Peace Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) and Youth Solidarity for Peace (YSP) recently concluded the conduct of the Culture of Peace Trainers Training for Youth Leaders designed in preparation for the celebration of the Mindanao Week of Peace last October 18, 2009 at Ebenezer Bible College, Upper Calarian, Zamboanga City.

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WEEK of PEACE Trainers Training for Volunteers Opened New Opportunities

Sixty-six children of the tri-people of Zamboanga received peace offerings from the “Claretian Peace Weavers” of Quezon City as one of the highlights of the Children and Youth Peace Assembly held in the afternoon of November 26 at the Scout Antonio Limbaga, Pasonanca Park. The assembly was preceded by a big parade held in the morning of the same day to launch this year’s celebration of the Mindanao Week of Peace in the city. The 25 Muslim children of village of  Mariki, 21 Subanon children of Lintangan, and 20 Christian children of La Paz received cleanliness kits from the members of the Claretian Peace Weavers of the Claret schools of Quezon City, who joined in the parade as well as the afternoon activity.

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Kids Meet to Learn Peace-Making in Week of Peace Fete

The Mindanao Week of Peace is a comprehensive promotional activity that involves various GOs, NGOs, and PO’s in advocating the culture of peace in the Southern Philippines. It is a celebration of peace which was initiated in Zamboanga City by Peace Advocates Zamboanga Foundation, Inc. (PAZ) and SALAM Foundation in 1997

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Mindanao Week of Peace 2009

BlogFest.Asia , the first-ever pan-Asia bloggers’ conference, became a venue for introducing the Mindanao Bloggers Community to the world. Put together by the DotAsia Organisation (the registrar for .asia domain names) in Hong Kong from 6 to 8 November 2009, 3 Filipinos were present at BlogFest.Asia to provide the audience with primers on the Philippine blogosphere. (Actually there were 4 Filipinos there, but the fourth one was invited as the representative of Creative Commons – Asia.) It was the experience of Mindanao’s bloggers, however, that really got the attention of many of the participants.

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MB in Hong Kong

Thanks to UPF for organisation of another event and the extension of the invitation to speak today. I wish to dedicate my contribution to the silent voices of millions of people who were sacrificed by the Warmongers. This contribution will not focus on the scientific, technical or legal dimensions but on the political economy of war and address the 800 pound gorilla in the room which we are in denial.

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UN International Day Of Peace: Disarm Now Moeen Yaseen

Mindanao Peace Initiative – UK Briefing at the Philippine Embassy November 3rd, 2009 Please Download  -   Mindanao Peace Initiative – UK Powerpoint (Left to Right) Gene Alcantara, H.E. Ambassador Antonio Lagdameo, Massimo Trombin, Charles Hardie, Robin Marsh For further photos please click here Posted in Peace and Development

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Mindanao Peace Initiative – UK: Conference at Philippine Embassy

Senator Chiz Escudero – in his Facebook account - suggests the novel idea of involving all possible stakeholders in any talk concerning the peace process in Mindanao.

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Senator Escudero’s Suggestion On Mindanao Peace Process

Armed conflict is devastating on many levels. Long running violence leaves peoples traumatized and wounded, with the vast majority of casualties being civilians. Many of these are women, who are killed, tortured, raped, and left behind to survive in a world of destruction. Yet, women are much more than victims

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PEACEBUILDERS SAY ‘WITHOUT WOMEN, NO PEACE’

The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), a global civil society led network of peace advocates has reiterated  its call to dialogue and peaceful resolution of conflict in Southern Mindanao and in other parts of the world.

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GPPAC calls for dialogue, reiterates offer to be part of ICG in GRP-MILF Peace Talks

The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), through its Southeast Asian regional secretariat, Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID), has launched a worthy program that is very much in line with what the Mindanao Bloggers Community stands for: iBlogforPeace . “iBlogforPeace seeks to broaden the discourse on peace by providing an online platform for civil society, particularly the unorganized and the bloggers community, to take part in the conversations in their own contexts and engage in dialogues with kindred individuals and groups such as peace advocates.

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Blogging for peace initiative