II. SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Tahir Institute for Middle East Policy - Including the Sudanese Street in Political Processes
Insight Strategy Partners managing director Kholood Khair calls for incorporating mass mobilisation and consensus-building on the street into formal political processes through closer engagement with the resistance committees (RCs)
Although the RCs anti-compromising approach frustrates “international stakeholders wedded to conventional mediating methods”, Khair notes that previous compromises led to deeper crisis and instability, before calling for amorphous street positions and solutions from revolutionaries to be considered.
With the RCs announcing they will fill the vacuum left by the ousted FFC parties by providing a political roadmap, Khair adds that they need a mediation and negotiation platform that recognises their broad representation of the popular will, does not prioritise speed over meaningful inclusion and process, facilitates consensus-driven politics, coalition-building and the development of solutions.
Khair concludes that polling, media engagement, and focus groups on key issues will all add RC legitimacy to “an otherwise elite [political process]”.