Ethnonational Conflict: A Study of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon

When the Cold War ended in the late 1980s, a multiplicity of intrastate conflicts occurred, which exposed many countries to conflicts that had their roots in a range of concerns, including power sharing, ethnicity, resource control, and distribution. The majority of these conflicts are located in Africa. In the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, protests around sectoral demands have turned into a political crisis since October 2016. The Anglophone Problem has returned as a result of this crisis, which has also revealed the shortcomings of Cameroon's centralized, elite-coopted governance system. Using a few conflict theories, this thesis seeks to analyze the ongoing Anglophone struggle. I use theories like PSC, physiccultural conflict theory, and structural conflict theory to support my contention that the Anglophone dispute is a long-running social and ethnic struggle rather than an isolated incident. In that the bulk of the characteristics accurately reflect the emergence and progression of this specific situation, Azar's framework of "Protracted Social Conflict" serves as a valid explanation of the conflict in Cameroon. My analysis results demonstrate that Azar's Protracted Social Conflict framework is an appropriate way to describe the conflict in Anglophone protracted social conflict since majority of the criteria accurately define the conflict and its development. Azar's framework of "Protracted Social Conflict" is a legitimate description of the conflict in that the majority of factors are appropriately mirrored in the emergence and evolution of this particular. Structural institutional discrimination, and a crisis in group identification are the primary causes of the conflict. I argue that the Anglophone conflict is a result of the difference in colonial leadership of the past of both Anglophone and Francophone Cameroon and the weak negotiations of the reunification terms. International and regional actors this includes state and non-states actors find it hard to intervene in the conflict because of their relation with the Cameroon. Though there has been no fruitful mediation process in the Cameroon conflict, I argue that factors like economic interest is the reason why external actors have not intervened yet