Reconciliation and Tolerance: The Path to a New Sudan

There is no way out of our catastrophic suffering except through reconciliation and tolerance. The mourners, full of unbearable grief, urgently cry out to come out of narrow selves, saturated with greed and selfishness. Reconciliation and tolerance is the mission of politicians and the military to build a new Sudan full of peace and stability, goodness and prosperity, freedom and justice.

It is time we learned how to exchange concessions for foolishness in order to stop the bleeding, heal operations, and patch hernias. Tolerance or reconciliation does not necessarily mean the reproduction of any regime that has harmed any group of people. Rather, the goal is to build a system that ensures salvation from all the sins and mistakes of previous systems.

The ability to forgive and reconcile does not arise from a weak or defeated mind or perspective. Rather, they are the gift of a strong, rich mindset that gives unity over division and unity over conflict. Tolerance is the glue that holds multi-ethnic and multicultural societies together. It is one of the pillars of justice.

Any wise reader of history realizes that wars resolve their conflicts at negotiating tables. Therefore, the warring parties are eager to enter the halls and have something in their possession that strengthens their weight at the table. The current situation on the battle fronts reveals the exhaustion of both sides in a way that prolongs the disaster without one of them approaching the certainty of a decisive victory to come.

With this understanding of tolerance and mutual concessions, the entire people regains the opportunity to coexist peacefully. Coexistence, in its simplest sense, is the awareness of the mosaic of people to coexist and practice a common life with the rights and duties it includes, free from fanaticism, aggression, or injustice.

The trump card on the bargaining table may be the fighters leaving their homes. From here we start the journey. This is a cheap concession to the leaders, just as it is a source of relief for the people before the army. This exit is subject to the previous concession of society.

Only from here will we begin the tasks of restoring national peace. Who said that wars are only decided on the battle fronts? The theaters of operations of the last war are always negotiating tables. Peace struggles are no less powerful and fierce than war.

The exchange of concessions is a step that deserves the approval of the mediators, but it does not ensure that the people accept the concessions that remain in force. There is a general conviction that this is a war between one evil and another evil. Perhaps the exchange of conviction to leave represents the best concessions.