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Advancing Bangsamoro Aspirations
- Publisher
- Institute of Bangsamoro Studies
- Year
- 2024
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 264
- Availability
- Free to read
Published free: the link opens the whole book.
About the book
Writings by the founder of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies on the Bangsamoro’s road to self-determination: its history, the law and politics of the peace process, and what it means for peacebuilding elsewhere. Published for the 10th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.
This book gathers 15 articles and speeches by Abhoud Syed M. Lingga, written between 2002 and 2016. They were given at forums in Geneva, Davao City, Penang, Khon Kaen, Cotabato City, Manila and Tirana, or printed in books such as Moro Reader and Mindanao Horizons. Topics run from the Bangsamoro right to self-determination and a referendum as a political option, to the role of third parties in the peace process, policing, and building the Bangsamoro government.
Lingga was part of the MNLF in Northern Mindanao in the 1970s, later co-founded the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, and sat on the MILF peace panel that negotiated the Framework Agreement and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro. The introduction notes that his early pieces focus on historical injustice, while the later ones look more closely at legal and political frameworks and community-based peacebuilding.
The Institute of Bangsamoro Studies and the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies published it in September 2024, with funding from Misereor. It opens with forewords by MILF peace implementing panel chair Mohagher Iqbal and Emma Leslie, and closes with an essay by Robert Maulana Alonto.
Published with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Peace processPolitics and governanceHistory
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