BukSU peace center joins P4P Southeast Asia Launch
DAVAO CITY (12 July 2023) Bukidnon State University’s Center for Peace Studies participated in the Southeast Asia Launch of the Geneva-based Principles for Peace at the Waterfront Insular Hotel in Davao City on July 11, 2023.
Center Head, Mr. Walter I. Balane, attended the event as representative of BukSU. He joined representatives from the academe, mainly from the Mindanao State University System and representatives from stakeholders of the Bangsamoro Peace Process.
The Principles for Peace (P4P) Foundation engaged with the Global Partnerships for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID), International Center for Innovation, Transformation and Excellence in Governance Inc. (INCITEGov), and GZO Peace Institute.
Organizers said after having gathered inputs through an extensive two-year global consultation process, P4P serves as a follow-up mechanism for a Principles for Peace Initiative that promotes the implementation of new principles, standards, and metrics that aim to fundamentally
reshape peace and conflict prevention efforts and charting a path towards lasting peace.
As such, the launch will initiate a process to explore how P4P can be utilized to revitalize
the broad support that have accompanied the Bangsamoro Peace Process.
”The launch .. hopes to celebrate a paradigm shift in the field and create an
independent feedback loop to inform decision-making that is inspired by and can
accompany peace-building practices in the region. Thus, the theme for the launch will be
“Reimagining and Reenergizing Support for the Bangsamoro Peace Process”.
The launch became a reunion for peace stakeholders in Southeast Asia, especially in Mindanao. For BukSU, it also became an opportunity to introduce its peace center to Mindanao peace stakeholders, initiate linkage, and invite prospects for collaborations.
Above all, it was an opportunity to learn, Mr. Balane said.
”I attended with my ears wide open to the ocean of lessons and experiences from the peace stakeholders. It also opened doors for endless possibilities,” Mr. Balane said in his message to the organizers.
BukSU created the Center for Peace Studies along with three other research centers during the administration of Dr. Oscar B. Cabanelez under then VP for Research, Extension, and Innovations Dr. Joy M. Mirasol. Dr. Mirasol, now BukSU’s 3rd University President, was succeeded by current VPREI, Dr. Carina Joane V. Barroso.
The three other research centers are headed by Dr. Zeny B. Maureal (Center for Mathematical Innovation), Dr. Derren N. Gaylo (Center for Educational Analytics), and Ms. Lorraine A. Anasco (Center for Local Governance). (CPS Peace Monitor)
BukSU Center for Peace Studies joins CHED-MSU-IIT workshop, now part of Peace Educators Council in Northern Mindanao
Ten members of the BukSU faculty of Sociology Department and myself representing the new BukSU Center for Peace Studies have attended a two-day CHED-organized capacity building workshop for Peace Educators in Northern Mindanao.
Resource persons came from the Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao of MSU-IIT. The workshop was organized under the umbrella of the Southeast Asian University Partnership for Peace Building and Conflict Transformation (SAUP). Thanks to BukSU administration for this opportunity.
I am honored to have received inputs and linked with an Outstanding Mindanawon and Award winning peace researcher Dr. Mark Anthony Torres of the MSU-IIT Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao as part of my mission here in the CHED-organized Capacity Building Workshop for Peace Educators.
I was tasked to touch base for BukSU’s newly created Center for Peace Studies.
I did not also expect the trust and confidence of fellow educators and administrators to be elected as PIO of the Peace Educators Council of Northern Mindanao, thanks to the support of our BukSU and other members of the delegation from Bukidnon.
Kudos to CHED-10 and MSU-IIT for holding the workshop and organizing the council.
Let’s take advantage of the renewed energy for peace education. Indeed, teachers have a potent force to help keep peace in Mindanao.
Image: Sample of an actors’ map, as an output during the conflict mapping exercise as part of the workshop.
BukSU sets up its Center for Peace Studies
Bukidnon State University has set up its Center for Peace Studies, among three other research centers.
The new research center, now on its first year of existence, is currently in institutional and capacity building stage. There are on-going benchmarking and consultation initiatives.
