A Moro college dean calls on the Philippine Government to engineer the wider gap between Muslims and Christians citing that “peace cannot be attained unless biases and prejudices are wiped out.”
This was aired by Dr. Jioharia Lim Nicart, Dean of Education Department of Mindanao State University-General Santos during the recent consultation of the Third Party Monitoring Team (TPMT) with Muslim community leaders, academe and civil society organizations in General Santos City.
“I hope the TPMT could tell the government about this,” Nicart persuaded.
More than thirty participants coming from General Santos City and the provinces of Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and South Cotabato attended the gathering on June 6, 2014 organized by the TPMT and United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD).
Hanan Masdoc, a young Moro professional, noted the number of Maguindanaons coming from Central Mindanao who migrated in General Santos City and other key cities of the country to avoid armed confrontations between the government and rebel forces and to look for livelihood opportunities which is scarce in their hometowns.
In the past peace forums, some Moro participants complained the difficulty for Muslim job seekers to be hired in private companies. They also noted that some Christian owners refuse rentals of their office spaces for Muslims.
It was also reported that some Muslim job applicants are compelled to change their Muslim names into Christian sounding ones to hide their identity as Muslims.
TPMT is a body tasked to monitor, review and assess the implementation of all signed agreements by the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), especially the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB).
During the consultation, Alistair MacDonald, TMPT Chairperson, discussed their mandates and some highlights of the GPH-MILF Peace Process.
He said they will try their best to help in the peace process and added that the TPMT will focus on the priorities and it is the “civil society who can help evaluate the quality of the implementation of the agreements.”
The TPMT Chair also noted that the two parties are committed for a peaceful resolution to Mindanao problem.
The activity was geared to hear views of different stakeholders on the progress of the GPH-MILF Peace Process.
In two other separate occasions, the TPMT also consulted with the Governor of Sarangani Province together with the Sarangani-Local Monitoring Team (LMT) in Provincial Capitol, Alabel, Sarangani Province and the with the business sector at the Green Leaf Hotel in General Santos City.
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“I hope the TPMT could tell the government about this,” Nicart persuaded.
More than thirty participants coming from General Santos City and the provinces of Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and South Cotabato attended the gathering on June 6, 2014 organized by the TPMT and United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD).
Hanan Masdoc, a young Moro professional, noted the number of Maguindanaons coming from Central Mindanao who migrated in General Santos City and other key cities of the country to avoid armed confrontations between the government and rebel forces and to look for livelihood opportunities which is scarce in their hometowns.
In the past peace forums, some Moro participants complained the difficulty for Muslim job seekers to be hired in private companies. They also noted that some Christian owners refuse rentals of their office spaces for Muslims.
It was also reported that some Muslim job applicants are compelled to change their Muslim names into Christian sounding ones to hide their identity as Muslims.
TPMT is a body tasked to monitor, review and assess the implementation of all signed agreements by the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), especially the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB).
During the consultation, Alistair MacDonald, TMPT Chairperson, discussed their mandates and some highlights of the GPH-MILF Peace Process.
He said they will try their best to help in the peace process and added that the TPMT will focus on the priorities and it is the “civil society who can help evaluate the quality of the implementation of the agreements.”
The TPMT Chair also noted that the two parties are committed for a peaceful resolution to Mindanao problem.
The activity was geared to hear views of different stakeholders on the progress of the GPH-MILF Peace Process.
In two other separate occasions, the TPMT also consulted with the Governor of Sarangani Province together with the Sarangani-Local Monitoring Team (LMT) in Provincial Capitol, Alabel, Sarangani Province and the with the business sector at the Green Leaf Hotel in General Santos City.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1042-academe-gov’t-should-engineer-the-wider-gap-between-muslims-and-christians
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