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IPDM MSU Marawi City started their radio program under ShuraMSU, a program based on Memorandum of Agreement between Radio Pilipinas Marawi and Mindanao State University of Marawi City. The program is also on facebook live via FB page of Radyo Pilipinas Marawi. The first episode was had on September 20, 2024, a day before the International Day of Peace. The said episode talked about the establishment of Institute of Peace and Development, its structure and purpose. The second episode was about the Peace Education. Our guest was Dr. Johara Alangca who is member of the Committee on Peace Education. She elaborated on the general overview and the history in the making of the program. The third episode was about the discussion on the different modules of Fundamentals of Peace Education 101. And this was discussed by Dr. Salma Naga Marohombsar.

The anchor of the radio program is Dr. Aliah Pacalna Cali-Pascan. And she is co-hosted by Dr. Khayronesah Abbas. The program is every Friday, 3 o’clock to 4 o’clock in the afternoon.

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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.