B) SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Arab Center DC – The Muddled Diplomacy of Sudan’s Tripartite Mechanism

17/6/2022: Arab Center DC – The Muddled Diplomacy of Sudan’s Tripartite Mechanism, by Kholood Khair

 Kholood Khair, the founding manager of Confluence Advisory, calls for the UNITMAS, AU and IGAD tripartite mechanism to invest in developing new, more relevant mediation pathways that complement Sudan’s rich pro-democracy movement in order to prevent itself from becoming irrelevant.

Alongside suggesting closer engagement with the concerns of the resistance committees, the Sudanese Professionals Association, and the families of martyrs, Khair also calls for better and more targeted outreach, particularly to women, young people, and internally displaced persons “who are entirely left out of the process”.

Khair adds that building credibility with a broad range of Sudanese would both dispel suspicions around international actors’ motivations as well as counter the pre-existing center-periphery inequity and privileging of elite narratives in Sudan.