The information gathered was collected by field researchers inside Syria and by researchers outside, who conducted Skype interviews with those people inside Syria involved in the deal-making process. In total, 45 respondents were interviewed. Some of the researchers themselves had previously brokered several deals and taken part in mediating some others. Secondary sources – such as media, United Nations and international non-government organization (INGO) reports, government statements etc. – were relied on to cross-references details. In preparing this report, the authors examined more than 35 different local negotiations in different parts of Syria, between October 2011 and the present time. We present some of these as case studies, focusing on Homs, the Damascus countryside, Ras al-Ain and the provision of services in Dara’a and Aleppo. By investigating the varied landscape of the Syrian conflict the report shows that while in some areas of the country the level of violence is very high, there are large parts of the country where efforts to achieve local ceasefires have taken place, with some degree of success. In particular, areas in which there are still large numbers of civilians and an active civil society are more likely to have developed bottom-up peace-making mechanisms.