Welcome to the

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• Welcome to the
• Notre Dame University
• Peace and
• Development Programs

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GREETINGS OF PEACEFROMNOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY
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Peace and Development Office

• Peace Education (PEd)
• Policy Advocacy and Strategic Studies (PASS)

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PEd
Peace Education
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PROGRAM

• That
• facilitates raising the level of awareness of the
  peoples of Mindanao on issues and concerns
  related to local, regional, national and global
  peacelessness
• Cultivates attitudes that will encourage the
  citizen to engage in personal and social action
• Employs a peaceful pedagogy of holism,
  participation, dialogue active non-violence

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ACTIVITIES

• Coordinates with College of Arts Sciences and
  the Graduate School in implementing the courses
  on peace education
• Conducts Peace Education (basic) Culture of
  Peace (deepening) on off campus.
• Undertakes peace and development researches.

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• Organizes community-based peer mediators
  facilitators on off campus through training and
  seminar workshops
• Convenes peace educators network, civil society
  organizations and academic institutions to
  generate peace agenda for collective action
• Leads in the celebration of Special Dates re
  Womens Day, Human Rights Day, Mindanao Week of
  Peace, etc.

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• Develops peace education modules and other
  instructional materials.
• Undertakes community-based peace building
  initiatives.
• Provides technical assistance to schools and
  institutions engaged in peace building.

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PASS
Policy Advocacy Strategic Studies
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PROGRAMS

• Addresses the policy related problems detrimental
  to the development of the region. The engagement
  covers policy issues that have direct and
  indirect effects on the peoples of Mindanao.
• Implements an advocacy program for genuine
  peoples participation in the formulation and
  implementation of public policies.

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ACTIVITIES

• Undertakes policy formulation and lobbying
  through the conduct of strategic studies of local
  and national concerns/interests
• Organizes conferences, roundtable discussions
  training and seminar workshops as approaches in
  generating public opinions and policies.
• Develops civic electoral education materials
  through modules, manuals handbooks.
• Establishes cooperation partnerships with
  national, regional local government units and
  agencies in the pursuit of a more participatory
  governance.

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• Launches campaigns for environmental protection
  and preservation.
• Publishes reading materials using the traditional
  as well popular forms of advocacy such as policy
  advisory papers, newsletters, primers, comics,
  flyers, and posters.
• Participates in the on-going peace initiatives in
  Southern Philippines through fact-finding and
  actual conflict intervention initiatives re
  community-based peacekeeping, peace building and
  peace making.

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Catholic or Christian characteristics/dimensions
inspirations
Charism of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate -
Profess a commitment to the poor, deprived,
oppressed, marginalized, and exploited

• Social Teachings of the Church

• Gospel Values

• Spirituality vs. Religiosity due to our
  pluralistic society

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Principal partners in peacebuilding

• Notre Dame University Community
• Other academe-based partners
• Notre Dame Educational Association member-schools
• Public Schools (Laboratory, Cotabato City
  National High School, Marquez Elementary School)
• Cotabato Archdiocesan schools

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• Community based partners
• Community in Pagangan and their Balay Kalilintad
  Project
• Notre Dame University Alumni
• Notre Dame University Parents-Teachers
  Association (PTA)
• Out of School Youth in Cotabato City and
  Maguindanao
• Bangsamoro Women

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Gains Positive Results

• For the faculty, and the graduate
  undergraduate students, and its various
  clientele, a deepening of theory and practice in
  peace education. Thus the teachers role becomes
  much more of helping in making critical synthesis
  and reflection of learning.

• Since the Center has been the primary catalyst
  to the gradual spread of peace education in
  Mindanao, it can boast of its influence in the
  creation of a number of other centers in Mindanao

While NDU is a catholic institution, the peace
education program strives to cultivate solidarity
and sensitivity to the beliefs of non-Catholics.
This is valued and appreciated by the community,
Muslims and Christians alike.
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• Peacebuilding initiative
• - Peace Education, Voters Education
• Fr. Jun Mercados engagement with the SZOPAD
  SPCPD
• - Peace Center acted as Secretariat during
  the Technical Meeting between GRP MILF
• - IFFC
• - QRT

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Challenges confronting the Center

• To keep the graduate program running is one of
  the greatest challenge. The number of enrollees
  is not enough to keep the program going

• The relative slowness of conversion among many
  of the schools, colleges and universities to
  peace education as shown in the gap between
  theory and practice.

• The commitment for a structural transformation
  to the P.E. A. C. E. paradigm, requiring for
  example for the administrators to be
  participatory rather than autocratic.

• Limitation of resources both human and material
  meant that those who joined the core team of
  volunteers were heavily taxed in terms of time,
  energies and even personal resources

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Lessons (learned) from the peace building
initiatives

• Peace education being a new discipline required
  an enormous creative ability to respond to
  existing needs and be successful in the
  development of the program
• Collaboration and networking (local and
  international) are imperative
• Constructive communication and dialogue keeping
  our minds open and reflecting at all the
  worldviews are critical to the success of the
  program
• Academic dimensions and facets of the program
  needed to be and benefited immeasurably from
  their linkages with the community
• Need for facilitative leadership especially
  among top administrators
• Success is dependent on the creativity and
  assertiveness of the people running the program

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DAGHANG SALAMAT GIKAN SA PEACE DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE Notre Dame University