Global Core Team

	EVELIN G. LINDNER Evelin Gerda Lindner is the Founding Director and President of HumanDHS and a social scientist and holds two Ph.D.s, one in medicine and one in psychology. In 1996, she designed a research project on the concept of humiliation and its role in genocide and war. German history served as starting point. [read more]

	DONALD C. KLEIN † June 8, 2007, but spiritually always with us! Donald C. Klein, Ph.D., was also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. [...] He was Professor Emeritus of the Graduate College of The Union Institute & University, which offers an innovative non-residential doctoral program for working adults. Don Klein has been one of the first to explicitly examine and write on the humiliation phenomena. His first publication on humiliation goes back to 1991 (Journal of Primary Prevention on the Humiliation Dynamic, Vol 12, no. 2, Winter, 1991; Vol 12, No. 3, Spring 1992). [read more]

	LINDA M. HARTLING Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, Global Coordinating Team, HumanDHS's Research Team, and HumanDHS's Education Team. She is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). Linda is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, which is a new model of psychological development. [read more]

	VICTORIA C. FONTAN Victoria Christine Fontan is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, the HumanDHS Research Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore the former Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). Victoria is the Director of Academic Development, and Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. As a Fellow to the Iraq Project at the CICR in Columbia University, Victoria is in charge of developing a permanent Conflict Resolution curriculum in northern Iraqi universities. [read more]

	AMY C. HUDNALL Amy C. Hudnall is a Member of HumanDHS's Education Team, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). She is also HumanDHS's representative to the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). Amy is a Lecturer in the History and Women's Studies Departments at Appalachian State University and a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State University. Amy Hudnall is teaching an interdisciplinary course on the development of warfare and peacemaking and preparing an interdisciplinary course on genocide that will have a heavy focus on psychology. [read more]

	CHRISTOPHER SANTEE Christopher Santee is also a Member in our HumanDHS Education Team, and Project Associate of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). He is currently studying and residing in San José, Costa Rica. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Peace Studies from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, USA in 2005. Christopher has been working and interning at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica since February, 2005. He hopes to enroll in a masters degree program in a yet-to-be determined institution for Sustainable Development, Peace Studies or International Relations with a focus on Latin America. [read more]

	BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN Bertram Wyatt-Brown is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors and was the Guest Editor of "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives," a Special Issue of Social Alternatives (Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, 2006), edited by Ralph Summy. Richard J. Milbauer Emeritus Professor of History, University of Florida, and Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, he has published numerous works in history relating to honor: Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (1982); The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family (1994); The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War (2001) [...] Wyatt-Brown is currently preparing books entitled Lincoln's Assassination and the Undoing of Union Victory and Melancholy's Children: Modern Southern Writers and Depression. [read more]

	MOHAMMED BAYEZID DAWLA Bayezid Dawla is a dignity activist. ... He is currently the (honorary) Executive Director of Civic Bangladesh, a civil society organization (CSO) registered as a Trust working to advance democracy and democratic governance through civic education and engagement. He is also General Secretary of Bangladesh Dignity Forum, which is leading an Equal Dignity Campaign launched in 2006 by Civic Bangladesh. [read more]

	MOHAMMAD ABUL KALAM AZAD Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad has completed his M.A program in Peace Education from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica in 2006. He has written his thesis on “Peace and Stability in Bangladesh through Peace, Charity and Sustainable Development Education.” In his thesis, he has especially emphasised the Zakah System (Obligatory Charity) in Islam as a big financial resource, which can be used for non-profitable microcredit projects for poverty alleviation. [read more]

	NICHOLAS CARL MARTIN Nick is a also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. Nick is currently a visiting fellow at the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) campus in Costa Rica. He also serves as Deputy Director of UPEACE/US, a foundation created in the U.S. for charitable purposes and dedicated exclusively to the advancement of educational peace initiatives and programs established by the United Nations University for Peace. [read more]

	ERIC VAN GRASDORFF Eric Van Grasdorff is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, and the HumanDHS Global Core Coordinating Team. He is a Political Scientist and has graduated from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, on the topic African Renaissance and Discourse Ownership in the Information Age (2003). Born and grown up in Dakar, Senegal and later in Germany, he has very early in his life developed an intercultural identity. [read more]

