Armed conflict in the Philippine South: Unanticipated consequences of Christian migration since 1913
This paper explores the interconnection between armed conflict and forced migration of the Bangsamoro people in the Philippine South. Rather than examining internal displacement as an effect of war, this paper analyzes armed conflict as an unanticipated consequence of state-sponsored Christian migra...
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11987 |
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| Institution: | De La Salle University |
| Summary: | This paper explores the interconnection between armed conflict and forced migration of the Bangsamoro people in the Philippine South. Rather than examining internal displacement as an effect of war, this paper analyzes armed conflict as an unanticipated consequence of state-sponsored Christian migration flows to Mindanao, which commenced in 1913. Situating armed conflict in Mindanao within a growing field of academic interest on the causes of civil war, the paper employs Collier and Hoeffler's (2000) model of grievance and opportunity, to explain the emergence of civil war in Mindanao, It examines how displacement of the Moros within their own ancestral land resulted in grievance formation that built the foundation of three decades of sustained armed conflict. Internal displacement, reinforced by other grievance-formation factors such as minoritization and institutionalized ethnic discrimination, and opportunity structures, triggered the well-organized and sustained armed conflict, that continues to hound the Philippines up to this day. |
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