President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order No. 70 on December 4, 2018. This EO provides for the institutionalization of the “ whole-of-nation ” approach in attaining inclusive and sustainable peace, creating a national task force to end local communist armed conflict, and directing the adoption of a National Peace Framework. The EO defines this National Peace Framework as an embodiment of “ principles, policies, plans, programs, for inclusive and sustainable peace; address the root causes of insurgencies, internal disturbances and tensions as well as other armed conflicts and threats in identified areas. It will include a mechanism for localized peace engagements or negotiations and interventions that is nationally orchestrated, directed, supervised, while being locally implemented. ” This Whole-of-A-Nation as an approach is inspired on the Joint Communique of the 50 th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Manila on August 5, 2017 which posits the process “ as an al
