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 1) Country - Mozambique Year - 1992 Situation - When Mozambique became independent of Portugal, the party Frelimo was in power and they sought to reform the country. But the Mozambican Civil War in the 1980s hindered the efforts as the party Renamo sought to overthrow Frelimo. However in the late 1980s, both the parties had become uninterested in fighting. Renamo's internal support was failing as they were partially responsible for the famine caused by the war. Frelimo was willing to allow Renamo a place in the government and neither side had funds. So they signed an agreement known as the Rome General Peace Accord. UNs role - UNs operation consisted of political components which oversaw the agreement, the military component to promote peace and create a new national army, the humanitarian component to assist refugees and electoral component to oversee upcoming elections 2) Country - Namibia Year - 1989 Situation - In 1966, the UN General Assembly decided that South Africa's c...

Civil wars can be broadly described as a violent conflict taking place in the territory of an anocracy. Anocracies are neither full autocracies or dictatorships. In fact, it can be described as the rocky road from dictatorships to democracies. Rapid democratization leads to destabilization. When certain dictatorial rule ends, the transition period in which the question of whom does power lie with prevails and unrest can rise as a new political system evolves, therefore, the chance of civil war increases. But democratization is possible if a country takes its time. How reform and gradual evolution of a political system reduces uncertainty for citizens and provide assurances to incumbent elites.  Now we come to the question of who starts civil war. Downgraded groups dominated by ethnic factions start civil wars at the loss of power and hope. Let us study two elements of this statement: 1) Downgraded groups marginalised on the basis of clan and ethnicity are mainly the root causes of ...