	FRANCISCO GOMES DE MATOS Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos is also a Member of our HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, and kindly coordinates two of our projects: he is the Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Language for Equal Dignity Project and of HumanDHS's Creativity Through Equal Dignity Project. Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos taught linguistics and languages at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Recife, northeastern Brazil till his retirement in 2003. He holds degrees in languages and law from UFPE and in linguistics from the University of Michigan and the Catholic University of São Paulo. [read more]

	ROSITA ALBERT Rosita Albert is a Visiting Scholar in the Social Psychology area of the Psychology Department at Harvard, and her research focuses on Intercultural Relations and Intercultural Conflicts. She is also an Associate Professor in the pioneering program in Intercultural Communication at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. 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. [read more]

	Nora Femenia (Ph.D.) is also a Member in the HumanDHS Education Team. Nora is a Peace Scholar by the United States Institute of Peace, is a Professor of Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building at the Labor Center in Florida International University, where she teaches courses in conflict management, cross-cultural communication, and organizational conflict systems design, both in English and Spanish. She has done extensive research and writing on the resolution of the Falklands-Malvinas conflict, exploring the emotional roots of war-prone governmental decision-making. [read more]

	KENNETH SUSLAK Dr. Kenneth Suslak is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Union Institute and University and a Clinical Psychologist for over 35 years with a specialization on the effects of war and oppression on children. He has provided consultation, treatment, and training services for professionals and indigenous workers in many countries, including Belarus, Latvia, Russia, Israel/Palestine, and the U.S. [read more]

	HILDEGUNN NORDTUG Hildegunn Nordtug is also a member in our HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team. Hildegunn has just earned her Master's degree in Social and Community Psychology at the University of Trondheim. She wrote her thesis, Implicit Prejudice against Arab Immigrants, on social desirability as response bias with a survey on sexual harassment and violation among youth. She was also working as a research assistant for associate professor Ute Gabriel on an experiment about prejudice. [read more]

	MAGGIE O'NEILL Maggie O'Neill is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Education Team, and HumanDHS Research Team, as part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team, particularly to our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. She is furthermore a Member of the Academic Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). Maggie O'Neill is based in Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University. [...] She co-edited Sociology (with Tony Spybey): the journal of the British Sociological Association from 1999-2002; she is a member of various professional associations including the National Network of Sex Work Projects and the British Sociological Association and British Criminology Association. [read more]

	FLOYD WEBSTER RUDMIN Floyd Webster Rudmin is Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project and the HumanDHS World Gender Relations for Equal Dignity Project, as well as the HumanDHS Apology Project. He is also a member of the HumanDHS Advisory Board and Research Team. Floyd Webster Rudmin, Ph.D., is a Professor of Social and Community Psychology at the University of Tromsø in Norway. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy in Bowdoin College, his M.A. in Audiology in SUNY, Buffalo, his M.A. in Psychology at Queen's University, Canada, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Queen's University, Canada. His research interests include cognitive history (psychology of historical beliefs), psychology of ownership, cross-cultural psychology, statistical methods, peace research, and history of psychology. [read more]

	DANIEL L. SHAPIRO Daniel L. Shapiro, Ph.D., advises the HumanDHS Public Policy for Equal Dignity Project. He is the Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School. He is on the faculty of Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry. Trained in clinical psychology, his research and teaching focus primarily on the role of emotions in negotiation and international conflict management. [read more]

	SAYAKA FUNADA-CLASSEN Sayaka Funada-Classen is Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2008-). Sayaka holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Tsuda Colledge. She is the author of The Origins of 'Unity' and 'Division' in Contemporary Mozambican History, published in Japanese by Ochanomizu Shobo in 2007, awarded by Japan Association of African Studies in 2008. [read more]

	ELISABETH E. SCHEPER Elisabeth E. Scheper has until recently been the Director of Program Development of the World Conference of Religions for Peace, based in New York. She researches and writes about innovative civil society conflict prevention approaches (as a Fellow and Associate at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, since 2000). [read more]

