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MILF Welcomes Leonen’s Appointment as GRP Chief NegotiatorZAMBOANGA CITY – THEMoro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has acknowledged the appointment of University of the Philippines College of Law Dean Marvic Leonen to head the government negotiation team when the peace talk will resume next month.Mohagher Iqbal, the former chief negotiator of the MILF, said he personally knows Leonen, who once visited the camp of the MILF in Darapanan in Central ... Darwin Wally T. Wee | Monday, 26 July 2010 | Comments Read more |
IMT To MILF: Punish Your Men Who Attacked Maguindanao VillageZAMBOANGA CITY – A MEMBER of the International Monitoring Team (IMT), which is overseeing the ceasefire accord between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), has asked the leadership of the Moro rebels to castigate its commander who led the burning of houses and wounding of civilians in Central Mindanao.“As we condemn this violation of the human rights of the civilian communities by the ground forces of the MILF, we also call on the rebel group not just to suspend its erring troops or subject them to an internal military discipline procedure known only to them. The victims ... Darwin Wally T. Wee | Monday, 26 July 2010 | Comments Read more |
Killing Spree in 3 Villages Shocks Zamboanga ResidentsZAMBOANGA CITY – THE local peace and order council here has directed security authorities to resolve an almost year-old “family feud” that affected at least three villages in the city’s east coast. In a meeting earlier this July, Mayor Celso L. Lobregat, head of the City Peace and Order Council (CPOC), said they may even recourse to declaring the villages of Talon-Talon, Mampang and Arena Blaco under the “state of lawlessness” should the situation in the area ... Albert F. Arcilla | Monday, 26 July 2010 | Comments Read more |
 Public School Administrators Attend Orientation to Strengthen Peace EducationZAMBOANGA CITY – PEACE Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) and Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace (IRSMP) in collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd)-Zamboanga City Division Office conducted the Administrators’ Peace Education Orientation last July 10 at Marcian Business Center, in this city .Sixty-five secondary school principals, administrators, school heads and coordinators together with their elementary district supervisors or representatives participated in the peace education orientation. It was geared for them to understand the concept of the “culture of peace” in a deeper approach and to closely examine the government’s Executive Order No. 570: Institutionalizing Peace Education in Basic Education and ... Aldrin B. Abdurahim and Albert Putong | Monday, 26 July 2010 | Comments Read more |
'Private Armies' Hold RP Politics Hostage—Security Experts
MANILA – THE Philippines may have a new president but more than a hundred "private armies" still
Anti-Human Trafficking Groups Alarmed by Plan to Resume Kidney Trading
ZAMBOANGA CITY-AS they continue the crusade against child trafficking and organ transplantations, two
Indigenous Peoples’ Gathering on Climate Change Manifesto
ITULOY ang laban tungo sa hustisya sa klima, pagkakapantay-pantay at pagsusulong ng karapatan sa sariling
YSP Cadet Envoys Join US Independence Day Celebration
THE Youth Solidarity for Peace (YSP) represented the youth sector in the concluded Philippine-American
New Muslim Filipinos Agency All Set to Better Serve Constituents
ZAMBOANGA CITY-AFTER more than two decades of existence, the now-defunct Office of the Muslim Affairs
Good Governance As Peace Paradigm
NOW it’s definite! The GRP-MILF peace talks will be resumed! This answers the clamor aired by various
Rebels Oppose Replacing Malaysia As Talks Mediator
ZAMBOANGA CITY –CHANGING the facilitator in the peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic
Missed Angles
The media has a tendency to negative reporting, which rewards perpetrators of violence with broad attention.
IRSMP Tackles Escalating Violence in 3 Zambo Barangays
IN THE same afternoon when two more grenade attacks occurred in strife-torn Mampang barangay, members
Press Release
WMSU-CPD of VP-RDE Gearing Up for Coming Peace-Building Classroom Video ConferenceFOURTEEN classroom teachers from seven local schools will undergo a facilitators’ training to be given by the Western Mindanao State University’s Center for Peace and Development (WMSU-CPD) and Peace Tech Inc. to prepare them to assist in the forthcoming national video conference series between selected high school and college students ... | Thursday, 2 September 2010 | Comments Read more |
A Clean Heart Takes Care of Everything, Muslim Official Says in IRSMP’s Iftar
MUSLIM and Christian religious leaders along with their followers in this city expressed their solidarity
SACSI: Serving Communities, Forming Students
The Social Awareness and Community Service Involvement Office- Volunteer Service Program (SACSI- VSP)
Statement
A STATEMENT OF THE INTER-RELIGIOUS SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT FOR PEACE (IRSMP) ON THE CURRENT CRISIS OF SEIN the past four months or so, there have been at least 60 killings committed in public, in the streets of Zamboanga City, majority of them remaining unsolved. Most of the victims were apparently unarmed, innocent civilians, some of them killed in bold and brazen manners. The perpetrators are roaming ... | Tuesday, 25 May 2010 | Comments Read more |
STATEMENT OF THE INTER-RELIGIOUS SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT FOR PEACE AND PEACE ADVOCATES ZAMBOANGA CONDEMN
Peace be to all.On April 13, 2010, more than 20 armed men disguised as military and police personnel
A STATEMENT BY PEACE ADVOCATES ZAMBOANGA ON THE BEHEADING OF PATIKUL, SULU SCHOOL PRINCIPAL GABRIEL
A SHAMELESS act. Reportedly angry over the amount they collected because it was much less than
[Our Peace]
Peace Commission AMONG the current slew of suggestions and proposals from civil society to the new Aquino administration is for the creation of a Peace Commission or much better yet - from some quarters- a “Department of Peace”. The Mindanao Peaceweavers coalition in its letter last May to President Noynoy put forward the idea of such a commission “to carry out the peace negotiations on behalf of the government, among other tasks”. This implies that not a few are unsatisfied or unconvinced by the mandate and performance of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), which for the ... Monday, 26 July 2010 | Comments Read more |
