slippery he is senior research on the hill region he's joining us from the swedish capsule stockholm mississippi grace have you on that deed to africa i'm in twenty fifteen mahdi's government signed a peace agreement with some of the armed groups but the jihad just remained active why was that process simming seemingly ineffective. twenty fifty five it's. just one part of it. we should refer to. both of you to give you. a tour through two thousand and twelve it seems that the twelve has evolved as you said with no new writers. or bridging north. central. just a piece. right so i mean as you say there it is a complex mix of plot the sort of the tribalism issues you've now got the jihadist threat and i wondered if that complicates any effort to try and get it to quash this insurgency as a whole. yes of course i mean i actually was in the north for quite well i don't like this new trace of peace begins and these are just contacts we can actually negotiate with problem one of the problems with the jihadist groups is that they're not really identified but not ready to negotiate so it's very very difficult