Faith, Migration, and Global Responsibility: Case of Sudanese Refugees

Abstract

The crisis of Sudanese refugees is very crucial and is based on the core issue of religion. The history of peace negotiations in Sudan depicts the importance of religion, as it is about the identity of the people. Believers cannot compromise on the issues that are central to their religion, but when it comes to political power, it is always possible to compromise. The methodologies used in this article are analytical, comparative, and descriptive. The research objective of this article is to analyze and assess Islamism and secularism (and also Christianity), which are fundamentally hostile ideologies in Sudan that have realized that they can neither win the war of visions nor the war of shooting. The Sudanese civil war is described as a 'war of visions' by the 1990s, based on national identity. The objective of this paper is also to determine the role of religion in providing resilience for the displaced people of Sudan and how religion frames the humanitarian responses to forced migration. The study highlights the crisis of Sudan, where the continuation of war is preferred rather than accepting an unjust peace. 'Machakos compromise' was also made between the GOS Government of Sudan, having an Islamist orientation, kept in the Northern States of Sudan, and the SPLM, Sudan People's Liberation Movement, based on the Christian and secularist orientation of the Southern Sudanese people. The urgent steps should be taken as the development of an inclusive citizenship, to rebuild the infrastructure and to re-establish the policies that can accept multiculturalism and peace among Sudan's ethnic and different religious groups.