PEACE BY PEACE
Whenever I visit a community — a remote sitio in Basilan, a coastal village in Sulu, or a former conflict area in Maguindanao — I am reminded that peace must be built not only with respect, empathy and understanding, but with experience and knowledge.
This was the heart of the 5th Peace Research Conference held last week. As I listened to the participants speak — scholars, community leaders, government partners, and young researchers, I realized how far we’ve come and also how much work remains.
When we at the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) launched this conference way back in 2021, our vision was simple but ambitious: to make research the backbone of our peacebuilding initiatives.
We wanted to ensure that every policy that we crafted, program that we implemented, and community dialogue that we conducted was guided by evidence a
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