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		<title>Localizing the peace agenda: Tulunan town has its own ‘peace process adviser’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you manage a troubled peace zone?
For Mayor Lani Sarillo Candolada of Tulunan, North Cotabato, the key is getting a ‘peace process adviser’ who can focus on the town’s peace agenda so as to address conflicts in the locality.
Candolada said they thought of the measure since 2007 in view of boundary conflicts and armed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1583&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Boodle fight’ to ‘boodle peace’: from warriors to peace builders</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Counting how many battles fought, enemies killed, and firearms recovered has been among the usual indicators in an official’s military scoreboard.
But it’s got to change, military officials tell new generation officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Mindanao.
Col. Julieto Ando, of the Eastern Mindanao Command, has stressed this point to junior military officers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1580&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know war is our worse problem in Mindanao. But a natural catastrophy helped by a man-made disaster such as what is unfolding in Luzon, appears to be an even harsher foe.
Apart from thinking of gathering aid for our evacuees in our conflict zones, I believe it is also a just cause to gather support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1576&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corn farmers ask Yap to resign</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/corn-farmers-ask-yap-to-resign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corn farmers from around Northern Mindanao are gathering in Cagayan de Oro City Friday for a protest rally against the Department of Agriculture over the corn price crisis and to demand the resignation of Agriculture Sec. Arthur Yap, organizers said.                [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1574&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does corruption perpetuate conflict? Look at Mindanao!</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/does-corruption-perpetuate-conflict-look-at-mindanao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes! The answer is in the survey conducted by Konsult Mindanao,  a group created early this year as a research arm of the Bishops-Ulama Conference.

&#8220;Corruption poses a serious threat to the attainment of lasting peace in Mindanao, respondents to a Mindanao-wide survey believe so.  They said that during a review of the initial results of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1571&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Matigsalugs to file case vs. ‘illegal occupants’</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/matigsalugs-to-file-case-vs-%e2%80%98illegal-occupants%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(First published at MindaNews.com) The Federation of Matigsalug-Manobo Tribal Councils, Inc. (Femmatrics) of the Matigsalug Manobo tribe has announced they are likely to go to court to force &#8220;illegal occupants&#8221; in their ancestral domain to a free and prior informed consent process (FPIC).
Femmatrics chair Datu Roelito Gawilan told this reporter they are preparing to file [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1569&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bukidnon, Mindanao major corn producer, and NFA&#8217;s lower buying price</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/bukidnon-mindanao-major-corn-producer-and-nfas-lower-buying-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(First published at MindaNews.com) The National Food Authority (NFA) Council’s decision to cut its buying price of yellow corn grains from P13 to P10 per kilo amid the already very low price in the market drew flak not only from farmers but also from members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan here.
Board member Glenn Peduche, an enterprising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1565&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the status of Mindanao &#8217;super region&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/what%e2%80%99s-the-status-of-mindanao-super-region/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was no mention of the super regions, including the “Mindanao agribusiness” super region, in President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s 2009 State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 27 but recent updates show that this year, Mindanao got the biggest chunk in infrastructure releases.
The updates were given during the 13th Agribusiness Mindanao Super Region Interagency meeting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1563&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EO 765: Good for bakers, bad for corn farmers</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/eo-765-good-for-bakers-bad-for-corn-farmers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in MindaNews.com. President Arroyo signed Executive Order 765 in December 2008  claiming that  &#8221;reduction on tariff on food wheat would help stabilize the price of bread and other baked food products.&#8221;    Unfortunately, former agriculture secretary Leonardo Montemayor said in a report that the order did not only include the lifting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1561&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SONA Postscript:  Re-reading the numbers in the President’s report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo boasted of her administration’s achievements and slammed her critics in a display of fighting stance because of it.
The former economics professor at the University of the Philippines sprinkled her speech with numbers or statistics to prove her 5-point summary, which she used to claim that:
“1. We have a strong economy and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1558&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The parade of SOs and peace in Mindanao</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/the-parade-of-sos-and-peace-in-mindanao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindanaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of more recent development unfolded in Mindanao.
