Filipino Youth for Peace

By Renato Redentor Constantino
abs-cbnNEWS.com
September 27, 2003

Wonder no more why the Bush administration refuses to give a timetable to Iraqi self-government. Days after his $87-billion speech where he called on the Iraqi people to “rise to the responsibilities of a free people,” US President Bush continues to insist that elections and self-rule will not be on his Iraq agenda for some time.
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By Rey Claro Casambre
Philippine Peace Center

Introduction

A year has passed since we first gathered to commemorate the 10th anniversary of The Hague Joint Declaration and renew our commitment to advance the struggle for genuine peace.

We called ourselves Pilgrims for Peace as we pledged to embark on a journey that would take us, with our people, to a new land where freedom, democracy and social justice reign.

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From Yonip.com

Peace education is becoming increasingly prominent as the urgent concern and response of schools to the raging issue of war and social conflict. Peace education seeks to impart pro-peace values and address the issues that create understanding, tolerance, justice and peace. The long-term objective is to develop a culture for peace in our conflict-torn planet. Schools and teachers who take a critical and wholistic approach to the current US-led “war on terrorism” and the continuing insurgency and rebellion in the Philippines consider peace education important as the general objective of their curriculum as well as a specific area of teaching.
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(January 2001 – June 2003)

January 2001 - During the campaign to oust President Estrada, then Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared that if and when she assumes the presidency, she would “reverse the all-out-war policy of the Estrada government and resume peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)”. Shortly after being sworn into office, President Macapagal-Arroyo reconstituted the GRP negotiating panels for talks with both the NDFP and MILF.

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