eMindanao is part of the Center’s initiative to develop a Mindanao Studies Program at UH Mānoa. It is our modest contribution to the emerging focus on Islam in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. Carried out on a larger plane, this initiative is an outreach project in the southern Philippines with three campuses of Mindanao State University (Marawi, Iligan, General Santos), and Ateneo de Zamboanga University. (Operation is currently suspended.)
CPS conducted four seminar workshops in the summer of 2013-2014 in Iligan City for history teachers, with support from the US Institute of Peace. These workshops were implemented in cooperation with Mindanao State University to enhance their pedagogical capacity and improve the local history curriculum.
Mindful of the significance of the on-and-off peace process in Mindanao, a digital library on the historical, social, and political dimensions was conceived. Part of that project came as an annotated bibliography, available at this link: eMindanao Annotated Bibliography 2015. Another outcome of the project is an anthology about Mindanao edited by Dr. Juvanni A. Caballero for the teaching of a required course, Hist 3 (History of Muslims & Lumads in Mindanao) at MSU.