The Nigeria-Cameroon border conflict settlement and matters arising: failed pacification of the Bakassi people and lessons for post-conflict peace building approaches

Kenneth Nwoko, McPherson University, Seriki-Sotayo

This study investigates the process of settlement of the Nigeria/Cameroon border conflict based on the analysis and application of the Court ruling and the outcome of the Green Tree Agreement. It exposes the damage: psychological, socio-economic and socio-political ruins which the method of settlement of the conflict that attached greater importance to the interest of the state parties vis a vis the strategic significance of the Peninsula to the exclusion of its inhabitants. The research also seeks alternative settlement approaches that would encompass the triangular interest of the stake holders: Cameroonian, Nigerian and the Bakassi people and thus proffer alternative strategies and policy recommendations in dealing with conflict resolution, post conflict transitions and peace building especially the issue of justice and fairness, in ways that would benefit conflict areas and their populations for the advancement of security and development in Africa