World now fear of
instability again whereby peace become the concern although in this 21st
century. Technological advanced era does not guarantee peace. Besides, the
advancement of technology leads to a greater risk towards instability. The
perspectives of disputes become wider. The sources of disputes are increasing.
States do not only struggle in claiming territory but also apprehended by the
new challenges due to the modernization as example globalization. Globalization
makes things and processes become revolutionized and transformed into a
complexity. Things and processes are becoming more difficult to be settled.
Disputes happen because of new foundations. States are not only in conflict
with other states, but also with groups of people within the state; their own people.
There are various means to settle disputes. Peaceful means are always the first
choice rather than going to war. Mediation is one of the ways to settle
disputes. This study will analyse critically the mediation as a process to find
solution between two conflicting parties as well as examining the mediator as
the third party in the peace process. It will not be called mediation if there
is no third party facilitator to assist in the process of finding ways to
settle conflict between the Government of Philippines and the group of people
called MILF. This case study was chosen because it involved Malaysia as the
mediator to intervene in the peace process. Besides, the Mindanao peace process
has shown smooth progress towards building peace in the area again.
