PAKARADIAN a KALILINTAD 2016 (CNS 2 Campaign)
“Promoting Peace & the Protection of the Welfare
of the Children in the Bangsamoro through a Cultural Showcase & Creative
Competitions”
Project
Background:
“Pakaradian a Kalilintad’ are two local terms that denote ‘celebration’ and
‘peace’—or celebrating peace in a festival or merry-making or a festival of
peacemaking or peacebuilding.
Using
the above premise, this project will aim to promote peacebuilding, specifically
the role of children in peacebuilding through a cultural showcase of
traditional artforms including music, visual arts, dance and other possible
cultural performances. The cultural
outputs will be adjudged in friendly competitions covering the 7 identified MILF
Locations traversing along several provinces and municipalities.
This
project will aim to include children of
all age group up until 18 years old as participants of the said cultural
showcase and creative competitions.
The very purpose of this
project is to consolidate the role of
the Elders of the community as tutors and guardians of the young generation and
the responsibility of this young age
group as peacemakers and peacebuilders of their respective communities, and
to be able to inculcate the
encouragement and promotion of the ‘Children, Not Soldiers’ campaign of the
UNICEF, that children should disengage from being part or outright involve in
any conflict.
Eventually, the cultural outputs are highlighted into a
festive showcase as a need to celebrate the traditional ways of life, to
preserve and transmit those cultural traditions and to promote creativity in
the arts. This showcase will also bring people together from the levels of
the community (barangay) up until the regional level.
Project Objectives:
Pakaradian sa Kalilintad 2016 aims to:
1.
Consolidate the role of the Elders of the community vis-à-vis tutors and
guardians, parents, and teachers—with the focus on female elders from the Bangsamoro
Islamic Women’s Auxiliary Brigade (BIWAB);
2.
Consolidate the role of the children (and adolescents) and their responsibilities
and participation in peacebuilding, highlighting the messages of the #Children,
Not Soldiers Campaign;
3.
Apply the significant impact of showcasing different art-forms, mostly
traditional, and with some contemporary art makings that will be included in
the promotion of the said campaign;
4.
Employ the important value of sportsmanship through creative competition,
reflective of an atmosphere of camaraderie and friendly interactions;
5.
Utilize the cultural outputs to be showcased in a grand celebration of peace in
September19, 2016 at Camp Darapanan.
Project Methodology:
Pakaradian sa Kalilintad
2016 seeks to expand community understanding of the welfare of children and
their role as instruments of peacebuilding, highlighting the main campaign
issue of children’s disengagement as active participants in conflicts, and to
widen their appreciation and awareness of their local folk arts and traditions
and culture, as a significant part of their unique identities as a community.
It is important to keep a
balance between the past and the present and the future in order to preserve
this heritage for the new generation. And this festival is also meant to refill
the desire to preserve the local culture and to promote the above campaign
messages for awareness and recognition.
