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Priest tells Duterte: 'Shut your mouth and things will be OK' | Arab News

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Jul 8, 2018 - “Duterte should learn to keep his mouth shut and everything will be OK,”
said a Mindanao priest and Catholic peace activist on Saturday.

Mindanao priest to Duterte: Stop bullying Catholic Church | ABS-CBN ...

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Jan 26, 2017

CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS

Asiafoundation.org

Civil Society More Ready Than Ever to Play

Role in Forging Peace in Mindanao
February 20, 2013
By Steven Rood

Firstly, direct civil society engagement in keeping the peace on the ground is considerably
more robust than in the past. Bantay Ceasefire is now better funded, and such engagement
is formalized now with Mindanao People’s Caucus involvement in the Civilian Protection
Component of the International Monitoring Team. They are joined by two Moro NGOs,
Mindanao Human Rights Action Center (MinHRAC) and the Muslim Organization of
Government and Other Professionals (MOGOP)

The addition of two Moro NGOs to the Civilian Protection Component is a reflection of how
Moro civil society has been strengthened in recent years.

Along the same line, the ulama (Muslim male scholars), and to a lesser extent,
the aleemat (Muslim women scholars), are beginning to become more involved in solving
 community problems. This begins to remedy some of the asymmetry I mentioned earlier where
the hierarchies that Christian churches have makes organizational efforts easier. For instance,
the Sulu Ulama Council for Peace and Development interacts with the provincial government on
development issues, and with the security forces on peace and order.

Civil society is undertaking new tasks – an interesting example is Consortium of

Bangsamoro Civil Society and its long-standing efforts (funded first by The Asia Foundation,
and more recently by Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue) to assist in “convergence” between
the MNLF and MILF by consulting the grassroots on what they want from the two fronts.

LIST: NGOs helping rebuild Marawi City - Rappler

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May 23, 2018
“BALAW MINDANAW”

M in danao NGO to ho ld con su lt atio n on migra tio n, p ea ce

in B utua n

By Jennifer P. GaitanoPublished On June 21, 2018

Pia.gov.ph

BUTUAN CITY, June 21 (PIA) - The Mindanao Migrants Center for Empowering Actions, Inc.
(MMCEAI), a rights-based service organization based in Davao City for migrants– active and
returning OFWs and their immediately families and communities, is set to hold the Caraga
Stakeholders Conversation on Migration, Environment, Peace and Development (MEPD) on
June 27, 2018 at Grand Palace Hotel, this city. The MEPD is the second leg of the six regional
consultations to be organized in Mindanao this year.

Accordng to MMCEAI executive director Inorisa Sialana-Elento, the MEPD is aimed at

enhancing the synergies among civil society organizations, government agencies and other
concerned stakeholders on the issue of migration, environment, peace and development
efforts in Mindanao.