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Broken Peace?
Assessing the 1996 GRP-MNLF Final Peace Agreement
Edited by Amina Rasul-Bernardo
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 314
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
Ten years after the agreement with the MNLF, what was delivered and what was not, in studies commissioned by the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy.
10 years after the 1996 Final Peace Agreement between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front, Amina Rasul asks why it had not brought the peace it promised. The government said it had met its obligations, while the MNLF spoke of broken promises. This study aims at a fact-based assessment that goes beyond blame. The 314-page book was published in 2007 with the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Magbassa Kita Foundation.
The study opens with why peace agreements so often fail, then tells the story of the 1996 agreement and earlier attempts such as the 1976 Tripoli Agreement. It examines the legal and political structures set up and how the agreement was carried out, including fiscal support from the national government. It compares the government and MNLF views, reviews foreign aid to the ARMM, and assesses human development a decade on.
Presenting the research in 2007, Rasul argued that unemployment had worsened and that ARMM development indicators were as bad as before the agreement. She also argued that the region had less autonomy than its people had hoped for.
From pcid.com.ph, pcid.com.ph, old.pcij.org.
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