The books

2024Free to read

Abhoud Syed M. Lingga

Institute of Bangsamoro Studies

Writings by the founder of the Institute of Bangsamoro Studies on the Bangsamoro’s road to self-determination: its history, the law and politics of the peace process, and what it means for peacebuilding elsewhere. Published for the 10th anniversary of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.

2024Out of print

forumZFD

forumZFD

A follow-up to a 2023 conference in which transitional justice experts and practitioners reflect on what has been done on justice and reconciliation in the Bangsamoro. It sets out what is still needed in the BARMM.

2023Free to read

Initiatives for International Dialogue

Initiatives for International Dialogue

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.

2020Free to read

Starjoan Villanueva

Institute for Autonomy and Governance

A study of how civil society organisations take part in politics and governance in the new BARMM during the transition period. It takes stock of what civil society has gained, the obstacles it faces in dealing with leaders and institutions, and where it can do more.

2019Free to read

Jeremy Simons and Radzini Oledan

Initiatives for International Dialogue

A research study and resource guide from IID's Bangsamoro Transformative Justice Initiatives project, 2017 to 2019. It explains transitional justice, dealing with the past and reconciliation, and records community stories of survival and truth-telling.

2018Free to read

Salah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

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.

2017Free to read

Tengku Abdul Ghafar

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Malaysia’s facilitator of the government–MILF talks on how they reached the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in 2014, and how he got the two sides past their deadlocks.

2017Free to read

Alfredo Ferrariz Lubang

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

A community survey on what trust means to people living with the government–MILF peace accords, what builds it and what wears it down, with advice for the parties and those carrying the accords out.

2016In print

ed. Paul D. Hutchcroft

Anvil Publishing

Scholars on the peace process as it stood after the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro: the deal, the economy, the clans, the law, and what would be needed to make the Bangsamoro work.

2016Free to read

Abhoud Syed M. Lingga

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

The stories of almost 300 Bangsamoro men and women, from Maguindanao, the Lanao provinces, the Zamboanga peninsula, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, of decades of conflict and their hopes after the 2014 peace agreement.

2016Free to read

Conciliation Resources

Conciliation Resources

First-person stories of Moro and Teduray women: fighters, wives of combatants, women caught between armies, and peace advocates. It was made jointly by 3 Bangsamoro women's organisations and Conciliation Resources.

2015Free to read

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Interviews with 10 of the 145 MILF fighters who handed in their weapons at the first decommissioning, in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, in June 2015, on the lives they hoped to build.

2015Free to read

Bangsamoro Development Agency

Bangsamoro Development Agency

The 6-year development plan for the Bangsamoro drawn up by the MILF through the BDA, with government and donor support, under the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro. It covers the history of the conflict, community consultations and plans for each sector, in 15 chapters.

2015Out of print

Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Moro Islamic Liberation Front

A 3-volume history of the GPH–MILF peace negotiations from the MILF side, with copies of every signed agreement between the 2 parties. Volume 1 covers the domestic phase of the talks from 1997 to 2000.

2014Free to read

Government of the Philippines and Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity

The peace agreement signed in Malacañang on 27 March 2014 between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, with its annexes on transition, revenue, power sharing and normalisation. Free to read.

2014Free to read

Ebrahim F. Ampuan and Juwairiya U. Lingga

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

What the Subanen, an indigenous people of the Zamboanga peninsula who are not Muslim, thought of the Bangsamoro entity then being negotiated, and what they asked of it.

2014Out of print

ed. Venus Betita

forumZFD

The first collection on transitional justice in the Bangsamoro, launched in Davao City in July 2014. It explains the concept, draws lessons from other countries, and looks at truth, justice, reparation and reconciliation in Central Mindanao.

2013In print

Miriam Coronel-Ferrer

University of the Philippines Press

Essays written across two decades of the Philippine peace processes, with the Moro fronts and with the communists, by the scholar who would chair the panel that signed the Comprehensive Agreement.

2013Out of print

ed. Benedicto R. Bacani

Institute for Autonomy and Governance

A 326-page collection published a year after the 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro, on the move from the ARMM to a new Bangsamoro political entity. Edited by IAG founder Benedicto Bacani, with contributions including Peter Koeppinger, Crisanto Cayon and Kathleen Geslani.

2013Free to read

Fermin Adriano and Thomas Parks

The Asia Foundation

The Mindanao case study of a multi-country Asia Foundation research project on aid in long-running subnational conflicts. Using field research and a perception survey by Social Weather Stations, it asks whether development aid in conflict areas of Mindanao has helped or hurt peace.

