| dc.subject | Indigenous peacebuilding | |
| dc.subject | Mozambique | |
| dc.title | From liberal peace to Ubuntu: The turn needed for effective conflict transformation in Mozambique | |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| local.subject.manitoba | yes |