DIYES FOR PEACE was incorporated as one of the components of Media Advocacy and Values Informal Education (MAVIE) group of the Education f0or All – Philippine Plan of Action (EFA-PPA) 1991 – 2000:

“The whole spectrum of the learning process shall insure the provision of quality education. Such quality education shall be instrumental in the pursuit of the common good, peace and unification, environmental security, and sustained growth and development…” and “to operationalize the idea of children as zones of peace” in the light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children which was given the force of International Law on 02 September 1990.”

The primary social objective of the DI-YES FOR PEACE was to raise awareness, knowledge, belief, attitude and orientation of the Filipino people regarding peace and unity.  It was hoped that it would result to desired behavioral and attitudinal change represented by:

1. The individual accomplishment of the “people’s open referendum” questionnaire;
2. The openly verifiable documentation of the whole process;
3. The collective adherence of respondents to the general principles of their documented responses to the campaign; and
4. Its acceptance by all contending violent armed forces as the fundamental basis of the national agenda for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace.

          On December 4, 1991, President Aquino issued Memorandum 141 declaring the EFA-PPA a priority social sector program of the government.

The DIYES FOR PEACE campaign was designed to contribute to the realization, albeit only in the national level, of Section 10, Article 4 of the World Declaration on Education for All, to wit:

“All nations must also work together to resolve conflicts and strife, to end military occupations and to settle displaced populations, or to facilitate their return to their countries of origin and ensure that their basic learning needs are met. Only a stable and peaceful environment can create the conditions in which every human being, child and adult alike, may benefit from the goals of this Declaration.”