Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon. A Critique on Mechanisms Used towards Conflict Transformation

Academic Paper from the year 2023 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, University of Buea, course: Conflict Resolution, language: English, abstract: The rationale for this paper is to get into the lens of what is the Anglophone conflict- a conflict situation that has gripped the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon. Following the escalation of what started as merely civil protests from the educational and common law lawyers professions for better working conditions and respecting the Anglophone educational and legal identity saw a twist of events in 2018. With the escalation of the crisis to a conflict, the government and her development partners have sought a wide range of measures as step towards resolving the ongoing. It is the place of this academic paper to peruse through the measures put in place so far. In this therefore the paper had adopted a qualitative method of analysis of data obtained through semi-structured interviews while corroborating with the Pyramid Model of Conflict transformation as framework for analysis. The findings of this show that government resolution mechanisms have come as a result of the Major National Dialogue and the themes that surrounded this dialogue. The paper takes note of the dwindling nature of the ongoing conflict following these measures implemented so far as it can be viewed have not really yielded the much expected results. It is in this light that the paper has put forth the following recommendations like; building meaningful relationship with the civil society stakeholders, introduce the culture of civilian-military relations