The Mindanao Solidarity Conference on the Bangsamoro in Davao on December 4th brought together leaders from a number of civil society organizations involved in the ongoing peace process. Representatives of the tri-people of Mindanao – Migrants, Lumads and Moros – came for the two day conference to listen and connect with other people of interest …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/12/past-present-and-future-for-datu-hussayin-and-the-bajau-people/
Introducing “Ruby Hagupit” Typhoon Ruby, now internationally known as Typhoon Hagupit (Tagalog, “lash”), is expected to make landfall on Saturday evening. Forecasts and trajectory reports indicate confusion and disagreements between different weather agencies. European predictions suggest a direct hit on the country, starting in Leyte or Eastern Samar and making its way northwesterly through the …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/12/pbci-declares-red-alert-as-super-typhoon-hagupit-at-eastern-visayas/
Bangsamoro is the name which the thirteen Muslim tribes of the southern Philippines use to refer to themselves collectively. Bangsa is a Malay word meaning nation. Moro is the name which the Spanish colonizers used to denote the Islamized peoples of the Philippine islands, and is derived from the Spanish name for the Muslim Moors …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/12/why-we-support-the-bangsamoro-basic-law-2/
At the Mindanao Solidarity Conference on the Bangsamoro, held in the meeting hall of Davao City’s Grand Regal Hotel, Philippine Congressman Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza asked the assembled delegates of Mindanao’s civil society organizations (CSOs) to assist him and his fellow members of the ad hoc congressional committee on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) by …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/12/at-solidarity-conference-milf-aquino-administration-push-peace/
When a team from the Peacebuilders Davao office headed out for a short trip to North Cotabato on November 18th, it was with the intent of spending time with Pastor Dann’s adopted Magindanaoan family and some other folks in the Muslim community, as well as for a speaking engagement at a pastor’s conference in Midsayap. …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/11/faith-family-and-community-a-view-of-the-other-in-north-cotabato/
On November 3rd, 2014, a team from the Peacebuilder’s Davao office set off for the mountainous Kalinga province in Luzon. Once there, we met our PAR community leader in the area, Twinkle, to be our guide for the duration of the field trip. Our express intent was to lead some PAR, coffee, and livelihood workshops; …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/11/peace-conflict-and-culture-a-reflection-on-our-trip-to-kalinga/
On the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 2nd, Timuay Lencio Arig, a 56-year-old Teduray chieftain, was walking from his farm in Barangay Romongaub, South Upi, Maguindanao to the highway. Earlier in the day, he had attended a relative’s wedding. “He was very happy because all of us were there. It was like a reunion and he …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/10/why-was-timuay-lencio-arig-slain/
Mingled with the joyfulness, feasting, fellowship, dancing and revelry of the Talaandig Day celebrations held in the heart of the Talaandig Ancestral Domain in Lantapan, Bukidnon this week there was also a measure of mourning. A doleful shadow overhung the gathering of Talaandig tribespeople and their supporters, and the dances of the tribe’s children and grandmothers …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/10/talaandig-day-activism-through-celebration/
Never has getting up at 2:30 in the morning felt so worth it. Walking the rarely quiet streets to the Peace Builders’ office and hopping in the truck, our team set off on a quick pace courtesy of our transporter, Kuya Toto, to the Talaandig grounds in the Lantapan district of Bukidnon. Watching the unfolding …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/10/celebrating-talaandig-day/
Under the leadership of the Mindanao People’s Peace Movement, the Lakbay Tribu para sa Karapatan sa Sariling Pagpapasya, or Indigenous Peoples’ Journey for the Right to Self Determination, brings to the fore of public and civil society discussion the issue of Indigenous People’s rights and representation in light of current discussion on the Bangsamoro Basic …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/10/reflections-on-indigenous-imperative-for-bbl-provisions/
On Saturday evening the PeaceBuilders team’s Isuzu Trooper, parked beside the cinderblock and sawali home of Joe Randy and Marivic Dubria, was the only operational four-wheeled vehicle in the village of Purok Pluto. Coffee for Peace Warehouse Manager Byron Pantoja, his veins filled with ice water, had piloted the bucking Trooper and the jostled PeaceBuilders …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/10/a-visit-to-purok-dubria-family-at-balutakay-bansalan-davao-del-sur/
If you had visited the conference room of the Lantapan municipal legislative office in Purok-2, Barangay Poblacion, Lantapan Municipality in Bukidnon Province this last Thursday, you would have found the swivel chairs filled not with municipal lawmakers but with farmers from the five Lantapan coffee industry clusters. Each of these five grower collectives, organized with …
Permanent link to this article: https://peacebuilderscommunity.org/2014/09/coffee-for-peace-trains-lantapan-farmers/
We are sent by Mennonite Church Canada Witness in partnership with our international community.
