THE work to end the decades-old communist insurgency is important because development flourishes in a peaceful environment. The agency assigned that job, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) should revisit its programs to see which actually make a difference and what merely antagonize people, including those it should be convincing to quit or resist rebel movements. In particular, the agency should continue its Barangay Development Program (BDP), but the practice of 'red-tagging' seems counterproductive. It should stop.