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Mozambique’s voluntary disarmament campaign took 1,000,000 artifacts of war out of circulation over the past 15 years (including ammunition) by offering in exchange for guns, ploughshares. The Campaign Transform Guns in Ploughshares was born out of a project led by the Council of Protestant Churches, more in an exclusive interview with Titos Macie.

An International Disarmament Seminar held in Brasilia, Brazil, discussed best practices in premanent campaigns to collect firearms from the civilian population. Delegates from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Angola, Mozambique and Portugal discussed campaigns, presented data, and looked at the challenges ahead in lowering the numbers of weapons in the population and improving public security.

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Fifteen years after a peace agreement brought to an end the civil war that claimed the lives of over a million people, Mozambique is interested in knowing how many firearms are still in existence in the nation, and where they are.

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