ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the dynamics, which have made peace and the end to violence in South Sudan so tragically elusive, leaving the country in a state of unworkable peace accords and perpetual war, no matter how much hope and resistance to conflict the people of South Sudan invest in these agreements. When intergovernmental authority on development (IGAD) took up the initiative to intervene in South Sudan, the East and Horn of African leaders made a lot of noise about their determination to quickly arrest South Sudan's new war. However, hopes were raised once again in August 2015 when IGAD pushed through a peace agreement that the parties begrudgingly signed to end the war. Achieving a sustainable internationally brokered peace for South Sudan has become an exercise in near futility, as none of the many compromise agreements that have been reached so far have actually borne results that the South Sudanese can build on.
