Nonkilling National Initiative to be Launched in Mozambique
The Center for Global Nonkilling has supported the Mozambican nonprofit FOMICRES (Mozambican Force for Crime Investigation and Social Reinsertion) to develop a new national initiative under the title “Nonkilling is Possible”. The initiative will be focused on the collection and destruction of weapons and will be launched on June 16. Two Mozambican editions of “Nonkilling Global Political Science”, one in Portuguese and one in English, will be presented that day in Maputo, following the destruction of hundreds of weapons that have been collected at rural and urban communities from across the country. The editions include a Presentation text by FOMICRES Executive Director Albino Forquilha.
FOMICRES was founded on March 25th, 1995, after some experience in working on the identification and reintegration of child solders, by a group of Mozambican youth, some of whom who had lived a life of child soldiers and a long military experience within the Mozambican Regular Army (FPLM), met at Massequessa, in the outskirts of Chimoio City, Manica Province, to discuss efficient ways for community participation in the peace keeping and security process of the communities. The initiative arose from the conscience of the group, that the disarming, demobilizing and reintegration (DDR process) of the conflicting parties, which was conducted by the United Nations Commission for Mozambique (UNMOZ) from 1993 to 1994, did not collect and destroy efficiently the weapons that were in the hands of people in the communities, and it was estimated that the number of this was over 6 million, which would endanger the peace process and the national public security.
FOMICRES is a national institution of civic and humanitarian nature, it does not work under any political party and its main focus is the promotion of researches/ studies on community participative strategies in support of the legal system, Community safety & security and social reinsertion of marginalized groups as fundamental strategies in crime prevention measures.
