Insights

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General Insights

1. Sudanese studies have accumulated in the last three decades in all fields of science and the arts, helping in understanding the nature of the state and in planning its construction. Studies included the humanities, natural sciences, administrative and political sciences, culture, arts, and literature studies. Overall, these studies clarified most aspects of the issues needed by politicians and planners and provided them with a good opportunity to choose and differentiate when developing their strategies and action plans. These studies provided many convictions, including:

· It is necessary to accept the multicultural Sudanese reality as a basis for building a unified state and to accept the continued movement and interaction of cultures to enrich each other from their historical and civilizational sources to create a harmonious state.

· It is necessary to share power, wealth, and services equitably. The state’s strategy should be biased towards the most backward regions and vulnerable groups.

· Legislation and laws express this cultural differentiation and diversity and reflect this in the form of the state and its administrative apparatus.

· Sudan should aim at comprehensive planning that achieves balanced economic, social, and cultural growth.

· Political, cultural, and social justice can only be achieved by establishing economic justice and providing fair opportunities for work and investment.

· Sudan Solutions works to establish a balanced foreign policy based on serving the highest interest of Sudan, defining its relationship with the countries of the world, and directing the agreements and principles guiding international and regional integration. This policy also considers that priority in integration begins with the Horn of Africa and the Nile Basin and those countries with historical and geographical ties and common interests with Sudan.

· Our only option is democracy, which is based on political, cultural, and religious pluralism, as it is the product of the consistent development of human civilization and common sense. It is the choice that most peoples of the world have agreed upon after fierce and continuous battles against all types of totalitarian and tyrannical rule. Individuals in society are equal. They express their opinions and make their decisions by resorting to the majority, and no group in civil society has the right to impose any thought or belief on the rest of society.

· Likewise, as long as the truth is individual and fallible, the ruling is conditional and temporary. What an individual sees as correct today may not be considered correct tomorrow, and from this came the necessity of renewing the electoral mandate periodically. Today’s majority may be tomorrow’s minority, and thus power rotates peacefully. 

· Entrenching sound democratic practices in the being of every citizen through the establishment of democratic institutions led by political parties that truly represent the people, express their concerns and interests, and confirm the transfer of power within them are the protective fence of the democratic system, and are the means to besiege extremism, fanaticism, and religious obsession. 

· Any democratic system that does not truly represent social reality carries the seed of its demise in its gut, and all the pacts for defending democracy and all precautions have proven to be a fragile sham that does not stand up to the first test.

· Sudan Solutions believes that national unity can only be achieved by confirming its constants and variables. Sudanese political literature has confirmed that ethnic, religious, and social diversity is an important part of the composition of the unified Sudanese society. The racist and regional propositions are both the result of the absence of an alternative that affirms common history and heritage and, at the same time, affirms the right of every region and every group to a fair division of wealth, power, and services.

Cultural Insights

1. A nation’s progress is measured by the extent of its cultural renaissance (scientific, literary, and artistic), by the depth of its constructive experiences and participation in the progress of humanity, by the extent of its conscious openness to the world’s civilizations, and by its ability to draw from each culture with conscious selectivity and benefit from the best of it. 

2. The fundamentalist regimes have impoverished material, spiritual, and cultural life, spread parasitic values ​​​​in earning and living, lying, disdain for reason and truth, and contempt for the masses, inculcating the nature of flattery in society, encouraging the production of rubbish and cheap literature and art, disdaining scholars and artists and encouraging superstition, sorcery, and quackery.

3. Sudan Solutions seeks to revive the nation’s culture, liberate the Sudanese person’s mind and conscience, and satisfy his spiritual needs in addition to meeting his material demands. Sudan Solutions seeks to affirm the independent national character and ensures that every citizen can achieve a high level, a better future, and a distinguished existence. Thought, literature, and art are a responsibility and an obligation, and they all serve the nation’s issues.

4. National history needs to be revised with broad objectivity and specialization and purified of anything similar in order to faithfully reflect the features and characteristics of the Sudanese personality. Our local cultures also need to be nurtured without disturbing the requirements of the times and without neglecting the information revolution that organized and connected the world until it became a small village, without disturbing the balance of the past and the present, and the reasons for modernity and contemporaneity.

5. The media has a vital role in educating people, making them aware of national issues and the issues of the world around them, and intellectually maturing them. The press, radio, television, and theater are devices that have a great influence on people of all groups and classes and are tools for education, awareness raising, guidance, education, and entertainment. The state must ensure that all of these agencies have the potential to transmit and launch programs efficiently and effectively and develop and guarantee the freedom and independence of the press and the freedom and national approach of state-owned media agencies.

6. Sudan Solutions mobilizes people for creative work, affirms the values ​​of society, and supports the tolerant ​​and resilience that have distinguished the Sudanese nation as the greatest common denominator among all Sudanese races: the values ​​of tolerance and solidarity, pride and nobility, altruism and sacrifice, and love of goodness and generosity.

7. Religion is an authentic component and a fundamental pillar of the Sudanese personality, and religions, in general, are beliefs, practices, values ​​, and morals that help achieve balance and harmony between material needs and the demands of thought and spirit.

8. The ideals, standards, and moral values ​​established by religion provide spiritual support and guidance to the people in confronting the concerns and dilemmas of contemporary life. Therefore, Sudan Solutions asks the state to guarantee freedom of worship and protection for all religions and stresses the importance and necessity of state supervision of places of worship and religious educational and cultural institutions. The stage of rebuilding and rehabilitating the unified civil, democratic state requires a great deal of religious reform and the removal of many misconceptions. Sudan Solutions calls for the concerted efforts of the state and sound religious institutions and for our venerable scholars to contribute to removing fanaticism, extremism, and ignorance of Islamic values through a comprehensive enlightenment approach.

