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IPs and peace processes: Comparative learning conference of IPs in the Philippines

Nov 2009
There are approximately 500 million indigenous people in the world and many are disproportionately affected by conflicts. This presentation by Conciliation Resources and Sulong CARHRIHL summarises the issues.

Enlarging spaces and strengthening voices for peace: Civil society initiatives in Mindanao (2003)

The Mindanao peace process: A supplement to Compromising on autonomy (2003)
Apr 2003
Carolyn Arguillas discusses how civic actors have responded to the pendulum swings between war and peace in Mindanao and how they have participated in ongoing peace efforts.

The Mindanao peace process: A supplement to Compromising on autonomy (2003)

Apr 2003

The 1996 Peace Agreement between the Republic of the Philippines government and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was a milestone in many ways: all previous attempts to negotiate an end to 24 years of civil war had failed. Implementation of the peace deal did not end the violence but the efforts and innovations in peacemaking in Mindanao offer invaluable examples for people working to resolve conflicts around the world.

Accord issue 6, Compromising on autonomy: Mindanao in transition, contains analysis on Islamic diplomacy, civil society roles and development.

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process

Sep 2002

The peace agreement signed in 2001 on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (PNG), ended the most violent conflict in the South Pacific since World War II. Weaving consensus: the Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process (Accord issue 12, 2002) outlines an extraordinary array of creative initiatives and interventions that succeeded not only in ending the organised violence but brought together Bougainvillean society within a national framework. The process defined a negotiated settlement acceptable to all.

Constitutional accommodation and conflict prevention

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process
Sep 2002
Yash Ghai and Anthony Regan describe the process that resulted in Bougainville declaring itself independent as the Republic of North Solomons, before being reincorporated into PNG through the Bougainville Agreement in 1976.

Early interventions

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process
Sep 2002
Peter Sohia traces how negotiations on Bougainville’s relationship to the PNG government developed from 1980s to the mid-1990s. He argues that, despite their repeated failures, these efforts form part of an important cumulative process towards peace.

Reconciliation: My side of the island

Weaving consensus: The Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process
Sep 2002
James Tanis, a former combatant of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), gives a personal view of reconciliation processes in Bougainville – processes which contributed to the establishment of a joint negotiating team for the final peace talks.

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