Vision for the Political Process
The political process we envision aims to guide Sudan towards a new path that fosters sustainable solutions and diverts the country from the precarious resolutions previously experienced, which ultimately triggered the war on April 15 at the center of power. This war was the inevitable result of peripheral disputes, partial agreements, and a lack of wisdom and vision capable of addressing the root causes of the crises while establishing a national project focused on justice, democracy, development, and human dignity.
The extensive devastation wrought by the April 15 conflict must be countered with a comprehensive development project embraced by the political process, with the aim of ensuring that this war is the nation’s last war through the adoption of an integrated approach. This approach begins with designing the political process as a cohesive package, prioritizing the humanitarian crisis, expanding civic space, and implementing preparatory measures to facilitate the success of the political process. These preparatory measures are intended to mobilize the necessary popular support and participation to guarantee the success of the political process and the realization of its outcomes.
A fundamental aspect of shaping the political process must include a clear and unequivocal commitment from the warring parties and their respective allies to uphold the results of the political process, as this is a crucial condition for the efficacy of the integrated approach.
The commitment of the warring parties to human rights, accountability for war crimes, and the attainment of transitional justice is essential for the success of the political process across its various tracks. This commitment fosters inclusivity and broad participation, enhancing the roles of women, youth, civil society, and anti-war political forces as a historical bloc contributing to the establishment of a democratic civil society and a state of equal citizenship, thereby ending the state’s hijacking by the forces of war and extremism.
The political process must culminate in societal reconciliation grounded in truth and in the construction of a new society and national project that unites rather than divides and preserves rather than destroys. This project is predicated on social justice and equality, the elimination of all forms of marginalization, addressing poverty and rural issues, cultivating a balanced and organic relationship between rural and urban areas, and adopting a new vision for Sudan’s development. This vision seeks to achieve citizenship without discrimination as a cornerstone of the new renaissance project and to address the profound social and psychological scars inflicted by the war.
The appropriate initial step is to reach consensus on the design of the political process before its implementation. This requires recognizing Sudanese men and women, as the rightful owners of the political process and the future of Sudan. Such ownership is essential for ensuring a democratic and civilian future that fosters Sudan’s renaissance and development, enabling active engagement in regional and international economic and political partnerships and contributing positively to regional and international peace, countering terrorism, and security within its geopolitical context.
What is the Purpose and Objective of the Political Process?
The objective is to initiate a comprehensive political process that ends the war, addresses the humanitarian catastrophe as a fundamental aspect of the solution, tackles the root causes of the Sudanese crisis, restores the values of the December Revolution, and adopts a sustainable approach to solutions. This encapsulates the essence of a credible political process characterized by genuine popular participation.
Designing the Political Process
The current political process has not afforded Sudanese stakeholders the opportunity to participate in its design, despite the convening of numerous events and conferences since the outbreak of the conflict. These events have seen widespread participation by Sudanese men and women across various regional and international capitals and forums, including Cairo, Addis Ababa, Jeddah, Kampala, New York, Paris, London, and Berlin, as well as numerous engagements with neighboring countries and the regional and international actors.
While these efforts are significant, they have not yet resulted in the design of a credible political process. We, the parties adopting this document, assert that the political process must be inclusive and non- exclusionary, with the exception of the National Congress Party/Islamic Movement and their affiliated facades. The integrated design approach and methodology must be Sudanese – owned and Sudanese –led that enhances the prospects for achieving sustainable solutions, safeguard the process from sabotage, and is based on clear procedures for creating a conducive environment, establishing a declaration of principles, setting foundations for participation, and precisely identifying parties and mechanisms involved.
The Three Integrated Tracks
The tasks of halting and ending the war are framed within a roadmap consisting of three concurrent and interconnected tracks, each of which is indispensable and cannot be pursued in isolation from the others:
The Humanitarian Track
Sudanese people inside the country are perishing from hunger and fear; millions of internally displaced persons have become strangers in their own homeland, while besieged cities await outcomes they dread. This humanitarian track seeks to break sieges, establish safe humanitarian corridors, facilitate the delivery of assistance, protect civilians, and ensure the dignified and safe return of all those who have been forcibly uprooted from their homes.
The Ceasefire Track
Genuine dialogue cannot occur amidst the fire of artillery and drones. Therefore, a temporary humanitarian ceasefire is essential, running parallel to the initiation of the political process and lay the groundwork for permanent ceasefire that facilitates a comprehensive, just and sustainable agreement.
The Political Track
In this context, Sudanese stakeholders convene around a table of transparent dialogue to address the root causes of the crisis and outline the characteristics of a new country: defining its constitution and system of governance, establishing the relationship between the religion and the state, ensuring equal citizenship rights without discrimination, and creating a unified, professional national military and security establishment into which all militias and various armies are integrated.
Creating the Conducive Environment
Trust cannot be built in a vacuum, nor can a successful political process be achieved in an environment that is marred by violations. Therefore, we propose a series of urgent steps that must precede any political process. Implementing these steps will enhance the confidence and commitment of political actors to positively engage. These conducive measures include:
Prioritizing the resolution of the humanitarian crisis, guaranteeing the right to life, protecting civilians, facilitating the voluntary return of IDPs and refugees to their homes, and broadening the civic space.
Ensuring commitment to create a conducive environment for the political process, and adhere to and implement its outcomes, as no political process can be credible without such commitment.
Releasing detainees and prisoners of war and establishing mechanisms to search for the missing persons.
Opening safe humanitarian corridors, ensuring the delivery of aid, adhering to international humanitarian law, and lifting embargo on besieged cities and villages.
Guaranteeing freedom of movement for civilians throughout Sudan
Implementing an urgent plan to address the needs of the health and education sectors, including issues related to the Sudanese Secondary School Certificate Examinations, civil servants, identification documents, freedom to travel to pilgrimage, national currency unification, and freezing military movements.
Providing regional, international, and UN monitoring of the humanitarian truce.
Establishing national mechanisms for the protection of civilians, and the distribution of humanitarian aid, with active participation from civilians, those affected and civil society organizations that have not supported the war.
Revocation of all arbitrary measures imposed against civil and political forces, and ensuring their freedom to engage in peaceful political and civic activities and movement, as an integral component of confidence-building measures.
Repeal laws that restrict fundamental freedoms and facilitate the reopening and operation of political and civil institutions throughout Sudan.
Facilitating coordination and collaboration among all external initiatives aimed at ending the war in Sudan.
The Preparatory Committee
Prior to the launch of the political process and dialogue, a Preparatory Committee composed of 40 male and female representatives from the agreed parties to the process shall be established to design the process and lay down its foundations. Its tasks shall include:
Agreeing on the modalities, percentages and criteria for the participation of stakeholders in the political process.
Agreeing on the principles and pillars of the political solution
Agree on the agenda and substantive issues to be discussed during the dialogue process
Determining the methodology and method for managing the dialogue, as well as its venue and timing.
Organizing the relationship with the mediation and the international and regional guarantors
Overseeing the technical and logistical support for the process
The Parties that have endorsed the framework Document
- The Democratic Civil Alliance of the Forces of the Revolution ( Sumud)
- Sudan Liberation Movement/ Army Chaired by Abdul Wahid Mohammed Ahmed Al Nour
- The Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party (Original)
- The Popular Congress Party
- The Umma Party
- Representatives of civil society, women’s and youth organizations, as well as independent
Public figures participating in the consultative meeting.
5th June 2026
