#civil-society

#civil-society

"It's a very big issue that transcends, really, the most basic aspects of freedom and citizens' ability to participate in their governmental processes."

When Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over most of the country's capital Khartoum in the early days of the war, the youth-led civil society initiative Hadhreen kept its food kitchens open.

Maurice Mitchell notes, 'Elections can be brutal. At least as structured in the United States—really, there are far better, more representative ways to make collective voting decisions!' This highlights the need for reforms in election processes to improve representation and reduce the binary nature of current electoral systems, which often simplifies complex social issues into two opposing choices that fail to capture the diversity of public opinion.