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August 29, 2012

[SSJ: 7688] GRIPS Symposium Issues on Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building: Experience of Southern Philippines, 6 Sept

From: Karin Hillen
Date: 2012/08/29

The GRIPS Summer Program Committee, in partnership with the Global Center for Excellence (GCOE) and the GRIPS Security and International Studies Program (SISP) cordially invites you to attend the Summer Program Symposium 2012 with the theme, Issues on Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building: Experience of Southern Philippines on Thursday, September 6, 2012. We are honoured to have as our Special Guest Governor Esmael Mangudadatu, Maguindanao Province, Philippines.

Date / Time:   2012.9.6/13:30~17:45
Speaker: Guest: Governor Esmael
Mangudadatu, Maguindanao Province, Philippines
Moderator: Prof. Takeshi Onimaru, Prof.
Keiichi Tsunekawa
Keynote Speech: Governor Esmael Mangudadatu
Discussant: Prof. Jun Honna
Title: Issues on Conflict Resolution
and Peace-Building: Experience of Southern Philippines
Venue: National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies (GRIPS), Meeting Room 1ABC
Fee: Free (Prior Registration
Required)
Language: English

Background
The conflict in Mindanao represents one of the most elusive intrastate conflicts in the world that had been begging for resolution for decades. After almost forty years of voluminous peace agreements between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and two major secessionist Muslim rebel groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the war in the Southern Philippines has never ended, costing the lives of over
120,000 people and the displacement of at least 2 million others. Lasting peace never came and conflicts and violence are still common place in the region. Many scholars have tried to understand and explain the nature of the Mindanao conflicts and one of the themes identified is the continuing assertion of the Muslim South - or at least the people who believe they represent the Bangsamoro populace - for the restoration of their historical homeland which, they believe, had been immorally and illegally annexed from them.


Speaker’s Profile/Background
Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, born on August 15, 1968, is the incumbent Governor of Maguindanao, a Muslim dominated area in the Southern Philippines. He was elected in the 2010 national and local elections after challenging the powerful Ampatuan clan`s control of Maguindanao. Governor Mangudadatu gained international attention after the 2009 massacre of 57 people including his wife, 2 sisters, relatives, and lawyers, plus 32 journalists were kidnapped and murdered by members of a private army while en route to the election body’s office to file his candidacy. 196 suspects had been caught and formally charged with the murders led by former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan, Sr., his sons former ARMM Governor Zaldy Ampatuan, and former Mayor Andal Jr., against whom Mangudadatu was running for Governor.

Program for September 6, 2012
Title: Issues on Conflict Resolution and
Peace-Building: Experience of Southern Philippines
Guest: Governor Esmael Mangudadatu, Maguindanao
Province, Philippines
Participants: Officials from Philippine Embassy,
other interested Embassy Officials, JICA representatives, Experts on the Topic, Students, Professors

Part 1
Moderator - Professor Takeshi Onimaru
1:30-2:30 - Round Table Discussion with the Guest
and Students - Human Security and Democratization
2:30-3:00 - Coffee/Tea Break

Part II
Emcee: Professor Keiichi Tsunekawa, Vice-President,
GRIPS
3:00-3:15- Welcome Remarks from Professor Takashi
Shiraishi, President, GRIPS
3:15-3:30- Opening Remarks from an Official in
Philippine Embassy re Updates on Philippine Political and Economic Reforms
3:30-3:35- Introduction of the Keynote Speaker
(Prof. James Rhodes)
3:35-4:30- Keynote Speech from Governor Esmael
Mangudadatu on the theme
4:30-5:00- Discussant (Prof. Jun Honna)
5:00-5:45- Open Forum

Registration
To register for the symposium, please fill out the part below and email it to Orville Ballitoc
(doc10115grips.ac.jp) or Jenny Balboa
(doc10111grips.ac.jp) by August 31, 2012.

Last name (s) ___________
First name (s) ____________
Institution _______________
Job title/position _________
Department _____________
City ____________________
Country ________________
E-mail _________________ Mobile ________________

Best regards,
Karin Hillen


National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku | Tokyo 106-8677 | Japan Tel 81 (0)3 6439 6048 | Fax 81 (0)3 6439 6070 Email karin[at]grips.ac.jp | Web http://www.grips.ac.jp

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