Posted on December 28th, 2008 by mindanaw
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Central Committee has issued a five-point declaration on the resumption of talks with the Philippine government.
MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim issued the statement dated December 26 but released to the media on December 27.
The points are as follows:
- “Before the GRP-MILF Peace Talks resume, there must [...]
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Posted on December 26th, 2008 by mindanaw
While praying for silence in the battlefields, Bukidnon Bishop Honesto Pacana called on both government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to keep on talking and never to allow times of silence in the peace process.
Pacana said the silence of the guns is not enough unless there is continuing dialogue between the [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2008 by mindanaw
That the informal peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is due to resume soon offers a reflection in our role as informal observers of the peace process that gained hold, then lost it somehow.
The MindaNews report GRP, MILF ‘informal talks’ to start ‘possibly’ by Dec. 22 didn’t quite [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by mindanaw
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has named Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rafael Seguis as chair of the new government panel that will resume peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), reports tell us.
But what I think is a striking reaction to this news is a comment from Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, executive director of the Cotabato City-based [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2008 by mindanaw
Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro wants to approach peace with a “strong dose of practicality, pragmatism and political realism” as he questioned the approach of solving the root causes of conflict” because “has any society been able to solve the root causes of conflict?”
He told the 8th Mindanao Island Conference of the Provincial Board Members League [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by mindanaw
Peace education is such a dynamic subject to teach at the university.
Chiza approached me for help to update the syllabus given to her by her superiors at Bukidnon State University over the break. One night we missed a favorite TV show just to gather and review the syllabi and lesson plans of previous lecturers [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by mindanaw
“There is only one Mindanao”.
We don’t have a Mindanao with two faces.
But the “one face” is scarred in some parts, ruined in another, healing in most parts, and mostly growing.”
I got into this reflection over the weekend when asked in an informal forum on whether there are two Mindanaos.
I said [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by mindanaw
(NEWS) “The future appears gloom and bleak,” Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri told the provincial board Thursday citing that the debacle of economic difficulties is real and could not be ignored.
Zubiri has proposed a P1.06 billion-2009 budget to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan but vowed to keep budgetary controls and prioritization of expenditures amidst the treat of [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by mindanaw
The Philippine Eagle Foundation has announced its plan to release two new eagles into the wild of Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park in January 2009.
This is despite the death of a Philippine Eagle named “Kagsabua” (unity) in July 2007, which it released just months earlier.
“What happened to Kagsabua is not a stumbling block,” a PEF [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by mindanaw
Congratulations!
The organizers of the Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit in General Santos City did it.
MBS2 was a huge success looking at parameters such as number of participants, media mileage, impact, and preparations.
Bongga ang food, presentations, and gimik, and I heard the tour was fuhhhhn, too!
OK pud ang hosting, including the choice of masters of ceremonies.
We stayed in East [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by mindanaw
Bobby Timonera based in Iligan City reports for MindaNews that Maranaos call on thge United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Conference to help end war in Mindanao.
In a rally in Marawi City on October 2, his MindaNews report said that at the end of the month-long Ramadhan, Maranaos there staged a rally right in [...]
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