Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region. Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introductio...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/968161490797321335/Land-territory-domain-and-identity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26414 |
| Summary: | It is acknowledged that conflict over
land is a major source of violence in various parts of
Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region.
Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and
identity-based conflict to the introduction of the Regalian
doctrine of land ownership by Spanish colonizers. During the
American colonial regime at the turn of the 20th century,
dispossession of land held by the original inhabitants of
Mindanao accelerated, with an emphasis of titling lands for
private ownership that clashed with the tradition of
ancestral domain. This was further exacerbated by migration
instigated by the central government, starting with the
development of "agricultural colonies: in the early
1900s to 1940s, to the passage of a series of land reform
laws from the 1960s until the end of the 1980s to encourage
individual land titling as a strategy for agricultural
development. These evens radically altered land ownership
patterns in Mindanao, as communal ownership of land by its
original inhabitants gave way to individual titles in the
possession of settlers from Luzon and the Visayas. |
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