War versus peace logics at local levels: findings from the Conflict Research Programme on local agreements and community level mediation

This memo summarises research on local agreements and community level mediation undertaken by the Conflict Research Programme (CRP) in five sites – DRC, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria in collaboration with the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) and the Center for Security Studies in Zurich, Switzerland. By ‘local’, we refer to any type of agreement other than a top-down centralised national agreement, which has been the main focus of the international community until recently