Media for social change

Sudan’s civil war was like no other. It began even before the British colonialists – blamed by many historians for making it inevitable – had left. One in five people in Sudan, Africa’s largest country, has been displaced by 50 years of conflict. Recent efforts by Sudan’s leaders, neighbours and the international community to end the fighting and prepare for post-conflict development have been unprecedented in terms of time and energy expended...

[The authors of this report] have gathered 38 articles from key actors in the peace process, from politicians, scholars, UN and World Bank staff, civil society and the diaspora. Although there is a wide diversity of opinion expressed, the authors share a common commitment to a peaceful, democratic and pluralistic Sudan.