Posts Tagged ‘mindanao

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...

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The "Reporting on Conflict and Peace: The Story of Mindanao" seminar jointly organized by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and Newsbreak magazine formally opened yesterday in this Chavacano-speaking city in the...

September 8, 2008 · Posted in: Governance, i Report Features, In the News

New names, old war

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...

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...