This study attempts to understand the impact of
non-protest youth action, specifically by focusing on the some civic
initiatives. The author is convinced that the motives of the Sudanese youth
behind this initiative would allow an analysis of their internal tensions,
allowing researchers to ask whether or not we are facing a shift in how action
is taken in the youth field, and whether such a change will alter the public
sphere. The hypothesis which this study seeks to test is whether the Sudanese state’s
moves to appropriate civil society in the country, and to reduce the state
apparatus to its bare bones oppressive machinery has driven a critical mass of
Sudanese youth to create their own space and their own mechanisms from which
collective action can be taken in future.