	NOAM EBNER Born in the US and residing in Israel, Noam is an attorney and an accomplished mediator. Directing a Jerusalem-based mediation center, he has dealt with hundreds of conflicts as a third party neutral or advisor. Settling day-to-day conflicts in a conflictual locale, Noam has dealt with issues ranging from divorce mediation and business disputes to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. [...] Noam has taught and trained in Israel's leading universities, colleges and organizations and is a faculty member of Sabanci University's Graduate Program on Conflict Analysis and Resolution in Istanbul, Turkey. [read more]

	SOPHIE SCHAARSCHMIDT Sophie Schaarschmidt is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She was born nearby Dresden, Germany, 27 years ago. She has lived and studied in several countries, including Great Britain, Netherlands and Malta. She is a doctorate student of psychology working at the "FernUniversität" in Hagen, Germany (a distance learning university). [read more]

	JUDIT RÉVÉSZ Judit Révész is also a Member in the HumanDHS Global Core Coordinating Team and the HumanDHS Education Team. In 2007 Judit received her Master of Science in Organization Development from the American University and the NTL Institute joint program. Prior to that, she graduated from ELTE School of Law Budapest, Hungary in 1998 and practiced litigation and corporate law for a year in Hungary. She then studied conflict resolution and mediation at Columbia University, Teachers College, in New York in 2001. Judit subsequently worked as a mediator in New York on cases referred by the Small Claims Court. [read more]

	BEATRICE JACUCH Beatrice Jacuch is a clinical psychologist currently interning at the Prague Psychiatric Center in the Czech Republic where she provides psychotherapy and assessment. She received her Masters degree in clinical psychology from the Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her dissertation was on psychological resilience to terrorism and combat trauma in a sample of civilian and military personnel in Iraq. [read more]

	MICHAEL DAHAN Michael Dahan is lecturer in communication studies and political science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His main research interests include civil society organizations and ICTs; transnational civil society; new media, politics, and society; cultural aspects of ICTs; intercultural dialogue; coexistence issues and comparative politics. [read more]

	REBECCA ANN KLEIN Rebecca Ann Klein is interested in creating effective, culturally sensitive nutrition programs within the field of Public Health. She is currently a student at Tufts University, working for a Master of Science in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, with the aim to gain skills to run international health projects, and/or work with the politics and policies that affect the global food supply. She also takes classes at Tufts' school of International Law and Diplomacy. [read more]

	ASHRAF SALAMA Professor Salama is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Reseach Team, and the Director and Coordinator of the HumanDHS World Architecture for Equal Dignity Project. Dr. Ashraf Salama Dr. Ashraf Salama is Professor of Architecture in the Architectural Engineering Program of Qatar University in Doha. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals-KFUPM. He was the Director of Research and Consulting at Adams Group Consultants in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (2001-04). [read more]

	HAYÂL (ÖZIŞIKLIOĞLU) KÖKSAL Hayal Köksal, Ph.D., is a teacher, trainer, researcher, and author. She is the Turkish Founder of the “CMS-QOMER Initiative for Peace Education.” She is the advisor and coordinator of the Innovative Teachers Program of Microsoft Turkey, and consultant of Educational Quality, Leadership and Project Management. Dr. Köksal was born in Balıkesir, Turkey in 1956. She graduated from Izmir Teachers' Training College in 1976, and Educational Faculty of Marmara University in 1985. She received her MA in English Language Teaching from Gaziantep University in 1992, and her Ph.D. in Educational Sciences in 1997. [read more]

	DUKE DUCHSCHERER Duke Duchscherer is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. He is a CNVC-certified trainer at the Center for Nonviolent Communication.

