Mindanao’s youth IP leaders pledge support to ‘Whole-Of-Nation’ Approach
Mindanao’s IP youth leaders converge under Whole-Of-Nation Approach
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (June 13, 2019) — More than 200 IP youth leaders from across Mindanao gathered here Wednesday to attend the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples’ Youth Peace Assembly. (more…)
Security sector is vital in peace talks—Colombian experts
QUEZON CITY, 18 May 2019 — Colombia’s success story in peace negotiations with communist insurgents was attributed to the participation of government security sector in the negotiating panel.
Major General Carlos Alfonso Rojas, a retired army officer and government representative in the peace talks with the Colombian Communist Party, stressed the indispensability of the military in the negotiations.
Galvez urges retired army and police officers to support new peace panels
CAMP AGUINALDO, April 29, 2019 — Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez Jr. called on retired military and police officers to support the soon-to-be created peace panels that will be tasked to oversee the forthcoming engagements with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and the localized dialogues with communist insurgents.
Statement of Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. on the Brutal Murder of Two Higaunon Returnees
The so-called “protectors of the masses” have struck once again to viciously put an end to the lives of two of their former comrades who had recently returned to the folds of the law.
Full medical attention being provided to Fernandez, wife – Galvez
March 29, 2019 – Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez Jr. assured on Thursday that National Democratic Front (NDF) consultant Francisco “Frank” Fernandez and his wife Cleofe Lagtapon are being given full medical attention following their arrest on March 24 in Liliw, Laguna.
Galvez: Peace agreement with RPA-ABB, a model for localized peace engagements
Jamindan, Capiz, March 26, 2019 – Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez Jr. underscored on Tuesday that the government’s agreement with the Rebolusyonaryong Partido Ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas/Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade-Tabara Paduano Group (RPM-P/RPA-ABB-TPG) is a successful example of the localized peace engagements being advocated by the government.
Whole-of-Nation approach to resolve decades of insurgency
Jamindan, Capiz March 25, 2019 – Ending decades of communist insurgency and attaining inclusive and sustainable peace in the country can be achieved through the concerted efforts of national and local government agencies, local government units, sectoral groups, and the military, Armed of Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Benjamin Madrigal Jr. said on Monday.
GRP Panel to be reconstituted for holistic localized peace engagements
PASIG CITY, March 20, 2019 – The termination of appointments of the members of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) Negotiating Panel will pave the way for the creation of an inclusive panel that will supervise localized peace engagements, Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Wednesday.