HOWARD ADELMAN

Howard Adelman was a Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto from 1966 to 2003, where he was the founding Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies and Editor of Refuge until the end of 1993. Currently (2003-2004) he is a Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Among his 21 authored or co-edited books, and well over 100 chapters in books and articles in refereed journals are a number on or related to genocide, with a special focus on Rwanda, theories of explanation and the role of bystanders regarding prevention and intervention. He has furthermore written extensively on the Middle East, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, refugee policy and refugee resettlement.
Major publications include: The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire and Early Warning, and Conflict Management: The Genocide in Rwanda (with Astri Suhrke, Transaction Books, 1999). Professor Adelman’s most recent co-edited books are: Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared (University of Melbourne Press and University of Toronto Press, 1994) and African Refugees (Westview Press, 1994).
Please find here Rule-Based Reconciliation by Howard Adelman (Chapter 14 in Elin Skaar, Siri Gloppen and Astri Suhrke (Eds.), Roads to Reconciliation. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group - Lexington Books, pp. 287-307, 2005).
Furthermore, see here Theories of Genocide: The Case of Rwanda by Howard Adelman (forthcoming in a proposed volume for the McGill-Queen's University Press series, Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, 2005).

ADA AHARONI

Dr. Ada Aharoni, writer, poet, playwright and lecturer, was born in Cairo, Egypt, and now lives in Haifa, Israel. She has published 25 books to date, that have won her international acclaim. She writes in English and Hebrew, and her works have been translated into several languages. Believing in the power of the word, she is confident that literature and culture can help to heal the urgent ailments of Israel and our global village, such as war, terror and conflict. The themes of love, reconciliation, coexistence and peace, as well as equality of women, are major ones throughout her various works. She has also extensively researched and written books on the Jews of Egypt in the 20th Century, and their forced exile from Egypt (1948-1967).
Ada Aharoni received her Bachelor Degree (B.A) in Literature and Sociology, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1965), her Master of Philosophy Degree (M.Phil.), at London University (1967), on the "Father of the Novel" Henry Fielding, and she was awarded her Doctorate Degree in Literature (Ph.D), on the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature - Saul Bellow, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1975). She lectured in the Department of English Literature at Haifa University, and taught Sociology (Conflict Resolution), in the department of Humanities, at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), in Haifa.
She has been widely invited as Keynote Presenter and Visiting Professor at many universities and other forums around the world, where she lectures on her research and on her various books, and about the possibilities of "Conflict Resolution Through Literature and Culture." Her latest presentation on this subject was at the 36 th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (July 7-11, 2004, Beijing, China). She has widely researched this subject, and has been interviewed on it as well as on her books, in the media and on major Television and Radio Programs, in several countries, including: Israel, America, England, France, Australia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, China, Finland, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico and South Africa.
Among her major works are: the historical novel, The Second Exodus (1983), that describes in literary form the forced exile of the Jews from Egypt in the twentieth century, which she and her family were part of. Her second book: Memoirs from Alexandria, (1985), relates the story of the Jewish Hospital in Alexandria, and the heroic deeds of its Head Nurse, Thea Wolf, who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazi Holocaust, through the Hospital, together with the help of Egyptian officials. Aharoni's acclaimed historical novel From the Nile to the Jordan, was first published in 1994; it was translated into several languages, and was awarded the " Haifa and Bremen Award" and the "Merit Prize" in New York. In 1996 she published The Peace Flower, a moving quest for hope and world peace, for young and old. Her latest books: Not In Vain: An Extraordinary Life (Ladybug Press, CA.. 1999), a larger edition of Memoirs from Alexandria, and her important and timely Women Creating A World Beyond War and Violence (2002), contain both prose and poetry. Four of her books have been recently published as E-Books as well as CD's (Rowe Publishing, England). Her poetry collection: "A Green Week" has been put to music, and is sung by major Israeli and American singers, it has been released as a CD, which together with Aharoni's books, can be ordered through the following website: www.iflac.com/ada in conjunction with amazon.com.
Her latest project is the founding and organizing of the FIRST WORLD CONGRESS OF JEWS FROM EGYPT, together with a group of researchers and writers on the Jews from Egypt in the twentieth century. The Congress will take place in Haifa, from May 9 to 12, 2006.
Aharoni has been awarded several international prizes and awards, among them are: The British Council Award, the Keren Amos President Award, the Haifa and Bremen Prize, The World Academy of Arts and Culture Award, the Korean Gold Crown of World Poets Award, the Rachel Prize, and the Merit Award of the HSJE : The Historical Society of the Jews from Egypt, for her "devoted and unmatched efforts in researching the history and culture of the Jews from Egypt, and to promote visionary literature and poetry proclaiming peace in the world." In 1998, she was elected one of the hundred "World Heroines," in Rochester, New York, for her "outstanding literary works for the promotion of women and peace."
Ada Aharoni lives on beautiful Mount Carmel in Haifa, where she has dedicated her life to the creation of a peaceful Israel and Middle East and a better world beyond war, through her writings and her wide activities, and the promotion of bridges of multi-culture, peace and understanding.
Plesae see links to Ada's work, and some of her touching poems, on World Literature for Equal Dignity. Her poems are also posted here.

ALI JIMALE AHMED

Ali Jimale Ahmed is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. His poetry and short stories have been translated into several languages, including Japanese and the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia. A former chair of Comparative Literature at Queens College, Professor Ahmed is a widely published poet and literary critic who is recognized worldwide for his contributions to Somali literature. His publications include Daybreak Is Near: Literature, Clans, and the Nation-State in Somalia (1996) and Fear Is a Cow (2002). In his edited book The Invention of Somalia, he has tried to bring to the open the constant humiliation certain groups - the Jareer Bantu, for example - in Somalia faced and still face.
Creative teaching is, for Professor Ahmed, one of the corner stones of academic learning. It incorporates Socratic methods of questioning, while at the same time emphasizing the importance of education as a two-way traffic. Through college education, students endeavor to form their own "internally persuasive discourse" (Bakhtin). In relation to this, Professor Ahmed is a firm believer in the de-compartamentalization of disciplines, for no discipline is by itself capable of capturing the inner pulse of a nation. The suggestion implied here is best described by the African parable of the elephant and the three blind men. Neither the tusk, nor the rough skin, nor the soft ears of an elephant would individually give a holistic picture of what an elephant really is.

DEAN AJDUKOVIC

Dean Ajdukovic is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Postgraduate Psychology Program at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. He is also President of the Society for Psychological Assistance (SPA), a regional mental health non-governmental organization based in Zagreb, Croatia. He has extensive experience in working with refugees and victims of organized violence, as well as social reconstruction and mental health interventions in communities affected by violence and social transition. His books and papers were published in Croatian, English, Macedonian, Russian and Albanian and he has lectured in a number of Centers of Excellence in the US and Europe. He serves as consultant and trainer in a number of countries on psychosocial program development and evaluation, refugee issues, children and youth violence, NGO strengthening, and crisis interventions in the region of former Yugoslavia.
He has often been invited to work in countries affected by upheaval, such as Albania, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, or Ingushetia. He is a member of the Council of the International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR) and President of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS, 2003-2005).

MARA ALAGIC

Dr. Mara Alagic is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the Wichita State University. Her interest in developing intercultural communication and global learning competence has arisen from having taught internationally and in culturally diverse environments. As co-leader of an early global learning project on mathematics and science education, she was a recipient of the Global Learning Course Redevelopment Team Excellence Award in 2002. In addition to integrating global learning into her own classes, she mentors other faculty and K-12 teachers to infuse Cage Painting and global learning into the curriculum. Dr. Alagic has led efforts to incorporate cage painting simulations and scenario authoring into graduate classes at Wichita State University. She has given invited and keynote presentations on these topics at international conferences. Dr. Alagic has published extensively in this area as well as in mathematics and mathematics education. Her research activities have attracted numerous external grants. She received the College of Education Research Award in 2004-2005. Dr. Alagic received her PhD in mathematics from the University of Belgrade. She studied and/or thought in the Mathematics Departments at the University of Belgrade, the University of Sarajevo, University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Wichita State University. Along with Dr. Glyn Rimington, she is the co-author of the book Third Place Learning: Reflective Inquiry Into Intercultural & Global Cage Painting, published in the book series Teaching <~> Learning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights (Editor: Tonya Huber-Warring) by Information Age Publishing Inc.

