Dr. Godiva Eviota-Rivera of the Mindanao State University - Marawi will present her paper on peace building in the SES-PUP International Ethics Conference this coming September 5&6, 2025 at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Her paper is "Violence Against Women Overseas Filipino Workers: Hope and Healing in Post-conflict Peacebuilding.” The international event will be attended by Filipino, Japanese, and other foreign scholars, including those from Waseda University, the University of Ankara, Toyo University, Keio University, the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, MSU-IIT, University of Santo Tomas, UPLB, CTU Argao, and the University of San Carlos, among others. The keynote speakers in the event are Dr. Rhee Maji (Waseda), Dr. Ian Clark Parcon (AdDU), Dr. Juichiro Tanabe (Waseda), Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (AdDU), and Dr. Napoleon Mabaquiao (DLSU). Dr. Eviota-Rivera's presentation is sponsored by the Social Ethics Socie...
Menelito Mansueto, a faculty member of the Philosophy Department of Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology, is in Marburg, Germany to attend the Southeast Asian University Partnership for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Regional Conference 2025 at Philipps-University, Marburg. Mansueto, the managing editor of the SES Journal of Applied Philosophy, is the author of the book Decolonial Turn in the Philippine South. He has conducted research on local culture and indigeneity. He is a part of the SES-CTU research group that studied the way of life of the T'boli and Obu Manobo.