A Walkthrough with MSU IPDM Marawi: Our Roadmap to OneMSU

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As we inspire to recharge and rebranding the performance of MSU IPDM Marawi, MSU IPDM Marawi had its teambuilding on August 3-4, 2024, at Serenity Hills Resort, Davao del sur. One of the agenda in the teambuilding is a visualization of the strategic planning with its goal to revisit the vision, mission and goals of the institute and inclusive of defining IPDM GAD Agenda and refocusing on the deliverables of the three core programs of MSU IPDM Marawi which are Peace Research, Peace Education and Peace Action. After the presentation of accomplishments of the focal person of the three mandates, the realization of not only a conduit effort but also collaboration has taken place.

Reassessing what IPDM now has been a discourse and a deep conversation of what we can devise has been a center of the common goals between a short- and long-term planning considering the issues and concerns and risks opportunity of the Institute. Finding the core between the three programs has been difficult as well establishing the niche, therefore, settling on the proper framework made it harder. The trend is one philosophy has given direction to the values of MSU IPDM Marawi. And it becomes more advantageous when the session was marked by its success and productivity, making significant contributions to the university’s mission to evolve into a National Peace University. This walkthrough has made possible leading the strategic future of the IPDM is the Executive Director Acram Latiph. The workshops were facilitated by Prof. Al-Mahdi Alonto supported by Prof. Raihan Yusoph and Prof. Mojahid Baraki. And support from MSUS President Atty. Basari D. Mapupuno was significant in realizing this event.

More inputs through the validation process to improve the content of the Strategic plan will be provided and given on August 8, 2024.

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The institute for peace and development in Mindanao (IPDM) was created by the MSU Board of Regents during its 182nd Meeting on December 7, 2001. The institute assumed the functions of two defunct units: the Muslim Christian Center for Peace Studies and the Muslim Mindanao Development Institute. It is now the central coordinating unit for all existing peace and development programs of the campuses of the University. MSU was established on September 1, 1961 as one of the government responses to the so-called “Mindanao problem.” The problem includes a violent struggle of segments of the Filipino Muslim population to redress long-standing grievances and assert Muslim selfhood and identity in the face of real and imagined threats of cultural and spiritual assimilation by the majority Filipino Christian population. The University was mandated to accelerate the “integration” of the cultural communities in Mindanao into the mainstream body politic and to accelerate the development of its service areas through instruction, research, and extension. In the pursuit of these objectives, the University also seeks to infuse spiritual and moral values, national consciousness and solidarity, and mutual understanding among Filipinos, which are necessary for peaceful coexistence and sustainable development. IPDM was therefore, created with the expectation that it would contribute to the easing of tensions and the promotion of justice and peace between Filipino Muslims and Christian by expanding knowledge, improving understanding and heightening sensitivity in relations between the peoples of Mindanao in particular, and the Philippines in general.