Judge Soliman cited as example the Consultation Workshop on Human Rights and IHL that PCICC due to the floods in Metro-Manila and Central Luzon from extended heary rainfall brought about conducted in partnership with the AFP Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (AFPOJ3) and the National Defense College of the Philippines NDCP) on 16 August 2011. He said "the workshop discussions here were very rich in the sharing of experiences and insights among civil society and government stakeholders. He urged the participants not to reinvent the wheel, as it were, with each workshop consultation, RTD or summit as there is much to build on from past mainly by the southwest monsoon." He explained that 'the confluence of natural and man-made disasters, and the resultant internal displacemenl can only overwhelm our overstretched disaster discussions." Judge Soliman lauded the civil society engagement on the AFP strategic plan called Bantay Bayanihan. He said "this civil socieSr led initiative that aims to create an oversight body over the armed forces, including defense and security policies (strategic, tactical, operational levels) is remarkable as the AFP appears to be allowing this particular assertion of civilian supremacy over the military. Judge Soliman said "this kind of civilian engagement on even tactical and operational matters of defense and security policies, already shows that we have come quite a long way in bridging the long-standing traditional gaps of mistrust and bias between human rights and IHL CSOs, on one hand, and the security sector, on the other hand. He opined that "the paradigm or attitudinal shifu happening may not only be on the part of the security sector but also on the part of the CSOs." Aside from addressing the main advances made since the 2009 IHL Summit, Judge Soliman also discussed the main challenges that IHL stakeholders face at this juncture three years hence, along the thematic work areas of the RTD. On Humanitarian Interventions acement response resources." Given this situation, Judge Soliman said that "it makes complete common sense that these Iimited resources are maximized for applicability to internal displacement response whether in situations of natural calamities or in situations of armed conflict, even as these tr,vo different situations have their respective specific needs, dynamics and technology. He said the challenge here might be to develop response interoperabilih. including at the level of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) which usually deals with natural calamities. It can benefit from the experience and expertise of the Red Cross which regularly deals with both kinds of situations. Interoperabili[, of response technology for these two different kinds of intemal displacement is a challenge that is distinct from simple networking and coordination, which are themselves challenges that are common to the two other, more complicated thematic work areas." On Education, Information and Communications Judge Soliman said that this is strategically important as the main preventive measure against IHL violations which involves different levels or sectors of society, from the ground or grassroots level up to the ter.tiary levels of the school system. Speaking of which, the new accent on Mother Tongue-Based Instruction or Multilingual Education is one approach that would presumably apply to IHL education, just like with general education. The challenge is to develop the appropriate learning modules for each level or Judge Soliman said that this is still the biggest sector." humanitarian problem arising from armed conflict in the Philippines. Citing the massive displacement of 30,000 persons in Maguindanao and vicinity due to armed hostilities between the AFP and the Judge Soliman explained thal "strategically and preventively, the most crucial sector has to be that breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), he said "this comes at about the same time of the weapons-bearers, urainly the state armed forces but also the non-state armed groups. After all, IHL as the law on armed conflict pertains to as the even more massive internal displacement both or all its parties. But even in this sector, there ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION