ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the various mediation efforts in order to fully understand the role of third parties in the Sudan peace process. Several organizations played a part in the series of negotiations, but the World Council of Churches and its affiliate, the All Africa Conference of Churches assumed the most important mediatory role. The Movement for Colonial Freedom (MCF), which in the early 1970s changed its name to "Liberation", is a London based organization affiliated with the Parliamentary Labour Party, having the backing of about 140 Members of Parliament and about twenty-five large national trade unions in Britain. The MCF had little contact with the Sudan after independence in 1956. However, by 1970, the problem of the Southern Sudan had begun to occupy the organization's attention. The MCF had also provided assistance to the Sudan during its movement towards independence.
