From war to peace and reconciliation in Darfur, Sudan: Prospects for the Judiyya

The causes of the current Darfur problem can be justifiably reduced to one word: ‘injustice’. Since the independence of Sudan in 1956, the region of Darfur has been under the oppressive hegemony of a ruling elite primarily drawn from the northern region of Sudan. Over the years, Darfur people protested their economic, cultural, ethnic and political marginalisation to no avail. In 2003, some Darfur people took up arms against the Khartoum government (El-Tom, 2009, 2011; Hassan and Ray, 2009)