OPINION

The conscience of Cameroon is rising faster than at any time, after a video wafted online, showing Cameroonian soldiers killing two children in Krawa-Mafa in the Far North. They were shot in their heads by the Nation’s defence forces laying 12.45 inches from each other. Blood from the children’s head flow like nothing the country has seen since the 36 years rule of the current president.

Here are three reasons why our conscience should rise even faster, for we should all be deeply offended by this particular barbarity. (345 more words)

Part II: THE PEACE STRATEGY

By Maxwell N. Achu

The literature on peacebuilding shows that many post-conflict societies relapse into violent conflict within a decade. This is true for Cameroon, 2008 and 2016. As such, any approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of peacebuilding must incorporate a longer period; an approach that relies on a five-year window is arguably not a realistic model of the true costs associated with successful peacebuilding.

Although peacekeeping is usually thought of as occurring only in the immediate post-conflict crisis environment, like in Cameroon, peacebuilding should incorporate much longer-term institution building, capacity building, as well as long run conflict de-escalation.

T Maxwell N. Achu is a Cameroonian Diplomat and Civil Society Activist. Maxwell is a Conflict Transformation Researcher and an expert in Positive Peacebuilding across the African continent, and beyond. He presently resides in Accra, Ghana where he is currently the Country Director for Humanitarian Group Action International, a nongovernmental nonprofit and apolitical organization. In addition, other analogous research work carried out y the author within the context of peace building are; Governance in Africa, Roles of Religious bodies in Peacebuilding, Positive Peace and the Media.