Initiatives for International Dialogue
April 20, 2010
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Around 60 community leaders of the BangsaMoro, indigenous peoples and settlers from all over Mindanao gathered for the Peoples Peace Assesmbly to discuss the directions of the peace process and how civil society will engage the incoming administration this year. The Assembly also launched the MPW People’s Peace Agenda (MPPA), the flagship project of the Mindanao Peaceweavers (MPW), a convergence of peace advocates in Mindanao which was conceived in 2003 by seven peace networks in the spirit of cooperation and concerted action towards a common peace advocacy platform.
The Mindanao Peoples Peace Agenda (MPPA), a project of the Mindanao Peaceweavers (MPW), hopes to provide a mechanism and process to fast track consensus-building that would help facilitate common understanding and unified actions among civil society groups on issues concerning peace and conflict in Mindanao.
Initiatives for International Dialogue
April 19, 2010
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Davao City – In the run-up to the May 2010 national elections, around 60 community leaders of the BangsaMoro, indigenous peoples and settlers from all over Mindanao will gather today to discuss the directions of the peace process and how civil society will engage the incoming administration this year. The gathering, dubbed “Peoples’ Peace Assembly” will launch the Mindanao People’s Peace Agenda (MPPA), the flagship project of the Mindanao Peaceweavers (MPW). MPW is a convergence of peace advocates in Mindanao which was conceived in 2003 by seven peace networks in the spirit of cooperation and concerted action towards a common peace advocacy platform.
Initiatives for International Dialogue
January 26, 2010
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COTABATO CITY- “Life without hunger or displacement, where there is equal opportunity for everyone and where the ancestral domain of Moro and indigenous peoples are genuinely respected and upheld, and where the propriety rights of settlers are recognized”, are the emerging consensus points in the ongoing Central Mindanao area consultation on the Mindanao Peoples Peace Agenda (MPPA).
