Reports
The Conflict Alert Reports are annual reports published by Alert Philippines that feature up-to-date and in-depth studies about conflict incidents, causes, and human costs of violent conflict in Mindanao, specifically in BARMM, since 2011. It aims to shape policy-making, development strategies, and peacebuilding approaches by providing relevant, robust, and reliable conflict data.
These downloadable reports tackle different economic, cultural, political, and social factors that affect conflict trends and their implications to peacebuilding. Local government units, non-profit organizations, policy-making bodies, and academic researchers will benefit much from the wealth of information in these reports to help conflict-sensitize their approach to programming, policymaking, and practice.
Enduring Wars
25 January 2021 Conflict Alert
The Conflict Alert 2020 report presents analysis on conflict dynamics and trends from 2011 to 2019 in the Bangsamoro, highlighting the rise of violence in pockets and corridors of the region within a picture of continued overall decline of violent conflict across provinces. The report tackles the high incidence of identity, resource, and political violence and the persistent nature of violent extremism and shadow economies of drugs and weapons in the region.
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War Makes States
03 September 2019 Conflict Alert
The Conflict Alert 2019 highlights the decline of violent conflict incidents in Muslim Mindanao after the Marawi war and amidst continuing extremist violence events, the impact of the State’s continued implementation of martial law in the region, and its implications especially on the strengthening of the Bangsamoro sub-state.
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War and Identity
01 October 2018 Conflict Alert
The year 2017 was a turning point in the magnitude of violent conflict in the ARMM, amplified by the astonishing increase in conflict deaths due to the war in Marawi City and other places in Mindanao.
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Guns, Drugs, and Extremism: Bangsamoro’s New Wars
28 November 2017 Conflict Alert
The year 2016 saw an explosion of violence in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) amid the holding of the May 2016 national and local elections and the coming to power of a new administration dedicated to eradicating the drug problem in the Philippines. The year also saw the emergence of a new form of vertical conflict—violent extremism.
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Conflict Alert 2017 Report Highlights
16 September 2017 Conflict Alert
Violent conflict surged to unprecedented levels in Muslim Mindanao in 2016 as the Duterte government launched a war on illegal drugs and guns and newly emerging violence from extremist groups escalated.
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Violence in the Bangsamoro and Southern Mindanao, 2011-2015
25 October 2016 Conflict Alert
Violent conflict incidents in the Davao Region (excluding Davao City) outnumbered those in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) by four to one. There were 28,325 incidents in the Davao Region compared to 6,759 in the ARMM.
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