This research examines how Sudan’s Resistance Committees (RCs) and Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), emerging from the 2018–2019 revolution, have developed into grassroots, community-led structures of governance, humanitarian response, and collective care amid the ongoing war and state institutional collapse. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Sudanese youth and civil society leaders, it explores how their decentralized and horizontal structures challenge state-centric and externally driven models of governance and humanitarian action, demonstrating the capacity of local communities to organize, make decisions, and respond to their own needs.
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