2011-12-10
Forum stresses educators’ role in peacebuilding
Davao City - At least 60 school heads, teachers and supervisors from the Department of Education (DepEd) Region- XI as well as from colleges and universities in Davao City will convene in a forum entitled The Role of Academe in Mindanao Peace Processes and in the Promotion of the UNSCR 1325 and 1820 as a post-activity for the recently wrapped Mindanao Week of Peace. The forum aims to rai... (more)

2011-11-10
Honor the Dead with a Lasting Peace
The incendiary and discriminatory language and the drumbeat to arms that often accompanies violent flashpoints across the world have been reignited by the recent ambush-slaying of army special forces in the island of Basilan in the southern Philippines.  As in other civil wars, the battle on the ground is accompanied by a similar battle to communicate each side’s version of events. ... (more)

2011-11-10
A Relentless Appetite for War
For those that share an interest in understanding violent conflict, whether as students of war or as peace activists, the Philippines represent a paradigmatic case. After all, this country is home to two of the longest-running violent conflicts in the world, a feat that may well yield a reference in an academic database or the Guinness Book of Records for that matter. But, ultimately, it is noth... (more)

2011-11-08
Of failed states and sub-states, of ATS and other spaces
Theirs [is] not to reason why. Theirs [is] but to do and die.    --  ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Charge of the Light Brigade   Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passeth by: Carrying out their orders, here we lie.    --  SIMONIDES,    epitaph for the Spartan dead at Thermopylae   Gentlemen, we are b... (more)

2011-10-24
AFRIM’s statement on Fr. Pops’ interment tomorrow and urgent call to Pnoy and Philippine Congress
In solidarity with numerous groups advocating against mining in Mindanao and promoting the rights of the Indigenous People, AFRIM joins the civil society community in strongly condemning the murder of Fr. Fausto Tentorio, or Fr. Pops last 17 October. AFRIM echoes the call for the authorities to deliver utmost justice to Fr. Pop’s killing and mourns with his PIME and immediate family, fri... (more)

2011-09-20
Double-talk on FOI Gov’t long on promises, short on political will
Statement of the Right to Know, Right Now! Coalition On President Aquino’s Open Governance Partnership (OGP) Forum and Events in New York, USA Manila, 16 September 2011      ON 20 SEPTEMBER 2011 in New York, President Benigno S. Aquino III will deliver the keynote address at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) forum dubbed “The Power of Open: A Global Discussio... (more)

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