First came the announcement of the resumption &#8220;Soon&#8221; of the formal talks (and the peace process) between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front as a cessation of hostilities is at hand.
Then the continuing calls by civil society and peoples organizations in conflict-affected areas. Among the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1556&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Touching base: Istambay goes to school</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/touching-base-istambay-goes-to-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must have been months ago since I last posted an entry here. In fact I came to a point of really being unmindful of my blogs.
But once a blogger, always a blogger. And so here I am again not promising to return to active blogosphere  citizenship but showing desire to return so.
Apart from the summer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1553&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A people with long history decides what makes a sacred mountain</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/a-people-with-long-history-decides-wha-makes-a-sacred-mountain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good read is what I consider Elson Elizaga&#8217;s piece on MindaNews about &#8220;Selling a Sacred Mountain&#8221;.
There are similar cases of such situation in the province of Bukidnon.
From my encounters with respected tribal leaders and elders, it is a long history of clans and tribes that determine what makes a sacred mountain and other people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1548&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good luck to the 2008 Bar examinees!</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/good-luck-to-the-2008-bar-examinees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports from Manila-based media say the results of the 2008 Bar examinations will be released tonight.
Congratulations to those who made it.Welcome new lawyers! May your flock help solve the problems of the country, help bring peace, justice, order, and progress to our land.
For those who need to take it again, God Bless!
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		<title>Where are the ICRC hostages?</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/where-are-the-icrc-hostages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s up about this painful ordeal?
Hope-full stories I think are not of help. We feed on hard facts. We need to know the truth already. We had been kept hanging unfairly.
Are they alive or not? We pray they are.
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		<title>Davao&#8217;s &#8220;Summary Killings&#8221;: Probe by CHR in 2009, UN rep Alston in 2007</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/probe-on-davaos-summary-killings-chr-in-2009-un-rep-alston-in-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two-day probe of the Philippines&#8217; Commission on Human Rights this week on the &#8220;summary executions&#8221; in Davao City in Mindanao reminds me of the investigations by Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in 2007.
The inquiries is making waves about the killings not only in Mindanao&#8217;s premier city but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1534&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CHR probes Davao&#8217;s &#8220;Summary Killings&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/chr-gangs-on-killings-in-davao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hearing being held by the Commission on Human Rights on the alleged summary executions in Davao City reached boiling point when Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was subjected to questioning by CHR chair Leila de Lima. 
Read this report by MindaNews&#8217; Carolyn Arguillas.

Both the interrogator and the one interrogated stood firm, as it appears.
We hope this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1528&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Chip Tsao&#8217;s &#8220;The War at Home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/on-chip-tsaos-war-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This writer's satire fails by stirring a people's sensibilities while exposing the condition of domestic help treatment in his own country. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1520&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;WHY WE OPPOSE THE PROPOSED ‘RIGHT OF REPLY’ LAW&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/why-we-oppose-the-proposed-%e2%80%98right-of-reply%e2%80%99-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Letter shared by Jose Torres, Jr. with media practitioners at the &#8220;Peace Consultation &#38; Dialogue: Mindanao Media Forum on Peace, Conflict and Security”, hosted by Civil Society Organization Forum for Peace in Iligan City, 7-8th March 2009)
The proposed right of reply measure is by its very nature unconstitutional and only reflects the obsolete, if not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1518&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peace talks is everybody&#8217;s concern</title>
		<link>http://istambay.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/peace-talks-is-everybodys-concern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks after a peace forum we have held at Bukidnon State University, the group that organized it is now reported to be under surveillance as tagged by the military to be an &#8220;MILF recruitment committee&#8221;.
This has been the most stupid and the narrowest split of sense I have heard of for 2009 so far.
This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=istambay.wordpress.com&blog=378703&post=1514&subd=istambay&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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