The current violent conflicts in Mindanao in the southern Philippines can be broadly categorised into three interrelated types: those that are related to secessionist movement, those that are related to inter clan or intra clan, and those that are criminal in nature such as kidnapping, murder or homicide, robbery and other petty crimes. The same with other violent conflicts anywhere, these violent conflicts are not spontaneous but are products of structural and cultural violence that have accumulated
The country is made up of 7100 islands, and only about 460 are more than 1 sq mi (2.9 sq km) in area. Eleven islands have an area of more than 1000 sq mi (more than 2600 sq km) each and have a huge amount of the population. These islands are Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol, and Masbate. The total area of the Philippines is about 120,000 sq mi (about 300,000 sq km). Manila is the capital and largest city of the Philippines. Physical Characteristics The Philippines
economic, and social clashes between shifta and Kenyans led to a four year conflict that challenged the nation’s unity. Today in the Philippines, the Muslim minority group residing in Mindanao is forming a similar secessionist movement. Their situation is reminiscent of Kenya in its antebellum period, but with proper governing the Filipinos and Muslims still have a chance at peaceful co-existence. The deepest crack in Kenya’s solidarity stemmed from political issues decades earlier. In the 1920’s,
About eighty-eight million people live in the rural areas of the Philippines and about eighty percent of the Philippines poor population lives in this area (Rural Poverty). The highest levels of poverty in the Philippines exist in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao w... ... middle of paper ... ... Works Cited Adb.”Poverty in the Philippines:Causes, Constraints and Opportunity.”Asian Development Bank.adb.org.2013.Asian Development Bank.Web.5 Feb 2014. Associated Press.”Geographically doomed
example of the early Islamic community/state provides the true alternative ideology for Muslims. · Muslims must re-establish God's rule, the sovereignty of God on earth by re-instituting Islamic Law, the blueprint for society for all time. · The new Islamic order does not reject science and technology. However, modernization is subordinated to Islam to guard against ... ... middle of paper ... ...s and non-Muslims alike, are enemies of God. Similarly, the da'wa(h) phenomenon in many Islamic communities