Op/Ed piece by Amando Doronila in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Oct 29): Bangsamoro framework accord: The inside story
The start of the informal talks in February 2011 between the Philippine
government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on peace in Mindanao
immediately ran into a deadlock. The MILF submitted to the government panel a 40-page comprehensive draft
agreement. The government, in turn, responded with a much shorter proposal. Disappointed, the MILF recommended to its central committee the rejection of
the government’s proposal. It described the gap between its proposal and that of
the government as “heaven and earth.” Twenty months after, on Oct. 10, the negotiations produced the “peace in our
time” framework agreement on the Bangsamoro, carving out an autonomous Moro
homeland from the sovereign territory of the Philippine republic. How this agreement closed that heaven-and-earth gap and what tradeoffs were
struck are revealed in an academic paper that narrates the inside story of the
negotiations. The paper, titled “Forging a Peace Settlement for the Bangsamoro: Compromises
and Challenges,” a copy of which was obtained by the Inquirer, was presented by
professor Miriam Coronel Ferrer of the Department of Political Science,
University of the Philippines, at the recent 2012 Philippines Update Conference
at Australian National University in Canberra. Ferrer is a member of the
Philippine negotiating panel in the talks with the MILF....
http://opinion.inquirer.net/39660/bangsamoro-framework-accord-the-inside-story
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