3197: Local Ownership, Lasting Peace

In this episode, Nationwide explores growing calls for South Sudan to localise the peace process as a path to lasting stability, with leaders urging a bottom-up approach that involves local communities and authorities to build trust and break cycles of revenge and marginalisation. The discussion features Merakaje Lorna, a civil society representative and Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Home Grown Initiative, and Hon. Malish Noel Scopas, Member of the State Transitional Legislative Assembly representing Mugwo Payam in Rei River County, Central Equatoria State.