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The second phase of the Programme was designed in 1995. Its strategic guidelines are similar in many ways to those of the El Salvador, as it has been informed by the process in that country (see box). In addition to supporting specific culture of peace projects, the Programme includes related components in existing or planned development projects.
In the second phase, eight projects have been identified to be carried out on a national scale in partnership with government ministries, UN and other international agencies and Mozambican non governmental organizations:
1. Training parliamentarians and other elected and community leaders in principles of democratic governance and human rights;
2. Empowering demobilized soldiers for peace building through training and participation in peace related activities;
3. New generation for peace through decentralised formal basic education;
4. Training and empowerment of rural women for a greater role in the consolidation of peace;
5. Making science and technology accessible as a contribution to rural sustainable development;
6. Awareness raising and communication for peace;
7. New generation for peace through culture and sports for youth and demobilised soldiers;
8. Training and coordination of peace promoter network.
The training of peace promoters in Mozambique is to be based on traditional peacemaking practices as well as universal principles of conflict management. This includes, for example, the tradition of the Milando which is a variant of the palabre found in many traditional African cultures. Among the Makua people of Mozambique the Milando is a judicial process in the form of a public debate presided over by the chief and involving the parties in conflict and their families and neighbours. The Milando employs a patient question answer procedure which proceeds through the telling of traditional stories and proverbs by the two parties. Indirectly, in this manner they approach the causes of the conflict, weaving around it a web of traditional wisdom, to the point that the resolution of the conflict becomes self evident. This process may take considerable time, but it has the great benefit of preserving and strengthening traditional wisdom. There is a saying among the Makua that the Milando does not get rotten with age'.
The first project to be implemented in the second phase of the Mozambique programme provides for the newly elected Mozambican parliament the Assembly of the Republic to reflect on democracy, human rights and peace building.
A group of 12 parliamentarians representing a cross section of all three parties and all provinces, travelled to South Africa and Malawi to meet with parliamentarians in those countries and to examine the ways in which they cooperate to create social legislation. The study visit was accompanied by representatives of the Mozambican press who publicized the results to provide popular education in peace and democracy.
The traditional peace making practice of the Milando in Mozambique involves parties in conflict along with their families and neighbours in the telling of traditional stories and proverbs which weave around the dispute a web of traditional wisdom.