Bangsamoro peace process lauded in international meet

MANILA, Philippines - Foreign peace advocates hailed the Bangsamoro peace process during the International Meeting for Peace held in Tirana, Albania, government peace panel chairman Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said yesterday.

Ferrer said the Bangsamoro peace process was cited during a panel discussion on the situation in Syria and Nigeria.

Entitled “Peace is Always Possible – Religions and Cultures in Dialogue,” the three-day international meeting that opened Sunday was organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio in cooperation with the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania and the Albanian Episcopal Conference.

Ferrer and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panel member Abhoud Lingga were joined in a panel discussion by Mario Giro, undersecretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy; Mauro Garofalo of the community of Sant’Egidio; Vidya Jain, director of the Center for Gandhian Studies of India; Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, a Catholic archbishop from Nigeria; Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos from the Institute of Geopolitics in France, and Din Syamsuddin, chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council Center.