Any conflict arising over land always has very strong socio-economic and emotional involvement and readily escalates into deadly violence. Likewise any development on a disputed land, whether well intentioned or not, can be very contentious. It is in this respect that this book focuses on how development activities on or about land interact with the land conflict in Mindanao. The book goes ahead to discuss the development and movement approach that Gawad Kalinga, a local NGO in the Philippines used to restore coexistence between Christians and Muslims in Mindanao. It was a people's power...