Duterte: Delivering the Promised Peace to Mindanao

• Main Author: Singh, Bilveer
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Conflict and Stability; Country and Region Studies; Southeast Asia and ASEAN
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80551; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40697
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

After years of starts-stops and derailment of peace agreements, the Philippines is today poised to make a peace breakthrough in strife-torn Muslim-dominated Mindanao in southern Philippines. The potential game changer is President-elect Rodrigo Duterte who has promised to break the past deadlocks in...