A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH TO THE GRP-MILF & GRP-NDFP PEACE TALKS
by Atty. Soliman Santos
11 April 2005
The
August 2004 National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) Master of
National Security Administration (MNSA) thesis of Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
Region IX (Western
Mindanao) Director Atty. Jose Manuel S. Mamauag entitled
Rights-Based Approach (RBA) as a Tool in Evaluating the
Socio-Political
Dimensions of the Peace Process with the MILF gives rise to the idea that the
RBA can be used not only as a tool in evaluating the socio-economic dimensions
of the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) but also as a
framework for the whole peace process and a peace settlement, including other
dimensions (e.g. economic and cultural) and other peace negotiations,
particularly that with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
The RBA has started to be used for development and for governance; why not for
peace?
