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This paper compares the two highly internationalized peace processes in Aceh and in Sri Lanka. It concentrates particularly on the role of international actors in reconstruction, and analyzes the reasons for their different outcomes. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper traces how transnational aid networks, discourses and practices may become endogenous over time in local or internal conflict as well as peace dynamics. The author concludes that inclusive and comprehensive peace-building as well as space for the transformation of conflicting groups are the key to successful peace processes.