Topnotch researchers and academics have joined the roster of members of the Social Ethics Society. The new SES members include Dr. Rec Eguia of the University of Southeastern Philippines, Prof. Bernardo Caslib Jr of the University of the Philippines in Manila, Prof. Anton Heinrich Rennesland of the University of Santo Tomas, Dr. Roberto Roldan Jr of Abra State Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Joezenon Purog of the Eastern Visayas State University, Mr. Glenford Franca of SPAMAST, and Prof. Roland Aparece of the University of Bohol. The Board of Directors approved their induction into the SES on the basis of the recommendation by Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, SES Chair.
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...