General information
First Active Year: 2014
Current Name: SARC
Current Name full English: Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council
Current Name full native language: n/a
Original Name: SARC
Original Name full English: Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council
Original Name full native language: n/a
Actor Chronology
This section contains information about (if applicable) group splinters, name changes, and alliances according to the UCDP definitions of these concepts.
UCDP has not recorded any Chronology Activities involving this group.
Conflict issues
Government of Sudan - SARC
Conflict Goal Issues: Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council (SARC) was an Arab Mahamid rebel group fighting against the Sudanese government. The group emerged in 2014, vowing to protect the “human rights, power and wealth sharing, development and settling down of nomadic tribes”. The group was characterized by its shared Arab Mahamid ethnicity and cooperated with other Sudanese rebel groups such as SPLM/A-North and the SRF alliance, criticizing the Sudanese government’s treatment of national ethnic and tribal groups. During the year of its emergence, SARC pronounced several conflict goal issues, calling for the protection of human rights of the Sudanese people, particularly the children, for economic reform to promote equal wealth distribution, and for rule of law to be implemented to provide security for the people. SARC also accused the government of corruption, calling for democratic reform in the country, and for the ousting of local administrations in North Darfur. The group also stated its intentions to resolve issues through diplomatic dialogue, hinting at the establishment of executive power-sharing, and called for the legal recognition of Arab militias present in Sudan.
As the conflict progressed, only two aforementioned conflict goal issues were explicitly reiterated, as SARC reemphasized its intentions to carry out economic reform to more evenly distribute the country’s wealth: “the ongoing wars are now fabricated for the purpose of a divide-and-rule policy of which the ruling elite in Khartoum is the ultimate beneficiary rather than the people of Sudan.”. The group also called for further military reform, although this was aimed toward national militias, as SARC called for militia leaders to cease their cooperation and support from the government. Several new issues were also raised by the group, as SARC stated its opposition to national elections, although this position was amended five days later to instead support sitting President Omar Al-Bashir. Soon after the elections, SARC also called for the group to be recognized as a national political party. The group also called for the disbandment of pro-government militias and for the protection of the civil rights of Sudanese tribal groups.
The main conflict goal issues of SARC were the issues of the Sudanese military structure, particularly on the presence and influence of various militias, as well as economic reform to promote equal wealth distribution. These issues were continuously referenced throughout the conflict and were heavily emphasized by the group.
Conflict Dynamics Issues: Throughout the conflict, SARC stated two conflict dynamics issues, calling for international assistance in providing humanitarian aid and reducing the prevalence of child soldiers being used in Sudan during 2014, and accusing the government of Sudan of conducting an operation of ethnic cleansing against smaller ethnic groups in Darfur. As no issues were stated continuously, no main conflict dynamics issue was attributed to SARC.
Conflict Resolution Issues: During 2014, SARC called for the government to compensate civilians who had been affected by the fighting and heavily emphasized its intentions to resolve the conflict through dialogue, stating that these should be held in a neutral country, although the group also expressed its readiness to continue fighting, stating “that all options are open if the government refuses to respond to their demands.”
In 2017, SARC reemphasized its calls for negotiations, stating that “dialogue is the only genuine way out for the country from the current crisis it is witnessing.” During this year, the group also stated its resistance to planned disarmament programs which the government intended to carry out against the group. The main conflict resolution issue of SARC was the issue of negotiations, as this issue was continuously raised throughout the conflict and heavily emphasized.
Type of conflict issues: The coded conflict issues for this group are: Conflict Goal Issues: Childrens rights, Civil rights, Corruption, CPS: Democracy, Disband para-military forces, Economic reforms, Executive power-sharing, Hold elections, Human rights, Opposition to elections, Oust local executive, Recognition as a political party, Restructure military forces, Rule of law
Conflict Dynamics Issues: Collective targeting: ethnic, IFI: Humanitarian aid
Conflict Resolution Issues: Call for negotiations, Compensation/restoration, DDR issues, Structure of negotiationsF
Annual information
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2014
Actor Active in Dyad(s):
Government of Sudan - SARC
2017
Actor Active in Dyad(s):
Government of Sudan - SARC
Group Archive
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2014 Group Archive
Government of Sudan - SARC
Comment on Name: SARC is the abbreviation for the Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council.
