Igorota articles

Recent articles from Igorota

Peace.(from the editor)(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... We've descended from a people who have always desired for peace. We are a people who have been repressed, mutilated, raped, murdered, silenced for the sake of peace. Ours is a history of violence and war. For some of us, peace is unnatural. And we are not just talking about the sporadic...

Women and peace in the Cordilleras.
October 1, 2003... Peace is usually understood as a state of quietness or tranquility. It is said to be the freedom from agitation or violence. That said, one may safely say that the women of the Cordillera are lovers of peace. This has been demonstrated throughout Cordillera history (and herstory)--in the...

Peace--through the eyes of an Isnag woman.(peace and culture)
October 1, 2003... I once thought, I was cursed for being born an Isnag. I grew up in a place where my kind was marginalized and misjudged. We were seemingly branded with infamy--and I was a firebrand to many. Every streak of anger, which came through me, was an allusion to my Isnag badge of ferocity. Those...

Tungtungan and Lupon: crossing paths to maintain peace Bokod.(peace & culture)
October 1, 2003... The community of Daklan, Bokod, Benguet has successfully webbed their indigenous conflict-resolution system into the dominant national sociopolitical system. According to Ben Sinas, a member of the Lupong Barangay, the people of Daklan traditionally resolve conflicts through the...

Justice & peace: the Kalinga way.(peace & culture)
October 1, 2003... WHAT IS THE BODONG? Among the northern Kalinga folk "Bodong" means "bound together". In the southern part of the territory it is called "Podon" which means "to hold together something that is binding". Symbolically, therefore, the Bodong or Podon binds the two peace pact holders together...