Pastor Gichun Cho of the International Youth Federation has introduced Mind Education to the members of the Social Ethics Society in a conference last year. Members of the SES attended the lecture of Pastor Cho in person as well as online via Zoom. The talk was meant to emphasize the value of clear thought in everyday life. Mind education also seeks to incorporate good character in human relations and ethical values in one's work. Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc met Pastor Gichun through his Ateneo student Myeongho Kim. The SES Mind Education Program has reached out to the youth sector, public officials through City Councilor Sweet Advincula, students, and several women's associations.
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...