DXUP 105.5 MHz on FM is without doubt one of the group radios arrange underneath the GENPeace Program operated through the Upi Group Media Training Heart (CMEC) and heard in Nuro Upi, South Upi, and different portions of Maguindanao, some portions of North Cotabato, Lanao del Norte, and Baganian Level of Zamboanga Sibugay. The U in its name signal stands for Upi whilst P stands for Peace. The GENPeace Program, a community of organizations and people running towards a simply and sustainable peace within the Philippines, initiated the status quo of DXUP whilst the native executive of Upi equipped the web site, development, and the station’s 300-watt transmitter.

The status quo of DXUP in 2004 fulfilled a group’s dream for a device to keep up a correspondence peace and building in addition to the views and considerations of essentially the most marginalized and underrepresented individuals of the group composed of Muslims, Teduray, and Christians. Previous to the status quo of DXUP, the native executive of Upi paid for a 30-minute program that aired on Sundays over DXMS in Cotabato Town. It used to be then the one way to tell group individuals of presidency systems and products and services except its VHF transceiver hand-held radio.

DXUP is now additionally noticed on DXUP Teleradyo by way of a neighborhood cable channel. Its systems come with Suara, which means peace; Kedat-adatan, from the Teduray phrase adat, which would possibly imply an approach to life, customs, or codes of habits and obligations for interpersonal appreciate; Bantay Buhay (Existence Guard), which discusses livelihood and agriculture, sociocultural building, gender advocacy, kids’s rights and schooling; the newscasts DXUP Balita (DXUP Information) and Bantay Bayan (Country Watch); Talakayang Pambarangay (Barangay Communicate), which experiences on native executive projects on the barangay degree; and the musical systems Musikahan (Song Time), Salu-Salo In combination (Getting In combination) and Udto na Di! (It’s Noontime!).

Group volunteers run the station whilst volunteers skilled underneath the GENPeace Mission anchor the systems.

DXUP, probably the most few surviving GENPeace group radios in Mindanao, gained the 2007 Titus Brandsma Particular Quotation for Group Conversation for its contribution to peace and interfaith discussion, proving the significance of multi-stakeholder partnership and possession for a group radio to continue to exist and the energy of radio as a medium for peace verbal exchange and cross-cultural figuring out.