Admins' note:
 There has been no respite this year for the widely-perceived 
incompetent Aquino Govt: the Tausug siege of Sabah that saw Suluks and 
Tausugs murdered by Kuala Lumpur troops while Pres Aquino merely 
delivered ultimatums from PM Najib of Malaysia, the billion-peso 'pork 
barrel' scam of which the 'accused' Janet Napoles has not been charged 
formally as of this writing, revelations of corruption scandals one 
after another, culminating in the armed conflict in Zamboanga which observers fear could ignite a full-scale war in Mindanao. The author issues a memo to remind leaders in Govt that...  
 
Unless the PHL strengthens "Institutional Performance," it will never be able to diminish "Drivers of Conflict."
By Sam Marcelo
25 September 2013 
We
 had wargamed this before and had had proven that in a conflict 
environment, institutional performance is paramount in diminishing 
drivers of conflict. Alas, with the corruption brought about by pork 
barrel, and the Aquino administration miscalculation that caused the 
Zamboanga MNLF uprising, drivers of conflict will continue to flourish. 
Drivers
 of conflict include but are not limited to: political impact of illicit
 wealth, economic incentive for conflict, effects of economic decline, 
injustice, impunity, political violence, threat from ex-combatant, 
popular support for violent factions, external destabilization, social 
disintegration, population displacement, social cleavages, and etc. 
Institutional
 Performance include but are not limited to: public confidence in the 
govt, transparency, accountability, fiscal integrity, infrastructure, 
access to basic needs, provision of basic social services, public order 
and safety, equality before the law, administration of justice, respect 
for human rights, reconciliation processes, and etc. 
The 
"Drivers of Conflict" and "Institutional Performance" have their 
respective measures and methodology that needed to be implemented and 
preferred trends that needed to be observed.
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Sam Marcelo
 is a United States Navy officer (retired). Sam comes from a long line 
of naval officers. His father, VAdmiral Virgilio P Marcelo, (AFP) was 
one of the most respected flag-officers-in-command of the Philippine 
Navy. This memo is also posted on the Philippine Sabah Claim Forum  where Sam is a member.
All about the genuine Sabah Claim Society
ATTENTION!  This blog is the genuine Sabah Claim Society. 
We are Philippine patriots who have grouped together from around the world and who created the Sabah Claim Society group originally on Facebook on 15 July 2011 and counted close to 6,000 members. 
But on 5 October 2011 our group on Facebook was traitorously hijacked by two people we had invited to join us as group admins  but who, we learned later on, had been hired to sabotage our patriotic group by a group of sinister individuals sporting fake European sounding nobility titles and other spurious Tausug/Sulu titles ['bestowed' and indiscriminately distributed on Facebook] and organized by a combined team of charlatans namely a datu (sporting a fake sultan title) and the latter's handler who is conveniently sporting an absolutely fake 'princely' title as well. 
Please be warned that the said group of individuals, we believe, are in fact con artists out to "claim" Sabah for "get rich quick" reasons and are not genuine Philippine patriots. Their motive, we have discovered, is to be able to convince Malaysians that they are genuine Sulu royalty and pro-Philippine Sabah claim supporters in order to extract from Malaysia (which has control of Sabah today) a premium for letting go of the Sabah claim. 
For more information on the Philippine Sabah claim, please join the ongoing discussions by clicking on the following link on Facebook: Philippine Sabah Claim Forum
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