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The Moro Islamic Challenge
Constitutional Rethinking for the Mindanao Peace Process
- Publisher
- University of the Philippines Press
- Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 243
- ISBN
- 9789715423021
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
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.
Soliman M. Santos Jr., a human rights lawyer long involved in the Mindanao peace process, asks whether the Philippine Constitution can make room for the Moro demand for self-rule. The book revises his 2000 master of laws thesis at the University of Melbourne.
It moves in 6 steps: the constitutional obstacles to a settlement with Islamic rebels; the Moro problem, with the tri-people make-up of Mindanao and the failures of past talks; the Islamic Conference's mediation; sources of hope in the Constitution and in Islamic concepts; a framework of accommodation, with a Bangsamoro Islamic region and a treaty device; and constitutional talks as intercultural dialogue.
The University of the Philippines Press published it in 2001, with a glossary, appendices, a bibliography and an index. In his Philippine Daily Inquirer column, Randy David wrote that Santos reads the Constitution and Islamic law side by side to find shared values, and surveys international law on minority and indigenous rights, self-determination and autonomy. Tim Lindsey of the University of Melbourne noted how it joins constitutional theorists such as Tribe and Tully with scholars of Islam.
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