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Stories of Hope & Collective Action towards Building a Culture of Peace in Mindanao
Madonna T. Virola and Marides V. Virola
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
Stories of communities in Mindanao working together to build peace after decades of conflict. It shows the peace and development work of the ACT for Peace programme on the ground.
This book tells stories of Mindanao communities working together to build a culture of peace. It was written by Madonna T. Virola and Marides V. Virola and edited by Gail T. Ilagan, and runs to 146 illustrated pages. It was published in Davao City in 2009 by the ACT for Peace Programme, a joint programme of the Philippine government and the United Nations. The programme worked for human security and a culture of peace in communities hit by or at risk of conflict. Library records file the book under peacebuilding and peace movements in Mindanao, and the island's politics and social policy.
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.
2005Free to read
Forging Sustainable Peace in MindanaoSteven Rood
What civil society groups did and could do for peace in Mindanao, by the Asia Foundation’s long-serving Philippines representative. Free to read.
2007Out of print
The Long Road to PeaceSalah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)
The talks between the government and the MILF from 1997 to the eve of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, from inside the Front’s panel.
2001In print
The Moro Islamic ChallengeSoliman M. Santos Jr.
Whether the Philippine Constitution can accommodate the Moro demand for self-rule, and what would have to change, by a human rights lawyer who worked the peace process for years.
2005Out of print
Dynamics and Directions of the GRP-MILF Peace NegotiationsSoliman M. Santos Jr.
The government–MILF talks as they stood in 2005: the agreements so far, the sticking points and the roads open.

2003Out of print
The Road to Peace and ReconciliationAmina Rasul-Bernardo
Moro voices on the conflict and what peace would take, gathered for the Asian Institute of Management by a Tausug former cabinet member.