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Peace process · book
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The government–MILF talks as they stood in 2005: the agreements so far, the sticking points and the roads open.
Soliman M. Santos Jr. gives a detailed view of the formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, as they stood in 2005.
A library description says the book reviews relations between the government and the MILF through clear stages and phases. It also gives key facts and analysis of the negotiations and of how agreements were carried out on the ground. The Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao in Davao City published it in 2005, with a bibliography of more than 10 pages.
From esolutionformindanaoresources.librarika.com, openlibrary.org.
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2011Out of print
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2000Out of print
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2007Out of print
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2007Out of print
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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.
2013In print
Costly Wars, Elusive PeaceMiriam Coronel-Ferrer
Essays written across two decades of the Philippine peace processes, with the Moro fronts and with the communists, by the scholar who would chair the panel that signed the Comprehensive Agreement.
1994Out of print
The Minoritization of the Indigenous Communities of Mindanao and the Sulu ArchipelagoB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
How the Moro and Lumad peoples became minorities in their own homeland: the land laws, the resettlement programmes and the migration from Luzon and the Visayas, with the figures.
2000Out of print
Kalinaw MindanawB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
The twenty-one years of talks between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front, from Jeddah to the 1996 Final Peace Agreement, by a historian who sat on the government panel.
2002Out of print
MapagpakamalinawonKarl M. Gaspar, Elpidio A. Lapad and Ailynne J. Maravillas
A reader for peace workers on Mindanao's history, ethnic relations and Muslim–Christian relations. It was written for Mindanao peace advocates and co-published with Catholic Relief Services.
2011Out of print
In Defense of and Thinking beyond the GRP-MILF MOA-ADSoliman M. Santos Jr.
Essays by a peace advocate and lawyer defending the 2008 Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, which the Supreme Court struck down. They also propose ways forward for the GRP–MILF talks after its collapse.