Author: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Nassef is the founder of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort), PHISO (Philippine International Studies Organization), DSRN (Decolonial Studies Research Network), and BRLN (Bangsamoro Research and Legal Network). He works on interdisciplinary research between Islam and International Relations and explores the Bangsamoro society as he heads the Policy Research and Legal Services (PRLS) of the Bangsamoro Parliament. Visit https://nassef.info/ for more details.

Moral Governance presentation at DAP Graduate School of Public and Development Management

DAP-GSPDM in partnership with DAP sa Mindanao (DsM) conducted today, June 26, 2020, the Second Curriculum Co-Development Workshop for the Master in Public Management Major in Regional and Local Governance and Development (MPM-RLGD) for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

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The workshop focused on the development of a Framework on Moral Governance, with Dr. Nassef Manabilang Adiong, Professor of the UP Institute of Islamic Studies and Research Fellow of DAP-GSDPM, as main speaker. In his presentation, Dr. Adiong emphasized that the confluence of Faith, Freedom, Moral Authority, Common Good, and Social Ethics can produce a government that promotes Moral Governance. The framework will guide the content and delivery of the customized MPM program for the BARMM.

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Reactors in this workshop included: BARMM Cabinet Secretary Hon. Mohd Asnin Pendatun, Prof. Alih Aiyub, Dr. Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad, Mr. Antonio Kalaw, Jr., Dr. Maria Lourdes Rebullida, Dr. Teodoro Lloydon Bautista, Dr. Sukarno Tanggol and Mr. Mark Lemuel Garcia. The workshop was moderated by Dr. Bautista and Dr. Lizan E. Perante-Calina, Senior Vice President and Dean of DAP-GSPDM.

The project management teams of DAP-GSPDM and DsM for MPM-RLGD are led by Ms. CJ Almodal and Ms. Avon Sinajon, respectively. Both teams collaborated to make the second workshop a success.

Source: https://www.gspdm.com/Home_MPM-RLGD-BARMM

Book review: Islam in international relations. Politics and paradigms

Alice Martini (2019) Islam in international relations. Politics and paradigms, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2019.1629726

The relationship between Islam and International Relations has always been a complicated one, but Islam and the Islamic “civilisation” have consistently been objects of interest for the discipline. Nevertheless, the role Islamic theoretical understandings of politics could have in IR is still understudied. Islam in International Relations is a series of works that addresses just this lack. Through it, the editors aim at diversifying the discipline from a specific post-colonial point of view, engaging with International Relations from an “Islamic” approach – broadly defined “as a history, a people, a religion, an intellectual tradition, and the like”. These collective works’ goal is to “offer an expanded and enriched IR that accounts for the diversity of worldviews and perspectives on world affairs”