Mitigating Maritime Violence in Sulu Sea: Regional Cooperation Needed

• Main Author: Hamzah, B. A.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Southeast Asia and ASEAN; Regionalism and Multilateralism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84561; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41867
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Suggestions that kidnappers/extortionists make money from ransom do not explain the root causes of maritime violence in the Sulu Sea. The main solution lies in development of the impoverished region in Mindanao and granting the Muslims self-rule in their homeland, coupled with regional cooperation t...