"The CPN is a much-needed way to support the courageous and mostly unheralded efforts of the Church to build peace in war-torn countries from Central Africa to Southern Asia."

Bishop John Ricard
Chairman, U.S. Bishops' International Policy Committee

"The CPN is a space of exchange, encounter and discovery where we help each other understand our peace-work, generated in faith and actualized in history."

Andrea Bartoli
Community of Sant' Egidio,
USA

"CPN is another concrete way of building solidarity among peacebuilders around the world. The energy that it will bring will help us in facing the many difficult challenges of peacebuilding work in our different contexts. My hope is that we are able to bring the same energy eventually to the communities directly affected by war, violence and conflict - creating not only a network of peacebuilders but more imoprtantly a network of communities all over the world."

Myla Leguro
Peace & Reconciliation
Program Manager
CRS-Phillippines

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Suggested Reading on Catholic Peacebuilding in the Philippines:

Journals/Articles:

Cejka, Mary Ann, "A Miracle in Mindanao: Christians and Muslims build bridges in the Philippines".

Paul Oquist, "Mindanao and Beyond: Competing Policies, Protracted Conflict, and Human Security."

Steven Rood, "Civil Society and Conflict Management: The Dynamics and Management of Internal Conflicts in Asia." (will be forwarded)

Soliman Santos, Jr., "Confronting Current Challenges on the Peace Front" Constraints and Opportunities."

Grace J. Rebollos, "Shared Steps Toward the Peace Agenda in Western Mindanao".

The Mindanao Peace Talks: Another Opportunity to Resolve the Moro Conflict in the Philippines

This is the first report from the Philippines Facilitation Project of the United States Institute of Peace. The report was written by Benedicto R. Bacani, dean of the College of Law, Notre Dame University in Cotabato City, Philippines, and currently a senior fellow in the Institute's Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace. Bacani is completing a book on autonomy as a solution to violent conflicts, drawing on lessons from the experiences of the southern Philippines.

Books:

Larousse,William. A local Church living for dialogue: Muslim-Christian relations in Mindanao-Sulu, Philippines: 1965-2000, 2001.

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