Peace, my friends...

Violence can never resolve anything because violence only results to casualties. However, this seems to be ignored by the military and the Muslim groups in Mindanao as well. I know that both are just trying to protect their interests and what they think is good. But can’t they do it peacefully? Why do they have to use guns? I don’t get the point of trying to kill each other. Aside from that there are times that innocent people are accidentally killed because of them.

I believe violence will not help solve the problems in Mindanao. This should be seen by the government and the Muslims as well. For peace to flourish, both parties need to talk to each other so that they would be able to listen to each others’ views and opinions. This would allow them to really know and understand the problems of the other party. I hope the conflict in Mindanao would be settled so that we could live peacefully as one country.

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence”- Dorothy Thompson