Analysis - Achieving lasting peace requires parties to negotiate with adversaries - no matter how difficult this may be.
Achieving lasting peace requires parties to negotiate with adversaries - no matter how difficult this may be.
Although these factors contribute to prolonging conflict, they're not the main barriers preventing the factions from resolving their disagreements. The numerous unsuccessful negotiations suggest that the parties have different preferences for mediation formats and strongly oppose each other. Since then, their ambitions have evolved, principally due to the SAF's inept diplomacy, and now encompass acquiring political power and radically altering Sudan's political landscape. The RSF's vision for Sudan excludes NCP members and purported Islamists, whose fusion of state and religion is partially blamed for the country's misrule.
Negotiating with the RSF poses significant legal and ethical challenges for all parties, given its checkered history of human rightsdating back to the 2003 Darfur conflict and its continuing transgressions. Despite this, the RSF's control over almost half of Sudan's landmass makes its participation indispensable in any peace process.
By declining to join the January IGAD summit and the Geneva discussions in August, and pulling out of the less publicised but more practical Manama, the SAF enabled the RSF to present itself as more open to peaceful resolution. Nevertheless, this shouldn't be interpreted as a genuine willingness on the RSF's part to engage in negotiations.
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