Dr. Daniel Mishori, senior lecturer at the Department of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, and keynote speaker for the 9th Social Ethics Society Conference in October, will arrive a week early and visit IP Communities in Davao del Sur and Davao Occidental. Dr. Mishori will be housed at Cor Jesu College through the initiative of Dr. Rogelio Bayod and Dr. Randy Tudy. He will also meet with IP advocates and researchers.
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...