Apropiación Nacional de las Nociones de Ciudadanía y Paz a la Luz de la Agenda Internacional en el Contexto de la Posguerra Civil en Angola

Abstract

This study, which has as its problematic the repoliticization of the concepts of citizenship and peace and their joint analytical use, aims to show to what extent the national appropriation of the notions of “citizenship” and “peace” is conditioned by the international agenda, after the end of the civil war in Angola in 2002. This study is a qualitative approach, of a theoretical nature, developed through exploratory bibliographic research. The results indicate that, in Angola, the appropriation of the term “peace” is associated with the appropriation of the term “citizenship” only after the end of the civil war and, from an instrumental point of view, gains some importance following the birth of a new constitutional jurisdiction that changes several of the country's political rules and positions the citizen in an immense sphere of public spaces, but conditioned by the international agenda. From these results, we conclude that, in the post-war context, there are more continuities than ruptures in relation to the need for endogenous appropriation of the concepts of citizenship and peace and the deepening of the positioning of national and local actors within the dimension of the nation-state.