SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Reforming the Security Sector in Sudan: The need for a framework
Luka Biong D. Kuol, the Acting Dean at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) at US National Defense University, makes various suggestions for security sector reform, starting with “changing the mind-set of how security is perceived, planned, managed, and delivered to the Sudanese people.”
Kuol suggests that the conventional disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) process must be adapted to Sudan’s uniquely complex conflict dynamics – with reintegration requiring close cooperation with communities over an extended period of time.
Kuol calls for a national security strategy that clearly defines Sudan’s threats and the force structure needed for such security, which would thereby provide a new doctrine that would instil a national identity, ethos, and command and control structure that can avoid a fractured security apparatus.
In addition, Kuol emphasises the important role that can be played by civil society in the security sector reform process, “if their understanding is enhanced”.