Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Nour, Samia
Author-Email: samiasatti@yahoo.com
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Khartoum, and UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Title: Overview of the Sudan Uprising 
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the Sudan Uprising and discusses the 
	 major causes and factors that contributed to the success of the Sudan 
	 Uprising and potential opportunities and major challenges following the 
	 Sudan Uprising. We improve understanding, fill the gaps in the 
	 literature and provide an extremely valuable contribution to the 
	 literature by presenting a new and more comprehensive analysis and 
	 investigation of the factors that caused and contributed to the success 
	 of the Sudan Uprising and potential opportunities and major challenges 
	 following Sudan Uprising. A novel element in our analysis is that we 
	 investigate the various causes including economic causes, social and 
	 human development causes, political causes, institutional causes and the 
	 causes related to the lack of freedoms that caused the Sudan Uprising, 
	 we examine the dynamic interaction between the internal factors (youth, 
	 women, ICT, the Sudanese Professional Association, and University of 
	 Khartoum Teaching Staff Initiative), and external factors (diaspora) 
	 that contributed to supporting Sudan Uprising and we explain potential 
	 opportunities and major challenges following Sudan Uprising. From policy 
	 perspective, the relevance of our analysis is that we explain the causes 
	 of the Sudan Uprising, the internal and external factors that supported 
	 Sudan Uprising and potential opportunities and major challenges 	
	 following the Sudan Uprising. Our findings support the first hypothesis 
	 that a combination of mixed factors and causes including economic 
	 causes, social and human development causes, political causes, 
	 institutional causes and the causes related to the lack of freedoms 
	 caused the Sudan Uprising. Our results corroborate the second hypothesis 
	 that the dynamic interaction between the internal factors (youth, women, 
	 ICT, the Sudanese Professional Association and University of Khartoum 
	 Teaching Staff Initiative) and external factors (diaspora) contributed 
	 to support Sudan Uprising and potential transformation in Sudan. Our 
	 results support the third hypothesis concerning the potential 
	 opportunities and major challenges following the Sudan Uprising. One 
	 major policy implication from our findings is that the lack of peace, 
	 freedom, and justice motivated the mass street demonstrations and Sudan 
	 Uprising that called for the achievement of peace, freedom, and justice 
	 for all people in Sudan. Another major policy implication from our 
	 findings is that it is important for policymakers in Sudan to adopt 
	 sound and coherent policies to consider the potential opportunities and 
	 challenges to achieve the comprehensive economic, social, political and 
	 institutional reform, to achieve the potential transformation, fulfil 
	 the objectives of the Sudan Uprising (peace, freedom, and justice) and 
	 achieve inclusive growth and sustainable development in Sudan.
Classification-JEL: O10, O11, O15, O43, O55, I3, P16
Keywords: Economic development, social and human development, sustainable development,
	 youth, ICT, Sudan
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20200421
Number: 2020-017
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2020/wp2020-017.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2020017