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PBCI ATTENDS MINDANAO INTER-TRIBAL CONFERENCE

The Katawhang Lumad Council of Peoples Representatives of the Mindanao People’s Peace Movement (MPPM) called for a Mindanao Inter-Tribal Conference last August 31-Sept. 3, 2007 at Barangay Sungku, Municipality of Lantapan, Province of Bukidnon—the Ancestral Land of the Talaandigs.

The general objective of the consultation was to intensify the struggle for the realization of Right to Self Determination through the restoration of the concrete infrastructure for territorial governance of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao

Specifically, the consultation sought to achieve the following objectives:

::  Give orientation on basic rights
     of Indigenous Peoples;

::  Updates on current initiatives
     of organizations advancing the
     rights of the Indigenous Peoples;

::  Create the Katawhang Lumad
     Secretariat of the Mindanao
     Peoples’ Peace Movement that
     will coordinate the people’s
     initiatives;

::  Come up with a comprehensive
     Katawhang Lumad Agenda;

The gathering was mainly discussion-sharings among and between the participants foremost of which were focused on the issues and concerns confronting the Indigenous Peoples in their respective communities.

As a tri-people community of peacebuilding volunteers, Peacebuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI) was invited to join our Katawhang Lumad brothers and sisters in this significant gathering.  It was a very good avenue for some of us, the non-Katawhang Lumad, to interact and learn from the discussion-sharings during the conference.

After a week, PBCI hosted the first strategic meeting of the newly-elected Katawhang Lumad Secretariat of the Mindanao Peoples’ Peace Movement at the Peacebuilders
Community Center in Davao City.  It was our privilege and honor to serve these women and men who have been entrusted with sacred responsibility of leading the Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao.  This was also a way of showing solidarity to the Katawhang Lumad in their struggle for the advancement of their Right to Self-Determination as a people.


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