The Social Ethics Society (SES) will hold a Strategic Planning Session this month. The officers led by Fr. Dexter Veloso have a fresh three-year mandate. "Mindanao's first and only philosophical association will be forward-looking in terms of its role," the SES statement says. "The pandemic has brought big challenges but at the same time, the organization has also taken advantage of the available online technology to reach out to more students and teachers through its webinars," the statement adds. The participants to the hybrid in-person and online activity are Fr. Veloso (President), Dr. Roger Bayod (VP), Dr. Moises Torrentira (Sec), Fr. Banny Pardillo (Treas), Dr. Randy Tudy (Auditor), Mr. Ian Parcon (PIO), Mr. Gerry Arambala (BOD), Mr. Migs Mansueto (BOD), Mr. Giovanni Udtohan (BOD), and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc (Chair). Dr. Randy Tudy and Dr. Roger Bayod will be the facilitators.
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...