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  Philippines: Room for the human element in the GRP-NDFP peace framework?

  1 January, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  As we enter the New Year, it has been noted by Satur C. Ocampo that “By all indications, the coming year will see the continuation and even intensification of devastating wars in the world… Even here in the Philippines, deadly hostilities are taking place.” Some of these recent hostilities (…)

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  Philippines: A hopeful, but guarded, annotation of the new Oslo Joint Statement between the GRP and the NDF

  2 December 2023, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  This is an initial hopeful critical paragraph-by-paragraph annotation of, including some questions on, the breakthrough four-paragraph Joint Statement signed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on November 23, (…)

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  Philippines: Rethinking and renewing the GRP-NDFP peace talks in 2022

  19 March 2022, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  Every advent of a new presidential administration in the Philippines, including for its election campaign prelude period, it has become fashionable to call for the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the (…)

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  Philippines: Ceasefire Na, Pwede ba!

  19 December 2021, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  OMICRON. ODETTE. CHRISTMAS. NEW YEAR. ELECTION SEASON. Still no ceasefire on the local communist armed conflict front!
  What does it have to take for a ceasefire to happen? What more humanitarian considerations are needed? As Bob Dylan put it, “Yes, and how many deaths will it take ’til (…)

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  Philippines: Ceasefire in a time of coronavirus

  14 March 2020, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  Love in a time of coronavirus, just like love in a time of cholera, has already happened and will likely continue to happen. How about a ceasefire on the war front between the Philippine government/armed forces and the communist-led rebels in this time of coronavirus? It has happened before, (…)

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  Philippines: On the peace zones review – “Off-limits to armed conflict or hostilities”

  31 July 2019, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  National Security Adviser Hermogenes C. Esperon, Jr. was reported to have said that peace zones like those in Sagada, Mountain Province and in Mindanao would be reviewed basically in so far as these have barred the entry and presence of police and military personnel but not rebels particularly (…)

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  Philippines: Interim peace proposal for the 3-month wait on the GRP-NDFP front

  24 June 2018, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  The GRP-NDFP front of war and peace has just taken its most recent twist and turn: the suspension of peace, including back-channel, talks for an announced period of three months so that President Duterte, according to him or his spokesman, whichever it is, can “personally review” all signed (…)