A new book on the peace-making in Mindanao is to be launched on November 28 at Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Shariff Kabunsuan, it was learned by Luwaran recently. According to Prof Abhoud Syed Lingga, head of the Institute of Peace, which publishes the book, only handful of guests are invited. Former Secretary and head of the government peace panel Silvestre Afable Jr. is officially invited to grace the occasion by rendering a message in the launching.

Also invited are Ghazali Jaafar, MILF deputy chairman for Political Affairs, who will make the closing remarks, and Atty. Datu Michael Mastura, who will also render a message.

The title of the new book is “The Long Road to Peace: Inside the GRP-MILF Peace Process” and is written by Salah Jubair.

Jubair is a nom de guerre of one of the leaders of the MILF, which is currently talking peace with the Philippine government.

Actually, this is the second book of Jubair on the Mindanao Problem. His first book was “Bangsamoro: A Nation Under Endless Tyranny”.

The Foreword of this present book, 250 pages excluding 20-page pictorials, was written by former Secretary and Chairman of the GRP peace panel, Silvestre Afable Jr. Atty. Datu Michael Mastura, a constitutionalist, a former congressman, and currently member of the MILF peace panel, wrote the Afterword.

There are five blurbs of the book, courtesy of former OPAPP Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles, Manny Mogato, journalist and former president of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP), Atty. Mary Ann Arnado, Deputy Director of the Initiatives for International Dialogue, Father Robert Layson, former parish priest of Pikit and now Vice Chairman of the Mindanao People’s Caucus, and Al Jacinto, Editor-in-chief of the Mindanao Examiner.

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