Sudan War Series – Article 10

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Researching Sudan

Date de publication:

Lundi 25 Août 2025 - 20:30

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25 Août 2025

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11 Septembre 2025

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Moyen-Orient

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http://oai.openedition.org/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=blogs:cedejsudan

Madaniya* (civic politics): Women’s Emergency Response Rooms as Flourishing Sites of Democracy in Wartime Sudan

The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC)andA frican Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced, highlight their own experiences, the unique dynamisms within the larger communities affected by war, and readings of their possible futures.

Article 10 by Hana Jafar

They say revolutions turn out badly. But they’re constantly confusing two different things, the way revolutions turn out historically and people’s revolutionary becoming. These relate to two different sets of people. Men’s only hope lies in a revolutionary becoming: the only way of casting off their shame or responding to what is intolerable – Gilles Deleuze

Since the early days of the mid-April 2023 war, Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) have emerged as a practical extension of the Resistance Committees. The latter were grassroots political groups formed during the December 2018 revolution tasked with shaping the direction of the mobilization towards change. The ERRs too are more than a coordinated humanitarian response, as their work and ethos build on the Committees’ original political vision: building a grassroots civic space that is people-centred with the aim of reconfiguring the uneven dynamic between society and the state.

Adapting the Resistance Committees’ revolutionary discourse to wartime realities, the rooms became a unique sociopolitical phenomenon. They preserved their participatory essence even as their role shifted from protest organizing to service delivery. Their concept of “popular sovereignty” manifested direct citizen engagement in decision-making processes through the diffusion of power across community institutions.

Read the full article here by Hana Jafar.

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