Abstract
Citizen-based peacemaking refers to unarmed efforts of war-torn communities to stop military encounters within their territories. Two Philippine cases are studied: a local government project called Unilateral Suspension of Military Operations, and the establishment of a Peace Zone by a community of intrastate war refugees. Some sociopsychological processes involved in citizen-based peacemaking are: undergoing a history of political violence and a last straw violent episode, mobilizing social influence to stop the shooting; drafting a local peace document, and implementing its guidelines even at the risk of violence on self Political context and the peacemakers' psychohistory are antecedents of peacemaking behavior. Changes in the international Cold War configuration and the collapse of the Marcos dictatorship contributed to the successful outcome of local peacemaking. The experiences of prodemocracy leaders and organizations during martial law formed political dispositions that proved useful in postdict...
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