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This publication looks at how the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in Sudan and the 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS) have influenced trajectories of violence. Key findings include 1) that the lead-up to the CPA did reduce violence; 2) however, the CPA did not incentivize any fundamental changes to Sudan’s political order – instead, it reinforced a pattern of political violence in which the state crushed all political opposition with force; 3) the ARCSS also reinforced a political order based on violent competition for power and resources in South Sudan, and more.