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The search for national peace has been a lifelong goal of us, the Filipinos. Is it really impossible to have national peace? There are a series of reasons why this “peace” thing seems very unattainable to us. First let us look at our current situation here in the Philippines. Conflicts still flourish up to this day, violent as ever. Killings persist, kidnappings endure. These scenes are already familiar to us since the Marcos regime. That’s why the Filipinos start to think that this goal is becoming more of a dream, a dream that seem unattainable. As you can see, even in our current situation, the Filipinos are becoming more and more hopeless of being able to attain this national peace. Even though there are numerous attempts to attain this, they all remain useless. Instead of Filipinos becoming one, they began parting their own ways. They even start fighting with each other, or even kill each other, which is not a Filipino must do to his own countrymen.
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“There have been lost opportunities in the efforts to negotiate peace. That for without the people, the country cannot stand. Communist insurgencies generally thrive due to social injustice. I believe that as a leader, one must possess good qualities and should not only know but also understand, practice and respect the laws imposed. "
The general consensus in several peace conferences was that all armed combatants must be brought to the negotiating table.
The peaceful people's revolution at EDSA in 1986, which brought down the Marcos dictatorship was followed by eight years of peaceful transition to democracy. As Abueva (1992) noted, "the government's success in suppressing coup attempts, reversing the communist insurgency and in containing the Moro secessionist threats in Mindanao was a clear demonstration to the people that peaceful change is possible. As quoted by Coronel-Ferrer, we can clearly see if what are some of the causes of these rebellions. Continuing social mobilization of people at all levels was undertaken to build a peace constituency. You see, the case here is that people doesn’t want anybody to be ahead of them.
The celebration of the country's Centennial of the revolution against Spain has brought into focus history's accounts of armed conflict and a growing recognition of the need to emphasize peaceful struggles. We tend to put down people that we think are doing their jobs well, instead of helping this people succeed, we often times pull them down and that’s another problem. Massive poverty and inequity are most prominent problems in our society.
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