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Mediating Violence In Sulu
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the survey and interviews with community residents and leaders.
Barangay Bunot is a rural community about ten kilometers (10km) from the
town proper of the Municipality of Indanan.
survey. In Table 2, 58% of respondents listed agriculture as their source
of income. A small percentage (5%) of survey respondents have small
businesses such as sari-sari stores and peddling of homemade goods
like sweets and rice cakes. There seems to be very little access to capital
(82% answered that there was no access to capital) and other forms of
livelihood (68% saw no other means of livelihood available to them).
The Barangay lacks basic services. While a health center exists, it’s no
longer being used. The Bunot Elementary School is the only available
formal school that is present in the barangay. Nonetheless, there are
other educational institutions that are accessible by foot to the residents
of Barangay Bunot. The nearest are about 3 to 4 kilometers away. Only
thirty two percent (32%) of the respondents have had formal elementary
schooling, 25% had high school education, 12% college. (See Table 3)
It also is host to some internally displaced peoples who have eventually
settled in the Barangay.
the current Barangay Captain and his opponent. This, however, is not the
when a power sharing agreement was violated.
When the then incumbent Barangay Captain passed away, the power
sharing agreement regarding succession was not followed. This resulted
succeeding elections. Alliances were formed but subsequently broken,
resulting in the further degradation of relations between the families. In the