Rethinking and renewing the GRP-NDFP peace talks in 2022 ThisIsOurMindanao
NAGA CITY –Every advent of a new presidential administration in the Philippines, including for its election campaign prelude period, it has become fashionable to call for the resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines , but strangely forgetting any call for a ceasefire.
There can really be no genuine and meaningful peace negotiations until there is a paradigm shift on both sidesfor each side to honestly, thoroughly and creatively review and rethink their respective war and peace strategies for a negotiated political settlement rather than sincerity for a politico-military victory over the other side with the peace process merely instrumentalized for this. The latter orientation would only negate the inherent character and purpose of the peace negotiations, and is tantamount to negotiating in bad faith. The above-mentioned honest review and rethinking should thus also cover the said existing framework and related agreements for the peace talks.
Apart from the questionable currency of this old international law concept considered obsolete by many modern international law authorities, there may be application by analogy here of a standard provision in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional Protocol I, avowedly adhered to by both sides, that their application “shall not affect the legal status of the Parties to the conflict.
At this point, we may as well state that the above-mentioned honest review and rethinking by both sides on their respective war and peace strategies should the more fundamental sincerity and humanity question here is: if we are going to have a peace settlement anyway, why in the meantime waste irreplaceable lives arising from continuing armed hostilities?
Honest-to-goodness local-level peace processes to address such humanitarian concerns are not of the same kind as the “localized peace talks” with a counter-insurgency “divide and rule” orientation
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