On Tuesday, 28th January 2025 CGHR hosted a panel discussion on the conflict in Sudan. Panellists Raga Makawi, Matthew Benson and Sharath Srinivasan unpacked Sudan’s descent into a horrific war that is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
In front of a keen audience, they asked how, after a momentous civilian uprising in 2018-19 that toppled the dictator Omer el-Bashir after 30 years of authoritarian rule, did Sudan come to this? Together the panel unravelled the causes and events that led to the current tragedy, the current dynamics of the war and wider geopolitics, and how the Sudanese have nevertheless sought to forge solidarity and resistance amidst all this, to keep the revolutionary spirit alive.
Panellists:
Raga Makawi – A Sudanese editor and researcher living in London, co-author of Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People’s Revolution (Hurst)
Matthew Benson – Sudans Research Programme Director | Conflict & Civicness Research Group (CCRG), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Sharath Srinivasan – David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics, Co-Director of CGHR, author of When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans (Hurst)