Engaging Moral Agency for Human Rights: Outlooks From the
Global South
Kathleen Malley-Morrison
Boston University
Ross Caputi
Fitchburg State University
Ellen Gutowski
Boston College
Tristyn Campbell
Mental Health Association of Nassau County,
Hempstead, New York
Maria Regina E. Estuar
Ateneo de Manila University
Jacqueline Akhurst
York St. John University
Mahlon P. Dalley
Eastern Washington University
Luciana Karine de Souza
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Eros DeSouza
Illinois State University
Jas Laile Suzana Binti Jaafar
University of Malaya
Sherri McCarthy
Northern Arizona University-Yuma
Ellora Puri
University of Jammu
Nisha Raj
Emory University
Natoschia Scruggs
U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
Darshini Shah
Dreamcatchers, Mumbai, India
Michael J. Stevens
Illinois State University
A sample of 1,043 participants from 3 regions in the Global South (South and Southeast
Asia, Africa, and Latin America) responded to the Personal and Institutional Rights to
KATHLEEN MALLEY-MORRISON earned an EdD from Bos-
ton University, where she is currently a professor in the
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Her re-
search interests focus on violence and nonviolence, war,
torture, terrorism, peace, and reconciliation.
ROSS CAPUTI received an MA in linguistics from the
University of Delaware, and he is currently working on
an MA in English studies at Fitchburg State University.
His research interests include rhetoric and discourses
analysis.
ELLEN GUTOWSKI received her BA in psychology from
St. Mary’s College of Maryland and is currently pursu-
ing a master’s in counseling from the Lynch School of
Education at Boston College. Her research interests in-
clude the promotion of nonviolence, poverty reduction,
and the adolescent to adult transition across socioeco-
nomic and international contexts.
TRISTYN CAMPBELL received her BA in psychology from
Boston University. She was the lab manager for the Group
on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression
and Peace for 2 years, and then took on a position of
counselor for the Mental Health Association of Nassau
County in Hempstead, New York.
MARIA REGINA ESTUAR received her MS in computer sci-
ence from the Department of Information Systems and Com-
puter Science and her PhD in social psychology from the
Department of Psychology at the Ateneo de Manila Univer-
sity, Philippines. She holds an associate professor position at the
university and heads the Social Computing Laboratory. Her
research interests include quantifying and modeling human un-
derstanding of social phenomenon including peace and conflict.
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