A civil society alliance called on the Bangsamoro Parliament to put ordinary Bangsamoro people at the heart of its work so that the long-delayed parliamentary self-governance would become “a significant step towards genuine autonomy for the region,” as envisioned in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). “We challenge the newly installed regular Parliament to...
Tag: civil society organizations
Post
Building an alternative regionalism from below for Southeast Asian peoples
As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) marks its 59th year in 2026, its relevance remains disputable. Its guiding principles—mutual respect, noninterference, peaceful dispute settlement, and renunciation of force—are noteworthy from a nation-state perspective but ultimately self-absorbed. They suffer from an absence of any reference to how Asean relates to the peoples of its...