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The ongoing visit of Colombian women and their dialogues with Philippine officials and peace workers has been an eye-opener not just for the foreign visitors but for their Filipino counterparts as well.

MANILA, Philippines — Officers and staff from the Office of Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) have visited Mountain Province during the first leg of the Cordillera LGU (local government unit) orientations on the GPH-CPLA (Government of the Philippines-Cordillera...

The commanding general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) recently expressed support for the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army’s (CPLA) act of laying down its arms and transformation into a socio-economic organization.

Fourteen hours north from Metro Manila, and the Mountain Province greets us with the sound of gongs in the night.

TRIBAL elders at “sipat” took the place of Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) leaders still in hiding.

The CPLA leadership still preferred anonymity at the time in 1986 when President Corazon Aquino was prepared to sign the sipat that would lead to...

Monday, July 4, in Malacanang was for me like a reunion, as the Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army (CPLA) and the Cordillera Bodong Administration (CBA) signed a memorandum of agreement with the government that brought to closure a peace process that began 25 years ago at Mt Data, when P-...

MANILA, Philippines – A long 24 years after signing a peace agreement with then President Corazon Aquino, the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) has finally ended its armed struggle, signing a disarmament pact with, coincidentally, the government of the late leader...

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