MINDANAO PEACEWEAVERS A Peace Network of Networks

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MINDANAO PEACEWEAVERSA Peace Network of Networks
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• MINDANAO PEACEWEAVERS is a convergence of major
  coalitions and networks of peace advocates in
  Mindanao. It currently represents the broadest
  network of peace constituency in the island
  cutting across NGOs, academe, religious, human
  rights groups, peoples organizations and
  grassroots communities advancing a peaceful
  resolution of the conflict in Mindanao.

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• Agong Network
• Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society
• Mindanao Peace Advocates Conference
• Mindanao Peoples caucus
• Mindanao Peoples Peace Movement
• Peace Advocates Zamboanga (Zambasulta Coalition
  of Peace Advocates)
• Bishop-Ulama Forum
• Sindaw Ko Kalelentad
• Mindanao Solidarity Network

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Goal

• Formation of a peace movement where Bangsamoro,
  Indigenous People Christian Settler
  communities, civic organizations, academic
  institutions, women, youth and religious sectors
  converge towards dialogue, unity and peaceful
  resolution of the conflict in Mindanao.

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Objectives
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• to develop and institutionalize the participation
  of civil society in the Mindanao peace process
• to provide mechanisms and processes for
  consensus-building, sharing of information and
  expertise and drawing unified actions among civil
  society groups on issues concerning peace and
  conflict in Mindanao

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• to develop a critical mass of peace constituency
  that can engage and influence the actors in
  conflict
• to evolve a common agenda for peace.

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Gains and Positive Results
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• Ceasefire Campaign in 2003
• Bantay Ceasefire
• Monitoring Watch of the US troops in Carmen
• Sulu Solidarity Mission

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Challenges

• How can peace advocates effectively contribute
  towards the resolution of conflict in Mindanao?
• Looking at peacebuilding work beyond projects,
  targets, outputs and funding?
• How do we balance peacebuilding with the justice
  issue?

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Key Lessons Learned

• Credibility and independence
• Consensus-building
• Peacebuilding is political and relational

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Bread. A clean sky. Active peace. A woman's
voice singing somewhere.Melody drifting like
smoke from the cook fires. The army disbanded.
The harvest abundant. The wound healed. The
child wanted. The prisoner freed. The body's
integrity honored. The lover returned. The labor
equal, fair, and valued. Delight in the
challenge of consensus to solve problems. No
hand raised in any gesture but greeting. Secure
interiors----of heart, home, land----so firm as
to make secure borders irrelevant at last. And
everywhere laughter, care, celebration, dancing,
contentment. A humble, early paradise in the
now.in Mindanao.