The Rome General Peace Accords, officially the General Peace Accords (), was a peace treaty signed between the government of

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and

RENAMO RENAMO (from the Portuguese , ) is a Mozambican political party and militant group. The party was founded with the active sponsorship of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) in May 1977 from anti-communist dissidents oppose ...

, ending the

Mozambican Civil War The Mozambican Civil War ( pt, Guerra Civil Moçambicana) was a civil war fought in Mozambique from 1977 to 1992. Like many regional African conflicts during the late twentieth century, the Mozambican Civil War possessed local dynamics but was a ...

on October 4, 1992. Negotiations preceding the agreement began in July 1990. They were brokered by a team of four mediators, two members of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Andrea Riccardi and

Matteo Zuppi Matteo Maria Zuppi (born 11 October 1955) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Bologna since 12 December 2015. He was previously an auxiliary bishop of Rome from 2012 to 2015. Pope Francis raised him to the ra ...

, as well as Bishop Jaime Gonçalves and Italian government representative Mario Raffaelli. The delegation of the Mozambican government was headed by Armando Guebuza, who went on to become President of Mozambique. The RENAMO delegation consisted of

Raul Domingos Raul Domingos is a Mozambican politician who was part of RENAMO until being thrown out on 7 July 2000. At the time, he had been considered the most likely successor to party leader Afonso Dhlakama Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama (1 January 195 ...

José de Castro José Augusto Soares Ribeiro de Castro ( Valhelhas, 7 April 1868 – 31 July 1929; , was a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and politician. He graduated in law at the University of Coimbra, and was a lawyer in Lisbon and Guarda. A member of freema ...

, Vicente Ululu, Agostinho Murrial, João Almirante, José Augusto and Anselmo Victor. The accords were then signed by the then-president of Mozambique

Joaquim Chissano Joaquim Alberto Chissano (born 22 October 1939) is a politician who served as the second President of Mozambique, from 1986 to 2005. He is credited with transforming the war-torn country of Mozambique into one of the most successful African demo ...

, and by the leader of RENAMO,

Afonso Dhlakama Afonso Marceta Macacho Dhlakama (1 January 1953 – 3 May 2018) was a Mozambican politician and the leader of RENAMO, an anti-communist guerrilla movement that fought the FRELIMO government in the Mozambican Civil War before signing a peace ag ...

. RENAMO declared on October 21, 2013 that they were annulling the peace accord as a result of a government attack on their base.

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{{Reflist * Eric Morier-Genoud, "Sant’Egidio et la paix. Interviews de Don Matteo Zuppi & Ricardo Cannelli", _LFM. Social sciences & missions_, no.13, October 2003, pp. 119–145 * Pierre Anouilh, "Des pauvres a la paix. Aspects de l'action pacificatrice de Sant'Egidio au Mozambique", _LFM. Social sciences & missions_, no.17, December 2005, pp. 11–40 * Moises Venancio, “Mediation by the Roman Catholic Church in Mozambique 1988-1991”, In Stephen Chan & Vivienne Jabri (eds), _Mediation in Southern Africa_, Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1993, pp. 142–58 * Alex Vines & Ken Wilson, “Churches and the Peace Process in Mozambique 1988-1991”, In Paul Gifford (ed.), _The Christian Churches and the Democratisation of Africa_, Leiden : Brill, 1995, pp. 130–47
Web page of the Community of Sant'Egidio on the Mozambique Peace Process

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Full Text of Rome General peace accordText of all peace accords
1992 in Mozambique Peace treaties Treaties of Mozambique Mozambican Civil War Treaties concluded in 1992

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