Beyond Peacebuilding: The Challenges of Empowerment Promotion in Mozambique (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)

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 2018empowerment2019 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 20187 million2019), 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 Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction -- Pt. I Making Sense Of Empowerment -- 2. Discourses Of Empowerment -- 3. Disentangling Empowerment -- Pt. Ii Dynamics Of Empowerment And Disempowerment In Mozambique: Contextual And Structural Issues -- 4. Colonialism, Independence, And Fragmentation: Dynamics Of Empowerment And Disempowerment From A Historical Perspective -- 5. Post-war Mozambique: Designing Peace, (re)distributing Power (?) -- Pt. Iii Promoting Empowerment: Policy Design And Implementation. The Case Of The 7 Million -- 6. Promoting Local Empowerment: The 7 Million Policy Design -- 7. The 7 Million Viewed From Below: Implementation And Results -- 8. Conclusion: From Peacebuilding To Empowerment. Roberta Holanda Maschietto. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Discourses of Empowerment....Pages 21-43 Disentangling Empowerment....Pages 45-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Colonialism, Independence, and Fragmentation: Dynamics of Empowerment and Disempowerment From a Historical Perspective....Pages 83-118 Post-War Mozambique: Designing Peace, (Re)Distributing Power (?)....Pages 119-160 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Promoting Local Empowerment: The 7 Million Policy Design....Pages 163-199 The 7 Million Viewed from Below: Implementation and Results....Pages 201-245 Conclusion: From Peacebuilding to Empowerment....Pages 247-270 Back Matter....Pages 271-297