Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University delivered a lecture on holistic peace to the faculty and students of Holy Cross of Davao College. The event, held on February 3, 2024, at the HCDC AVR, was spearheaded by HCDC's Institute of Peace Communication. Bro. Noelvic Deloria, president of HCDC, gave the opening remarks. Dr. Rogelio Bayod coordinated the forum, which was attended by more than 100 participants.
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...