Editorial: Consensus on National Project

As we are celebrating the 69th anniversary of our independence, we should consider that there is no cure for Sudan’s chronic crises except by consensus on a national project, which is still absent today.
In fact, the national project in its essence means that the Sudanese, with their various intellectual, cultural, ethnic and political affiliations,all agree on answers to the questions of the founding tasks of the post-independence national state of Sudan. The ethnicities and cultures of Sudan need each other within the framework of the integration of unity and diversity and on the ground of conflict within the framework of the alliance, and under the umbrella of the concept of managing social conflict around all issues of the homeland in a peaceful and democratic manner.
The national project could not be accomplished by one party or one entity, or a coalition of parties, and is not built according to a specific ideology. Rather, it requires the contribution of everyone without execution.
Its essence is the convergence of the movement of the center with the movement of the peripheries, the convergence and alliance of civil society with civil society, and the integration between civil society and the political movement.
The pillars of the national project are based on the dominance of the values ​​of freedom, political reform, sustainable development, science and knowledge, enlightenment and religious reform, and the love of work.
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approach to accomplish and achieve this consensus process is the National Constitutional Conference.
The starting point in formulating the national project begins with awareness of the necessity of starting from the fact that Sudan is a diverse nation in the broad sense of the word, diverse in levels of social development, and multi-ethnic, multi-national, multi-religious, multi-civilizational, multi-traditional, and multi-lingual, and then moving forward to formulate the political, economic, social, and cultural rights that result from that, based on the fact that the development of the social revolution in Sudan is linked to the consolidation of the contents of pluralistic political democracy, and the sovereignty of the concepts of democratic civil society, and that this development is not linked to one party or one entity, but rather is linked to broad participation, the rotation of power, and not eliminating or excluding the other.
We need to apply critical thinking to our ways of thinking, our work methods, and the concepts of yesterday. We need to be convinced that the incorrect treatment by this or that party of any of the issues raised does not mean accusing it of treason or ruling it as unpatriotic, and the conviction that the conflict of generations is healthy, but its mismanagement causes setbacks.
Finally, we need to engage in practical programmes to accomplish what we have been waiting to accomplish since the dawn of independence.