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Global Peace Gab Calls on IMT to Stay
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
(Chiba, Japan)- A huge global conference on peace ended here today affirming support for the Mindanao peace process and echoing civil society calls for the Malaysian International Monitoring Team contingent to stay on.

The Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War accepted a resolution submitted by its lone guest from Mindanao which also sought support for the active participation of civil society and the grassroots in any peace process. The resolution called on all third party government facilitators, mediators, brokers and negotiators to accompany any peace process until a lasting agreement is reached.
 
Civil Society Peace Organizations Appeal to IMT: Stay and Help Keep the Peace in Mindanao
Monday, 05 May 2008
The Mindanao Solidarity Network (MSN), the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict-Philippines (GPPAC-Philippines), United Youth for Peace and Development (UNYPAD), Generation Peace, and Anak Mindanao express concern over the reported downsizing and eventual pull-out of the International Monitoring Team in Mindanao.
 
Nobel Laureate endorses Mindanao civil society's plea for IMT to stay on
Sunday, 04 May 2008
CHIBA, Japan (MindaNews/04 May) – Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate in 1976 for her role in the peace process in Northern Ireland endorsed Saturday Mindanao civil society's appeal for the Malaysian-led International Monitoring Team (IMT) to stay on.  She also called on the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to actively and sincerely pursue peace talks whatever it takes.
 
democratization burma
In recent years, Burma took the spotlight of international criticism because of its dismal human rights record and international crimes.The continued detention of the well-known political prisoner, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is also a concern of the international community. The junta has introduced a roadmap to democracy, but at the same time continues to hold more than a thousand political prisoners.

IID believes that national reconciliation in Burma should begin with a genuine tripartite dialogue between the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the democratic opposition led by Suu Kyi's political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and the representatives of the non-Burman ethnic minorities. With each group being given equal status and representation, the tripartite dialogue could be a meaningful instrument to start genuine and substantial democratic reforms inside Burma.

 
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