Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. urged retired military and police officers to support the soon-to-be created peace panels that will be tasked to oversee the forthcoming engagements with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and the localized dialogues with communist insurgents.
According to Galvez, as the vanguard of peace in the country, he is asking the full support of fellow retired military officers to move the peace process further as they continue to play your role in peace-building.
During the Association of General and Flag Officers (AGFO) First Quarter Fellowship Meeting this year, Galvez requested AGFO to form an advisory committee which can provide the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) with recommendations on how to move forward its various peace-building initiatives.
“We are asking our members in the AGFO to please help me in crafting possible prospects, or what we call our peace agenda for our nation,†Sec. Galvez said.
In December 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order No. 70 or also known as the “Whole-of-Nation Approach,†which paved the way for the conduct of the upcoming localized peace engagements with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front.
These engagements will be led by national government agencies, local government units, and other members of the community who can help facilitate the discussions and provide recommendations on how to resolve the root causes of the decades-long communist insurgency.
“The Whole-of-Nation Approach is a holistic, multi-pronged strategy designed to address the decades-long insurgency problem in the country by involving everyone in the process,†Galvez added.
