From: Mwana Habari
Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Tanzania in Transition –
Violent Conflicts as a result of political and economic reform
Kurt Hirschler, University of Hamburg
Tanzania is known to be an “oasis of peace” (Hofmeier 1997) on the troubled African continent. Although Tanzania is among the few African states that have experienced a “classical”war –a war between two independent states (Matthies 1998) –the East African
country can look back on forty years of relative internal peace and stability. No civil wars, no military coups, no state-collapse, no warlords, neither ethnic nor religious, neither political nor social clashes have tormented the country and its people. [1] 40 years of peace and stability are unquestionably the greatest success of the country that is still one of the poorest countries in the world. But an increase in violent conflicts within the last few years seems to endanger this success. It appears that unavoidable reforms have helped the country out of its economic and political misery, but to the price of increasing violent conflicts.
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