This report, written before the most recent outbreak of hostilities, synthesises findings from five sites – Yei, Wau, Yambio, Aweil and Malakal – to assess the nature, function and influence of local peace agreements in South Sudan. Across these diverse contexts, the report finds several cross-cutting insights that may well be just as relevant today amid a lack of progress on salvaging the peace agreement at the national level. These inlcude that local peace agreements are contextually specific but structurally patterned; that local-to-national linkages exist, but remain weakly supported; that spatial dynamics matter – borderlands and return zones are hotspots; and that process is as important as outcome. 

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