The Mindanao Peaceweavers (MPW), the broadest civil society peace network in Mindanao with solidarity groups in Manila and Visayas, is calling for the suspension of the 2013 elections of regional posts in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) but called for the continuation of the same for provincial and local positions. The MPW proposal on Transition Mechanisms which also called for the creation of a Transitional Commission to govern the region was submitted to both negotiating panels of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace talks. The document, a product of consensus-building process from among its constituents , is entitled “Civil Society Consensus Points : To Move the GPH-MILF Peace Process Forward”.
We, members of Women Engaged in Action on 1325 (United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325), a national network of women in human rights, women, and peace organizations, express our unequivocal rejection of war and military solution to the crisis arising from the October 18 tragedy in Al-barka, Basilan. Roughly 30,000 civilians from affected communities in [...]
A prompt response to the encounter in Al-Barka, Basilan by means of the established mechanisms of the peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) – such as the Joint Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities (JCCCH) – is a critical measure of the strength of mind of the leadership of the GPH and the MILF to hasten the realization of a political settlement of the armed conflict in Mindanao.
The Mindanao Peaceweavers welcome the historic meeting last night between President Aquino and Moro Islamic Liberation Front Chairman Al Haj Murad.
This augurs well for peace in Mindanao. We hope that this unprecedented meeting will lead to an unprecedented agreement and not only an unprecedented peace, but justice and progress as well in our beloved Mindanao.