The center looks forward to producing quality and relevant peace researches and engaging in collaboration with peace stakeholders.
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KINSHIP IS PEACE: Lumad, Moro leaders commemorate kinship since 2012
Photo taken during the commemoration in March 2014, courtesy of FB of Datu Migketay Victorino Saway
The celebration today in Songco, Lantapan, to mark the kinship between the Lumad and Moro people is dubbed as a step to help build peace in Mindanao, a gathering that was first done in March 2012.
It was also emphasized that kinship extends also to the settlers.
ʺWe cordially invite you to the commemoration on the Moro-IP and Settlers Kinship with the participation of the Women and Youth on March 8, 2019 at Tulugan, Sungko, Lantapan, Bukidnon,ʺ Datu Migketay Victorina Saway said in his invitation.
In another post on his Facebook page where he posted photos of the meeting between Lumad and Moro leaders during arrival rites, Saway described the gathering as an act of peace, declaring kinship is peace.
Unfortunately, due to some duties in the university and personal constraints, it is impossible for me to make it in the commemoration today. I would just take some steps in campus to make sure I will try to join the event in spirit.
To my students in Bukidnon State University, I explained that before foreigners divided the original people of Mindanao, the relationship among peoples was seamless.
To explain context in writing news stories, I used the example of a story on the event to include context to ensure the public will get the accurate information.
Here is a story I wrote in 2012, when I covered as a journalist the first time the commemoration was held.
Lumad, Moro leaders reaffirm kinship, sign covenant
SONGCO, Lantapan, Bukidnon (MindaNews/09 March) – Representatives of eight Moro tribes and most of the Lumad or non-Islamized tribes in Mindanao yesterday signed a five-point kinship covenant in a gathering here filled with festive remembrance of historical relationships and aspirations for peace and unity in the island.
Aside from signing the covenant, the participants also unveiled the monument marking the reaffirmation of their kinship, an event witnessed among others by members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panel and the International Monitoring Team.
The covenant, printed on white paper and etched in a plaque installed on the monument, cited mutual recognition and respect (kilalaha), mutual sharing of information (sayuda), cooperation (buliga), mutual
protection and preservation of life (uyaga), and mutual obligation to help the needy (pagbatunbatuna).
“The indigenous peoples and the Moro of Mindanao hereby acknowledge the following principles and doctrines of kinship as basis of their cooperation, understanding, and unity as descendants of the early inhabitants in the island of Mindanao,” the declaration stated.
Before signing the covenant Lumad and Moro leaders exchanged accounts of shared history passed on for generations, mostly recalling a past that belonged to “one blood.” Their accounts differed in some respects but all of them cited peace pacts.
Among the stories the Lumad speakers shared was that of the brothers Mamalu and Tabunaway. The latter converted to Islam upon the arrival of Shariff Kabungsuan.
Moro representatives recalled stories of their ancestors’ interaction with the Lumads, including datus who shared portions of their ancestral domain to Moro people in their areas.
For their part, the Talaandigs offered their own version of the peopling of Mindanao. They said Apu Agbibilin was the grand ancestor of the Talaandig, Manobo, Maranao, and the Maguindanao.
Dr. Akmad Alonto, a Maranao, cited the Salsila, which contains accounts of a tampuda or peace pact between Lumad and Moro in Bukidnon.
He said that one more proof of kinship is belief in a creator, God.
The Maranao representatives asked the settlers, who they consider as brothers, not to be afraid of the reaffirmation of kinship “because it is good for everybody.”
Datu Ampuan Jeodoro Sulda, a Manobo leader from southern Bukidnon, however, called for the participants to set aside their tribal affiliations and differences, as the focus [of the gathering] was on their similarities.
“Each tribe has its own story. Let’s leave it at that. Let’s focus on the common (theme among those versions) that is our kinship,” he added.
Datu Migketay Victorino Saway, the host datu, presented to the participants and observers the members of the joint IP-Moro joint peace council, which Saway said, will help resolve conflicts between the Lumads and the Moro and address issues concerning the rights and development of the indigenous peoples.
