A MAP of the envisioned territory of Bangsamoro, as indicated in the 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), looks roughly like the one below. Shaded on the...

A FIXATION on single-issue analysis contributed to the current state of "unpeace" that now prevails in several parts of Mindanao in the wake of the bungled signing of the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government...

EXPECT the Muslim population in Metro Manila to swell every time the Bangsamoro conflict escalates down south. To escape the brutalities of war in Mindanao, many Muslims particularly flock to Quiapo, the heart of downtown Manila, where a sizable Muslim...

FOLLOWING the fallout over the bungled ancestral domain agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Arroyo government has disbanded its peace negotiating panel and announced a shift in its strategy of dealing with the Bangsamoro...

SPORADIC attacks believed to have been conducted by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in several parts of Mindanao yesterday have left scores dead, mostly civilians. The renewed hostilities come in the wake of the aborted signing of the...

AT today's initial Supreme Court hearing of oral arguments on the controversial, and yet to be signed, memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front...

PEACE advocate and legal scholar Soliman Santos Jr. contributes this piece in anticipation of oral arguments to be heard by the Supreme Court on August 15 regarding the petitions filed by those opposing the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain...