Year: 2023 | Month: December | Volume 11 | Issue 2
Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan and Refugee Concerns: Exploring the centrality of structural nonviolence to secure people’s lives
Mohammed Adam
DOI:10.30954/2454-9525.02.2023.6
Abstract:
The worsening violence in Sudan is creating an equally catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the country. It is almost seven months since the disastrous conflict erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. The violent conflict has led to cross-border displacement, massive migration of lakh of Sudanese people; the situation has now taken shape of a full-scale civil war, genocide of innocent civilians and extreme violence against women. It is in this backdrop, there is critical and emergent need of major intervention to not only end the violent conflict, but also mount a major humanitarian mission as the entire health infrastructure has crumbled and the move towards a famine-like condition where people are deprived of even their basic needs. It is also here we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of nonviolence and most importantly his ideas of structural nonviolence. This paper is an attempt to explore the essence of Gandhian structural nonviolence in conflict situations as that in Sudan. It also delves through interviews of Sudanese refugees in Chad, a neighbouring country on the breakdown of lives of the innocent civilians and their dreams of a peaceful and nonviolent Sudan.
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