Bakassi: Or the Politics of Exclusion and Occupation?

Chapter 12. Bakassi Confidence-Building and Peace-Building Action Plan for the Rehabilitation of Bakassi

357 Chapter 12 Bakassi Confidence-Building and Peace-Building Action Plan for the Rehabilitation of Bakassi Native Bakassi Self-Actualisation Skills-Building for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Development The main objective intent would be to train native Bakassi trainers of trainers in post-conflict management strategies for confidence-building and peace-building. While the secondary objective will focus on x The Rehabilitation of Bakassi; x The Self-Actualisation Skills-Building of the Bakassi Natives, in the x Short and Long Term Entrepreneurship Development; for a x Pro-Active and Sustainable Disaster Management, to x Enhance the on-going Development of the Bakassi Region. In order to achieve this goal and objectives the Action Plan for Bakassi will proceed in six phases as highlighted in the main objective intent and the secondary objectives in the rehabilitation project. The achievement of the Bakassi Plan of Action will run in two phases of which phase one will focus on the x Bakassi Participatory Confidence-Building and Peace-Building of Post-Conflict Bakassi; x Action Plan for the Rehabilitation of Post-Conflict Bakassi; x Native Bakassi Self-Actualisation Skills-Building. While phase two will focus on the x Short and Long Term Entrepreneurship Development; for a x Pro-Active and Sustainable Disaster Management, to the x Enhancement of the On-going Development of the Bakassi Region. 358 Template for Bakassi Participatory Confidence-Building and Peace-Building This sub-phase will focus on bringing the people of Bakassi to accept the post-conflict situation of Bakassi as a collective responsibility whereby everybody has to contribute consciously to raise the humour and hope expectations of the entire community. Native inhabitants and new settlers and especially the military and administrators should shed their entire suspicion-mongering attitude where everybody is given the benefit of the doubt as a peace-seeker and peace-builder and not as an outlandish militant or protester. The perspective of empathy and listening and being ready to give a confident listening ear and confidence-building helping hand is accentuated more than the suspicious syndrome that is building up in the Bakassi region among its inhabitants and administrators. Focus will be on breaking the suspicion plastic-bagging of individuals, peoples and groups into stereotypic structures which steal their voices from them and reduce them into silent and mumbling but grumbling voices and temperaments of always ‘hear-say-gossiped’ victims. 359 360 Table 12.1: Template for Bakassi Participatory Confidence-Building and Peace-Building Project Dates Targeted Groups Objectives Activities Resources Facilitators Costings Indicators January1521 , 2010 Rapid Intervention Brigade–BIR; Gendarmes; MarineMarchande Training of Trainers of Men in Uniform on the techniques and strategies of Confidence-Building and Peace-Building Five days workshop on: - Conflict Prevention; - Conflict Management; - Confidence Building; - Peace Building; - Logistics, Risk and Disaster Management - Military Hall in Jabane II; - Flip Charts; - Markers; - Bics, Pencils; - Laptops; - Printers; - Bread, Smoked Fish, Pea-nuts, Pop Corn; Soda; 2 Flying Boats; Fuel for Flying Boats 2 Resource Persons; 2 Assistants; (Students) 2 Military Assistant Facilitators 20 trainers of trainers and 40 men in uniform would have trained in the strategies of conflict prevention, peace building and disaster logistics management January 2223 , 2010 Native Bakassi of Jabane I and II Training of Trainers of Traditional Chiefs, Leaders and Youth Leaders on the techniques and strategies of Confidence-Building and Peace-Building 2 days workshop on: - Conflict Prevention; - Conflict Management; - Confidence Building; - Peace Building; - Logistics, Risk and Disaster Management - Local Church in Jabane II; - Flip Charts; - Markers; - Bics, Pencils; - Laptops; - Printers; - Bread, Smoked Fish, Pea-nuts, Pop Corn; Soda; 2 Flying Boats; Fuel for Flying Boats 2 Resource Persons; 2 Assistants; (Students) 2 Native Bakassi Assistant Facilitators 20 trainers of trainers and 40 men and women would have trained in the strategies of conflict prevention, peace building and disaster logistics management January 2426 2010 Atabong East and West (Idabato I and II) Ebugedu, Ikeya, Pastor Creek, Ndo Location Training of Trainers of Traditional Chiefs, Leaders and Youth Leaders on the techniques and strategies of Confidence-Building 2 days workshop on: - Conflict Prevention; - Conflict Management; - Confidence Building; - Peace Building; - Logistics, Risk and Disaster Management - Local Church in Jawbone II; - Flip Charts; - Markers; - Bids, Pencils; - Laptops; - Printers; 2 Resource Persons; 2 Assistants; (Students) 2 Native Bakassi Assistant Facilitators 20 trainers of trainers and 40 men and women would have trained in the strategies of conflict prevention, peace building and disaster 361 and Peace-Building - Bread, Smoked Fish, Pea-nuts...