Life Stories of Former Rebels in the Second District of Bohol

This study aimed to explore the life stories of former rebels in the second district of Bohol. Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions: the experiences of the informants as former rebels, the impact of the program of the government on the rebel returnees and the aspirations of the informants to improve their quality of life. Utilized the qualitative method of research employing the descriptive phenomenological approach using an interview guide with an open-ended questions for both individual and focus group discussion in exploring the life stories of the informants as former rebels. There were ten selected former rebels in the second district of Bohol, four of them had been interviewed individually and the remaining six participated in the focus group discussion. I used an interview guide aided with the audio recorder for the basis of transcribing the responses of the participants utilizing the Colaizzi’s method or phenomenological analysis procedure in analyzing the responses of the informants during the conduct of interview.