Primitivo Iii Cabanes Ragandang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3046741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Primitivo Iii Cabanes Ragandang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Primitivo Iii Cabanes |
| FAMILY NAME | Ragandang |
| SIGNATURE | RAGANDANG P I C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6639-2818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peace is also barked
How do communities sustain everyday security when there is little to recover and even less with which to adapt? Existing resilience scholarship largely assumes that communities possess capacities enabling recovery or adaptation following disruption. We argue that this assumption becomes inadequate under conditions of prolonged scarcity, where conventional security institutions and resources are largely absent. We extend resilience scholarship thr…
Remote Qualitative Fieldwork in Conflict-Affected Mindanao
This paper examines a partnered approach to remote qualitative fieldwork implemented in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), a conflict-affected region in the southern Philippines where foreign researchers are subject to travel restrictions. Through collaboration between Deakin University, Australia and Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), we designed and supported 41 focus group discussions …
Universities as Embedded Peace Infrastructures
This briefing examines how universities in conflict-affected Mindanao contribute to peacebuilding through everyday academic practice. It argues that universities function as embedded peace infrastructures, where peace is produced through institutional proximity, sustained social presence, and long-term relationships with conflict-affected communities. Drawing on reflexive insights from institutional engagement, the briefing shows how peace emerge…
Decolonising knowledge and the transformative worldview in research
This viewpoint argues that the decolonial turn in knowledge production requires more than an epistemic shift centred on theory making and testing alone. While acknowledging the long-standing traditions of applied, emancipatory, and practice-oriented research, it suggests that scholars working in and with distressed contexts continue to face tensions between theoretical engagement and timely, socially responsive action. Drawing on a transformative…
Like Daughter to My Father
This essay examines how young Moro women navigate political authority within post-accord governance in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. While youth and women are increasingly included in peace processes, less is known about how political influence is exercised in everyday institutional practice. Drawing on qualitative research conducted between 2023 and 2025 with young women engaged in or working closely with the Bangsamoro Tr…
Peacebuilding and Memory in the Philippines
An Interview with Miriam Coronel-Ferrer
In Honor of Johan Galtung, the Father of Peace Studies
In this tribute to Johan Galtung, I reflect on Galtung's groundbreaking work in peace studies, particularly his focus on structural violence and the concept of positive peace. Galtung's ideas have profoundly influenced scholars and activists, inspiring a shift toward holistic approaches to peacebuilding. Despite initial skepticism, peace studies has gained widespread recognition and integration into academic disciplines. In this essay, I also int…
An Interview with Volker Boege
Dr Volker Boege is a Senior Research Fellow for Climate Change and Conflict at Toda Peace Institute. He has made significant contributions to peace studies, particularly in the Pacific region. His work focuses on hybrid political orders, traditional conflict transformation methods, and the link between environmental degradation and conflict. Currently, he researches the intersection of climate change, land, migration, identity, and conflict, with…
Historical Injustices, Memory, and Intergenerationality in the Philippines’ Bangsamoro Region
Youth inclusion in peace processes
Drawing on the post-accord case of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) in the region of Muslim Mindanao, this research examines how far youth’s vertical integration in formal political institutions is influenced by both structural association and youth’s agential capacity. While association with the formal structural elements enables elite youth’s entry into the formal space, the latter’s agential capacity shapes the nature of that inclusio…
What are they writing for? Peace research as an impermeable metropole
This article explores peace research as a field of knowledge production and the experience of peace practitioners when accessing this field. It aims to challenge the idea that peace research should only deal with knowledge production and not necessarily require scholars to directly engage in peace work as the practitioners do. The current knowledge-making space in peace research is impermeable to the practitioners. This impermeability emanates fr…
Formal Peacebuilding and Youth Inclusion in the Twenty-First Century
When I was five years old, my mother would warn us not to go to the \nriver alone because the Moros (Muslims) will kidnap us and turn our \nbodies into canned sardines
Suicide, Shocks, and Resilience in (Post)Conflict Bangsamoro
Philippines
