The fundamental requirements for lasting peace in the Republic of Sudan ✍️ Taha Haroun Hamed
Sustainable peace has long been a dream in the Republic of Sudan, a country that has suffered for decades of armed conflicts, protest wars, requests, political divisions and ethnic and religious tensions. Sudan, despite its cultural richness and the enormous natural resources, suffers from conflicts that have hindered its progress and its stability. To achieve real and lasting peace, a certain number of fundamental requirements related to the construction of the State must be taken into account, strengthening the right rule, social justice and the state of social protection and economic development.
Firstly: the sincere political will
The availability of the political will of leaders and ruling elites is one of the most important conditions for reaching peace. It is not possible to talk about peace without a serious desire for all the parties concerned to end the conflict and to seek to build a complete homeland. Political actors must overcome close interests and work to build a new transparent social contract in which everyone implies, without exclusion or marginalization.
secondly:
Transitional justice and national reconciliation
The realization of lasting peace in Sudan requires a process of complete national reconciliation and a general forgiveness based on the principle of transitional justice, through:
Detect facts on crimes and violations committed against civilians.
Provide the authors of justice.
Damage to victims and oppressed
State institutions are reformed to ensure that violations are not repeated.
Real reconciliation cannot be based on surface forgetting or transgression, but it must rather be based on the recognition of error and success in order to avoid historical injustice
Third:
Treat the roots and causes of conflicts
Sustainable peace can only be achieved if the deep causes of conflicts, conflicts, in particular, deal with:
Political and economic marginalization of peripheral areas.
Failure to distribute wealth and power.
Identity and struggle.
Low infrastructure and basic services in conflict areas.
Fine development policies must be developed which take into account the privacy of each region and give priority to the areas affected by the war. Its inhabitants involved in development, construction and construction.
Fourth:
The involvement of local communities, women and young people
Peace is not only carried out on official negotiation tables, but it must be a participatory process which includes all the segments of the company. The basis of individuals, complexes, civil administration and effective actors in particular:
Allow local communities to manage their business and improve local government.
Effectively involving women in decision -making operations, due to their central role in Sudanese societies.
Establish economically and politically young people, offering employment opportunities, education, training, qualification and the addition of education establishments parallel to those who have not received their chance of public education
Fifth:
Security and military sector reform
The multiplicity of armies and armed militias in Sudan is a permanent threat to peace. It is therefore necessary:
Merging all the armed forces into a unified and professional national army.
Disarray irregular groups.
Restructure the security services according to the criteria of efficiency and professionalism.
The military establishment is subject to civil authority.
Sixth:
Sustainable development and equitable distribution of resources
Permanent peace cannot be carried out in the light of poverty, unemployment and mediocre services. It is therefore necessary:
Invest in infrastructure, education, health and health projects
Ensure a fair distribution of natural resources, especially in production areas such as Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
Allow citizens economically by supporting agriculture, grazing, small industries and manufacturing and alternatives
Seventh: support the international and regional community
The international and regional community should play a vital role in supporting stability by providing humanitarian aid and development and to improve stability and peace. International funds such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund contribute to the financing of economic projects and reforms. Friends of countries, regional and international partners, also provide political and technical support to deal with challenges. This joint cooperation improves sustainable development opportunities and relieves the effects of crises. And wars and other natural disasters who died in Sudan torrents, floods, droughts and impacts that have died in the Sunni past
Although peace is from the inside, international and regional support can play an important role in:
Facilitate dialogue between Sudanese parties.
Provide technical and financial support to reconstruction programs.
Monitor the implementation of the agreements and ensure their commitment.
However, this support must be unconditional and respect Sudanese sovereignty.
Finally.
Achieving lasting peace in Sudan is not an impossible task, but it requires concerted national, societal and international efforts. Building a fair state, which is widespread in democracy, equality, the rule of adults and mutual respect, is the only way to guarantee that tragedies in the past are not repeated. Sudan is a country rich in capacity and people, the precious diversion known as its kindness, its generosity and its dignity, and deserves to be blessed with the long -awaited peace.
