Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute
A Resource for Peacebuilders in Asia
The Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute (MPI) is an Asian training institute grounded in the Mindanao, Philippines, context that provides a space for people of diverse backgrounds to gather together, share and learn in a safe environment where all viewpoints are encouraged and respected. MPI is a resource for peacebuilders: providing skills, conducting research and building solidarity within the Asia-Pacific Region.
MPI creates a space where peacebuilders meet in mind, heart and spirit to keep abreast of the challenges which the issues of peace and justice present. In a professional and personal way, MPI, through its programs, offers opportunities by which the journey of peace becomes real in the lives of peacebuilders and their communities.
Learn more about MPI's Annual Peacebuilding Training. Check out our 2019 Annual Peacebuilding Training Report.
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Vision
Just and peaceful communities in Asia-Pacific.

Mission
MPI seeks to deepen commitment to justice and peace; respect for human rights; and dialogue and solidarity among individuals, institutions, and communities.

Goal
Individuals, institutions, and communities empowered as catalysts for peace and social transformation.
Education, Training and Building Capacities of Individuals and their Institutions in the Field of Peacebuilding
Refining Learning, Enhancing Knowledge, and Sharing Materials related to Peacebuilding
Creating Space and Connecting People from Diverse Sectors to Build a Critical Mass of Peacebuilders to promote Justpeace

Arts Building Peace: An Online Class's Conversation on Measuring Arts-Based Peacebuilding
This article originally appeared in the Peacebuilding and the Arts Now January 2021 newsletter.
“Art practices have their own uniqueness that evaluating themt becomes a dilemma.”
“A lot of convincing needs to happen when we are thinking of doing evaluation and assessment in engaging arts and peacebuilding...convincing a different range of stakeholders who may have different w...
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PEACE IN AFRICA: The advent of small arms and improvised explosive devices
Preamble
The quest for peace in Africa has become more complex now than ever before. Some world-renowned initiatives have been tracking through research, the advent, and trends of trade in small arms, improvised explosive devices, and light weapons. The war in Libya; the insurgence of non-state actors in Mali; the uprising in some regions of Ethiopia and the perpetual internal conflict in South Sudan; the radicalized extremist violence occurring in Nigeria, Cameroon, Somalia, and Kenya all depict that it has become easier to conduct actions th...
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Peace Channel reaching out to all the districts with its new Chapters
Rev.Dr. C.P.Anto the founder and director of Peace Channel, an emerging secular youth peace movement that aims at the transformation of the individuals and groups as peace lovers, peacemakers, and peace promoters in the conflict situations said that the movement had trained nearly twenty NEISSRians who completed MSW in our institute in peace studies have been trained and capacitated to introduce the new chapters in all the districts to empower the children, youth and adult to be the promoters of peace and trainers of peace in all conflict situations. They are also given some seed money to star...
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Ashwena Apao
Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Philippines

Mustafa Ghashim
Project Coordinator/Facilitator, DARB, Syria/Turkey

Beate Hahn
Program Manager Personnel Services South East Asia & Pacific, Bread for the World – Protestant Agency for Diakonia and Development, Germany

Hegstad Koga
Chief Monitoring and Evaluation, Officer Ministry of Traditional Governance, Peace and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Solomon Islands

Krishnamohan Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Stella Maris College, India

Chandara Phann
Project Officer, Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V.|Forum Civil Peace Service, Cambodia

Anielle Santoso
Indonesia

Juliana Yonzon
Program Coordinator, Mennonite Central Committee, Nepal
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