SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Foreign Policy - Why Won’t Biden Support Sudan’s Democracy Movement?
The Atlantic Council’s Cameron Hudson and Insight Strategy Partner’s Kholood Khair call for the international community to help Sudan’s pro-democracy movement build a consensus-driven grassroots coalition, “especially in the absence of a pro-democracy consensus among political parties,” by engaging with resistance committees (RCs) and funding a local ecosystem whereby pro-democracy groups can thrive.
Hudson and Khair suggest greater international political engagement with RCs that “led” the revolution and are “motors of democratic change” that “adjusted deftly to the decreased role of political parties” since the coup, noting that they are working on a political roadmap to assuage international fears that they “lack of a forward plan for democratic change”.
Hudson and Khair also suggest that pro-democracy funding focuses on: creating spaces to facilitate the inclusion of local pro-democracy voices, alongside media engagement and other forms of public outreach that would scaffold the work of pro-democracy groups and facilitate consensus-building.