Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/304299 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
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SWP Research Paper No. 14/2024
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
The United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) was established at the request of Sudan's government to assist the country's political "transition" towards domestic peace and democratic governance. Rather then being able to see its mandate through, the Mission witnessed a transition to the ongoing war between the country's two military formations. UNITAMS' good-offices function came into play in all three phases of the Mission's lifespan - under the civilian-military partnership, under the military government, and in the first weeks of the war. Facilitation efforts became particularly relevant following the October 2021 military coup and after the conclusion of a Framework Political Agreement by the military and their civilian counterparts in December 2022. UNITAMS worked with a broad spectrum of civilian, "para-civilian" and military Sudanese stakeholders and with various regional and inter­national partners. The establishment of the Tripartite Mechanism in cooperation with the African Union and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) lent additional legitimacy to the efforts of all three organisations - and was at the same time a valuable learning exercise. One of the main lesson for international actors is not to underestimate the strength of actors who fear losing out in a transition process that the international community seeks to support. The UNITAMS experience demonstrates that even a small political mis­sion can play an effective good-offices role, but it also shows the limits of this function - especially where military actors are set for war.
Subjects: 
United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan
UNITAMS
Framework Political Agreement
Inter-Governmental Authority on Development
IGAD
Special Representative of the Secretary General for Sudan
SRSG
Sudanese Armed Forces
SAF
Rapid Support Forces
RSF
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan
JPA
Permanent Ceasefire Committee
PCC
Omar al-Bashir
Abd al-Fattah al-Burhan
Muhammad Hamdan Daglo
Hemedti
Abdallah Hamdok
Mini Minawi
Jibril Ibrahim
Malik Agar
Musa Hilal
Forces for Freedom and Change
FFC
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement
SPLM
Justice and Equality Movement
JEM
Coalition of Civic Democratic Forces
Armed Struggle Movements
ASMs
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