The inside mediators are now insiders in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the new autonomous political entity that replaced the nearly three-decade Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Several members of the Bangsamoro’s Insider Mediators (IMs) have
(Conversations with lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, Insider Mediator co-convenor, now Minister for Interior and Local Government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, on 11 April 2019 in Cotabato City). Q. What is the Insider Mediators’ role now that quite
(Conversations with Abdullah “Dong” Cusain, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, on 11 April 2019) Q .What we’re interested in is about Insider Mediators… Does it still have a role in this new government? A.
Conversations with Omar Yasser Crisostomo Sema, former member of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission, now member of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, on 12 April 2019 in Cotbato City. Q. I’d like to start off with your being member of the Insider Mediators
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 14 April) — Lobbying for peace can come in various ways, depending on the lobbyist’s creativity and audacity. For Omar Yasser Crisostomo Sema, a member of the Bangsamoro Insider Mediators, it meant lobbying all the way
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 December) — The world cheered the crowning of a Filipina as Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand on December 17, 2018 but unknown to most, in that same city a day earlier, the world of peacebuilders
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 December) — In the first two years of the six-year Duterte administration, the Bangsamoro has had to contend with three major issues in their long history of struggle for their right to self-determination: the passage
(Conversations with Fatima Pir Tillah Allian, Program Manager, Nisa Ul Haqq Fi Bangsamoro or Women for Truth and Justice in the Bangsamoro), an Insider Mediator, on 9 November 2018 at the Panorama Summit Hotel in Davao City where the Insider
(Conversations with Col. Taharudin Ampatuan of the Peace and Development Office, Armed Forces of the Philippines, an Insider Mediator at the Panorama Summit Hotel in Davao City on November 8, 2018 where the Insider Mediators met to discuss the Bangsamoro
(Conversations with lawyer Randolph Parcasio, chair of the Peace Implementing Panel of the Moro National Liberation Front and member of the Consultative Committee appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte to study, conduct consultations, and review the provisions of the 1987 Constitution
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 December) — The Insider Mediators in Mindanao, particularly in the Bangsamoro, was organized in September 2016. It is a platform for Bangsamoro women and men from civil society, government and the Moro revolutionary fronts. It
(Statement of the Insider Mediators, read at the press conference of civil society organizations at the Dapitan Room of EDSA Shangrila Hotel on 17 July 2018. Insider Mediators is a platform for the Bangsamoro from various sectors who try to
