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War and conflict · report
Philippine Human Development Report 2005
Peace, Human Security and Human Development in the Philippines
- Publisher
- Human Development Network
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 165
- Availability
- Free to read
Published free: the link opens the whole book.
About the book
The 2005 national human development report, devoted to the costs of armed conflict in the Philippines, including the Moro conflict and the communist insurgency. It treats human security as a precondition of human development and examines prejudice against Muslims as a driver of conflict.
The 5th Philippine Human Development Report turns from economics to armed conflict. It looks at the causes and costs of the communist and Moro insurgencies, why government policy has failed to end them, and how peace efforts could be strengthened. The Human Development Network prepared it with UNDP and New Zealand aid. Emmanuel de Dios and Soliman Santos Jr. wrote the main chapter, drawing on commissioned papers, case studies, workshops including one at MSU General Santos, and a national opinion poll.
Among its findings: 91% of provinces were hit by armed conflict between 1986 and 2004. The Mindanao conflict cost an estimated P5 billion to P10 billion a year from 1975 to 2002. Between one-fifth and one-third of the major Muslim groups now live outside their ancestral homelands. Polls showed latent anti-Muslim bias among 33% to 39% of Filipinos. Poverty rates alone did not predict where fighting happened, but gaps in water, power and schooling did.
The report calls for a common peace framework, a national peace policy set in law, and a national constituency for peace.
From hdr.undp.org.
Published with the UN Development Programme.
War and conflictEconomy and developmentPeace process
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