Ateneo holds conference 'Addressing Armed Conflicts through Collaborative Efforts'

The Ateneo Department of Political Science-Working Group on Security Sector Reform, together with the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, OJ3, will hold a two-day conference on May 30 and 31, 2012, at the Ateneo de Manila University.

 

Entitled “Addressing Armed Conflicts through Collaborative Efforts:  Focus on the AFP’s IPSP (Internal Peace and Security Plan) Bayanihan,” the activity hopes to bring together national and local government units as well as civil society groups in a two-day conference to look into the efforts of the military, as well as to discuss successful political interventions, challenges, spaces of engagements, and remaining things to be done to finally convince the armed groups to abandon the violent means to institute change.

 

The funding of the conference is sourced from the Australian Aid and The Asia Foundation.

 

Speakers include LtGen Emmanuel Bautista, Commanding General of the Philippine Army, MGen Romeo Calizo, AFP-Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Cong. Mel Sarmiento of Samar, Gov. Oscar Moreno of Misamis Oriental, Usec Panadero of the Department of Interior and Local Government, Undersecretary Vicente Agdamag of the National Security Council, and Assistant Secretary Danilo Francia of the Department of National Defense.

 

Expected to grace the occasion, too, are Sec. Teresita Deles, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, and Gen. Jesse Dellosa, Chief of Staff of the AFP.

 

Conference participants include officers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police, government officials, civil society groups, and members of the academic community.

 

For more information you may email joreta@ateneo.edu. Press release from Ateneo Department of Political Science