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...

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...

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...

AT mid-morning of September 8, the heavens dropped a bomb allegedly fired by a military aircraft on Datu Piang town, Maguindanao province. In an instant, five members of the Manunggal family of Sitio Dagading, Barangay Butilen, fell dead, even as one...

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...

U.S.-based Filipino social documentary photographer Rick Rocamora contributes this series of photographs from his Balikbayan Visual Diary, a collection of photo essays and picture stories that he made while in the Philippines on assignment for U.S....

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...