Why ethno-political violence has become absent in Mozambique?

Mozambique has in her historical records instances of mobilization and instrumentalization of ethnicity that resorted into ethno-political violence. This bloody reality was predominant during the struggle for independence from Portuguese colonial regime and was clearly perceived as a threat to the national liberation. As a result the nationalist movement led by FRELIMO which then became the ruling government in the post-independence era implemented policies at political and cultural domains to “demobilize ethnicity” in order to prevent the continuation of the ethno-political bloodshed. It became an imperative first to achieve the independence and then to preserve the survival of the state which soon after independence was threatened by a protracted war. The political and cultural measures contributed significantly for vanishing of ethno-political violence but so far this fact has been academically overlooked. Thus differently from studies which explain why ethno-political violence occurred this is the first qualitative research that focuses on the reasons for the absence of ethno-political violence in Mozambique.