ROSITA ALBERT

Rosita Albert is an Associate Professor in the pioneering program in Intercultural Communication at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, and has recently been a Visiting Scholar in the Social Psychology area of the Psychology Department at Harvard. Her research focuses on Intercultural Relations and Intercultural Conflicts. She is a Founding Fellow and a member of the Governing Board of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. She is originally from Brazil, and her mother and grandparents left Germany to escape from Hitler. It is because of this background that she works to create respectful relations among groups from different backgrounds.
As to her educational background and her positions, Rosita Albert earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has taught in Psychology, Education and Communication at a number of Universities.
Rosita Albert has conducted research in a variety of topics, including research on a) the development and evaluation of the Intercultural Sensitizer, an instrument designed to foster intercultural sensitization; b) interactions between Latin Americans/Latinos and North or Anglo-Americans; c) the experiences and difficulties of Asian employees in American companies; d) conflicts and mutual misperceptions between African-Americans and Koreans in the U.S.; e) cultural differences in perceptions of negotiation; f) the effect of intercultural courses on intercultural development; and f) the effect of online interactions on perceptions of the other.
With respect to teaching, training and consulting, Rosita Albert has taught courses in social psychology, intercultural communication, negotiation, and diversity. These courses have included students from many fields, countries all over the world, and a very wide range of cultures. She has conducted intercultural and diversity training, given presentations, and consulted for a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the 3-M company, Booz Allen Hamilton, the National Association of Transplant Coordinators, the University of São Paulo, the University of Minnesota and a number of other institutions.
As to languages and international/intercultural experience, Rosita Albert speaks Portuguese, French, Spanish and English, and has had extensive experience with cultures from many parts of the world.
Please see Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization, the abstract she prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

HIZKIAS ASSEFA

Hizkias Assefa is an active international peacebuilding practitioner involved in mediation and facilitation of reconciliation processes in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is Professor of Conflict Studies at the Conflict Transformation Graduate Program at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and was formerly Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the founder and co-ordinator of the Africa Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Resources in Nairobi, Kenya, which is the base for his peacebuilding practice. He is also currently a Senior Special Fellow at the United Nations Institute of Training and Research.
Dr. Assefa has been involved in second-track diplomacy work in Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique. He has also been involved as facilitator in grass-roots peacebuilding and reconciliation initiatives in the above countries as well as in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Colombia and Guatemala. He has served as consultant to the United Nations, European Union, and many international and national NGOs and conducted conflict resolution and peacebuilding training seminars and workshops in many parts of the world.
He has written numerous journal articles as well as books including Mediation of Civil Wars, Approaches and Strategies: The Sudan Conflict (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1987), Extremist Groups and Conflict Resolution (New York: Praeger, 1990), Peace and Reconciliation as a Paradigm: A Philosophy of Peace and Its Implications on Conflict, Governance and Economic Growth in Africa (Nairobi: Majestic Press, 1993); Peacemaking and Democratization in Africa: Church Initiatives and Experiences, editor (Nairobi: East Africa Publishers, 1996); and Process of Expanding and Deepening Engagement: Methodology for Reconciliation Work in Large Scale Social Conflicts (forthcoming).
Prior to his career as a mediator, Professor Assefa worked as an attorney in government and private practice both in Ethiopia and the United States, and has taught in a number of universities in Africa, Europe, North America, and Latin America.

KEVIN AVRUCH

Kevin Avruch is presently Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology in the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), and Faculty and Senior Fellow in the Peace Operations Policy Program (School of Public Policy), at George Mason University. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. He has taught at UCSD, the University of Illinois at Chicago and, since 1980, at GMU, where he served as Coordinator of the Anthropology Program in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1990-1996.
Professor Avruch is author or editor of five books, most recently Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government (1997), Culture and Conflict Resolution (1998) and Information Campaigns for Peace Operations (2000). His other writings include numerous articles and essays on culture theory and conflict analysis and resolution, nationalist and ethnoreligious social movements, human rights, politics and society in contemporary Israel, and international migration. Professor Avruch has been book review editor of the journal Anthropological Quarterly, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Social Justice, and the University of Pennsylvania Press monograph series The Ethnography of Political Violence. Professor Avruch has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, and his work has been recognized by the International Association of Conflict Management and the United States Institute of Peace, where he spent the 1996-1997 academic year as senior fellow in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace.
Professor Avruch is currently working on projects investigating sources of political violence in protracted conflicts, the role of human rights and truth and reconciliation commissions in postconflict peacebuilding, and cultural aspects of complex humanitarian and peacekeeping operations.
Please find here Kevin Avruch and Beatriz Vejarano, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A Review Essay and Annotated Bibliography. This article originally appeared in Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace, and Human Rights, 2 (1-2): 47-108, 2001. See also OJPCR: The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution, 4.2: 37-76, 2002, www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/4_2recon.pdf. Please see also Toward an Expanded “Canon” of Negotiation Theory: Identity, Ideological, and Values-based Conflict and the Need for a New Heuristic; a version of this essay was presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Conflict Management, June 6–9, 2004, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

ADENRELE AWOTONA

Adenrele Awotona is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a former Dean of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Before then, he was at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he served as the Dean of the School of Architecture and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom where he was director of graduate studies in architecture and urban design as well as director of the Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas.
He earned his Doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He also earned a certificate from Harvard University's Institute of Management and Leadership in Education; two certificates from Cornell University, one in Managing performance in higher education and another from the Administrative Management Institute; as well as two certificates from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), one in Financial Planning in an Institutional Setting and another from the Executive Leadership Institute. Furthermore, he is a graduate of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' Millennium Leadership Initiative Institute.
Professor Adenrele Awotona is a Certified Federal Grants Administrator. He was a peer reviewer for the Office of University Partnerships in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as a member of the National Council of University Research Administrators.
He has been a principal investigator (or co-PI/researcher) on major projects funded by various agencies. These include the Boston Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Education, the British Government Department for International Development, the United Nations Center for Human Settlements, the United Nations Development Program, and, the European Union. A stream of publications has, therefore, emanated from his work. Similarly, through research, consultancy and teaching, he has professional experience in many countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean. Furthermore, Adenrele Awotona has been an external reviewer/examiner of over 200 masters' theses and doctoral dissertations internationally.
In public and community service, Professor Awotona was a former member of the Design and Planning Selection Board of the City-Parish of East Baton Rouge. He was also an Educator/Coordinator of Seminars (on community development, etc.) at the annual American Institute of Architects National Conventions for several years. Similarly, he has been a member of the U.S. National Architectural Accrediting Board's program review team internationally. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Academic Leader, the national newsletter for academic deans. At the global level, he is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. He was a Director of Studies for British Council International Seminars (Reconstruction after disasters) in the United Kingdom, a technical consultant to the British Council Committee for International Cooperation in Higher Education, and, an Associate Adviser to the British Council on various aspects of the built environment.
Please see furthermore:
•  The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters, presentation held at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
•  The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Presentation held at the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.

MAURICE AYMARD

Maurice Aymard is a Historian. As Secretary-General of the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences (ICPHS) and Head of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (until recently), he is actively involved in the development of international cooperation in the social and human sciences. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and has written many books on the economic history of the world in the modern era, some of which in collaboration with historian Fernand Braudel.
Among Maurice Aymard's publications are Dutch Capitalism and world capitalism [Capitalisme hollandais et capitalisme mondial] (editor, Cambridge/Paris, 1979); The capitalist world-economy: Essays (Immanuel Wallerstein.1979, Maurice Aymard and Jacques Revel, Cambridge University Press, 1979); French Studies in History, Volume.1: The Inheritance and Volume 2: New departures (edited together with Harbans Mukhia, New-Delhi, Orient Longman, 1988/89).

REIMON BACHIKA

Reimon Bachika is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, at Bukkyo University in Kyoto, Japan, since thirty years. His areas of interest are Symbolism and Values, and Japanese culture.
Please see:
•  Human Dignity as a Universal Value: The Future of Multicultural Discourse, abstract prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.

JEAN BAKER MILLER (1927-2006, but spiritually always with us!)

Jean Baker Miller, M.D., was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center. She served as the Stone Center's first Director from 1998 to 1984.
A practicing Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst for over 40 years, she is the author of Toward a New Psychology of Women (Boston, Beacon Press, 1976), a book which has become a classic in its field and about which a Boston Globe review said: "This small book may do more to suggest the range and scope of female possibilities than anything since Women's Suffrage." The book has been translated into twenty languages and was reissued in a second edition in 1987. A new book, The Healing Connection (Boston, Beacon Press, 1997) co-authored with Irene Stiver, Ph.D., continues and expands this work. Jean Baker Miller also co-author of Women's Growth in Connection (Guildford Press, 1991) and editor of Psychoanalysis and Women (New York, Brunner-Mazel and Penguin Books, 1973) and of numerous papers in professional journals on the psychology of women, depression and studies of dreams. Jean Baker Miller has also been a consultant, leader, and member of several women's groups.
Jean Baker Miller received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1948, her M.D. from Columbia University in 1952 and her certification in Psychoanalysis from New York Medical College in 1959. She also holds honorary degrees of Doctor of Human Letters from Brandeis University (1987) and Doctor Honoris Causa from Regis College (1995). She received her psychiatry training at Bellevue Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in New York City and at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse.
Jean Baker Miller is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American College Psychiatrists, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
Since 1981, she has been Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is also on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Associate Psychiatrist at Beth Israel Hospital. Prior to these positions, she was a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. In 1972-73, she was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics, and at the Tavistock Institute and Clinic in London.
Please see here a summary of Jean's life and work.

