This report makes several recommendations for Sudanese leaders and international actors:
-Engagement with people: Sudan’s powerful elites need to reach agreement on a wide range of complex processes in the coming year. They also need to start an engagement with the country’s diverse populations, if they are to avoid perpetuating the politics of exclusion and conflict and help citizens participate in the big decisions facing the country.
-International engagement: The CPA’s international and regional supporters need to work together to support the final act of the CPA, paying attention to local as well as national and international dimensions of the peace process.
- Security: Breakdowns in security in Darfur, Kordofan and most states of Southern Sudan undermine popular engagement in elections, referendums and other processes. Both parties need to address the urgent need for local peace in the coming year, and the UN and other international actors should support them.
-Support for elections: International actors need to provide adequate support for elections, Popular Consultations and the referendums while recognizing that these processes will complicate politics in regions of Sudan that are not at peace.
-Post-referendum arrangements: In the event of Southern secession, the two parties to the CPA need to reach deals on security arrangements, oil revenues, nationality and a host of other issues. In the event of unity, some of these issues may need review. Primary responsibility for these processes lies with the two parties. But both CPA supporters and foreign investors need to work together to limit the possibility of failure.
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