Mass-Violence and Struggle for Recognition in Identity Conflicts - Negotiating Memories and Justice in the Philippines

TO BLOCK THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: REDUCING IDENTITY CONFLICTS AND PREVENTING GENOCIDE, Mark Anstey, Paul Meerts and I. William Zartman, eds., University of Georgia Press, 2010

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 Last revised: 28 Oct 2010

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Ariel Macaspac Hernandez

Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - German Development Institute (DIE); University of Duisburg-Essen - Institute for Development and Peace

Date Written: June 21, 2010

Abstract

The Southern Philippines provides an interesting example of how violence contributes to the development and maintenance of identity in a self-sustaining conflict cycle. It reflects a conflict whose complexity has been reduced simplistically to one of a Muslim minority in contest with the state. An intervention based on superficial analysis may however not simply fail to resolve the conflict and end the violence, but fuel new conflicts. This paper proposes a disaggregation of the levels of conflict and the design of interventions appropriate to each to raise prospects of success. Particular attention is given the role of civil society and NGO’s in peace processes.

Keywords: Philippines, Identity Conflicts, Religion, Ethnicity, Mindanao, Violence, Recognition

Suggested Citation

Hernandez, Ariel Macaspac, Mass-Violence and Struggle for Recognition in Identity Conflicts - Negotiating Memories and Justice in the Philippines (June 21, 2010). TO BLOCK THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: REDUCING IDENTITY CONFLICTS AND PREVENTING GENOCIDE, Mark Anstey, Paul Meerts and I. William Zartman, eds., University of Georgia Press, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1628087

Ariel Macaspac Hernandez (Contact Author)

Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - German Development Institute (DIE) ( email )

Tulpenfeld 4
Bonn, 53113
Germany

University of Duisburg-Essen - Institute for Development and Peace ( email )

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Duisburg, D-47057
Germany

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