Pagpati'ut - Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Pagpati'ut - Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
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HD TEAM AND MARINES<br />
ON A BOAT BOUND FOR<br />
BARANGAY KAN LAGAY,<br />
KALINGGALAN CALUANG,<br />
SULU<br />
CONCLUSION<br />
This study has highlighted the contrasting difference among the<br />
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Several lessons, in fact can still be generated from the parallel journeys<br />
of the Barangays who are struggling to create stability and peaceful coexistence<br />
in their locality.<br />
But there is an elephant in the room, and it must be recognized.<br />
(1) In both Punay and Silangkan, the two Barangays hailed <strong>for</strong> being<br />
peaceful communities, the holder of peace is not really the community, but<br />
individual leaders. In the case of Silangkan, it was a <strong>for</strong>mer combatantturned-statesman<br />
that initiated ef<strong>for</strong>ts to make the community as ‘peacecentered<br />
community.’ In the case of Punay, it is the mayor – not so much<br />
the Barangay Captain – who is mainly responsible <strong>for</strong> ensuring peace.<br />
In other words, while the research team wanted to see concrete<br />
community-based, bottom-up examples where the collectivity of peoples<br />
are the ones that initiate the journey to peace, the reality is that the peace<br />
holders are male leaders, with warrior backgrounds. (In the Punay case, an<br />
additional ingredient is present – the mayor belongs to the elite class.)<br />
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