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“Building Bridges of Peace with our Peace Officers” is this year’s theme for the celebration of the MINDANAO WEEK OF PEACE 2007 slated on November 29- December 5.
The Mindanao Week of Peace is a celebration that involves communities of inter-faith organizations, non-governmental organizations, peoples’ organizations, government agencies who are working and advocating and mainstreaming the CULTURE OF PEACE in the Southern Philippine through various peace activities (Tommy Pangcoga of CPNN).
Initiated in Zamboanga in 1997 by Peace Advocates of Zamboanga (PAZ), this activity has become a Mindanao-wide event as adopted by the Bishops-Ulama Conference (BUC). Since then, it is being commemorated annually from the last Thursday of November to the first Wednesday of December, also perpetuated in observance through Presidential Proclamation No. 127, Series of 2001. For each year, a theme is developed by the BUC every month of May or June. Last year, the theme was “In the Name of the Almighty God of Harmony, Care for the Earth!”
In Cagayan de Oro City, the Mindanao Week of Peace is organized by the Interfaith Forum for Peace, Harmony and Solidarity and the Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc. In General Santos City, it is celebrated by the Kapayapaan Kapatid Council, KAMINKAP, Inc., and the Notre Dame of Dadiangas University Peace Eduation Center. In Cotabato City, it is observed by the Notre Dame University Peace Center, the Kadtuntaya Foundation, and the Mindanao Peaceweavers Network of Peace Networks.