2011Free to read

Elizabeth M. Padilla

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

A way to carry what the victims of violence in Mindanao say up to the negotiators at the government–MILF peace talks.

2011Out of print

Soliman 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.

2010Out of print

Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy

Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy

Proceedings of a 4-day regional conference in Davao City of Muslim women working for peace. It records the talks and discussions on women's roles in peacebuilding in Mindanao.

2009Out of print

eds. Arndt Graf, Peter Kreuzer and Rainer Werning

Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia

Essays from a Penang conference on the Mindanao conflict after the collapse of the 2008 ancestral domain agreement.

2009Out of print

eds. Kamarulzaman Askandar and Ayesah Abubakar

Research and Education for Peace, Universiti Sains Malaysia

A second collection from the Penang peace programme, on the talks, the ceasefire and civil society’s part in them.

2009Out of print

Magbassa Kita Foundation

Magbassa Kita Foundation

A collection responding to the 2008 Supreme Court decision that struck down the GRP–MILF Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain. It gathers dissenting views on the ruling and what it meant for the peace process.

2009Out of print

Madonna T. Virola and Marides V. Virola

GoP-UN ACT for Peace Programme

Stories of communities in Mindanao working together to build peace after decades of conflict. It shows the peace and development work of the ACT for Peace programme on the ground.

2007Out of print

Salah Jubair (Mohagher Iqbal)

Institute of Bangsamoro Studies

The talks between the government and the MILF from 1997 to the eve of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain, from inside the Front’s panel.

2007Out of print

ed. Amina Rasul-Bernardo

Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy

Ten years after the agreement with the MNLF, what was delivered and what was not, in studies commissioned by the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy.

2006Out of print

Abraham Iribani

Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy

An account of the peace talks between the Philippine government and the MNLF, based on the author's master's thesis at the National Defense College of the Philippines. It follows the negotiations that led to the 1996 Final Peace Agreement and public opinion around them.

2006Free to read

Malcolm Cook and Kit Collier

Lowy Institute

A Lowy Institute Paper on the prospects for peace in Mindanao and the threats to the GRP–MILF peace process. Written as foreign terrorists were using Mindanao as a haven, it argues that backing the peace process is a gamble worth taking.

2005Free to read

Steven Rood

East-West Center

What civil society groups did and could do for peace in Mindanao, by the Asia Foundation’s long-serving Philippines representative. Free to read.

2005Out of print

Soliman 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.

2005Out of print

eds. Kamarulzaman Askandar and Ayesah Abubakar

Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network

Papers from the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network on the roots of the conflict and the peace process to 2005.

2005Free to read

World Bank

World Bank

The main report of a large needs assessment of conflict-affected areas of Mindanao, made jointly with the government, international agencies and local stakeholders. It sets out what reconstruction and development would need after a peace agreement with the MILF, and led to the Mindanao Trust Fund.

2005Free to read

Human Development Network

Human Development Network

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.

2004Out of print

Benedicto R. Bacani

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Philippines

A study of why Muslim autonomy in the southern Philippines has stayed largely 'on paper', and what real self-rule for the ARMM would require. It includes the text of the 1976 Tripoli Agreement.

2003Out of print

Amina Rasul-Bernardo

Asian Institute of Management

Moro voices on the conflict and what peace would take, gathered for the Asian Institute of Management by a Tausug former cabinet member.

2003Out of print

Patricio P. Diaz

MindaNews

A veteran Cotabato journalist’s columns on the conflict and the peace talks, collected: forty years of watching from close up.

2001In print

Soliman 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.

2000Out of print

B. R. (Rudy) Rodil

Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao

The twenty-one years of talks between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front, from Jeddah to the 1996 Final Peace Agreement, by a historian who sat on the government panel.

1999Free to read

ed. Mara Stankovitch

Conciliation Resources

An issue of the Accord series on the negotiations between the Philippine government and the MNLF that led to the 1996 'Final Peace Agreement'. Published with MSU General Santos and Notre Dame University, it carries essays, interviews, profiles and the key texts of the agreements.

1998Out of print

Bishops-Ulama Forum

Bishops-Ulama Forum

A report on the first 2 years of the Bishops-Ulama Forum, which brought Catholic bishops and Muslim religious leaders together after the 1996 peace agreement. It records their dialogues and joint work for Muslim–Christian peace.

1991Out of print

Nagasura T. Madale

Silsilah Dialogue Movement

A Maranao scholar’s reading of the conflict in the South and of what peace between its peoples would take, from the Silsilah Dialogue Movement.