Flowing from a critique of liberal peacebuilding-as-statebuilding, this chapter builds a case for acknowledging the significance of customary or “traditional” forms of governance and peace in hybrid political orders. Situated in the context of the local and ethnographic turn in peacebuilding studies, its focus is on the customary “local local”—the societal networks, institutions, and actors that shape peace and order for large sections of the populace in many postcolonial countries, beyond the realm of state, market economy, and civil society. It is demonstrated that customary peace, grounded in indigenous concepts of reconciliation and customary law, is an integral dimension of today’s hybrid political orders, and that while it is itself imbued with hybridity it in turn permeates these hybrid orders. Taking customary peace seriously and engaging with it would have fundamental implications for the wider debate about, and the praxis of, peacebuilding and statebuilding.