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Making Sense about Development as a Path to Peace in Mindanao

Friday, March 6th, 2009

(Author’s Note: Published in the December 2008 issue of the Bangsamoro Journal)

Development is not the way to peace. It never is. It will never in any way whatsoever build the foundations of lasting peace in Mindanao. The reason is simple. When development is introduced into a community without first tackling governance issues, then justice issues, and subsequently, peace issues, it would more often than not be perceived by those who are receiving it, or to the more aware as a pacification strategy or a “counter-insurgency’ approach by those doing the development interventions. Development as a “stand alone”, or as a first intervention to troubled areas, would be seen as something that would “fill up the stomachs and the pockets” of the people so that the injustices of the past would be forgotten. (more…)

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OUR PEACE, YOUR PEACE

Monday, January 26th, 2009

MINDANAO YSPEAK, UPPING THE PEACE ANTENNA

Young Moro Professionals Engaging Peace and Development Advocates and Key Stakeholders thru its RTD Output and Recommendations in Davao City and Zamboanga City and Mindanao Young Leaders Parliament (MYLP) Resolutions in Davao City

With Support from the The Asia Foundation (TAF), Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the Asian Institute of Management –International Muslim Student Association (AIM-IMSA).

February 6, 2009
8:00 – 11:00 am
Asian Institute of Management
Makati City, Philippines

PROGRAM

Part I – 08:00-09:15am Presentation and Commitments/Recommendations
Part II – 09:15-10:15am Question and Answers
Part III – 10:15-11:00am Social Networking Session YMPN Convenors and Partners

PART 1

7:30 – 8:00         Registration
8:00 – 8:05         Invocation and National Anthem
8:05 – 8:10           Welcome Address
8:10 – 8:15            YSPEAK – Introduction
8:15 – 8:30          Presentations:

7-Series Young Moro Leaders Forum
- Sittie Jehanne Mutin-Mapupuno

YMPN Davao RTD
– Atty. Zainudin Malang

YMPN Zambo RTD
– Engr. Don Loong and Dr. Jodel Isahac

MYLP Davao
- Mr. Steve Arquiza

8:30 – 9:15         UPPING THE PEACE ANTENNA

YMPN BRAND LAUNCH
WEB LAUNCH

Commitments and Recommendations

( Key Points – 2 minutes)

SEC. HERMOGENES C. ESPERON
OPAAP

DR. STEVE ROOD
Rep, The Asia Foundation

MR. KLAUS PRESCHLE
Rep, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

MR. FRANCIS ESTRADA
President, Asian Institute of Management

MS. MARIA RESSA
ABS –CBN Brodcasting Corporation

USEC. VIRGILIO LEYRETANA, SR.
Chairman, MEDCo

MR. ANTHONY PANGILINAN
Head, SMART/PLDT Foundation

MR. DIETHER OCAMPO
Founder, KIDS Foundation

Part II

9:15am – 10:00am                 Q n A Session

Part III

10:00 – 11:00am    Social Networking: Session with YMPN Convenors and Key  Stakeholders
Cocktails

MS. KAREN DAVILA
Moderator
TOYM 2008
Speaker, Social Policy Workshop
Ist Annual Harvard Project for Asian and
International Relations
On-Campus Conference 2009

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Malang: We might end up becoming the Darfur of southeast Asia

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

ANC’s Tony Velasquez interviewed on August 18, Zainudin Malang, executive director of the Bangsamoro Center for Law and Policy, on the clashes that have erupted in parts of Mindanao and on the prospects for peace in the south. Malang has been a close observer of the peace process with Muslim separatists.

Q. What was your expectation after the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) in Malaysia, had it pushed through?

A. I was expecting optimism on the ground, not what we are seeing here, not what we saw today. I was expecting the complete opposite after they had signed the MOA.

Q. Are these recent clashes in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte an offshoot of the failure to sign the MOA-AD?

A. I cannot help but arrive at that conclusion. You know, there are only two ways to resolve the conflict: either through military means or through negotiations. And apparently, after the cancellation of the signing of the MOA, the product of a dozen years of long and hard bargaining on both sides, perhaps, there are armed groups who feel it will already be hard to resolve the conflict by way of negotiations. (more…)

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