Posts Tagged ‘memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain

THE Supreme Court voted 8-7 today to declare as unconstitutional the scuttled memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The MOA-AD, the third agreement to have come...

September 30, 2008 · Posted in: Media, Podcasts

Mindanao: Not just about conflict

"WE are supposed to enlighten, to simplify things. But if we are as confused as all the rest, why pass on our confusion and ignorance to the rest of the world?" Carol Arguillas, editor of MindaNews, and founder and president of the Mindanao News and...

LAWYER Zainudin Malang, founder and executive director of the Bangsamoro Center for Law and Policy, presented a civil-society view of how the media covered the events and issues that emanated from the bungled signing of the memorandum of agreement on...

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...

September 28, 2008 · Posted in: Media, Podcasts

Journalism and conflict in the Philippines

THE media have abdicated their watchdog role on the issue of the peace negotiations between the Arroyo government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), particularly with regard to the abandoned memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain. This...

PCIJ contributor Herbert Docena, an associate of the regional policy research institute, Focus on the Global South, provides a timely Perspective piece on the scuttled peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation...

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...