The Social Ethics Society, in cooperation with Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology and Waseda University, will hold the Peace and Conflict Studies Webinar Series with Prof. Juichiro Tanabe as the Main Lecturer, together with local academics as invited speakers. The webinar series will be done via Zoom. The first event will be held on September 30, 2023. Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University and Prof. Gerry Arambala of MSU GenSan will discuss topics such as terrorism and global poverty. The speakers in forthcoming events include Prof. Ruben Balotol of STI College, Ormoc, Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College, and Dr. Ian Clark Parcon of Ateneo de Davao University. Prof. Migs Mansueto is the moderator and organizer. Registration is free. For more information, please email the organizer at migs_mansueto@yahoo.com.
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...