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Making Peace in the Indigenous Way in the Philippines

Mennonite Central Committee
June 4, 2015

Source: (2000) Peace Office Newsletter 30 (1).

In anecdotal fashion, highlighting the work of the Upland Development Institute in the Philippines, this article relates traditional Philippine processes for addressing conflicts and offenders in relation to a more Western legal system.

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