Kamel Idris Invitation for National Dialogue – The Face of Truth – ✍️ Ibrahim Shaqlawi
In the history of peoples, moments of dialogue often come as an opportunity to survive free fall. Whenever these opportunities are taken seriously, they can become real crossings towards stability and peace. In Sudan, the experience of the national dialogue which was launched in 2014 was one of those moments when the country began to be aware of its conscience, and that the existing political system can be alerted late on the impossibility of continuing the same approach without national exam or reconciliation.
These days, the Prime Minister, Dr. Kamel Idris, calls for a complete national dialogue as not in the right direction, which includes its real lines to rebuild the Sudanese state on new foundations of national consensus, political openness and justice.
The assertion of Dr. Idris that this dialogue is “Sudanese-Sudanese”, far from regional and international influences, reflects a good understanding of the privacy of Sudanese reality, and realizing that the solutions imposed abroad often ignore internal complications and produce new crises instead of the solution.
For this initiative to achieve its objectives, it must include all political and social forces, without exclusion or selectivity. Today, Sudan is not possible for more zero conflicts that weakened the state and torn the national fabric. Transit to a new stage of stability requires the transgression of close support accounts, and commitment to a complete national project, in which the legal paths of justice are given, and not for revenge, and it is held responsible for those whose hands are stained with violence and support for militias before the magistrate, and not before political committees.
To achieve this, it is important that a strong national committee is formed, led by the Prime Minister himself, which is responsible for the laying of the foundations and standards of this dialogue, and to determine its references and its temporal restrictions, in a way which guarantees that everyone is biased towards the fatherland, and not for personal or ideological interests.
It is true that the national dialogue during the reign of President Al -Bashir was neither perfect nor without defects, but in terms of form and content, he carried the seeds of the possibility of going to a new situation. Without the obstacles that were placed on his way, he would have preserved the unity of the country and treated many cracks which affected its social and political structure due to years of division and wars.
In this dialogue, fundamental questions have been presented: identity, the form of judgment, the distribution of power and wealth, justice, public freedoms, the relationship between the center and the margin, and the reform of the State and its institutions. If these recommendations were to be transformed into a full national program, Sudan would have traveled a long way to stability.
But the experience stopped in the middle of the road, for several reasons, it is not detailed, but it is proven that national dialogue at the time represented a rare moment of political perception that the country cannot be governed by the logic of “player alone”.
Today, a new approach must be invested in peace and establishes a new national dialogue, under more complicated and fragile conditions. The last war opened deep wounds in the Sudanese body, leaving a city or a village except its impact, and put everyone before the question of fate. And what Dr. Kamel Idris offers to an inclusive dialogue is a conscious extension of the moment when Sudan had already tried in “Naifasha, Abuja” which goes beyond its traps with national dialogue.
The current invitation, to his face, goes in the right direction: no exclusion, no revenge, no barriers or extortion. On the contrary, a complete national meeting which deals with the main questions of Sudan with transparency and impartiality, and the advantages of war lessons. As for the commitment to the justice finished and not transitional justice, and a committee led by the Prime Minister himself to impose foundations and standards, which all guarantee that this expected dialogue can have serious and clarity unless it is available in previous attempts.
The bet on dialogue is not weakness, because countries are not built by violence or by domination, but rather by consensus and understanding of the constants. And what Sudan needs today is nothing more than a serious opportunity to respond to the national wills, far from the resentments and classifications, based solely on what benefits the country and puts its people to a word.
And if this dialogue is improved, the intentions of its implementation are considered, and its details are left to people of opinion and efficiency, and not because of the considerations of loyalty and sharing, we can be before a moment of historical correction which is no less important than those that the previous national dialogue began. If his day was over, Sudan would have crossed a new stage that preserved his unity, preserving his social fabric and ending the sessions of violence that exhausts him.
Consequently, according to what we see from the face of truth, what we need today is not only to open a dialogue room, but to restore the national will and to give the opportunity to make a new future, far from political maneuvers. In this country, which deserves to be dialogue for this, honestly and responsible, without depending on the decision abroad, and with a historical conscience that time is no longer in the interest of anyone.
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