Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University in Tokyo will collaborate with the Social Ethics Society on Peace and Conflict Studies. This was revealed by Prof. Menelito Mansueto, SES BOD, who is coordinating the online talk of Dr. Tanabe on May 27, 2023 via Zoom. It was announced that Dr. Tanabe is willing to do research with interested parties on the above topic. The SES in particular is very interested given the situation in Mindanao as the island aspires to attain lasting peace and equitable development.
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...