School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)

The Philippine forum series provides a scholarly forum to disseminate and discuss research and current developments on economics, governance, and politics in the Philippines.

Seminars are delivered by the Philippines Project’s visiting fellows and research grant recipients, along with invited academics and research students. Students and other scholars working on the Philippines are encouraged to contribute to the seminar series.

Upcoming seminars

• The Bangsamoro plebiscite: fault lines, connectors, and the role of civil society

• Strengthening health governance referral system to reduce maternal mortality in local communities of Manila

Past seminars

• Updates on socio-economic agenda and key legislative priorities of the Duterte administration:2019-2022

• Non-Moro Indigenous People’s (IPs) participation in the Bangsamoro peace process and transition period

• Vulnerabilities of Women and Children amidst Mindanao’s Peace and Security Issues

• How to get away with murder? The everyday politics of justification in illiberal times.

• Introducing Competition Law in the Philippines: Reaching out to the Filipino MSME Community

• Adapting legal responses to violations in the Philippines: Civil society, the Commission on Human Rights and the war (s) of the roads.

• The Great Unhinging: The Erosion of Rule of Law in the Philippines

• Book Launch - In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island

• Development in the Philippines

• The Mindanao Elite Problem

• Marawi: Behind the Headlines

• Weighing the Evidence: Justice Antonio Carpio on South China Sea

• Drugs, deaths and poverty: Lessons for the Philippines from the region

• Beyond the rhetoric: Duterte’s first six months.

• Trouble in the South China Sea no more – or more to come?

• Is change coming? Hindsights, insights and foresights on the Philippine elections 2016

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