Format: Hybrid Forum

Date: Saturday, 6 December 2025

Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM EAT

Venue: BIEA, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa

Despite more than five decades of peace initiatives, Sudan’s succession of agreements—from Addis Ababa in 1972 to Juba in 2020—has not delivered sustained stability. Each accord promised an end to conflict but faltered amid limited political will, weak implementation and externally driven frameworks that failed to reflect the country’s complex landscape. Instead of addressing underlying grievances, these agreements often entrenched elite power bargains, leaving core questions of governance, equity and marginalization unresolved and contributing to the renewed violence that culminated in the 2023 war.

A further and persistent challenge has been the narrowness of peace processes, which have routinely excluded women, youth and communities directly affected by conflict. Their absence has weakened legitimacy, undercut local ownership and left agreements disconnected from social realities.

On 6 December 2025, the Rift Valley Institute and the Sudan Norway Academic Collaboration will host a panel of Sudanese researchers and experts to discuss the outcome of a two-day closed workshop that will be held in Nairobi from 4–5 December. The discussion will explore Sudan’s peacemaking trajectory and more inclusive, contextually grounded approaches that can chart a path beyond repeated cycles of failed settlements.

Please note that this is a hybrid forum.