(From PEACE INITIATIVE: AN INTRODUCTION BY Darwin T. Rasul)
To address these roots of the armed conflicts, the NUC recommended the Six Paths to Peace:
The FIRST PATH is the pursuit of social, economic and political reforms aimed at addressing the root causes armed conflicts and social unrest. This may require administrative action, new legislation, or even constitutional amendments.
The SECOND PATH is consensus – building and empowerment for peace. This component includes continuing consultations on both national and local levels to build consensus on the peace and reform agenda, and the mobilization and facilitation of people’s participation in the peace process.
The THIRD PATH is the pursuit of peaceful, negotiated settlement with the different rebel groups. This involves the vigorous efforts toward the completion of exploratory talks, the holding of formal peace negotiations, and the achievement of a final negotiated peace settlement with each of the rebel groups.
The FOURTH PATH is the implementation of programs for reconciliation, reintegration to mainstream society, and rehabilitation. These include amnesty and other measures to respond to concerns for legal status and security and community – based assistance programs to address the economic, social and psychological rehabilitation needs of former rebels, demobilized combatants, and civilian victims of the internal armed conflicts.
The FIFTH PATH seeks to ensure the welfare and protection of civilians, and to reduce the impact of the armed conflicts on them, reorganizing the possibility of continuing hostilities even as peace is pursued by the ways of peace. These include the strict implementation of laws and policy guidelines for the protection of human rights, limited suspension of offensive military operations where possible, intensified delivery of basic services to conflict areas, and recognition of Peace Zones as agreed by concerned sectors of the community.
The SIXTH AND FINAL PATH seeks to build, nurture and enhance a positive climate for peace. These include continued confidence – building measures between government and the rebel groups, and peace advocacy and education within the rest of society.
These six paths to peace are complementary and mutually reinforcing and must be pursued simultaneously in order to achieve a just, comprehensive and lasting peace.
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Friday, August 22, 2008
A CALL FOR PEACE...
Why we keep on asking for peace to happen? The question of peace is unavoidable. It needs process and people who will make that process turn into actions. The fight for peace is a just fight. We can prove that its realization will not after all be as difficult, for in the end, when there shall be peace it is only our suffering that we shall lose. But with what is currently happening in the present day is already showing signs of turning our small hope of achieving peace from bad to worse.
The all-out war against the MILF has been brought into quick focus what has often been called the “Mindanao Problem”. These refer to the demand by the MORO people for a separate state. However, it has to do with the lack of socio-economic development in the Muslim-dominated provinces that has kept the MORO people in a continuous state of poverty.
Peace talks between government and the MILF rebels’ raises the hope of attaining peace. But the recent warfare between the two groups tells us that the call for peace cannot be easily acquired by simply talking and negotiating. That is why MILF is rushing us to make harsh choice between their version of war and their version of peace (from the Philippine star).
Darwin T. Rasul, the author of Peace Initiatives believes that peace shall soon be in the offing because we have not wavered in this faith.
It is possible to have peace if both parties can unite on one common good. That is for bringing the development of economic problem that would extirpate poverty in the region. War is not the way to peace and a brilliant man will find a way not to fight a war. We can make a difference not just a citizen in this country but for the good it brings. It is possible and always possible to attain peace.
Do we live in a physical world that we can touch or do we live in a world we create in our mind. Why can’t we attain peace? Is it really that tricky and dangerous before we can achieve it? Is war always the solution? Does praying can help? We always prayed for it. Is it still not enough? Yes, we still need a bridge; we need it for us to be able to get peace. How? Let it be our stepping stone. It’s always easy.
We want peace. We all wanted to sleep serenely at night without worrying anything. We always wanted it. Let us initiate peace. Let there be peace and let it be anywhere in the world.
The all-out war against the MILF has been brought into quick focus what has often been called the “Mindanao Problem”. These refer to the demand by the MORO people for a separate state. However, it has to do with the lack of socio-economic development in the Muslim-dominated provinces that has kept the MORO people in a continuous state of poverty.
Peace talks between government and the MILF rebels’ raises the hope of attaining peace. But the recent warfare between the two groups tells us that the call for peace cannot be easily acquired by simply talking and negotiating. That is why MILF is rushing us to make harsh choice between their version of war and their version of peace (from the Philippine star).
Darwin T. Rasul, the author of Peace Initiatives believes that peace shall soon be in the offing because we have not wavered in this faith.
It is possible to have peace if both parties can unite on one common good. That is for bringing the development of economic problem that would extirpate poverty in the region. War is not the way to peace and a brilliant man will find a way not to fight a war. We can make a difference not just a citizen in this country but for the good it brings. It is possible and always possible to attain peace.
Do we live in a physical world that we can touch or do we live in a world we create in our mind. Why can’t we attain peace? Is it really that tricky and dangerous before we can achieve it? Is war always the solution? Does praying can help? We always prayed for it. Is it still not enough? Yes, we still need a bridge; we need it for us to be able to get peace. How? Let it be our stepping stone. It’s always easy.
We want peace. We all wanted to sleep serenely at night without worrying anything. We always wanted it. Let us initiate peace. Let there be peace and let it be anywhere in the world.
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