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Peter Biar Ajak (born November 21, 1983) is a South Sudanese peace activist, scholar, and former political prisoner who was arbitrarily detained in South Sudan from July 2018 to January 2020. Forced to flee a South Sudanese hit squad in July 2020, he now resides in the United States, where he continues to advocate for peace and democracy in South Sudan. While in the United States, he has served as a visiting fellow at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies and a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy.