The Social Ethics Society, in cooperation with Waseda University and the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology Philosophy Department, will hold its first Webinar for 2024 this coming July 5. The speakers are Dr. Juichiro Tanabe of Waseda University and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo de Davao University. Both will talk about Peace and Conflict Studies in relation to the War on Gaza. The reactors include Mr. Alvert Dalona (MSU-IIT) and Dr. Rec Eguia (USEP). For more information, please email Mr. Menelito Mansueto, event organizer and webinar host. Email: 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...