ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on agrarian reform communities, yet findings showed that majority of respondents were not agrarian reform beneficiaries. There are many ways to transform society to attain development. For some time now, the management of conflicts through land reform has been practised and applied by the Philippine government – since the time of the Huk problem in Central Luzon until the present involving other conflict-affected areas in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) is in charge of intensifying intervention mechanisms to increase farm production, improve household income and promote sustainable development in the Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs). In ARC development, DAR promotes social entrepreneurship and enterprise development. The peace problem in Mindanao is not only economic and political. The other dimension of the problem is deeper than what is seen on the surface. The meanings of peace range from philosophical to political, to psychological, to legal and to social shades.