9. Languages ​​are the repository of cultures. By preserving them, we preserve the authenticity of the national culture. The state must strive to encourage, teach, and nurture local languages ​​and dialects while encouraging the acquisition of other foreign languages ​​due to the necessity of openness to modern cultures and knowledge.

10. Caring for and supporting education is an essential means of economic and technological development and the main path to achieving a comprehensive development strategy and plans. 

11. Sudan Solutions works to review and develop educational and pedagogical curricula in a way that is consistent with the legacies of tolerance and morality and in a manner that enshrines the principles and values ​​of justice, freedom, equality, and human rights. It also works to reconsider educational plans and education structures to meet the country’s economic and development needs while ensuring free and compulsory education for all at the basic stage. All educational institutions should strive to:

· Raise awareness of the realities of the times and their requirements for the sake of conscious participation and integrated development without guardianship, bias, or illusions.

· Develop a feeling and sense of the homeland and belonging to it, taking pride in oneself and originality, educating the rising generations to know their origins and intellectual and spiritual roots, entrenching in their conscience the virtuous values ​​of their society, and working to promote the faculties of character and creativity in children, young people, and the gifted individuals.

· Revitalize and support literacy programs in the direction of developing the countryside and pastoralists in a way that is aware of the characteristics of the Sudanese and their environment. With this approach, there is support for communication between the center and the periphery, between the city and the countryside, and between heritage and change.

· Raise the banner of scientific thinking, encouraging and laying the foundations for its methods, liberating people from all types of backwardness, and developing the talents that prepare them for effective participation in building the state.

· Encourage the artistic and literary movement, supporting literature and the arts, caring for writers and artists, caring for, supporting, and encouraging qualified, talented, and creative people, working to ensure that they become highly specialized, working to facilitate publishing, providing and supporting means and tools for intellectual production, providing and supporting tools and instruments for music and fine plastic and applied arts, and opening the door to import books, magazines, and cultural equipment, especially computers and accessories, spare parts, software, and support, and providing and supporting modern printing equipment and its inputs.

· Establish high-level institutes and academies for various arts, cultural centers, public libraries in cities, and mobile libraries that roam villages and nomadic groups, linking them to creative groups of young people across the country and working to encourage and develop cultural production.

· Establish and support the necessary institutions to foster children’s culture, establishing children’s theaters and cinemas, encouraging the establishment of children’s libraries, supporting children’s publishing, and encouraging and sponsoring children’s clubs.

· Strengthen national radio and television broadcasting, supporting the establishment of regional, specialized, and targeted television and radio networks, providing them with the necessary support, recruiting the highest competencies to manage them, highly training their cadres, and forming musical and theatrical groups for these organs.

· Provide job opportunities for artists and writers, supporting them financially and providing the appropriate atmosphere, consider hiring distinguished ones, allocate incentive prizes with rewarding financial returns, protect the intellectual property rights of their works, and preserve their financial rights.

· Support the arts, literature, and folklore by documenting and recording the heritage, confirming and supporting the positive and living ones, supporting their institutions, establishing museums and galleries, encouraging their attendance, and forming modern and popular musical bands.

· Pay attention to sports and using leisure time to develop citizens’ physical abilities and satisfy their desires for free and fair competition by sponsoring sports of all kinds and supporting its institutions.

Economic

1. Despite the country’s huge potential material wealth that can be developed (more than two million acres of arable land, more than two million acres of pastures, huge livestock wealth, similar areas of forests, minerals, oil, and sea resources, Sudan ranks at the bottom of the poorest countries in the world.

2. Debts have accumulated, its balance of payments has become imbalanced, the tax burden on its citizens has increased, services have declined, prices have risen beyond citizens’ purchasing power, and the standard of living has declined. 

3. Sudan Solutions works and calls for the adoption of independent economic planning self-reliance, inspired by the spiritual and material reality of the Sudanese nation, achieving social justice and ensuring a fair distribution of national wealth in order to achieve parallel growth between the different regions and between rural and urban areas. 

4. Sudan Solutions works to develop national wealth in order to achieve integrated growth between the productive and service sectors and adopts scientific planning as the basis for managing the economy and development and, therefore, adheres to all plans drawn up by scientific conferences and presented by specialists and consultants. 

5. Sudan Solutions works to put these visions into practice and to stop economic deterioration by rehabilitating infrastructure, focusing on providing production inputs and laying firm foundations for achieving balanced and comprehensive development, liberating the public sector from idleness and lethargy, rationalizing the private sector, liquidating parasitic banks and institutions, and adopting a national plan.

6. Sudan should rely on itself and follow a strict austerity policy that begins with the state and its leading institutions. It also works to stop displacement policies, improve production (material, intellectual, and cultural) and expand its base, expand and advance the service network, provide and support necessary goods and services, expand and develop the national industrial base in coordination and integration with the public sector and the private sector in smart partnership, and reconsider the laws that protect the industry. 

7. Sudan Solutions program works to fight economic corruption by eliminating parasitic activities, fighting corruption, nepotism, the black market, and smuggling, and eliminating the economic and political power that supports them—issuing the necessary legislation for popular retribution and ill-gotten wealth, rationalizing banking work and borrowing policies by focusing on lending to small farmers and artisans and restarting agricultural projects and public sector factories. 

8. These measures are supported by providing the basic infrastructure that the industry needs, lifting the tax burden on the citizens and entrepreneurs, exploring Sudan’s hidden wealth and exploiting it rationally, exploiting energy sources and improving its facilities, and developing local energy sources and appropriate alternative energy means, and rationalizing investment.

9. Adopt a national approach to foreign investment within the framework of the national development strategy, international relief, and aid.