ABSTRACT
Various actors and factors on societal, political and economic levels have contributed to the Sudanese intrastate conflict system. These factors and actors on the three levels influence each other. Moreover, most actors act not only on one level, but instead they can be multi-level actors. Similarly, almost no factor is limited to one level only. These actors and factors on different levels facilitate the involvement of regional and global actors. In this constellation local factors become regional and global factors; and the local actors act in their own interests as well as in the interests of the regional and global actors. Such constellation is significant for the dynamic of conflict and violence. This chapter discusses the determining actors and factors of the internal conflict system on societal, economic and political levels in Sudan in order to show how they constitute an essential component of the regional and global system in the Sudan.
