There is a regular echo of consensus that South Sudan’s agenda for reconciliation needs to be indigenous to the country and based on the particularity of the experience here. Yet, there is no digestable synthesis of the lessons learned or reflection among key actors as to how lessons from the earlier national-level processes could be integrated into the structures foreshadowed in the R- ARCISS. The Peacebuilding Opportunities Fund is pursuing elsewhere in its programme of activity deeper inquiry into cultural and traditional approaches. It would be logical as part of this framework of designing an approach unique to South Sudan that there is consideration of the processes to-date that have been South Sudan led. With this in mind, the POF commissioned this review. Both the Team Leader and the Deputy Team Leader of the POF have been involved at different points throughout the history of the national-level processes. This presents, on the one hand, a conflict of interest that needs to be declared. On the other hand, it is also reflective of a reality in South Sudan that a number of actors – South Sudanese and international – have remained engaged across long periods. There are pitfalls in this reality, but there is also great potential in drawing together the experience of those who have been closely involved to feed into the next steps.