Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to all the participants in the Sudan Stakeholder Dialogues for sharing their valuable contributions and knowledge during this project. He wishes to acknowledge the steadfast commitment to these dialogues from participants from a broad range of backgrounds during an extremely turbulent period in Sudan’s recent history. Particular thanks are due to HE Dr Abdalla Hamdok, the prime minister of Sudan, for his guidance, insights, expertise and support as chief facilitator of the Sudan Stakeholder Dialogues.
The author is thankful to Dame Rosalind Marsden, associate fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, for her research input. This paper has benefited from the detailed meeting summaries prepared by Africa Programme assistant Fergus Kell. The author is also grateful for the review and shepherding of the paper by Lizzy Donnelly, Ben Shepherd and Tighisti Amare, and the expert editing by Jo Maher. Thanks to Ibrahim Kadouni for translating the paper into Arabic. Finally, the author wishes to thank Humanity United for its support and commitment to the project.