In my opinion it is important to both parties (the GRP and the MILF) to continue negotiating for peace. We are running out of time and ways to achieve peace at the negotiating table. At all costs conflict must not be prolonged lest affected residents may soon, after the devastation of their families and properties, have no choice but to join the ranks of the separatists. Yet conflict still goes on, and while no concrete plan is being drawn, the government have to send more relief workers and request non-government organizations to focus in the recovery of the areas badly hit by warfare.
The time is ticking, and we still have no blueprint for peace unrolled on the negotiating table. It seems that while the origin of this crisis was a yearning to a self-governing homeland, there will come a time that we would arrive at no other answer to this problem but to finally agree to a modified version of the BJE. However, it cannot be concluded so easily. The geopolitical aspect must first be treated, the constitution of ethnic population as well as the consent of affected areas especially. The carving out of an independent state must ensure that the rest of Mindanao will not be drained of its important fiscal and natural resources, and similar requirements must be applied to the emerging entity. Above all, the Moro leaders must agree to a reduction of arms, and promise that for the sake of humanity they are going to build a democratic society. Otherwise, the government would have to become the caretaker of a state whose sense of sovereignty is extremely infantile, if not primitive.
Can such conditions be met?
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