Douala,
25 September 2019
Policy Analysis Note for National Dialogue on the Anglophone crisis: Best practice guidance on accommodating regional specificities
Dear Reader:
We are pleased to share with you, a second analytical note that address a challenge facing the facilitators, delegates, and the wider national body-politic in Cameroon's upcoming National Dialogue on the Anglophone Crisis. It is entitled:
Cameroon’s National Dialogue on the Anglophone Crisis – State and Nation Building and Political Engineering in a diverse country: attending to specific Regions’ peculiarities while obtaining the larger Nation’s buy-in
Drawing from the fields of comparative politics, conflict mediation, and constitution-making, this policy note seek to answer the question whether there exists (for a State that needs to accommodate one or more regions with specific traits) any middle-of-the-road or compromise position between Unitarism, and fully-federalizing reforms. Our observation of the situation in Cameroon suggests that the absence of these ''middle-ground'' paths may constitute a stumbling block, hence we explain them in accessible language -- as viable political and constitutional engineering options for Cameroon. These proposals have been submitted through the formal channels for the National Dialogue process.
Respectfully,
Author: Constitutional Options Project