Please see here the Press Release of August 3, 2006, for Jean Baker Miller, noted feminist, psychoanalyst, social activist; 1927-2006
Jean Baker Miller, noted feminist, psychoanalyst, social activist; 1927-2006
BROOKLINE, MA - Jean Baker Miller, MD, noted feminist, psychoanalyst, and social activist died at her Brookline, Massachusetts home July 29, 2006 after a 13-year struggle with emphysema and post-polio effects. Her 1976 groundbreaking book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, traced the connection between women's mental health and sociopolitical forces. Dr. Miller maintained that women's desire to connect with others and their emotional accessibility were essential strengths, not weaknesses as they were traditionally regarded.
She was born September 29, 1927 in The Bronx, New York to Irene and Henry Baker. She contracted polio at l0 months of age and until the age of 10 underwent several operations that left her with an atrophied leg and limp. Her family was of very modest means and she attended New York City schools. She won a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College where near graduation she switched from a history to a pre-med major. She then had a scholarship at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, one of ten women in a class of l00, graduating in 1952. She was an intern and a first-year resident in internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.  Switching to psychiatry, she was a resident at Bellevue Hospital, Jacobi Hospital, and the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. She held faculty positions at Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; the American College of Psychiatrists; the American Orthopsychiatric Association; and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
Toward a New Psychology of Women, a bestseller and classic in the fields of psychology and women's studies, was translated in over 20 languages and distributed around the world. Dr. Miller also co-authored The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life and Women's Growth in Connection; she edited Psychoanalysis and Women, and authored and contributed to numerous articles on depression, dreams, and the psychology of women.
"Toward a New Psychology of Women maps the interplay between empathy and politics masterfully and for the first time," says Christina Robb, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the new book, This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology. "In it, Dr. Miller created the first democratic psychology - that is, the first psychology of people who at last can realistically hope and learn to work with and love their political equals all their lives."
Dr. Miller's writings and work led to her appointment as the first director of the Stone Center for Developmental Studies at Wellesley College in 1981 where she spearheaded collaborative work among scholars, researchers, and clinicians on the treatment and prevention of mental health problems in women.
Work at the Stone Center led to the subsequent establishment of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in 1995. Dr. Miller served as director of the Institute until late 2005, where Relational-Cultural Theory - a new model of psychological development - was further elaborated and taught to practitioners, lay persons, and most recently, business professionals.
While most of the Institute's seminars have been geared to training mental health professionals, the underlying message of Dr. Miller's work calls for a basic shift in the way human relationships are organized. From emphasizing separateness, accruing power over others, and social stratification, nations and individuals need to emphasize mutual respect and the building of community. Her greatest hope was to effect change that would bring about real social justice.
Judith Jordan, director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, reflects, "Alongside Jean, we worked to educate people that human development is about movement toward increasing mutuality and better connection, rather than growth toward separateness and independence. Her vision has altered our core understanding of both men and women; we all need connection. Building growth-fostering relationships leads not only to personal wellbeing but to social justice."
Dr. Miller traveled the world educating people about this new paradigm. "Everywhere we went," Dr. Jordan notes, "women would come to Jean after her conference and say these identical words, 'Your book changed my life! Thank you!' Jean, with characteristic humility, was always surprised."
In addition to conducting seminars and workshops, the scholars at the Institute have continued to expand applications of Dr. Miller's work and Relational-Cultural Theory to address a broad-range of psychological, social, and organizational issues through working papers. Recent publications co-authored by Dr. Miller include: Telling the Truth about Power (2003); How Change Happens: Controlling Images, Mutuality and Power (2002); and Racial Images and Relational Possibilities (2001).
"Jean Baker Miller was a cherished friend and colleague whose brilliance, gentle determination, and wide influence brought great honor to Wellesley College," says Diana Chapman Walsh, president of Wellesley College. "It was fitting that the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute took root on the campus of a college dedicated to educating women to make a difference in the world. Jean's groundbreaking work has made an enduring difference to generations of women and men, enabling us to understand power in connection with compassion and love."
Susan McGee Bailey, executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, notes, "Jean's feminism was strong, compassionate, and unwavering, never militant but radical in its implications. Her work and her theory are not just for psychologists nor just for women, but for all people everywhere. The strength and clarity of her vision will continue to inspire our work here at the Centers as well as that of so many around the world who were touched by her life, her perspectives, and her practice."
In her last public presentation at the Institute in a 2004 program called "Encouraging an Era of Connection," Dr. Miller's work focused on creating communities of courage and hope. "I think that the source of hope lies in believing that one has or can move toward a sense of connection," she shared.
Throughout her life, Dr. Miller was known for her humility. Resisting the notion of individual recognition, she recognized that her work grew in collaboration with others. Dr. Miller was the reluctant recipient of numerous awards and honors including, Woman of the Year in Health and Medicine from the National Organization of Women Massachusetts Chapter, 1982, and Massachusetts Psychological Association Allied Professional Award for Outstanding Contributions of the Advances of Psychology, 1982. She received honorary degrees from Brandeis University and Regis College. She was featured in Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating American's Women Physicians, a traveling exhibit organized by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, 2003-2007.
Dr. Miller is survived by her husband of more than 50 years, S.M. (Mike) Miller of Brookline, two sons, Jonathan F. Miller of Sleepy Hollow, New York and Edward D. Miller of New York City and a grandson, Jacob (Jake) Miller.
A memorial service will be held in the fall at Wellesley College. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that contributions be made to the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute in Dr. Miller's memory, and sent to: Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. Gifts may also be made online.
Judith Jordan was interviewed about the life and work of Jean Baker Miller on August 7, 2006, which was broadcast on NPR's radio program, "Here & Now."
Please see here the invitation to the memorial service honoring Jean Baker Miller.

JeanBakerMiller Training Institute wrote (September 19, 2006):
Dear Friends,
Thank you for the cards and email messages in response to the recent death of Jean Baker Miller, M.D., founding director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. Her clear, courageous thinking, which grew to influence countless fields of study and practice, will continue to inspire us all.
Please join us for a service celebrating Jean’s life and work on Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 1:00 PM at the Houghton Memorial Chapel on the Wellesley College Campus, Wellesley, MA.
Jean emphasized the importance of mutually-empathic, mutually-empowering, growth-fostering connections throughout people's lives and worked relentlessly for social justice. The Institute—with the help of people like you—will carry this revolutionary work forward.
A reception will follow at the new Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center.
Please feel free to forward this message to friends and colleagues. We hope to see you soon.
Warmest wishes to all,
Linda

BØRGE BAKKEN

Børge Bakken is a Fellow at the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. Among his books is The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000). His edited book, Crime, Policing and Punishment in China will be published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2004.
Børge Bakken is currently working on crime, violence and punishment in China on an Australian Research Council grant. He has noted that phenomena like honour, notions of purity, and feelings of humiliation are correlated with levels of violence, and in some instances with homicide.

SUSAN BANDES

Susan Bandes is widely known as a scholar in the areas of federal jurisdiction, criminal procedure and civil rights, and more recently, as a pioneer in the emerging study of the role of emotion in law. Her legal career began in 1976 at the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender. In 1980, she became staff counsel for the Illinois A.C.L.U., where she litigated a broad spectrum of civil rights cases, and helped draft and secure passage of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. She joined the DePaul faculty in 1984, and was named Distinguished Research Professor in 2003. She has received numerous awards from both the law school and the university for her teaching, scholarship and service. Her articles appear in, among others, the Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Michigan and Southern California law reviews, as well as peer-reviewed journals including Law and Social Inquiry, Constitutional Commentary, and the Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities. Her book on the role of emotion in law, entitled The Passions of Law, was published by NYU Press in January 2000, and released in paperback in 2001. Bandes presents her work frequently at academic symposia and workshops, as well as to non-academic legal groups such as the American Constitution Society. Her recent pro bono activities include acting as co-reporter for the Constitution Projects bipartisan Death Penalty Initiative, which produced the report Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty, and serving on the advisory board to the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justices study of the criminal justice system in Cook County, IL.

