Task and Ministry of Peacemaking in Mindanao: Understanding a Peacemaker’s Recipe for Peace
Authors: Asiones Noel 
Published: October 2022

This study seeks to gain an understanding of Orlando Cardinal Quevedo’s written communications about the task and ministry of peacemaking in the conflict-ridden Northern Mindanao region. Given the recent signing of the Bangsa Moro Organic Law as the highly expected solid basis for a peaceful and prosperous Mindanao, it is timely to look back and pay a closer attention to the key role that he played as a peace advocate. To achieve this end, it organized and conducted a content analysis of his extensive writings about peace and its demands. Findings show that his words, firmly rooted in the conflict’s historical past and yet open to the realities of the present, encompassed and helped disclose his practical wisdom, consensus-driven approach, and Catholic perspectives of its underlying challenges and imperatives. The lessons and insights that were uncovered may serve as a grounded recipe for those who would follow in his footsteps to learn and re-appropriate in a hopefully not an unending task and ministry of peacemaking in today’s world.
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