The Tribal Impact on Political Stability in Sudan

What is it about?

Tribalconflictcannot beisolated from thestructure of thestate, its political system and discourse. Moreover, objective conditions drift the social conflict into a political one. Thus social and tribal conflicts exist in all societies—particularly in underdeveloped societies. However, theirescalation into bloody conflict becomes a phenomenon and a dilemma that transcends the nature of traditional tribal dispute. Disputes and conflicts erupt in traditional tribal-based societies from time to time due to overgrazing or tribal reprisal, but they are usually limited and contained by tribalcustoms.

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Why is it important?

The tribal disputes in Sudan are linked to multiple causes and factors such as disputes over land, water resources, the pastures that intersect with the cultivated land, and animal abuse on farms, as well as environmental degradation, drought and desertification, theft and reprisal, and the flow of weapons from neighboring countries—including the new one, all of which triggered the tribal and ethnic strife (Arabs versus non-Arabs/Africans).

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