Sudan’s Unfinished Revolution: Peace, Hope, and Uncertain Futures Sudan’s ongoing protests began in November 2018, and continued for six months, after which the military junta was forced to depose President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. Later in the same year, the civilian leaders signed a very fragile peace deal to share power with the military generals in a strategic move to transition the country to a civilian-led democratic government. The deal was met with skepticism, uncertainty, and doubt from the beginning as leaders of the peaceful grass-root movement predicted the outcome of such a dubious contract. Their well-founded doubt turned out to be true after the military launched an attempted coup on October 25, 2021, annulling the constitutional process that began in September 2019. Despite this setback, the peaceful revolt grew stronger, connecting various grass-root movements in different parts of the country through different techniques of peaceful protests. Since the attempted coup, however, violence against peaceful activists has also intensified as security forces continued to crack down on protests using violent tactics, including snipers' shoot-to-kill during street protests, detention and torture of political leaders, and harmful political propaganda that defame and demonize youth politics and activism. In this paper I examine these contradictory techniques of peace and violence to examine Sudan’s history of nationalism and its embeddedness in both national and international politics of containment, belonging, and citizenship rights. I show how protesters' peaceful techniques have changed the course of political debate in the country, however, they continue to be trumped by violent militarism, whose history cannot be severed from colonial histories of empire building and their manifestations in the postcolonial/post-cold war era.