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This paper looks at one critically important aspect of the accord—agenda two—which calls for “immediate measures to address the massive humanitarian crisis of traumatized victims and the displaced and to promote reconciliation, healing and restoration.” A focus on internal displacement is one key lens to critically analyze Kenya’s current peacebuilding, which we define as actions and approaches to “prevent, reduce, transform and help people recover from violence in all its forms including structural violence.” How IDPs are treated, whether they return to their homes, and if so, how successful their reintegration is tells a great deal about progress in a peacebuilding process. This paper analyzes the internal displacement and peacebuilding nexus first through a theoretical review and discussion, and then more concretely through the case study of Kuresoi in Kenya.