Program
PARST Conference 2026
December 11-12, 2026
Royal River Hotel, Bangkok
December 11, 2026
Morning Session
Room A (Main)
08:45 – 09.00 Opening Ceremony
09.00 – 12.30 Paper Presentations
Room A
09.00 – 09.30 Benjamin Ivry/ Can Condorcet’s proposal of a war referendum ever be relevant in the real world?
09.30 – 10.00 Laure Gillot-Assayag/ Compromise in times of peace and war: Lessons from Avishai Margalit’s philosophy
10.00 – 10.30 Julien Paret/ Fighting War, Working Peace: Video Games and the Neoliberal Capture of Demobilisation
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 11.30 Rogelio P. Bayod/ Decolonizing Peace Education: From Curriculum Epistemicide to a Mindanawon Paradigm of Everyday Peace
11.30 – 12.00 Rosallia Domingo/ Vulnerability and Protection: Rethinking Agency in the Ethics of War
12.00 – 12.30 Jyotishman Taye, Arindita Goswami/ Dr. Daisaku Ikeda’s Philosophy of Peace and Conflict Resolution: Buddhist Humanism in North-East India
Room B
09.00 – 09.30 CP Hertogh/ Semantics of Thought Experiments
09.30 – 10.00 Adrianus Yohanes Mai/ Dialectical Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Rethinking Human Responsibility between War and Peace
10.00 – 10.30 Michael Hemmingsen/ Autonomy, Delegation, and the Problem of Natural Evil
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 11.30 Lucas Scripter/ Narrative Theories of Meaning in Life and Social Media
11.30 – 12.00 Andrew M. Winters/ What Religions Do: Henotheism, Hellenistic Translation, and Religion as Cultural Art as a Path Toward Peace
12.00 – 12.30 Adrian K. Yee/ The Ethics of Surprise Attacks
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
13.30 – 17.00 Paper Presentations
Room A
13.30 – 14.00 Nyarna Dhajha/ Forgiveness and Accountability in Buddhist Ethics: Toward Peace Without Impunity
14.00 – 14.30 Bess Barlow/ War, Peace, and the Pretence of Morality
14.30 – 15.00 Wayne Chandira/ Absolute and Mundane Others: Tanabe Hajime’s Metanoetics and Shin Buddhist Ethics
15.00 – 15.30 Nguyen Thi Le Huyen/ Ethics of Metaphysical Insights: The Study of Enlightenment (Bodhi)
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 16.30 Hanz Efren G. Abantao II/ Eternity and Hannah Arendt: The Experience of War and a Bonaventurean Epistemic into Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”
16.30 – 17.00 Lord Louie E. Zulita/ Against Hegemony: Redefining Global Democracy in Chantal Mouffe’s Agonism
Room B
13.30 – 14.00 Shane Ryan/ Broad Bioconservatism: Posthumanism, AI Advancement, and Human Conflict
14.00 – 14.30 Aaron Micah Esteban/ Precaution and Responsibility: Digital Platforms and the Pursuit of Peace in the Philippines
14.30 – 15.00 Matthew Hammerton/ A Principled Account of Meaningful Work
15.00 – 15.30 Chatchai Khumthaweeporn/ Artificial Intelligence as a Cognitive Environment: Revisiting Theories of Cognition, Media, and Learning Design in the Digital Age
15.30 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 16.30 Teerabhat Ruensiri/ “Practice Using AIs”: Thai Government Commands Violence Again
16.30 – 17.00 ณัฐฏพล บุณยพิพัฒน์/ แก่นความคิดทางปรัชญาการเมืองของ จังจาค รุสโซ (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) ในหนังสือสัญญาประชาคม (Du Contrat Social)
17.00 – 17.30 PARST Annual Meeting
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December 12, 2026
Morning Session
09.00 – 12.30 Paper Presentations
Room A
09.00 – 09.30 Faby Cazalis-Judet de la Combe/ Pacifism and christian anarchism in Simone Weil
09.30 – 10.00 Bernardo N. Caslib, Jr./ From Conceptual to Curricular: Employing Kapwa in Fusing Moral and Peace Education in the Philippines
10.00 – 10.30 Tasnima Zannat/ Weighing Peace on the Scale of Mīzān: A Qur’anic Ethical-Spiritual Model for SDG 16, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Futures
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 11.30 Saifullah Mansur/ Consciousness, Cosmic Order, and Peace: Quantum Mysticism and Islamic Metaphysics in an Age of War
11.30 – 12.00 CJ Eland/ Emmanuel Lévinas’s Call for Pluralism and The State of David
12.00 – 12.30 Jordan Scott/ Persuasion in Politics, a Pessimistic Proposal
Room B
09.00 – 09.30 Joshua Jose R. Ocon/ Fragility of communication and the religious contribution: On conflict and Habermas’ communicative commitment
09.30 – 10.00 Rituparna Roy and Paula Oliveira e Silva/ ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEYOND: Historical And Analytic Perspectives on Agency, Sentience, And Artificial Minds
10.00 – 10.30 Richa Kapoor Mehra/ War and Peace as Movements of Growth: Sri Aurobindo’s Evolutionary Reading of Conflict and Harmony
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 11.30 Abhinav Kumar/ Responding to Enmity: Non-Hatred and Justice in Theravāda Buddhism and Qur’anic Ethics
11.30 – 12.00 Atlas Z. J. Ang/ Mitigating AI-Driven Cyber Fraud: A Theravāda Buddhist Framework of Sati and Yoniso-Manasikāra against Algorithmic Deception
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
Room A
13.00 – 15.30 Panel Discussion: Philosophy, War, and Peace (In Thai)
