Assessing the peace agreements in South Sudan since the 1970s, the article discusses the extent to which these agreements reconfigure predatory fiscal practices, rather than dismantle them. The paper finds that elite power-sharing agreements often entrench predatory revenue systems, including extortion, leading to the elite redistribution of rents, which help to stabilise ruling coalitions and secure international finance. To address the predatory practices in the peace agreements, the article outlines how the peace agreement framework should include transparency and reciprocity provisions.
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