Dean Marvic Leonen’s appointment augurs well with the ongoing peace talks between the GRP and the MILF. He brings with him not only an impressive credential to the post, but more importantly, a solid experience, empathy and grounding on the issues and rights of the indigenous peoples, the upland communities, including those in Mindanao. His new post also buoys up a lot of hope and raises high expectations particularly from the peace and people’s movements regarding the prospects of the peace process in Mindanao.
Assamalu Alaykum wa Rahmatullaha wa Barakatu. We all desire peace in Mindanao. But the road towards it has been characterized by alternating chapters of talks and impasse. Since the talks with the MILF began in 1996 there have been several roadblocks that led to standoff in the negotiations. In August 2008, after the Supreme Court decided on the unconstitutionality of the MOA-AD, some MILF commanders attacked villages and communities in protest of decision. The talks were stalled once more.
MEMBERS of the city’s Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace (IRSMP) have hailed the appointment of Western Mindanao State University (WMSU) president Dr. Grace Rebollos as member of the Philippine government’s five-man peace negotiating panel. Go to source. —>
Initiatives for International Dialogue
September 30, 2009
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The Global Partnership for the Prevention of the Armed Conflict (GPPAC), a global network of peacebuilders, is offering to join a body that is being set up to break the impasse in the peace process between the Philippine government (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and to also support and sustain it.
