Regletto Aldrich Imbong  Introduction The Philippine government has been relentless in its counterinsurgencycampaigns. From the colonial wars that vilified as insurgents and bandits thehonored heroes of today, up to the anti-communist and anti-secessionist civiland military efforts of the postcolonial regimes, these campaigns have not onlyrolled out large state resources but also cost lives of innocent civilians.Patterned after the United...

Ronald Pernia ABSTRACT How does support for strong leadership affect institutional trust in post-authoritarian democracies? Studies suggest that fostering trust in public institutions is contingent upon citizens’ favourable evaluation of the government’s institutional performance, whereas individual’s cultural orientations and political values are seldom given much interest. However, the resurgence of leaders with ‘populist’ tendencies presents...

Weena S. Gera Link to the Article https://www.ateneo.edu/news/2023/02/22/new-press- lockdown-lowdown-politics-covid-19-pandemic-response-philippines

Belinda Espiritu Abstract This paper examines the discursive themes and strategies of resistance by the Lumad, the indigenous people of Southern Philippines, and civil society groups to neoliberal hegemony, the dominance of the political-economic philosophy that champions the market as the prime regulator of economic activity, in the Lumad’s struggle for justice and their rights. The Lumad have been subject to killings of their leaders,...

Brisneve Edullantes ab, Etienne Low-Decarie a1, Michael Steinke a, Tom Cameron a Abstract Understanding the effect of temperature on growth in marine phytoplankton is crucial in predicting the biogeography and phenology of algal blooms in the warming ocean. Here, we investigated the temperature dependence of the growth of non-toxic and potentially toxic marine phytoplankton. Using non-toxic strains (Prorocentrum sp. NRR 188, Prorocentrum...

Aurelio Vilbar Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted higher education courses integrating face-to-face (FtF) community-based service learning into their curriculum. There is a need to transform FtF service-learning (FtF-SL) into electronic service-learning (e-SL) to promote safety. e-SL studies show positive results in academic enhancement but reveal struggles sustaining online collaboration. This paper reports the experience of graduate...