DAVID PHILIP BARASH

David P. Barash, born in 1946, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, and is notable for several books on human aggression, peace studies, and sexual behavior of animals and people. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton, and a Ph.D. in zoology from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He taught at the State University of New York at Oneonta, and then accepted a permanent position at the University of Washington.
His most recent book is Natural Selections, based on articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and published in 2007 by Bellevue Literary Press. He has also written over 230 scholarly articles and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, along with many other honors.
Forthcoming, in 2008, is a 2nd edition of Peace and Conflict Studies, a textbook co-authored with Charles P. Webel (Sage Publications), and How Women Got Their Breasts and Other Just-So Stories, co-authored with Judith Eve Lipton and scheduled for publication by Columbia University Press.

DAVID BARGAL

David Bargal is Gordon Brown professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Social Psychology from the Hebrew University. Dr. Bargal served as a visiting professor at several leading American Universities. He published extensively (over 80 articles in books and professional journals; two authored books and seven edited books and journals).
Professor David Bargal’s areas of research include group and intergroup relations, organizational behavior in human services, and occupational social work. His recent book, Living with conflict: Encounters between Jewish and Palestinian Youth (1995) (with H. Bar) was published by the Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel.

DAN BAR-ON † September 4, 2008, but spiritually always with us!

Daniel Bar-On was born in 1938 in Haifa to parents of German descent. He was a member of Kibbutz Revivim for 25 years where he served as a farmer, educator and Secretary of the Kibbutz. After completing his M.A. in psychology in 1975, he worked in the Kibbutz Clinic, specializing in therapy and research with families of Holocaust survivors. In 1981 he received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 1985, Dan Bar-On launched a pioneering field research in Germany, studying the psychological and moral after-effects of the Holocaust on the children of the perpetrators. His book Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich was published in 1989 by Harvard University Press and has since been translated and published in French, German, Japanese and Hebrew. Since then, Bar-On has brought together descendants of survivors and perpetrators for five intensive encounters (the TRT group, shown by the BBC on TimeWatch, October, 1993), as well as students from the third generation of both sides. His book Fear and Hope: Three Generations of Holocaust Survivors' Families was published in Hebrew, English, German and Chinese. His last book The Indescribable and the Undiscussable was published in 1999 by Central European University Press.
In 1998, Professor Bar-On held the Ida E. King Chair for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton College of New Jersey, from where he also received an Honorary Doctorate in 1999. He is permanently a Professor of Psychology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University, where he served as Chair of the Department from 1993 to 1995 and again from 2003 to 2005. In 1996 he was awarded the David Lopatie Chair for Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies. He is the co-director of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME) near Beit Jala, PNA, together with Professor Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University. Together they received in June 2001 the Alexander Langer Prize in Bolzano Italy for their efforts in Peace Building between Palestinians and Israelis. In 2001 he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz First Class, given by German President Dr. Johannes Rau. In 2003 he received the Eric Maria Remarque Peace Prize in Osnabrück, Germany. He is married, has four children and four grandchildren.
Please see Dan Bar-On's book Erzähl dein Leben! Meine Wege zur Dialogarbeit und politischen Verständigung (Hamburg: Edition Körberstiftung, 2004). The English translation is being published by Central European University Press in 2006 under the following title: Tell your story! The dialogue work between Germans and Jews, Palestinians and Israelis.
Annette Engler is part of Daniel Bar-On's work at the Körber Stiftung in Hamburg, Germany.

DANIEL BARON COHEN

Daniel Baron Cohen...
Please see some of his work on our World Art for Equal Dignity page.

STEVEN J. BARTLETT

Steven James Bartlett was born in Mexico City and educated in Mexico, the United States, and France. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Santa Clara and at Ray­mond College, an Oxford-style honors college of the University of the Pacific. He received his master's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara; his doctorate from the Université de Paris, where his research was directed by Paul Ricoeur; and has done post-doctoral study in psychology and psychotherapy. He has been the recipient of many honors, awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships. His research has been supported under contract or grant by the Alliance Française, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the Lilly Endowment, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the National Science Foundation, the Rand Corporation, and others.
Bartlett's research combines an unusual background consisting of training in pathology, psychology, and epistemology. He is the author of nine books and monographs, and many papers and research studies in the fields of psychology, epistemology, and philosophy of science. He has taught at Saint Louis University and the University of Florida, and has held research positions at the Max-Planck-Institute in Starnberg, Germany and at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. He is currently Visiting Scholar in Psychology and Philosophy at Willamette University and Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.
Bartlett is the author of the first major comprehensive study of the psychology of human evil, just published by behavioral science publisher Charles C. Thomas. The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil is the result of ten years of research into the psychology of genocide and the Holocaust, the psychology of war, of terrorism, obedience, and the many other ways in which human beings behave aggressively and often cruelly toward other people, toward other species, and often even toward themselves. The Pathology of Man is the first work to apply the science of pathology to the human species and to identify and describe the many pathologies that afflict our species, often without our awareness. Its aim is to provide a solid foundation of scholarship encompassing the work of twentieth century psychologists, psychiatrists, ethologists, psychologically focused historians, and others who have studied human aggression and destructiveness.
In addition to providing scholars with an important research tool, the book is well-suited to serve as a main text or as collateral reading for courses relating to the psychology of evil, the psychology of the Holocaust and of genocide generally, the psychology of war, obedience, and terrorism, and any courses that seek to bring students to a realistic understanding of the psychology of human aggression and destructiveness, without appealing to mythology, symbolism, or religion. The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil is a dispassionate, objective, scientific assessment of our species' follies and destructiveness.
Please see also:
Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights: Psychological and Conceptual Blocks, which first appeared in the Lewis and Clark law journal, Animal Rights, 2002. The paper was electronically re-published by the Michigan State University 's Detroit College of Law, Animal Law Web Center. It is also available in German: Wurzeln menschlichen Widerstands gegen Tierrechte: Psychologische und konceptuelle Blockaden at:
http://www.veganswines.de/Animal_Law/ and
http://animallaw.info/articles/arussbartlett2002.htm

ANDREA BARTOLI

Andrea Bartoli is a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), at Columbia University in New York, the Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), as well as the Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN). He works on regional conflict resolution in Southern Africa, the role of religions in conflict resolution, and learning organization in the field of conflict resolution.
His recent publications include Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of the International Media in Wars and Humanitarian Crises (co-edited with Edward Girardet and Jeffrey Carmel).
Andrea Bartoli has a B.A. from the University of Rome, Italy and a Ph.D. from the University of Milan, Italy. Trained as an anthropologist, Bartoli has been actively involved in conflict resolution since the early 1980s, particularly in Mozambique, the Sudan, Burundi, and Angola. [read more]

HAROLD W. BECKER

Harold W. Becker has dedicated his life to living and sharing the practical application of unconditional love. Since 1990, his consulting company, Internal Insights, has had its focus to "empower people through self awareness and unconditional love." In 2000 he founded The Love Foundation, Inc., a globally recognized non-religious and non-political non-profit organization with the mission to "inspire people to love unconditionally." He blends insight and intuition with humor, compassion and kindness for a strong motivational vision in all of his endeavors which include business, writing, speaking and personal guidance.
Harold's success and powerful understanding about life is evident in his collective published work including, Internal Power: Seven Doorways To Self Discovery, (New World Library 1993), Unconditional Love - An Unlimited Way of Being (White Fire 2007), Unconditional Love Is... (White Fire 2007) and a national PBS special entitled Unconditional Love -A Guide to Personal Freedom (1997) along with other articles and short stories.
In his desire to touch the world with a message of unconditional love, he founded Global Love Day, an annual international celebration of humanity held each May 1st. This yearly event has brought the recognition of universal understandings and the transcendent power of unconditional love to a global audience including individuals, groups, organizations and political leaders.
Harold has devoted much of his spare time to assisting others work through their emotional traumas in search of understanding and release. This focus on the power of thoughts and feelings began in 1985 when his mother was diagnosed with cancer. His work with cancer patients and their families ignited a desire to know more about the meanings and understandings of life. (Harold's mother continues to be a cancer survivor, having combined his techniques and traditional treatment.)
Harold held management positions including banking, finance and retail and earned his MBA by age 25. He left a management position in the banking industry to pursue a life of service, personal growth, and unconditional love. From his inspirational and educational workshops, TV and radio interviews, numerous public appearances, post prison/ addiction outreach program, and community leadership roles, Harold's forthright approach conveys his message directly with the confidence and power of one who knows love.

