Written by Anna Dinglasan
Friday, 12 March 2010

MANILA, March 12 – The government is working hand-in-hand with indigenous peoples (IPs) to formulate an action plan peace agenda for IPs conflict-areas.

Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Annabelle T. Abaya told 17 representatives from indigenous communities from all over the Philippines at a workshop-forum on Thursday that the government will also intensify other aspects of the peace process such as gender, climate change and rights of indigenous peoples.

Written by Anna Dinglasan
Thursday, 11 March 2010

ILIGAN CITY, Mar. 11 – The people of Lanao hailed the holding of the reflective dialogue here because they were enlightened of the ticklish issues to be resolved in the peace process.

All of the 421 participants who attended on Tuesday the “Dialogue Mindanao” at the Elena Tower would like to see a peaceful settlement to the decades-old armed conflict in southern Philippines soonest.

It was the second biggest number of participants that attended the series of 13 dialogues conducted by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP). The largest was in Jolo where more than 500 attended the first reflective dialogue.