3/5/2022: US Institute of Peace –Sowing the Seeds of Nonviolent Action in Sudan, by Marija Marovic and Zahra Hayder

Marija Marovic, senior advisor to Gisa Group and Zahra Hayder, a Sudanese political activist, argue that the resistance committees (RC) could evolve into forming a unified leadership body for post-coup transitional negotiations as “mass mobilisation against the coup is necessary but insufficient in the absence of unified leadership with clear political demands”.

Arguing that “disunity and a lack of authoritative national leadership only worsens the opposition’s odds of success,” Marovic and Hayder note that the divisions within the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) and Sudan Professionals Association (SPA) mean that the RC are now the centre of oppositional mobilisation.

However, despite “sustaining the revolution’s energies and combating political apathy,” the decentralised nature of the RC is argued to prevent them from participation in national-level political negotiations and coordinating or implementing a transitional roadmap.