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This article explores how the Burkinabe state's judicial services resolve local conflict settlements in the Tenkodogo district in eastern Burkina Faso. It is based on an ethnographic work carried out between December 2014 and December 2015 in conjunction with doctoral research. The precarious material conditions due to the weak presence of the State in this peripheral area and the local cultural and political environment marked by crises within the chieftaincy have shaped the conflict settlements by the local administration. In search of social peace, which remains the ultimate goal, the local state agents resort to pragmatic and sensible procedures to cope with the demand for social regulation expressed by the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]