The blueprint is there in the transition for Sudan.
First of all, thank you for your nice comments. I am always proud to represent my country. I can tell you that's a generational thing. We all represent our country, and I'm proud to represent other countries I'm a citizen of.
In this particular case, in the transition after the revolution, there was discussion about answering this question. Civil society decided at the time to go about dismantling what stood in the way of what you're talking about, that is, the distribution of public goods in a way that may not necessarily bring happiness, let's say, but would bring stability. This was to actually go about dismembering or dismantling the deep state.
In all of these countries, the sheer violence or state violence is usually owed to two things. One of them, of course, is ideology and this obsession with power, but that cannot be prosecuted without a dominance of the domestic economy, both commodities and financial markets and all of that. The state violence you see is executed and prosecuted by the state. What to do is to go about—and this is written by Sudanese—dismantling that part of the economy that is actually under the hegemony and monopoly of just a few people in the state. This is the reason the war started.
I know there is a lot of discussion about why the war started. It started for one reason: The Sudanese population wanted to dismantle the corruption. Imagine a war that starts for that singular reason on the part of both parties, because that's the only thing they agree upon, that they refuse to dismantle their great profits.
What does that mean? It means democracy has to be promoted, and it means an economy that may not be equal for everyone but certainly an economy that is not dominated by a singular state. That can be done. It's done elsewhere. The Sudanese have a blueprint for it. I'll send it to you if you want. This is why the war began, so we have to return to that and deal with it.
The recruitment of militants is a different thing. You can read my book, but that's a socialization thing. They're not as strong as you might think in Sudan. They're weak. They're hanging on for dear life, utilizing their allies in the military establishment because they no longer have support in civil society beyond militias that they have just recently expanded. They have been unable to recruit.
I'll stop there.