Saway called the creation of the council “very important” to the peace efforts in Mindanao, adding it has “never been done before, anywhere.”
After the sharing of stories, the participants exchanged tokens.
Products like the kris (sword), tubao (scarf), kopya (cap), doldol (rice cakes) and replicas of agong and vinta from the Moro were exchanged with traditional dress, kalapi (sling bags), lambitan (sword), among others from the Lumad. Even personal stuff, like lipstick container with traditional motif and caps, were not spared.
When MILF peace panel member Abhoud Syed Lingga offered a tubao and kris as tokens to Datu Migketay symbolizing security, the Talaandig chieftain returned the favor with a lambitan saying it symbolizes mutual security.
Datu Sulda offered kalapi to Ali Rajahmuda, a Maranao, who offered dol-dol as a symbol of good relations.
Yan kapian or applause followed each gesture of appreciation.
The tulugan of the Talaandig tribe in Songco, at the foot of Mt. Kitanglad, had been home to big banquets but yesterday’s feast did not include pork, just beef, chicken, and vegetable.
The ritualists held a sumbali, a ritual where a carabao instead of a pig was offered, aside from chickens.
After the sumbali, Datu Migketay led a pabugwas, a cleansing rite performed by Lumad and Moro ritualists.
The most awaited part of the ceremony was the unveiling of the monument marking the kinship reaffirmation, which features a tibod or vessel crafted by Anak Tribu, the youth of the Talaandig tribe.
Anilao Inlantong Erwin Marte, an aide of Datu Migketay said the tibod symbolizes the vessel containing the customs and traditions left behind by Apu Agbibilin to Apu Saulana, the ancestor of the Talaandigs.
Apu Saulana, he said, was a woman who served as peacemaker for her three brothers who used coconut oil to keep order. This was reenacted when the participants queued for Datu Migketay to place oil on the their forehead.
Saway said the reaffirmation of kinship is a baseline material for the GPH-MILF peace process, something that the tribes have worked on the ground.
But no representative from the government peace panel and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) was around.
Marte told MindaNews the OPAPP wrote the Mindanao People’s Caucus to beg off to avoid complications and allow the MILF panel to be the sole party in the background of the event initiated by the indigenous peoples with support from the civil society.
NCIP-10 regional director Pinky Pabelic and Bukidnon provincial administrator Provo Antipasado Jr., representing Gov. Alex Calingasan, along with other local officials, witnessed the event.
Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat Jr, the only government official from Manila who was present, vowed support for the effort and pledged to pass a bill declaring March 8 as Mindanao Day to honor the event. (Walter I. Balane/MindaNews)
A small, simple and good place to eat cheap and clean in Malaybalay City
That’s five adjectives in a headline. I think Dockie’s Place deserves it anyway. It is rare to find a place where you eat what you paid for, no pretensions.
After a day negotiating with the requirements of ISO 9000-2008 certification of our university, I had to rush out to meet my mechanic for a briefing of his work on my toy car. The hassles of repair work, and yes the shocking cost have added to the day’s stress. Since I was horseback riding on Lem’s motorized stallion, I thought we owe ourselves some perks.
I craved for the Ilonggo’s La Paz batchoy. I was into that quest when you won’t accept anything less. We drove through Fortich Street and came close to the gates of BukSU —but there was no batchoy on the food stops.
Out of instinct, or was it hunger, I had to convince my colleague to pass by Claro M.. Recto Street. He asked if we were going to this high-end French restaurant. In my mind i said “you wish” but reality bites! I can’t. I have a shoestring budget! I told him, I’m Bukidnon, Bol-anon and Ilonggo, above all – Mindanawon not European.
That’s how we found ourselves in Dockie’s Place for a P20-serve batchoy! Of course you can’t compare the hot serve to a La Paz recipe but it was more than a lowly provincial-based journalism instructor can ask for. The owner, “Dockie” offered his “chili sauce” to spice it a bit as I sounded off my gusto to order the P30 per serve beef “halang-halang” instead.
