Multiplicity of Armies: An Existential Threat to Sudan?
Argues that Sudan's deepest danger is not contested legitimacy but the coexistence of multiple armed forces with divergent loyalties inside one territory.
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Argues that Sudan's deepest danger is not contested legitimacy but the coexistence of multiple armed forces with divergent loyalties inside one territory.
Read the columnHow women advance peace — decision-making, awareness, local mediation, support for victims — and the discrimination that still constrains that work.
Read the columnReads Orwell's allegory against Sudan's own revolutionary cycles — concluding that Sudan did not merely read Animal Farm, it lived it.
Read the columnA reflection on the war's toll on Khartoum, North Kordofan, and Darfur — and a critique of the national habit of branding one another traitors.
Read the columnقرر البرهان قائد الجيش دخول التاريخ مع محمد حمدان دقلو، محققين مكانة بارزة، إلا أنهم يدونون الآن في أسود صفحات التاريخ.
Read the columnتاريخ العلوم السياسية وصراعات الأمم لا يحابي أحداً، والدرس الأبرز الذي تقدمه تجارب الدول المنهارة هو أن الدولة تسقط حتماً عندما تفقد احتكارها لوسائل العنف الشرعي.
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