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Solidarity Day with MSU Constituents as part of 2024 MWOP celebrations

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To express solidarity with victims in December 3 incident in MSU Marawi City, Office of Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity in partnership with Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao had peace conversations and dialogue as part social healing process last November 29, 2024, as part of 2024 Mindanao Week of Peace celebrations at IPDM convergence Hall, MSU Marawi City. There were peace messages given by speakers like local faith actors in line with the theme of 2024 Mindanao Week of Peace, “Sustaining the Gains of Peace, Solidarity and Resilience.”

There was also a workshop on moving forward to do offer of support like words of comfort and expression and other support that are necessary.

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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.

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