An emerging trend in studies proves how young people are engaged in post-con lict initiatives, yet minimal studies were conducted on how do youth enhance their peacebuilding agency when access to formal training and formal institutions are unavailable. Especially for youth-led organizations in developing and con lict-driven regions, the inaccessibility of proper training and the inability to establish strategic directions is a challenge. This res…
Social Media and Youth Peacebuilding Agency
This article determines how social media, along with institutional affiliation and first-hand experiences of violence, influence youth peacebuilding agency. It utilises the case of a group of university students from Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines who implemented a project that aimed to counter Islamophobia-linked hate speech online. Interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation were employed during fieldwork. The main argu…
Philippines
This exploratory research investigates the role of baes (women members of the tribal council) in the traditional system of con lict resolution, as well as in maintaining tribal peace and order. With the Higaunon tribe of Barangay Kiabo, Malitbog, Bukidnon province, Philippines, as case in point, the data employed in this study include the responses of the members of the tribal council, especially of the baes. The study uses a qualitative approach…
Philippines
The perpetual struggle for separatism among Moros in Mindanao is produced on a background of historical and cultural injustices and by the presence of Moro liberation fronts, along with the government responses to this issue. This article endeavors to trace and interweave the roots of historical and cultural factors of Muslim separatism in Mindanao, along with its implication to the present Marawi crisis as fueled by the ISIS-linked groups who at…
Social Media and Youth Peacebuilding Agency
This article determines how social media, along with institutional affiliation and first-hand experiences of violence, influence youth peacebuilding agency. It utilises the case of a group of university students from Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines who implemented a project that aimed to counter Islamophobia-linked hate speech online. Interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation were employed during fieldwork. The main argu…
Formal Peacebuilding and Youth Inclusion in the Twenty-First Century
When I was five years old, my mother would warn us not to go to the \nriver alone because the Moros (Muslims) will kidnap us and turn our \nbodies into canned sardines
What are they writing for? Peace research as an impermeable metropole
This article explores peace research as a field of knowledge production and the experience of peace practitioners when accessing this field. It aims to challenge the idea that peace research should only deal with knowledge production and not necessarily require scholars to directly engage in peace work as the practitioners do. The current knowledge-making space in peace research is impermeable to the practitioners. This impermeability emanates fr…
Peacebuilding and Memory in the Philippines
In Honor of Johan Galtung, the Father of Peace Studies
In this tribute to Johan Galtung, I reflect on Galtung's groundbreaking work in peace studies, particularly his focus on structural violence and the concept of positive peace. Galtung's ideas have profoundly influenced scholars and activists, inspiring a shift toward holistic approaches to peacebuilding. Despite initial skepticism, peace studies has gained widespread recognition and integration into academic disciplines. In this essay, I also int…
Youth inclusion in peace processes
Drawing on the post-accord case of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) in the region of Muslim Mindanao, this research examines how far youth’s vertical integration in formal political institutions is influenced by both structural association and youth’s agential capacity. While association with the formal structural elements enables elite youth’s entry into the formal space, the latter’s agential capacity shapes the nature of that inclusio…
Philippines
The perpetual struggle for separatism among Moros in Mindanao is produced on a background of historical and cultural injustices and by the presence of Moro liberation fronts, along with the government responses to this issue. This article endeavors to trace and interweave the roots of historical and cultural factors of Muslim separatism in Mindanao, along with its implication to the present Marawi crisis as fueled by the ISIS-linked groups who at…
Philippines
This exploratory research investigates the role of baes (women members of the tribal council) in the traditional system of con lict resolution, as well as in maintaining tribal peace and order. With the Higaunon tribe of Barangay Kiabo, Malitbog, Bukidnon province, Philippines, as case in point, the data employed in this study include the responses of the members of the tribal council, especially of the baes. The study uses a qualitative approach…
Philippines
An emerging trend in studies proves how young people are engaged in post-con lict initiatives, yet minimal studies were conducted on how do youth enhance their peacebuilding agency when access to formal training and formal institutions are unavailable. Especially for youth-led organizations in developing and con lict-driven regions, the inaccessibility of proper training and the inability to establish strategic directions is a challenge. This res…
Social Media and Youth Peacebuilding Agency
