Bottom-up peacebuilding : role of grassroots and local actors in the Mindanao peace process

• Main Author: Trajano, Julius Cesar I.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences; Social sciences::Political science; Philippines; Peacebuilding
• Online Access: https://ipus.snu.ac.kr/eng/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/08_Julius-Cesar-Trajano.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146122
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The people of Muslim Mindanao in the southern Philippines overwhelmingly approved, in a plebiscite in 2019, the creation of a new and more autonomous region, raising hopes that the decades-long conflict in Mindanao would soon end. This article asserts that the Mindanao peace process is not just abou...