INVESTIGATION ON CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR: CASE STUDY CAMEROON

Abstract

This work is an investigation on the causes of civil war precisely the November 2017 civil war in Cameroon. Due to the ongoing nature of the Cameroon civil war, the method of collection of data had been through secondary literature put together with primary sources such as Observations, Internet, Newspapers, Interviews, Mainstream media, Magazines, Textbooks. To what extend does the Grievance based-thesis explains the November 2017 civil war in Cameroon and also to what extend does the spatial dependence-based thesis explain the civil war of 2017 during the Biya’s regime in Cameroon, are the two research questions to be answered by this dissertation. Based on the thesis finding from available material sources, it is concluded that, the civil war of November 2017 in Cameroon is grievance induced.