Nothing beats the soup match, rice pudding (puto) for P6 apiece. I thought it was a perfect combination to be pushed by clean tap water from a shiny dispenser. Water is the universal solvent. He he, I’ll call it sour graping to drive away more carbon and sugar from the body.
Why does it merit the resurrection of my blog after a long hiatus? Like I said, this is a rare find in a time when media promotion in big and colorful billboards jacks up prices of food where you will look for it. Sometimes we feel we pay for all the ambiance and signage.
Of course, food stuff is a diversion from a voluminous reading and writing assignment. I will call it a break to “sharpen the saw”.
I know a lot of my imagined followers share my taste for food and my shoestring budget, so this gives me another reason to blog.
My bow to Dockie, a TESDA NC2 accreditation holder of hotel and restaurant management. He started cooking lugaw (Arroz caldo) a year ago mainly for students. Another bow is for his decision to use beef in batchoy and other specialties: “We have Muslims and Adventists who look for food, too.” It can really be a place for anybody, right?
So if you want to space out from our country’s “State of National Emergency” and the glaring debates on the extra-judicial killings or the Presidential Communication team’s “ooopssess” for President Digong’s first official trip abroad, or you are just like me – a hungry bird – don’t think twice – eat, live.
If in Malaybalay or passing by, look for this place and be yourself. Peace!
P.S. Also available in their menu of short orders: “RM” (Remember Me) at P15, Special Arroz Caldo (P20), (regular) Arroz Caldo (P10), Sizzling Sisig (P50), and Tapsilog/Longsilog/Hotsilog (P50)
Guide to Crowdsourcing
Definition and Typologies
Source: http://towcenter.org/research/guide-to-crowdsourcing/
Our definition: Journalism crowdsourcing is the act of specifically inviting a group of people to participate in a reporting task—such as newsgathering, data collection, or analysis—through a targeted, open call for input; personal experiences; documents; or other contributions.
Using that definition, most crowdsourcing generally takes two forms:
- An unstructured call-out, which is an open invitation to vote, email, call, or otherwise contact a journalist with information.
- A structured call-out, which engages in targeted outreach to ask people to respond to a specific request. Responses can enter a newsroom via multiple channels, including email, SMS, a website, or Google form. Often, they are captured in a searchable database.
We argue that crowdsourcing requires a specific call-out. If a newsroom simply harvests information or content available on the social web, we don’t believe this constitutes crowdsourcing. For us, the people engaging in crowdsourcing need to feel they have agency in contributing to a news story.
We acknowledge that crowdsourcing efforts don’t fit neatly into discrete classification, but for the purpose of this report, we’ve organized our typologies into six different calls to action:
- Voting—prioritizing which stories reporters should tackle.
- Witnessing—sharing what you saw during a news event.
- Sharing personal experiences—telling what you know about your life experience.
- Tapping specialized expertise—contributing data or unique knowledge.
- Completing a task—volunteering time or skills to help create a news story.
- Engaging audiences—joining in call-outs that can range from informative to playful.
Principal Findings
- The rise of crowdsourcing correlates with the rise of the Internet and web technologies that have made it easier for journalists to identify and cultivate communities; organize data; and follow real-time, breaking-news developments.
- Crowdsourcing leaders, like The Guardianand ProPublica, believe in the practice and integrate it thoroughly.
- Some stories involving specialized data or unique personal experiences can be told only via crowdsourcing.
- Crowdsourcing allows newsrooms to build audience entry points at every stage of the journalistic process—from story assigning, to pre-data collection, to data mining, to sharing specialized expertise, to collecting personal experiences and continuing post-story conversations.
- News organizations are taking different paths toward audience growth and engagement. Some are focusing on crowdsourcing; others are interested in mining non-solicited citizen contributions through social media.
- Good crowdsourcing efforts are high-touch, labor-intensive efforts. Journalists must determine a type of call-out, the communities to target, the method for collecting responses, and the avenues for connecting and giving back to the community of contributors.
- News organizations must demonstrate active engagement and reward the community during the crowdsourcing process, by actively participating in comments or updating contributors on a story’s progress, to encourage more contributions.
- Some organizations have created additional venues, such as Facebook Groups, to continue the conversation.
