Joseph Hanlon's Mozambique: The Revolution Under Fire is an in-depth analysis of Mozambique's political, social, and economic dynamics after independence from Portugal in 1975. Hanlon explores how the FRELIMO government attempted to build a socialist state amidst the formidable challenges of sabotage warfare, external intervention, and the foreign-backed RENAMO guerrilla conflict. Through field…
Since its entry into force on 1 March 1999, the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) has been successful in attaining its aim of abolishing anti-personnel landmines. However, in terms of mine victim assistance, another goal sanctioned by the treaty, results have been much less heartening. This may be partially due to the weakness of existing formal monitoring of victim assistance mechanisms that fail to expos…