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| Personal Name | Valdez, Maia Chiara Halmen Reina A. |
|---|---|
| Resource Title | Peace by Piece: The Role of Community Security and Resilience in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan |
| Date Issued | January 2026 |
| Abstract | This study examined the changing terrain of community security and peacebuilding in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan, and the transition from conflict vulnerability to resilience in the Yakan-Muslim community. Based on qualitative reflections from community members, educators, religious leaders, ex-combatants, and military actors, the study highlighted the dynamic between prolonged socio-economic complexities and resilient local community resources. The results showed that poverty, educational disparities, historical grievances, weak governance, trauma, and the legitimization of gun culture were significant factors that contributed to susceptibility to violent extremism. But there were also equally strong assets: inculcated respect for education, strong family and community cohesion, genuine religious and political conversions, pride in the indigenous identity, openness to other tribes and to other partners within the civil society coalition, and the participatory nature of governance. The study called for a shift from a traditional needs-based framework to a strengths-based community security model characterized by dignity, faith, resilience, and indigenous self-determination. The reeducation of Islam that highlighted the original teaching of the realities of peace, mercy, and justice remained an important element in preserving these victories, as Basilan, once plagued by decades of conflict and war, has now declared itself Abu Sayyaf-free. This culminated in the articulation of Tennun Governance, a strengths-based community security framework that reframes peacebuilding as an indigenous, participatory, and dignity-centered social development process, focused on institutionalizing asset and strengths-based development strategies, capitalizing on culturally-rooted and faith-sensitive education, reframing traditional ideas of honor away from gun culture, healing historical injustices and trauma through indigenous modes and values, and amplifying strengths as key elements in partic |
| Degree Course | Doctor of Social Development |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | community security, strengths-based perspective, human security, peace and conflict resolution, peacebuilding, Yakan, Tipo-Tipo, Basilan |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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