We are a global transdisciplinary network and fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners. We wish to stimulate systemic change, globally and locally, to open space for dignity and mutual respect and esteem to take root and grow, thus ending humiliating practices and breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world.

We suggest that a frame of cooperation and shared humility is necessary - not a mindset of humiliation - if we wish to build a better world, a world of equal dignity for all.

We are currently around 1,000 personally invited members, with more than 2,000 more people supporting our work, and our website is being accessed by ca. 40,000 people from more than 180 countries per year.

If you wish, please see here a short welcome video clip, and then enter our website in more depth here, or through the links on the upper left side of this page. See our calendar of events. On 24th June 2011, we launched the World Dignity University Initiative.

If you click on the picture, you see our Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict in New York City, December 8-9, 2011.
Please be warmly invited to our next events:
• our 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, in Oslo, Norway, and Portland, Oregon, USA (connected via video connection), 27th-30th August 2012
• our Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict in New York City, December 6-7, 2012
• our 21st Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in South Africa, end of April 2013