SAMIR SANAD BASTA

Samir Sanad Basta is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.
Samir Sanad Basta was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1943. After graduating from Victoria College, he obtained a B.Sc Hon. Degree from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom and in 1974 a Doctor of Science degree in Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States of America.
After joining the Institute of Nutrition in Mexico where he specialised in Growth, Development and Mental Status of malnourished children, he became team leader and chief researcher in Indonesia of a large World Bank study looking into the connections between Human Productivity, Nutrition and Health Status. He was then accepted into the Young Professional Program of the World Bank and in 1973 appointed Nutrition Expert where he had large supervisory responsibilities for multi-sectorial Food, Nutrition and Public Health programs of the World Bank.
In 1982, he joined UNICEF and was appointed Representative to the Sudan, where he supervised multi-disciplinary staff engaged in Health, Water, Education, Women's Development, Child Rights, and War and Famine Relief work. He was also the co-inventor of a a children's food supplement, (UNIMIX) now in world wide use. In 1986 he became Director of UNICEF's Evaluation Office where he perfected Rapid Assessment Techniques and became a visiting and occasional lecturer at various US Universities and Public Health Schools.
In 1989 he helped create the World Summit for Children at UN headquarters in New York and in 1990 became Director of UNICEF's European Office in Geneva, where he was active in Fund Raising, Management of various Advocacy Programs and in trying to create Peace and Tolerance programs in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the war in these countries. He also created, with the help of others, an emergency sea evacuation of children from the bombed city of Dubrovnik Later he was invited to visit the newly independent Baltic States to examine the situation of children there and was asked to join various research and lecture programs at the University of Geneva. During his tenure in Geneva he helped initiate the process for a world wide ban on the manufacture of land-mines and met with various Heads of State and Governments to ask them to help the cause of children in difficult situations.
In 1996, he accepted a Visiting Scholarship at the Dept. of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University where he carried out research for a book he wrote, entitled "Culture, Conflict and Children". In 1998, he took early retirement from the United Nations to settle in Southern France where he now lives carrying out occasional consultancies and lectures.
Dr. Basta has worked in over thirty countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe and is fluent in Spanish, French, English and Arabic. He has been the author or co-author of around two dozen scientific and development orientated papers.
Please see Assistance, Dignity and Humiliation, Paper prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.

JESSICA BENJAMIN

Jessica Benjamin is on the faculty of the New School for Social Research's Program in Psychoanalytic Studies. She practices psychoanalysis in New York City. She is the author of The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination (1988), Like Subjects and Love Objects: Essays on Recognition, Identification and Sexual Difference (1995), and Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis (1998, Routledge). Jessica is a founder of International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and currently organizing The Acknowledgment Project, a projected series of workshops for mutual recognition between Israelis and Palestinians.

DHARM P.S. BHAWUK

Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk is also a Member in the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and a Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Films for Equal Dignity Project.
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, a Citizen of Nepal, is Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, Honolulu. He received his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Bhawuk’s research interests include cross-cultural training, intercultural sensitivity, diversity in the global workplace, individualism and collectivism, culture and creativity, culture and entrepreneurship, indigenous psychology and management, and political behavior in the workplace. He has published more than 30 articles and book chapters and is a co-editor of the book Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology (1996), Sage Publishers. His work has appeared in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Applied Psychology: An International Review, International Journal of Psychology, Cross-cultural Research, Indian Psychological Review, Delhi Business Review, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Policy, and Journal of Management.
Professor Bhawuk is a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, and the recipient of Distinguished Scholar Award, Management Department, College of Business Administration (2000), the Best Paper Award from the International Division of the Academy of Management (1996), the Distinguished Service Award from the East West Center (1989), and the Lum Yip Kee Outstanding MBA Student Award from the College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii (1990).

BRYNJAR BJERKEM

Brynjar Bjerkem is a cultural anthropologist (hovedfag, University of Oslo 1991) based in Oslo. Since 1992 he has been involved in different initiatives in the presentation and exchange of international art and culture. He is the Head of Programming at Du store verden! (DSV), a cultural exchange network. Brynjar Bjerkem is furthermore Member in the Programme Committee of the Oslo Films from the South festival featuring a special on Asian cinema. He is also Co-founder and Member of the Board of the Films from the South festival and Member of the Board of the Cosmopolite Concert Hall in Oslo.

MICHAEL HARRIS BOND

Michael Harris Bond is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Michael Harris Bond is Professor of Psychology and teaches at the Department of Psychology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are social perception, the social psychology of language use, impression management, values, cross- cultural social psychology, and cross-cultural interaction.
Professor Bond has written numerous articles, book chapters and books on these topics, see, for example,
• Social Psychology Across Cultures: Analysis and Perspectives (1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, together with Peter B. Smith).
• The Handbook of Chinese Psychology that Bond edited in 1996, or "Individual perceptions of organizational cultures: A Methodological Treatise on Levels of Analysis" co-authored with Geert H. Hofstede in Organization Studies (1993).
Please see information about The Handbook of Chinese Psychology, about Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures, and about the Social Axioms Project.
Please find furthermore:
• Unity in Diversity: Orientations and Strategies for Building a Harmonious Multicultural Society by Michael Harris Bond, prepared as a keynote address for the conference, "Multiculturalism: Diversity in Action" held at the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia, May 6, 1998.
• Linking Societal and Psychological Factors to Homicide Rates across Nations, co-authored with Flora Lim and Mieko Kuchar Bond, in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36, pp. 515-536, available at http://jcc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/5/515, 2005.
• Extreme Mass Homicide: From Military Massacre to Genocide, co-authored with Donald G. Dutton, and Ehor O. Boyanowsky, in Aggression and Violent Behavior, 10, pp. 437-473, 2005.
• Culture and Collective Violence: Mobilizing Savagery Against the Other, Abstract of Keynote at the Seventh European Regional Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology by the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), San Sebastian, Spain, July 11-15, 2005.
•  Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Living and Working With Others in a Changing World (Contents List), co-authored with Peter Bevington Smith, and Ciðdem Kaðitçibasi, London: Sage, forthcoming, 2005.
•  The Role of Emotions and Behavioral Responses in Mediating the Impact of Face Loss on Relationship Deterioration: Are Chinese more Face-Sensitive than Americans?, co-authored by Chester Chun-Seng Kam, submitted for publication, 2006. See the abstract here. Please contact the authors for more information.
•  The Dynamics of Face Loss Following Harm in Two Cultural Groups, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 27, 2006, co-authored with Yuan Liao.

INGA BOSTAD

Inga Bostad is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway. is the of the University of Oslo, Norway. She was appointed by Rector Geir Ellingsrud to serve as Vice Rector of the University of Oslo from 2006 until 2009. Inga Bostad is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway.
In 2005, Inga Bostad earned her Dr. philos. at the University of Oslo with her thesis Belief or Doubt — A Reconstruction of Philosophical Skepticism. Her thesis for the Magister artium in Philosophy, also at the University of Oslo, was entitled Language, Knowledge, and Doubt —An Analysis of Wittgenstein's Über Gewissheit, 1989.
Earlier, Inga Bostad was the Academic Coordinator for the Examen Philosophicum (Ex. Phil., 2005–2006), and had the academic responsibility for Continuing and Distance Education in Philosophy (2005–2006). She was furthermore head of the evaluation of the new syllabus and teaching methods for the Examen Philosophicum and co-editor for new Ex. Phil. textbooks (2004). She was Teaching Director in 2005, and Lecturer from 1990 to 2005.
Inga was member of the Faculty for General Teacher Education for the 10-year Compulsory School at the Oslo University College, and Lecturer in Philosophy (2000-2004). She furthermore served as Editor for Norwegian, and translated fiction in the J.W. Cappelens Forlag, AS (1992–1995). She was Editor of Kritikkjournalen (1987–1992), as well as Director of the Aventura Forlag (1995).
Inga Bostad is the Director of NORLA (academic council for non-fiction), and a Board Member of the Oslo Poesifestival.
Please see also:
•  Greeting Address, held at the 11th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Norway, 23rd June -1st July 2008.
•  What Are the Values that Will Guide the Development of Children and Young People in Our Schools? Lecture held for the Conference of European Ministers of Education at Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway, 5th June 2008.

DAN BRAHA

Dan Braha received the Ph.D. degree from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is an Affiliate of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), and a Senior Engineering Faculty Member at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Innovation in Product Development (CIPD), and a Research Associate in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, at Boston University, MA. One of his primary areas of research is understanding and improving the design, implementation, and dynamics of Complex Socio-Engineered Systems (CES) as well as exploring the interplay between natural and large-scale human-made systems. He has developed a mathematical theory-the Formal Design Theory (FDT). He has published extensively, including a book on the foundations of engineering design with Kluwer Academic Publishers and an edited book on data mining in design and manufacturing, also with Kluwer. He serves on the editorial board of AI EDAM (Cambridge University Press) and was the editor of several special journal issues. Dr. Braha has also served on executive committees and as chair in several international conferences.

