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Human rights lawyer and peace advocate, long a writer on the Mindanao peace process, later a judge in Naga City.
2001In print
The Moro Islamic ChallengeSoliman M. Santos Jr.
University of the Philippines Press
Whether the Philippine Constitution can accommodate the Moro demand for self-rule, and what would have to change, by a human rights lawyer who worked the peace process for years.
2005Out of print
Dynamics and Directions of the GRP-MILF Peace NegotiationsSoliman M. Santos Jr.
Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao
The government–MILF talks as they stood in 2005: the agreements so far, the sticking points and the roads open.
2010Free to read
Primed and PurposefulSoliman M. Santos Jr. and Paz Verdades M. Santos
Small Arms Survey
Profiles of 14 armed groups in the Philippines, the communist and Moro fronts, the Abu Sayyaf and the clan militias among them, with what is known of their arms and their effect on the people around them. Free to read.
2011Out of print
In Defense of and Thinking beyond the GRP-MILF MOA-ADSoliman M. Santos Jr.
Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao
Essays by a peace advocate and lawyer defending the 2008 Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, which the Supreme Court struck down. They also propose ways forward for the GRP–MILF talks after its collapse.