	DHARM P.S. BHAWUK Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, is a Member of the HumanDHS Advisory Board, 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, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [...] 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). [read more]

	EDWARD J. EMERY Edward J. Emergy is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team and HumanDHS Education Team. He is the Chief Representative to the United Nations for World Information Transfer, an international NGO in Genral Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council at the UN. He is also a Senior Partner with Ethical Futures and a psychoanalyst in private practice. Dr. Emery has lectured and taught internationally. [read more]

	MIRIAM PINA Miriam Pina is a Brazilian, mother of seven children, a writer, translator-interpreter, and teacher of English. She spent five years in Angola (19991-1996), originally to work for the Focolare Movement, but she also worked for the U.N. The place she worked in was called United Nations Angola Verification Mission. She has written a series of articles on her experience (some with a focus on Humiliation) for the Brazilian Focolare magazine CIDADE NOVA. [read more]

	TREVOR L. BALLANCE Trevor L. Ballance is a lecturer and researcher at Josai International University, Japan, in the Department of International Exchange. He teaches courses on NGO issues and case studies on the NGO/business relationship. In addition to his teaching commitments, Trevor also works with local NGOs to provide students with work experience and is currently helping set up an NGO Support Center at the University. [read more]

	NEIL RYAN WALSH Neil Ryan Walsh the Director and Coordinator of the HumanDHS Japan for Equal Dignity (JED) project. He is currently working with the Kaminokawa-machi board of education as a member of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET Program). Neil has recently completed a part time internship with the United Nations Department of Public Informations Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (12/05 6/06). [read more]

	NEIL ALTMAN Neil Altman is co-editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives and Associate Clinical Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. He is author of the The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanlaytic Lens and co-author of Relational Child Psychotherapy. He is a member of Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility. [read more]

	EINAR STRUMSE Einar Strumse is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team and the HumanDHS Architecture Team. Einar Strumse (Cand. Psychol. and PhD in psychology) is associate professor of psychology and head of the psychology programme at the Lillehammer University College (LUC). He is also adjunct associate professor of environmental psychology at the University of Bergen. Since 1990 his research in the field of environmental psychology has focused upon landscape preference/landscape aesthetics, environmental attitudes and predictors of environmental behaviors. [read more]

	KATRINE FANGEN Katrine Fangen, Ph.D., is a sociologist, working at the Department of Sociology, University of Oslo. She has published several books and journal articles within the research-field of racism, national, political and ethnic identity, stigmatisation and youth subcultures. [...] Fangen has published research reports on forced marriages and a study of living conditions and life quality among people suffering from HIV/AIDS. She has also published several research reports on racism and integration of immigrants. [read more]

	ØYVIND EIKREM Øyvind Eikrem (b. 1973), Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. He is Associate Professor of Social Sciences and of Mental Health at the University College of Stord/Haugesund, Norway. He studied social anthropology, clinical psychology and philosophy at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ending up with postgraduate degrees in all three fields. Eikrem obtained his PhD in 2005 from the same institution on a dissertation on the magic and mythic dimensions of modern economic life. [read more]

	PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ MOSQUERA Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. She is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. Patricia studied psychology at the Autónoma University of Madrid (Spain) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA, The Netherlands). She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. [read more]

	ARRAN STIBBE Arran Stibbe is the Director and Coordinator or HumanDHS's Dignity Beyond the Human World Project. Arran Stibbe has a PhD in linguistics from Lancaster University and is the founder of the Centre for Language and Ecology. He has applied discourse analysis to a variety of domains including the social construction of health, illness, disability, nonhuman animals and the environment. His current research is aimed at uniting insights from these domains within a framework of ecological linguistics. [read more]

	THOMAS CLOUGH DAFFERN Dr. Thomas Clough Daffern is the Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's Cross-Cultural Linguistics for Equal Dignity. He is the Director of the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, Wales and London, UK. Thomas is involved in peace philosophy, peace studies, and mulitfaith and multicultural mediation and he is also co-convenor for the International Peace Research Association Peace Theories Commission – meeting in 2006 in Calgary. [read more]

	JENNIFER S. GOLDMAN Dr. Jennifer S. Goldman is an Instructor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University and a member of the HumanDHS Research Team. She has conducted extensive research on the role of emotions in protracted conflict. Her dissertation The Differential Effects of Collective- Versus Personal-level Humiliating Experiences focused on the role humiliation plays in exacerbating conflict. She is currently examining how leaders use wisdom to successfully transform long-term conflicts. [read more]