JOHN BRAITHWAITE

John Braithwaite is a Professor in the Law Program, Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University (ANU), and a member of ANU's Centre for Restorative Justice. John Braithwaite's special interest is business regulation and white-collar crime. His focus for twenty years has been on restorative and responsive regulatory ideas. As an author, coauthor or editor of numerous books and articles, he has contributed significant research to the application of restorative justice principles to business crime as well as to more traditional forms of juvenile and adult crime.  John's 1989 book, Crime, Shame and Reintegration, has been highly influential in demonstrating that current criminal justice practice creates shame that is stigmatizing. Restorative justice, on the other hand, seeks to reintegrate the offender by acknowledging the shame of wrongdoing but then offering ways to expiate that shame.
In the 1980's and early 1990's, John Braithwaite worked on formulating restorative approaches to coal mine safety regulation. Then, in conjunction with Toni Makkai, Valerie Braithwaite, Diane Gibson and others, he helped develop restorative strategies in nursing home regulation, including the institution of exit conferences after regulatory inspections.
In addition, John has been an active member in a wide variety of NGOs. He served as a part-time commissioner in Australia 's Trade Practices Commission from 1985 to 1995 and on the Economic Planning Advisory Council, Chaired by the Prime Minister, from 1983-87. In 2000, he participated in an important conference in Northern Ireland that examined the possibilities for using restorative justice ideas and practices to further the peace process there.
For his extensive work on crime issues, John Braithwaite has won numerous international prizes from the American Society of Criminology, the British Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Institute for Financial Crime Prevention.
Leading Edge. John is currently working on the jurisprudence of restorative justice. He asks two questions:
(1) what are restorative justice values? and,
(2) how should they inform its procedural ideas?
Restorative justice is informed by values such as mercy and forgiveness that may be limited by the retributive (just deserts) quest for proportional punishment. At the same time, mercy and forgiveness cannot be forced. Maximizing the restorative values of empowerment and respectful communication provide an open space to deal with the harm of the crime, build respect, and allow for healing. This process allows victims to make forgiveness or mercy their gift.

INGEBORG BREINES

Born in 1945, Ingeborg Breines holds an M.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of Nantes (France) and a degree in French Literature from the University of Sorbonne (France), as well as a M. A. degree in French Literature, History of Ideas and Arts, and a postgraduate certificate in Education from the University of Oslo (Norway). She joined UNESCO Headquarters in 1993 as Special Adviser to the Director General, heading the Consultative Committee on Women (D-1). She was appointed to the post of Director of the Women and the Culture of Peace programme in July 1996.
Ingeborg Breines has until recently been Director (D-1) of the UNESCO Office in Islamabad and also served as the UNESCO focal point for UN system activities relating to Afghanistan until the opening of UNESCO’s Office in Kabul. For more information see the UNESCO page. She is currently based at the UNESCO Liaison Office in Geneva.

MICHAEL BRITTON

Michael Britton is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, as well as Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project. He is the HumanDHS Director of "Global Appreciative Culturing."
Concerned with integrative thinking across neuroscience, in-depth psychotherapies and historical/cultural living, Michael's work looks at how participation in the historical life of our times and interior life are deeply intertwined. His earlier research looked into experience by US military in planning and commanding nuclear weapons in the Cold War; kinds of parenting that help children grow to do well in love as adults; kinds of parenting that make it harder for battered women to take action on their own behalf; and psychological attitudes towards existing and hoped for worlds reflected in traditional, modern and postmodern architecture. Michael provides workshops for therapists to think about mature love and how patients are helped to get there within themselves, within relationships, and in their co-responsibility for sustaining love in the larger world. He is very concerned with supporting a culture of appreciation for what we can learn from each other, i.e. open societies rather than totalitarian, as the basis for global life. He is currently focused on the demands for psychological adaptation posed by global life and is working on two writing projects that invite taking up those challenges.  The first is on weapons of mass destruction and the psychological challenges involved in creating global safety. The second is on understanding what global life requires of us as illuminated by understanding the human brain's place in evolution, its multi-layered inclinations for rendering history in the present, and the choices among those inclinations that we face as we go about the business of everyday work as adults in the institutions of our societies.  
Please see here:
•  Appreciative Leadership in Our HumanDHS Network: The Tree - Job Descriptions!
2008.
•  Conversation Between Harsh Agarwal and Michael Britton on Ragging, 2007.
•  Finding the ‘Right’ Moral Tone Regarding Climate Change And Travel, 2007.
•  Weapons of Mass Destruction, in Christie, Winter, Wagner (Ed.) Peace Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
•  Transforming Myths of War to Create a Legacy of Peace, in V. K. Kool (Ed.) Non-Violence: Social and Psychological Issues. Lanham, MD: University of Press of America.
•  Adults' Perceptions of Childhood Experiences of Parental Love As Predictive of Stability and Levels of Enjoyment in Adult Relationships. Doctoral Dissertation. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International (Order Number 9004433), 1989.

INGEBORG BREINES

Born in 1945, Ingeborg Breines holds an M.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of Nantes (France) and a degree in French Literature from the

BIRGIT BROCK-UTNE

Birgit Brock-Utne is a Professor in International Education at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway, where she is Director of the Master of Philosophy in Comparative and International Education programme. She received her doctorate in the field of peace studies. She has been a Researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) and was for four years (1987 -1992) a Professor of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She was a Visiting Professor, teaching peace studies and African studies at the University of Antioch, Ohio, in spring 1992. She has served as a member of the Board of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), and the Board of the Nordic Association for the Study of Education in Developing Countries (NASEDEC), and the Board of the UNESCO Institute of Education in Hamburg, Germany.
Since Birgit Brock-Utne came back from Africa, she has continued working extensively in Africa, from her home-base at the University of Oslo, for NORAD and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as for DSE (the German Development agency) at the historically black universities in South Africa. She heads four research projects, three of them in Africa. In 2002, during her sabbatical year, she spent two months at the Nordic Institute of African Studies in Uppsala, a month on her research project in Tanzania and South Africa, two months at the Université Nanterre, Paris, and in the fall 2002 she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hiroshima, Japan. During the last six years, she has taught a course on Peace Education and the Media at the European University of Peace in Stadschlaining in Austria every year. She has also taught a course on Peace and Gender in the Master of Peace Studies program at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Professor Brock-Utne has done research and written extensively within the areas of peace education, gender socialization, multicultural and development education. Among her last books are: Educating for Peace (New York: Pergamon, 1985, translated into Korean, Norwegian and Italian), Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Peace Education (New York: Pergamon, 1989). Whose Education for All? Recolonizing the African Mind? (New York: Falmer Press, 2000), as well the co-edited book (with Zubeida Desai and Martha Qorro) Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (Dar es Salaam: E & D Publishers, 2003). Her list of publications includes eleven books of which she is the sole author (seven), coauthor (one), editor (one) and co-editor (two). She has written chapters in seventy-one books, written eighty three stencils, monographs and institute publications and hundred and twenty six articles in professional journals. She frequently serves as keynote lecturer at international research conferences. Professor Brock-Utne has done consultancy work for the UN, for UNESCO, UNICEF, OECD, Council of Europe, DSE, the Namibia Association of Norway, Ministry of Education, Namibia the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, NORAD, DANIDA, SIDA, and the Swedish Ambassador for Disarmament.
Please see Whose Education for All? published by the Namibian Institute for Educational Development, Reform Forum Number 12, and Language, Democracy and Education in Africa, published by The Nordic Africa Institute, Discussion Papers Number 15, July 2002.

PHILIP M. BROWN

Dr. Philip M. Brown is also a Member in our HumanDHS Education Team.
Dr. Philip M. Brown currently serves as Director of the New Jersey Center for Character Education, located in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. The New Jersey Center for Character Education provides professional development and consultation to programs that serve 800,000 students each year, and conducts evaluation research on the effectiveness of social development programs in ten demonstration school district sites. He has been working on applying systems theory to the educational change process in schools for the past 30 years, focusing on the areas of drug abuse prevention, school health services, social-emotional learning programs and using core ethical values as the basis for reforming school culture. He has previously worked for the Pennsylvania State Department of Health where he established the first standards for prevention professionals and the New Jersey Department of Education, where he created a regulatory framework for school health services and the first standard certificate for school-based drug and alcohol prevention specialists. Earlier in his career he served in the Peace Corps in Southern India and coordinated cross-cultural training for Peace Corps preparation programs at the University of Kentucky. 
Please see here Humiliation, Bullying and Caring in School Communities, paper prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
Philip M. Brown kindly guest-edited "Humiliation in the Academic Setting," A Special Symposium Issue of Experiments in Education, published by the S.I.T.U. Council of Educational Research in 2008.

MATT BRYDEN

Matt Bryden is an analyst and writer on Somali affairs and the Horn of Africa. He is a Senior Adviser with WSP-International, Senior Analyst with the International Crisis Group (ICG) and consultant to the United Nations Monitoring Group on the Somalia Arms Embargo. Matt is Co-Founder of the Academy for Peace and Development, an organization based in Hargeysa, Somaliland, dedicated to the promotion of peace, good governance and human rights, and has assisted in the foundation of the Puntland Development Research Centre in northeast Somalia, and the Centre for Research and Dialogue in Mogadishu. He has written extensively on the dynamics of conflict in the Horn, including the politics of statelessness and state reconstruction in Somalia, and the marginalisation of the Somali and Afar communities in Ethiopia.

