{"id":249259,"date":"2026-11-06T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-how-institutional-trust-changes-during-armed-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:30:53","slug":"cameroon-how-institutional-trust-changes-during-armed-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-how-institutional-trust-changes-during-armed-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: How Institutional Trust Changes During Armed Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Evidence from Cameroon&#8217;s &#8216;anglophone crisis&#8217; shows it depends on the institution&#8217;s role and the citizen&#8217;s location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"249\">How does public trust in institutions change during armed conflict? I argue that trajectories vary with the roles that institutions are perceived to play in the conflict and with whether citizens evaluate them from regions where violence is concentrated or from neighbouring regions. I compare trust in 11 institutions using Afrobarometer surveys conducted in Cameroon in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence from Cameroon&#8217;s &#8216;anglophone crisis&#8217; shows it depends on the institution&#8217;s role and the citizen&#8217;s location. Abstract How does public trust in institutions change during armed conflict? I argue that trajectories vary with the roles that institutions are perceived to play in the conflict and with whether citizens evaluate them from regions where violence is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,9663,4698,377,2444,26308,257,254,8641],"class_list":["post-249259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-conflict","tag-institutional","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trust"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}