A resource book for peace builders entitled “Panday Kalinaw” (“peace building” in the vernacular) has finally been produced by Balay Mindanaw with the support of Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF). This book is practically a guide for peace builders as they continue to implement their peace building plans and program in the barangays of Mindanao. It contains major and minor tips as well as practical strategies in promoting and sustaining conflict transformation and also provides ways and means of managing and resolving conflict towards building peace.

The chapters in the book also point out skills in analyzing conflict, in actively involving in community peace initiatives as well as in attaining gains in local peace process, citing the learnings from the GRP-RPMM peace process.

Written by a professional team called the Mindanaw Women Writers (MinWOW) Inc., this book is the synthesis of the learnings taken from processes of the Peace Course that was conducted last year, also documented by MinWOW.

Though it is just a guide and does not provide all the answers to all questions about solving conflicts, this book “constitutes yet another effort to help local peace builders become more effective and efficient cadres for peace,” according to Mr. Klaus Preschle, Country Representative of KAF, in his foreword.