A N A LY S I S SSD PEACEPTIONS SEARCHING FOR PEACE IN SOUTH SUDAN: HOPE DIES LAST South Sudan Sabine Kurtenbach, Jan Pospisil, Anna Reuss Recognised as an independent state in 2011, South Sudan is the youngest and poorest country in the world. How­ever, violence and armed conflict have continued, demonstrating how local and national conflicts interact. A Comprehensive Peace Agree­ment signed in 2018 remains fragile. There is a striking difference between how people concep­tualise peace and how they assess a peace process and the performance of peace ac­tors. While the latter is mainly shaped by personal and more immanent impressions of everyday security, the former seems to be more strongly shaped by longer-term collec­tive experiences. There are wide variations in the actors and institutions that people trust in peacebuilding. While the church, the United Nations peacekeeping mission and civil society organisations enjoy a fair degree of trust in most areas, their acceptance is not universal.