The correlation between the failure of intelligence structures and conflict: The Cabo Delgado case in Northern Mozambique

Abstract

TITLE: The Correlation Between the Failure of Intelligence Structures and Conflict: The Cabo Delgado Case in Northern Mozambique. SUBTITLE: The Study of Organisational Deficiencies of the Intelligence Agency in Mozambique culminating in Intelligence Failure: The Cabo Delgado Case ABSTRACT This paper addresses the intelligence failure of SISE (the State Information and Security Service- Mozambican intelligence agency which is rooted in the organisational defects of the agency. The case study further establishes how this failure contributed to the protracted Islamic insurgency in Cabo Delgado province by failing to prevent the insurgency. In light of this, this dissertation attempts to fill a gap in the literature, analysing and evaluating intelligence failure in the African context. The theoretical assumptions of organisational failure pursued in Amy Zegart's work highlighting structural malfunctions, cultural pathologies and "perverse" incentives ( Zegart, 2007) with regards to organisational failure will be utilised as the conceptual and theoretical framework as it is the most relevant in evaluating the SISE. These organisational disorders utilised as a structured operational framework in this thesis intend to a) determine what kind of deficiencies of the organisational structure and management are...