- Tension exists in some news organizations around whether crowdsourced contributions are trustworthy. Experienced practitioners say this is not a problem.
- For digital-first startups, in particular, crowdsourcing provides a way to cultivate new audiences from scratch and produce unique journalism.
- Some news organizations are situating crowdsourcing out of newsrooms and within communities.
- Several crowdsourcing ventures are turning into bona fide businesses, offering B2B (business-to-business) crowdsourcing solutions to media companies.
- News consumers clearly have stories to share, but they don’t necessarily want to write the news.
- Ways of measuring the impact of engaging in crowdsourcing initiatives and analyzing its value to a newsroom are still in development. Such measures have not been institutionalized.
Conclusion
The research shows that crowdsourcing is credited with helping to create amazing acts of journalism. It has transformed newsgathering by introducing unprecedented opportunities for attracting sources with new voices and information, allowed news organizations to unlock stories that otherwise might not have surfaced, and created opportunities for news organizations to experiment with the possibilities of engagement just for the fun of it.
In short, it has done just what the pundits predicted a decade ago: helped turn journalism into more of a conversation, rather than a one-way megaphone.
Crowdsourcing also deserves credit for shaping journalism into more of an iterative process: as data or stories come in from contributors, reporters see new possibilities for their journalism—and news organizations see opportunities to incrementally publish those contributions in ways that tease out more.
Certainly, though, crowdsourcing can be high-touch and high-energy, and not all projects work the first time.
ECON 102: Learning Guides for Modules 10 and 11 + Midterm Results
Click on the link below to download the word file on the learning guides of the two modules. Chapter 10 and 11 Learning Guide (Money and Output determination; International Trade and Exchange Rates) Econ 102 BC 501 Midterm results student number. Please post a comment here, with your name if you have already read and downloaded the files. Thanks. Best, Walter I. Balane
(Trying) to understand Mindanao
A personal essay
(A Personal Essay)
It’s still a world of instant coffee.
A friend from academia dropped a message in my inbox to ask for an online chat via Yahoo Messenger or Google Chat. I was surprised since the last contact we made was two years ago in a UP e-group.
He said as a journalist I could give him a quick explanation about Mindanao, its indigenous peoples, the issue of ancestral domain, the Mindanao conflict, why some IPs oppose mining, and also the peace process. He was trying to prepare a primer on Mindanao.
I knew it was an overview paper. It was an ambitious overview paper. It is doable I’m sure. I find preparing a primer on Mindanao, however, out of synch and possibly a waste of time. Such primer could be for anyone rushing. But I think one shouldn’t rush any attempt to understand Mindanao.
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Being present at the Fourth Mindanao Media Summit
Musings of a participant
The formal sessions of the 4th Mindanao Media Summit just concluded early afternoon today, 09 August 2008.
The theme: “Mindanao 2020: The vision begins with us”, is placed in an imposing tarp at the back draft. It was a reminder to me as a member of the group who took on “drafting” the vision from the participants. “Where are the other members of the styling committee?” I asked myself.
I ate a late breakfast today as I stayed late for my recent attempt to write a narrative report. So when I entered the summit hall, I have to do some catching up on who did what the night before.
I caught up on the secretariat who were busy calling the rest of the group for the picture taking.
Meanwhile, I picked the shiniest plate on the buffet table and proceeded to feast on hotel breakfast. In my peripheral vision and…
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Congrats Tom!
I found this from elsewhere … I was surprised I wrote this years ago.
I’m referring to someone who I doubt could be familiar to anyone here in blogosphere. I virtually met this 24-year old Tboli today from Brgy, New La Union in Maitum, Sarangani Province.
The Sarangani Information Office sent a press release, which our news organization used in this story.
Tom isn’t Mark Twain’s adventurous Sawyer kid of-all-time. Tom is Tom Balatac, the 24-year old Grade 1 student of Kipalkuda Elementary School in Maitum.
I commend Tom for the courage of going against social persecution, perhaps, of coming to school much later. It is one brave act that sends a wonderful message to those who have access to quality education but did not value the opportunity as of now.
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