Moro
Reader is off the press
 The
print edition of The MORO READER: History and Contemporary Struggles
of the Bangsamoro People (217 pages) was launched for the press
by CenPEG on Oct. 24, 2008 at the Popular Bookstore, Quezon City.
The launch was back-to-back with a short forum on the “Prospects
of the Roadmap to Peace in Mindanao” with Prof. Julkipli Wadi
of the UP Institute of Islamic Studies and lawyer Nasser Marahomsalic,
former commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and now chair
of the Muslim Legal Assistance Foundation, as speakers.
The Moro Reader was written by Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria, Lualhati
M. Abreu, Kenneth E. Bauzon, Abhoud Syed M. Lingga, Martin Remollino,
Temario C. Rivera, Bobby M. Tuazon, and Julkipli Wadi. Former Dean
Oscar Evangelista wrote the Preface; it was edited by Tuazon
It
is published by CenPEG Books in partnership with Light a Candle
Movement for Social Change; and is distributed by Popular Bookstore.
The book is available at the Popular, UP Press bookshop, CenPEG
office, and other outlets.
Final
roundtable on the Party-list Nov. 18, 2008
The third and final Round-Table Discussion (RTD) on the 10-Year Party-list
System Assessment will be held on Nov. 18, 2008, at the UP Law Center
(Bocobo Hall) of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon
City.
The RTD is part of CenPEG’s series of discussions, forums, and
research on the Party-list system covering the first elections (1998)
to the May 2007 Party-list polls.
Main speaker is Wilfrido Villacorta, Professor Emeritus of De La Salle
University, and former Deputy Secretary General of the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He was a member of the 1986 Constitutional
Commission where he was a proponent of the Party-list system to represent
the country’s marginalized classes and sectors in Congress.
Expected to attend the final RTD are other resource persons, the nominees
and staffs of Party-list groups, representatives of people’s
organizations, members of the academe, NGOs, foreign embassy observers,
and others.
The first two RTDs were held in November 2007 and April this year.
The third RTD is being held in partnership with the Taiwan Foundation
for Democracy and in cooperation with the UP Law Center’s Institute
of Government and Legal Reform (IGLR) headed by former PCGG Commissioner
and UP law professor Vicky Avena.
National
conference on cultural innovation for good governance
A national conference on “Cultural Innovation for Good Governance”
is being organized by the Center for People Empowerment in Governance
(CenPEG) on Dec. 8-9, 2008. The conference’s take-off point
is the book, Corruptionary@, a lexicon of 447 corruption-related words.
The national conference will be held at the University Hotel, University
of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. It will be held in partnership
with the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
The two-day conference has invited Prof. Alice Guillermo and Prof.
Roland Tolentino as plenary speakers. Six workshops will be organized
to tackle issues of corruption affecting the schools, religious sector,
business, media, and government.
More details to be announced later.
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