	JEAN BERCHMANS NDAYIZIGIYE Jean Berchmans Ndayizigiye (USA/Africa) is a French Language Assistant at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, and has a M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University (2000). The title of his project is Refugees from the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa & Humiliation. [read more]

	ANNETTE A. ENGLER Annette Anderson-Engler, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. She earned her doctorate in 2008 at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco, California. Her research focuses on humiliation and displaced identity in children of combat soldiers. She is currently researching the link between children of Vietnam Veterans and humiliation as it relates to the displacement of their identity. [read more]

	MIRIAM MARTON Miriam H. Marton is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. She is an attorney and a social worker in New York (after Detroit, MI), USA. Prior to practicing law, Miriam Marton spent 14 years as a therapist specializing in the treatment of and advocacy for domestic violence and sexual abuse survivors. [read more]

	LENE HULBAKVIKEN LAFOSSE Lene Hulbakviken Lafosse is also a Member in the HumanDHS Education Team and HumanDHS Research Team. Her current project is titled "Stories of trauma, a study of space for action and possibilites." Through the telling of life stories she will show the implications of trauma in the life of young adults/adults from the Middle-East and/or North Africa presently living in Norway. [read more]

	SOWAN WONG Sowan Wong is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team, and of the Global Coordinating Team. She has earned her Masters in Psychology from Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Michael Harris Bond as academic advisor. She is now working on her Ph.D. at Brunel Univeristy, West London, UK. [read more]

	VIVIAN LUN Vivian Lun is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. She has recently obtained the degree of M. Phil. in Psychology from the Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Michael Harris Bond as academic advisor. [...] She is interested in cross-cultural research, because she believes they help understand and respect the similarities and differences among people from different cultural backgrounds. [read more]

	ELENA KOZOULINA Elena Kozoulina has just (2005) earned her Ph.D. from the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo. Her research interests are Intercultural Communication, Cultural Anthropology, Decision Making and Conflict Resolution. The title of her doctoral thesis is "Identity Continuity Among the Indigenous People of Eastern Siberia in Post-Soviet Space." [read more]

	KEITARO MORITA Keitaro Morita is a JED–Academic Advisor for Gender and Environmental Studies. He is a Doctor of Business Administration student in Network and Social Organization at the Graduate School of Social Design Studies at St. Paul's (Rikkyo) University in Tokyo, Japan. He earned his B.A. in International Legal Study from Sophia (Jochi) University in Tokyo. His research interests are humiliations, in particular those against environment (the Kyoto Protocol) as well as against gender/sexuality (eco-feminism). From January to March 2006, he interned at the U.N. headquarters in New York. He has published six academic papers so far, four on environment and two on gender. [read more]

	JEAN-DAMASCÈNE GASANABO Jean-Damascène Gasanabo (Damas) is also Member of our Research Team and Education Team. He has a PhD in Education from the University of Geneva (2004) with the title Memories and History Textbooks: The Case of Rwanda from 1962 to 1994 on October 26, 2004 (en français: Mémoires et histoire scolaire: le cas du Rwanda de 1962 à 1994). Damas participates in our Refugees & Humiliation research and the title of his project is African Refugees and Humiliation: Comparative Study on Refugees in Africa And in Europe. [read more]

	ALYI PATRICK LALUR Alyi Patrick Lalur (Uganda/UK) is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team, and Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's Child Soldiers Worldwide Project. He is currently enrolled for the Masters of Philosophy in International Peace Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace with research interest in Justice and Reconciliation during period of war. Patrick Lalur is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. He is part of HumandDHS's upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. The title of his project is Resilience, Humiliation and Adulthood Sexual Abuse: Understanding the Psychology of Violence Among Sudanese Refugees living in Uganda. [read more]

	MUGISHA KAFUREEKA LAWYER Mughisha Kafureeka Lawyer, Ph.D., is an Economist and Policy Analyst. He is the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kabale University, and Member of the University Council (2005). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Basic Research in Kololo-Kampala, Uganda. [read more]

