In the first part of this article I raised some critical questions that might have provoked the anger and indignation of some people nevertheless they represent an entry point for comprehensively understanding the concept of Sudan National Project. If we, objectively, are able to answer these critical questions, this will lay a concrete foundational base for building a sustainable National Project
In this part of the article, I will try to be brief, short, specific and to the point bearing in mind the fasting fatigue that people these days are facing. I will try to simplify or boil down some of the scientific and academic terms and jargons into simple terms that could easily be understood in order to develop a conducive climate for the dialogue platform that can accommodate our diverse insights and points of view.
National project been conceptualized as ‘a largescale, state-driven initiative designed to achieve significant, long-term strategic goals for a country’s durable stability, sustainable peace and sustainable development’. This is just one definition of national project, there are other myriad of definitions, but for the purposes of this article I have adopted or opted for this definition.
Generally, a project is a set of activities that aim at achieving a specific goal or objective in a certain geographical location within a specific time framework, and within a specifically defined budget and targeting a specific community or communities. Project is composed of two parts, namely; the Intervention, which is the physical creation of the concerned people, and the Change, which is the mental creation of the same concerned people, that you want to make.
A project becomes national when it is designed and developed by the primary stakeholders themselves and starts addressing the national strategic issues and challenges that encounter the nationals of that particular country or state. Sudan National Project, as an initiative, is that community-based agreed-upon intervention that aims at addressing the challenging issues and historical structural injustices haunting Sudanese nations since the independence of Sudan.
Sudan National Project is about mobilizing the Sudanese resources, potential, talents, local capacities, creativity, and indigenous knowledge. Sudan National Project is about human dignity; it is about preserving the dignity of the Sudanese people. Sudan National Project is about national consensus that responds to the aspirations and needs of the Sudanese citizens. It is about assembling all Sudanese visions into one melting pot to shape one shared Sudanese vision. Sudan National Project is about the sacred national agendas that must be maintained and sustained by all of the Sudanese nationals. It is about reviewing, refining and removing the fallacies from the history of Sudan. It is about restructuring the Military Establishment and taking it back to its noble duties, responsibilities, and mission. It is about removing the policies of the structural injustices and deformations from the Sudanese strategic plans and strategic planning processes. In a nutshell, Sudan National Project is about settling the controversial issues that have kept obsessing and nightmaring the Sudanese nations since the independence. It is about transformation, taking the nations from a chaotic situation to a disciplined and organized situation. Sudan National Project is about transferring the nations of Sudan into one nation and the conflicting armies into one national army with one dogma and creed
Sudan National Project, as a process, is an officially organized gathering where the primary stakeholders, the concerned people of the national forces, assemble to identify and define their strategic challenges and issues that hinder or cripple them from progressing toward reaching their goals. It is where these national forces clearly develop the roadmap that will propel them into the desired level of the developed nations and states.
The strategic issues which Sudan National Project aims at addressing and finding principled solutions to are namely; as follows:
The national identity
The relation between religion and state
The nature of governing system
The lop-sided development
The centralism of authority
Hate speech
The historical structural injustices in all their notorious aspects (political, social, cultural and economic)
and others.
I will shed lights on them in my coming part of the article.
Be continued.
Mahjoub
Kampala, Uganda.
mahjoubferen@gmail.com
