Anthropology as a tool to support social restructuring for building peaceful post-humanitarian intervention context

In the province of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, the crisis situation due to the attacks that began in 2017 but exploded in 2020 by Non State Armed Groups have to date generated a humanitarian crisis with about 700,000,000 internally displaced persons. Doctors with Africa CUAMM NGO has been present on the territory for several years dealing with strengthening the health system with public health interventions. Since the intensification of the attacks we have been engaged in support interventions forthe local population where attention to the cultural specificity of the victim populations represents a key Anthropology of Humanitarianism Network (AHN) 3 element, therefore aimed not only at alleviating daily suffering but framing the intervention in a perspective of social and medical anthropology. Active collaboration and support for the formal and informal structures existing in the area, such as health committees, community courts, traditional leaders become a necessary measure for the prevention of potential conflicts between internally displaced persons and host communities, populations speaking four different dialects often not united by the colonial language – Portuguese. Weaving relationships and building a shared social grammar through the prism of an anthropological perspective allows a careful reading and an effective response to trauma and the need for primary services as well as negotiating models of social recomposition to begin to define the cultural and health context in a scenario of post-humanitarian intervention. The humanitarian as a condition for the possibility of peace and cohesion.