Editor's Note: This op-ed was written by Justine Fleischner and Akshaya Kumar and originally appeared in The Daily Beast as "Will There Ever Be Peace In South Sudan?" on February 7, 2015.
Well after midnight on Feb. 1, South Sudan’s warring leaders agreed to cease hostilities and re-establish peace in their war-torn nation. This is not the first time they have made this promise. In fact, it’s the eighth such agreement in a little over a year. At the signing ceremony in the plush Sheraton hotel, as delegates exchanged jokes and handshakes, civil society advocates, cramped in the back, were left wondering if there was cause for celebration at all…
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