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Land Rights, Displacement, and Transitional Justice in the Bangsamoro
Insights from Household-level Mapping in Marawi City and Maguindanao
- Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 114
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
A research report on land loss and displacement in Marawi City and Maguindanao, based on household-level mapping. It argues that land dispossession is a root cause of conflict in the Bangsamoro that transitional justice must address.
This summary report starts from the view that land dispossession is a root cause of conflict in the Bangsamoro, past and present. From late 2021 to mid-2022, research teams mapped land and displacement with families in Marawi City and in South Upi and the Firis Complex in Maguindanao. The lead researcher was Maria Carmen "Ica" Fernandez of the University of Cambridge, working with the Initiatives for International Dialogue, MSU Marawi, the Kalimudan sa Ranao Foundation, UNYPAD, Timuay Justice and Governance and a Tëduray-Lambangian women's group.
In Marawi the teams worked with displaced families in shelters, imams of 42 mosques in the most affected area, traders from the old padian market and one neighbourhood fighting land cases. In Maguindanao they mapped homes and farm lots in 3 sites with recurring land violence, among Tëduray-Lambangian, Maguindanaon and settler residents.
The report finds that land laws imported from the West a century ago still harm displaced Moro and indigenous peoples. It calls for a single land framework for the Bangsamoro, built on reliable data that records both formal titles and customary claims, with separate recommendations for Marawi and Maguindanao.
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Published with UNYPAD, Timuay Justice and Governance, the Teduray-Lambangian Women’s Organization, Kalimudan sa Ranao Foundation, MSU Marawi and the University of Cambridge.
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