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Negotiating Peace
An Insider’s Perspective on the Bangsamoros’ Struggle for Self-Determination
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 421
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
The speeches of the MILF’s chief negotiator from 2005 to 2018, which follow the peace process with the government through the eyes of the Front.
This first volume gathers the speeches of Mohagher Iqbal, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front's chief negotiator, from 2005 to 2018. It was published by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Cambodia with funding from Norway's foreign ministry. Read in order, the speeches follow the talks between the government and the MILF from the exploratory talks in Kuala Lumpur to the years after the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.
The book has 9 chapters, arranged by year: 2005 to 2010 in one chapter, then one chapter for each year from 2011 to 2018. It ends with a list of milestones in the peace process. Most pieces are opening and closing statements at the negotiating table, along with public speeches.
The foreword is by Emma Leslie, who sat in the International Contact Group that supported the talks. She describes Iqbal's careful preparation and his grasp of history, and calls the collection a historical record of a people's wish to have past injustices recognised and to govern themselves. An epigraph sums up Iqbal's stand: the right to self-determination cannot be negotiated, but the way to achieve it can.
Volume 1, 2005 to 2018.
Peace processPolitics and governance
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