Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College, a member of the Social Ethics Society and co-chair of the Organizing Committee for the 9th SES Conference, has published a paper titled "On the Moral and Democratic Deficits of Philippine Education" which will be included in the book Legacies of Love, Hope and Peace: How Education can Overcome Hatred and Divide. The book is edited by Dr. Darryl Macer and is published by the Eubios Ethics Institute in Christchurch, New Zealand. The book will be launched this September.
Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will be the mentor of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc in the ASAP Global Justice Program Fellowship at Yale University. Prof. Pogge is the author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Dr. Maboloc will write his research on structural issues in Muslim Mindanao using the perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Thomas Pogge. ASAP is an acronym for Academics Stand Against Poverty. According to its website, it utilizes "scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty. Established in 2010, (ASAP) is a non-partisan, independent global organization aiming to eradicate severe poverty worldwide." It is based in New Haven, Connecticut. It is under the Global Justice Program at Yale. Fourteen scholars around the world were chosen for the ASAP Program. Pogge is the most prominent scholar on global justice. He proposed the global difference principle as a critique to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls was Pogge's adviser at H...