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Jul 29

KILOS: A NATIONAL CONVERGENCE OF PEACE NETWORKS IS FORMED

While Secretary Teresita "Ging" Deles (Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process) finalizes her presentation, Atty.Alex Padilla (Chair, Government Peace Negotiating Panel in talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines) was holding the microphone giving updates on the GPH-NDFP peace talks. Mr. Gus Miclat (Executive Director of the Initiatives for International Dialogue), sitting on the left side of Atty. Padilla, was facilitating the discussion between the government peace negotiators and members of the newly-formed Kilos Kapayapaan at Katarungan, a national convergence of all peace focal networks in the Philippines.

PeaceBuilders Community Inc. (PBCI) is one of the representatives of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP) in the formation of a national convergence of all the peace focal networks in the Philippines. It is called Kilos Kapayapaan at Katarungan (Movement for Peace and Justice). We simply refer to it as Kilos. The formation of Kilos happened last July 27-28, 2011 …

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Jul 20

PCEC JOINS ECUMENICAL LEADERS’ PEACE SUMMIT

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Senior leaders of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) actively participated in the Ecumenical Church Leaders Summit, held last July 19-21, 2011 at the Mary Ridge Spiritual Center in Tagaytay City. The Summit was convened to talk about the role of the Church in the peace process between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) …

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Jun 10

TO THE GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARIES: GO BACK TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE

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We were dancing! We were celebrating the fact that last February 15-21, 2011, the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) resumed their peace talks. But last June 02, 2011,  Luis Jalandoni, Peace Panel Chairman of NDFP, proposed the postponement of their talks with GPH. The said talks is scheduled this month. Jalandoni communicated this …

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