This article determines how social media, along with institutional affiliation and first-hand experiences of violence, influence youth peacebuilding agency. It utilises the case of a group of university students from Muslim Mindanao in the Philippines who implemented a project that aimed to counter Islamophobia-linked hate speech online. Interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation were employed during fieldwork. The main argu…
What are they writing for? Peace research as an impermeable metropole
This article explores peace research as a field of knowledge production and the experience of peace practitioners when accessing this field. It aims to challenge the idea that peace research should only deal with knowledge production and not necessarily require scholars to directly engage in peace work as the practitioners do. The current knowledge-making space in peace research is impermeable to the practitioners. This impermeability emanates fr…
Formal Peacebuilding and Youth Inclusion in the Twenty-First Century
When I was five years old, my mother would warn us not to go to the \nriver alone because the Moros (Muslims) will kidnap us and turn our \nbodies into canned sardines
Suicide, Shocks, and Resilience in (Post)Conflict Bangsamoro
Youth inclusion in peace processes
Drawing on the post-accord case of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) in the region of Muslim Mindanao, this research examines how far youth’s vertical integration in formal political institutions is influenced by both structural association and youth’s agential capacity. While association with the formal structural elements enables elite youth’s entry into the formal space, the latter’s agential capacity shapes the nature of that inclusio…
An Interview with Miriam Coronel-Ferrer
In Honor of Johan Galtung, the Father of Peace Studies
In this tribute to Johan Galtung, I reflect on Galtung's groundbreaking work in peace studies, particularly his focus on structural violence and the concept of positive peace. Galtung's ideas have profoundly influenced scholars and activists, inspiring a shift toward holistic approaches to peacebuilding. Despite initial skepticism, peace studies has gained widespread recognition and integration into academic disciplines. In this essay, I also int…
An Interview with Volker Boege
Dr Volker Boege is a Senior Research Fellow for Climate Change and Conflict at Toda Peace Institute. He has made significant contributions to peace studies, particularly in the Pacific region. His work focuses on hybrid political orders, traditional conflict transformation methods, and the link between environmental degradation and conflict. Currently, he researches the intersection of climate change, land, migration, identity, and conflict, with…
Historical Injustices, Memory, and Intergenerationality in the Philippines’ Bangsamoro Region
Peacebuilding and Memory in the Philippines
Peace is also barked
How do communities sustain everyday security when there is little to recover and even less with which to adapt? Existing resilience scholarship largely assumes that communities possess capacities enabling recovery or adaptation following disruption. We argue that this assumption becomes inadequate under conditions of prolonged scarcity, where conventional security institutions and resources are largely absent. We extend resilience scholarship thr…
Remote Qualitative Fieldwork in Conflict-Affected Mindanao
This paper examines a partnered approach to remote qualitative fieldwork implemented in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), a conflict-affected region in the southern Philippines where foreign researchers are subject to travel restrictions. Through collaboration between Deakin University, Australia and Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), we designed and supported 41 focus group discussions …
Universities as Embedded Peace Infrastructures
This briefing examines how universities in conflict-affected Mindanao contribute to peacebuilding through everyday academic practice. It argues that universities function as embedded peace infrastructures, where peace is produced through institutional proximity, sustained social presence, and long-term relationships with conflict-affected communities. Drawing on reflexive insights from institutional engagement, the briefing shows how peace emerge…
Decolonising knowledge and the transformative worldview in research
This viewpoint argues that the decolonial turn in knowledge production requires more than an epistemic shift centred on theory making and testing alone. While acknowledging the long-standing traditions of applied, emancipatory, and practice-oriented research, it suggests that scholars working in and with distressed contexts continue to face tensions between theoretical engagement and timely, socially responsive action. Drawing on a transformative…
Like Daughter to My Father
This essay examines how young Moro women navigate political authority within post-accord governance in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. While youth and women are increasingly included in peace processes, less is known about how political influence is exercised in everyday institutional practice. Drawing on qualitative research conducted between 2023 and 2025 with young women engaged in or working closely with the Bangsamoro Tr…
Political science (12 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Peacebuilding (6 works) · Philippine History and Culture (5 works) · Peace and Human Rights Education (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)