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1st Youth Solidarity for Peace Camp Breaks New Common Ground

May 31, 2010

PEACE Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) in collaboration with Youth Solidarity for Peace (YSP) kicked off the 1st YSP Camp at Ebenezer Bible College, Upper Calarian, Zamboanga City last April 15-17. The activity is geared towards empowerment of PAZ’s youth volunteers to handle relevant and significant issues of peace and the proper management of issues through a trainers training. It was an opportune time to celebrate successful stories of the youth as they spread through the years the culture of peace in their respective communities. Participants came from diverse backgrounds of local society while representing various youth organizations and affiliations. Most of them being fresh graduates and new volunteers of the  organization expressed greater interests in the promotion of peace as recognized Young Peace Weavers of the present generation.

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Peace Initiatives through Blogging

November 11, 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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Peacebuilders say ‘without women, no peace’

October 13, 2009

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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Mindanao Peace Initiative – UK: Filipino Evening

September 17, 2009

Mindanao Peace Initiative – UK: Filipino Evening Wednesday 5 August 2009 There was a Filipino evening in London last night at which Gene Alcantara introduced the Mindanao Peace Initiative – UK to the local Filipino community. There were several purposes for the evening: -  Launching the Mindanao Peace Initiative UK – an initiative that seeks to promote peace in Mindanao, through projects in education, youth service activities, and other initiatives to bring young and old from different communities together in this Philippine area of Christian-Muslim conflict, as well as awareness-raising in the UK

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Uphold the Primacy of the Peace Process

August 20, 2009

We, the Mindanao Peace Weavers- a convergence of seven peace networks in Mindanao- challenges the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to recommit to previous ceasefire agreements and immediately reactivate the ceasefire mechanisms.

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