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"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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Catholic Peacebuilding in the Philippines

The Mindanao Conflict:

Civil war, with roots in the dispossession and marginalization of Moros and indigenous people, broke out between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the revolutionary Moro National Liberation Front in Mindanao in the early 1970s. The following three decades saw continued violent conflict, interspersed with peace negotiations but no lasting resolution. Full-blown war, between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which had earlier split off from the MNLF and continued to fight for the right to self-determination for Mindanao's Muslims, most recently re-erupted in early 2003, forcing thousands of civilians to evacuate their homes; as of January 2005, a tenous bilateral ceasefire is in place, but official negotiations have yet to resume.

 

Excerpt from: Wild Dreams of Peace: Lessons of Peace from the Moro-IP Grassroots Peace Process in Mindanao. Catholic Relief Services: Peace and Reconciliation Program.  (For full report, click here)

 

Recent Additions to CPN Philippines

History of Conflict

Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute 2005

2nd Annual International CPN Conference in Davao City, Mindanao

Peacebuilding Organizations

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