SHARON BURDE

Sharon Burde, a mediator for over two decades, believes that a multi-cultural society with equal access to power and equal assumption of responsibility is the only way to achieve true democracy.
Sharon Burde teaches graduate students at NYU and is a member of the Steering Committee of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium. In former Yugoslavia she has worked with women of all ethnic origins to create new multiethnic programs and models.
She furthermore worked with Neve Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam for ten years - with Palestinians and Israelis in support of models that promote peace and justice. Neve Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam means "Oasis of Peace" in Hebrew and Arabic. It is a village, where an equal number of Jewish and Palestinian families live, work and educate their children in a community of peaceful co-existence and equality. Sharon is particularly interested in the Wahat al-Salam dimensions of deeply rooted conflict.
Please find here The Enigma of the Middle East - A Measure of Success by Sharon Burde, in Newsletter of the Conflict Resolution Center International, January 1998 pp. 27-28.

GUY BURGESS

Dr. Guy Burgess is a Founder and Co-Director (with Heidi Burgess) of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and has been working in the conflict resolution field, as a scholar and a practitioner, since 1979. His primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts, conflict framing, environmental conflict resolution, and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. He is one of the developers of the Online Training Program on Intractable Conflicts, and is the Co-Director of the CRInfo Project – the Conflict Resolution Information Source. Dr. Burgess has edited and authored a number of books and articles, the most recent being The Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution (with Heidi Burgess, ABC-Clio 1999).
Please see an Introduction to Their Work, note prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, November 18-19, 2004.
See furthermore a Project Overview: Advancing the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields: A Next-generation Brainstorming Project Developing 20-year Strategies for Addressing the Hard Questions, as well as Conflict Information Systems, and Taking the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields Outside the "Box", Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project and CRInfo – The Conflict Resolution Information Source.

HEIDI BURGESS

Dr. Heidi Burgess is a Founder and Co-Director (with Guy Burgess) of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium. Her primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts, conflict framing, environmental conflict resolution, and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. She is one of the developers of the Online Training Program on Intractable Conflicts, and is the Co-Director of the CRInfo Project – the Conflict Resolution Information Source. Dr. Burgess has edited and authored a number of books and articles, the most recent being The Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution (with Guy Burgess, ABC-Clio 1999).
Please see an Introduction to Their Work, note prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, November 18-19, 2004.
See furthermore a Project Overview: Advancing the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields: A Next-generation Brainstorming Project Developing 20-year Strategies for Addressing the Hard Questions, as well as Conflict Information Systems, and Taking the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields Outside the "Box", Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project and CRInfo – The Conflict Resolution Information Source.

NILS A. BUTENSCHØN

Nils A. Butenschøn is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. At this university, he has been Deputy Director of the Department of Political Science (1994-1998) and Director of the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights (renamed the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights), 1998-2004. He was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) at the University of Durham UK, 1993-1994. Professor Butenschøn’s research interests focus on conflicts in deeply divided societies, applying different theoretical approaches, and with a particular empirical orientation towards the Middle East.
At the Department of Political Science, Professor Butenschøn initiated and directed the projects "The Gulf Crisis and the Restructuring of the Middle East" (1990-1993) and "Citizenship and the State in the Middle East"(1994-1997). At the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, he initiated two major cross-disciplinary research programmes, "Human Rights in Norway" and "Accommodating Difference. Human Rights, Citizenship and Identity in Diverse Societies." Butenschøn is a founding member of the executive committee of the Association of Human Rights Institutes, a member of the Middle East editorial committee, the Journal of Citizenship Studies, and member of the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
Please find here Politics of Ethnocracies - Strategies and Dilemmas of Ethnic Domination by Nils Butenschøn, an extended version of a paper presented at the National Conference of Political Science, Geilo, Norway, 11-12 January 1993.

ALICIA CABEZUDO

Alicia Cabezudo is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Alicia Cabezudo is a Professor and Peace / Human Rights Educator and Consultant. Until recently, she was the Director of Educating Cities Latin America (International Relations Bureau, Municipality of Rosario, Argentina). The issue of humiliation is of deep concern to her because of the sufferings in the Latin-American region through dictatorship and torture. Her goal is to work on humiliation by trying to build a strong democratic consciousness – after the traumatic experiences of the region – from the individual and social point of view, and how to strengthen both individuals and societies in this direction. Her work as Director of Educating Cities – a strong international association developing educative programmes in cities – has given her the chance to work in Latin American Town Halls in order to approach this goal.

WILLIAM A. CALLAHAN

William A. Callahan is Director of the "Asian Studies in Europe and China" project, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the Department of Politics at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. He has just finished a major study of East Asian IR, Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, which will be published in 2004. Contingent States uses the example of Greater China - a powerful community which does not exist as a formal legal body - to question IR theory's norms of sovereignty, democracy, and the nation-state. Using an ethnographic approach to transnational politics, it traces out how Greater China emerges via networks of relations in local, national, regional, global and transnational space.
William Callahan's current book project National Insecurities: Ethics, Identity and Chinese Politics considers how "national humiliation" is key to understanding the links between East Asian revolutionary struggles in the early 20th century, and Chinese politics and foreign policy in the early 21st century. In 2002-2003, Callahan conducted this research as a British Academy fellow at Harvard University.
William Callahan is also the Director of a EUR 300,000 European Union-funded three year cooperative research project "Asian Studies in Europe and China" which links the University of Durham with Renmin University in Beijing and the Free University of Brussels.
William Callahan's research interests entail identity and politics, Chinese foreign policy, IR theory, Thai politics, East Asian IR, and post-structuralism. His key publications are the following: "Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Diasporic Chinese and Neo-Nationalism in China and Thailand" in International Organization, 57:3 (Summer 2003), pp. 481-517; "Humiliation, Salvation and Chinese Nationalism" in a special section "National Insecurities" of two articles edited and introduced by Callahan, Alternatives, 29:1 (Jan-March 2004); Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, (University of Minnesota Press, August 2004); Editor, special issue "The Limits of Chinese Nationalism,"The Journal of Contemporary China (2004); Imagining Democracy: Reading 'The Events of May in Thailand (Singapore/London: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1998).
Please see the websites http://www.dur.ac.uk/politics.department, and http://www.dur.ac.uk/EastAsianStudies/cccs.htm, as well as http://www.dur.ac.uk/chinese.politics.
Please find here National Insecurities: Humiliation, Salvation, and Chinese Nationalism by William A. Callahan, in Alternatives 29, 2004, 199–218.

JÖRG CALLIEß

Jörg Calließ is a Historian. Subsequent to his studies of History, Sociology and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Munich, he has lectured History at different German universities. Between 1977 and 1979, he has been responsible for the international work in the field of youth and adult education at Haus Sonnenberg (St. Andreasberg).
Since 1979, Jörg Calließ is Director of Studies at the Evangelische Akademie Loccum in the field of International Relations, Peace Studies and Peace Making program and, since 1999, also honorary professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.
During all these years, he has been active in several Conflict Resolutions and Peace Research initiatives. His research interests include international relations, world-politics, global governance, role of NGOs; peaceful conflict-management, crisis-prevention and conflict-resolution, role of NGOs and civil society in conflict-management and peacebuilding-processes, subjects of international security and security policy, relations between military and civilian contributions to peacemaking, European-American relations, and transatlantic cooperation.

