The Institute of Security Studies said transforming the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement or SPLM is vital for achieving sustainable peace and nation building of the young nation.
Paula Cristina Roque in her August Policy Brief said the party reform needs to go hand-in-hand with the peace process for a transitional arrangement to take root.
She said transforming the SPLM entails ensuring that politics become demilitarised; party structures reach the grassroots; and decision-making rules and leadership succession processes are established.
Ms Roque suggested that the SPLM needs to neutralise the military legacy of being structured according to SPLA seniority, demobilise private militias and allow it to become a professional and depoliticised national army.
She said the SPLM also needs to have a political programme and organisational stability to take part in elections, government and has a civilian leadership that consults its members.