Dr. Ian Clark Parcon and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc were recognized in the 5th Ateneo de Davao University Research and Publication Recognition Ceremony held last February 17, 2023. The other honorees from the Philosophy Department of AdDU were Dr. Peter Paul Elicor, Dr. Renante Pilapil, and Dr. Vida Mia Valverde. The five faculty members were published in various indexed international scientific journals. Their papers were cited as well, according to Dr. Lourdesita Chan, director of the University Research Council of the Ateneo. Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ, University President, conferred the publication awards to the honorees at the Bapa Tudtud Auditorium.
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...