VIRGINIA F. CAWAGAS

Dr. Virginia Floresca Cawagas is Project Coordinator at the Multi-Faith Centre, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Education & Professional Studies, Griffith University, Queensland Australia, and at the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. From 2003-2005, she was a visiting professor and academic consultant of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a centre established by the Agreement of UNESCO and the Government of the Republic of Korea, to promote education for international understanding (EIU) towards a culture of peace in the Asia-Pacific region. She edited the first APCEIU teachers’ resource book for Asian and Pacific countries for integrating EIU toward a culture of peace in social studies. She has been editor of the International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, since 1998. Dr. Cawagas has an Ed.D. in peace and development education (meritissimus) and has extensive teaching experience in the field of global/peace education, human rights education, and multicultural education in both formal and non-formal modes. She teaches, lectures, and conducts workshops in these fields for students, teachers, academics, school administrators, community leaders, and civil servants in the Philippines, Canada, US, Korea, Australia and the South Pacific.
Please see:
•  Toh, Swee-Hin and Cawagas, Virginia F. (Eds.) (2007). Proceedings of the International Symposium: Cultivating Wisdom, Harvesting Peace Education for a Culture of Peace Through Values, Virtues, and Spirituality of Diverse Cultures, Faiths, and Civilizations, 10-13 August 2005. Brisbane, Australia: The Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

STEPHEN CHAN

Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations in the University of London, and foundation Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He previously held senior positions at the Universities of Kent and Nottingham Trent, and was on the faculty of the University of Zambia. He has held visiting positions in many universities, lecturing on five continents, and has twice been Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House in Oxford. He delivered the 2003 Maurice Webb Memorial Lectures in Natal, South Africa. His major research interests are in African politics (Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence, I.B. Tauris and University of Michigan Press, 2003), and in the composition of an ethics for international discourse that recognises the philosophical methodologies of different cultures (The Zen of International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001; Out of Evil, London: I.B. Tauris, 2004).
Professor Chan has always sought a praxis in his life. As an international civil servant, he was stationed in both London and Lusaka, and was seconded to the Commonwealth Observer Group that oversaw the independence of Zimbabwe. He has since advised and trained ministries in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Mauritius, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea and Ethiopia. He has also played a professional role, having served on the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, and as Adviser in International Relations to the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission. He has also advised the Academy of Finland.
Born in 1949 to refugee parents in New Zealand, he took MA degrees from the University of Auckland and London University King's College, and later took the Ph.D. of the University of Kent. Before leaving New Zealand in 1976, he became well-known for his literary and political commitments and, in 1973, was elected President of the New Zealand University Students' Association. He has lived five years in Zambia and continues to visit Africa at least annually. He is involved in several programmes that bring the oriental martial arts to poor African urban areas. He has founded the Kwok Meil Wah Foundation as one means to support these programmes. For more on his literary and martial arts activities, please see:
Stephen Chan Literary
Stephen Chan Martial Arts
See through for a summary curriculum vitae, and for a complete bibliography of Stephen Chan's published works from 1969 to the present day.

AKIHIRO CHIBA

Professor Chiba has been Professor of International Education at the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo since 1991 and, even though now retired, he continues as a visiting professor to carry out research on education for conviviality in ICU's 21st Century Center of Excellence Program, Research and Education for Peace, Security and Conviviality. Before joining ICU, Akihiro Chiba has served UNESCO for 31 years. His most recent book is Why Literacy: The Reality of Developing Countries (second edition).
Akihiro Chiba is furthermore a Senior Advisor of the Kumon Institute of Education Co., Ltd. This institute applies a tailor-made system of self-learning, where students start with what they know, and build on it (at present 3.5 million children attend Kumon classes in 44 countries). Professor Chiba's fields of expertise are planning and training in literacy and project preparation, evaluation and monitoring in literacy. He speaks English, French, and Japanese and works internationally.

ZAHUR AHMED CHOUDHRI

Zahur Ahmed Choudhri is also a Member of the Global Core Team, and HumanDHS Global Staff.
Zahur Ahmed Choudhri, provided his services to the government of Pakistan for more than three decades. And he recently retired from his position as a Director (Research), National Centre for Rural Development & Municipal Administration, Government of Pakistan. While being working for the government of Pakistan, he acted as a team-leader for several research projects with international organizations, i.e. UNICEF, UNCRD, UNDP, LOGOTRI-UNESCAP, FAO, ILO, SAARC, IFAD, CIRDAP, APO, AARDO and IUCN.
Mr. Choudhri is also in the visiting faculty of couple of national universities in Pakistan, and sharing his life-long development sector experiences with the students of rural sociology, forestry and rural development. He has also been writing on ranges of issues and also has co-authored two books. Both books are looking at the notion of development through the lens of Islam, mainly answering the very crucial question, how various concepts and approaches of Islam teaches for development and peace from individual to a state and global level.

DAN CHRISTIE

KEVIN P. CLEMENTS

Kevin Paul Clements joined the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) in September 2003 from being Secretary General of International Alert, in London England. International Alert is one of the world's biggest NGO's working on Conflict Transformation in Africa, the Caucasus, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that he was the Vernon and Minnie Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution and Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia USA. Before George Mason he was Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Coordinator of Peace Studies at Canterbury University, Christchurch New Zealand. In the mid 1980s he was Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and a member of the New Zealand Delegation to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. He has been a Visiting Professor /Researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; The Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore and the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. He was a lecturer in Sociology at Hong Kong University in the early 1970s and a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford University. Kevin is a Past President of the International Peace Research Association, President of the IPRA Foundation and Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association. He was a member of the NZ Government Defence Committee of Enquiry in 1985 which explored how New Zealand could defend itself without nuclear weapons. Kevin was the inaugural President of the European Peace Building Liaison Organisation in Brussels and a Board Member of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention. He edited the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology in the late 1970s and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Peace Review, Global Change, Peace and Security, and Peace and Policy. He has been an advisor on defence, security and conflict issues to a range of governmental and non-governmental organisations in Australasia, the United States and Europe and Chairman, Facilitator and keynote speaker at many international Peace and Conflict Resolution conferences over the past 20 years. He is on the International Advisory Board of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Amherst Mass USA, Global Action to Abolish War, the International Peace Research Association Foundation and (Ex Officio) on the Executive of the International Peace Research Association Council.

SARA COBB

Sara Cobb, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University. As ICAR provides graduate degrees in conflict resolution, Dr. Cobb works to support both the production of original research and the integration between theory and practice. As faculty, she teaches theory, research and practice-based courses on negotiation and the transformation of disputes. In her role as Director, she provides liaison between ICAR and other private sector agencies/corporations, at national and international levels.
Through her research, she has specialized in the analysis of conflict narratives and has contributed to the critique of "neutrality" in conflict resolution processes. Dr. Cobb as published widely in communication studies and legal studies, supported by grants from the Ford Foundation and the UN High Commission on Refugees. She has held both administrative and academic positions at a variety of research institutions including Harvard Law School, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Connecticut. She has consulted to a host of family-owned businesses in North and South America, as well as to public and private organizations, including UN High Commission on Refugees, La Caxia Bank, and Exxon. She has conducted training for the American Bar Association, Fox Learning Academy and a number of universities in Europe and Latin America. The blend of academic research, program development, and practice enables Dr. Cobb to offer both systematic critique of traditional methods for conflict intervention, as well as new methods for intervention that focus on the transformation of narratives in conflict processes.
Please see here "Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development, paper prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.

DAN BARON COHEN

Dan Baron Cohen is a playwright, community-theatre director, performance-based arts-educator and cultural activist, presently living and working in Brazil. He studied English Literature at Oxford University where he did doctoral research into theatre as popular education. After a decade of community theatre and mural collaborations dedicated to conflict transformation and social justice with excluded communities in Manchester (Northern England) and Derry (North of Ireland), in 1994 Dan accepted a permanent post in theatre and popular education at the University of Glamorgan, in Wales.
In 1999, following a year of collaborations in Brazil, Dan left university teaching to return to working as a freelance community-based arts educator in Brazil. His past ten years of projects with landless, indigenous, trade-union and university communities in Brazil have advanced his collective storytelling methods and cultural literacy techniques into a pedagogy of 'transformance' which he has refined in dialogue with practitioners and communities in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. More recently, Dan has used these techniques to develop community sculpture, mosaics, dance-theatre and teacher-training courses within universities and social movements throughout the world. In addition to articles and exhibitions, his publications include Theatre of Self Determination (2001), and Cultural Literacy: the intimate struggle for a new humanity (2004).
Dan is President of the International Drama-Education Association (IDEA), Chair of the World Alliance for Arts Education, and member of the International Committee of the World Social Forum.

DOV COHEN

Dov Cohen graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has taught at the University of Illinois and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His general research interests have to do with cultural continuity and change and the impact of social norms. Specific areas of research have examined violence, honor, relationship issues, and perspectives on the self, individualism and collectivism, and cultural influences on memory.
Professor Cohen has published on topics such as honor and violence, see for example, Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South (Westview Press, 1996, co-authored with Richard E. Nisbett). See furthermore, "Field Experiments Examining the Culture of Honor: The Role of Institutions in Perpetuating Norms About Violence" in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1997, together with Richard E. Nisbett, "Meanings of Violence" in Journal of Legal Studies, 1997, together with Joseph A. Vandello, as well as "The sacred and the social: Honor and violence in cultural context" in Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture, edited by Paul Gilbert and Bernice Andrews, Oxford University Press, 1998, co-authored with Joseph A. Vandello and Adrian Bantilla.

PETER T. COLEMAN

Peter T. Coleman is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Peter T. Coleman is the Director of ICCCR and Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Social / Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Iowa. He has conducted research on social entitivity processes (ingroup/outgroup formation), gender discrimination in organizations, the mediation of inter-ethnic conflict, ripeness in intractable conflict, conflict resolution & difference, and on the conditions which foster the constructive use of social power. [read more]

BEVERLY CRAWFORD

Beverly Crawford is the Associate Director and Associate Research Political Scientist at the Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

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