	ROBERTA L. KOSBERG Roberta L. Kosberg (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Communication Studies at Curry College, where she teaches courses in conflict management, gender communication, small group problem-solving and persuasive speaking. She has done extensive research and writing on the resolution of interpersonal conflict, presidential advocacy of international cooperation, and mentoring as an alternative to school-based conflict resolution programs for adolescents. [read more]

	MARY BALIKUNGERI Mary Balikungeri is the Executive Director of Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN). Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN) is a national humanitarian non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to promotion and improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women in Rwanda through enhancing their efforts to meet their basic needs. [read more]

	MARÍA CRISTINA AZCONA María Cristina Azcona is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. María studied at Universidad del Salvador, Argentina. She is Psicopedagoga (which means Educational Psychologist or Psycho Pedagogist). María Cristina is working as a researcher in peace education through literature. She has been working as a psychotherapist focused on the resolution of family and marriage conflicts. [...] She has authored four books and many articles and poems in English and Spanish, about family, society and Peace, published mostly in USA, India, Argentina and recently, UK. [read more]

	SUSMITA THUKRAL Susmita is also a Member of the the HumanDHS Education Team and the HumanDHS Research Team. Susmita is from New Delhi, India. She has a Masters in Psychology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Susmita has extensive research experience and has worked on an interdisciplinary research project on the lives of individuals who witnessed the partition of India and the violence that it entailed. Her scholarly interests include genocide, war trauma and terrorism. She wishes to actively work in the area of trauma studies in a way that allows her to combine her psychodynamic orientation and socio-political interests. [read more]

	NASEER A. GANAI Naseer A Ganai is a senior correspondent with Greater Kashmir, the largest circulating English daily of Kashmir (India). He covers human rights and ethnic issues besides the situation along the state's troubled border with Pakistan-administered part of the state. He covered the 2005 major earthquake which killed more than 75000 people across the divided state. [read more]

	NOOR AKBAR Noor Akbar is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, and of the HumanDHS Research Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. He is a native of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and has earlier worked as a free lance journalist. He has a Master's degree in Journalism & Mass Communication from the University of Peshawar and is presently doing his Master's degree in Political Science from the same university. The title of his project in the HumanDHS's Research Agenda is Terrorism and Humiliation: To Show Empirically that Humiliation Is one of the Root Causes of Terrorism. [read more]

	CHRISTINE MARIA LOCHER Christine Locher studied Journalism, Intercultural Communication and Psychology in Munich, Germany. She graduated with an M. A. in 2004, her thesis was on "National Stereotypes in German travel guidebooks about Japan." Her interest for research about stereotypes was greatly inspired by her longer stays abroad in Japan and Ecuador. [read more]

	CRAIG DORSI Craig Dorsi is is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. Craig is a teacher who has taught social studies, sociology and psychology, in New York. [...] Recently he has focused on International Educational Development with a concentration in Peace Education at Teachers College. [...] Progressive curriculum ideas differentiated instructional techniques, holistic education, and an interest in cognitive development represent some of his pedagogical philosophy. [read more]

	STEVEN PERRY FLYTHE Steven P. Flythe received his B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers College, Rutgers University. [...] Currently, Steven is in his second year at Teachers College, Columbia University, pursuing a doctorate in International Educational Development with a focus on Family and Community Development. [read more]

	ANA LJUBINKOVIC Ana Ljubinkovic is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. She holds a Masters degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights and is currently doing her PhD in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex, UK. The research is entitled 'Collateral Effects or the New Wretched of the World: Invisible Victims of Human Rights Crusades'. [read more]

	STEPHANIE HEUER Stephanie Heuer is also a Member in the HumanDHS Education Team. Safa is is currently a Technology and Computer Lab instructor for the third year at Randol Elementary School teaching grades K-5. A seasoned 10-year employee of Hewlett Packard during the 80's, Stephanie lived in Tokyo for two years implementing semiconductor software and teaching Engineering Analysis in Korea and Taiwan. [read more]

	MAURICE BENAYOUN Maurice Benayoun is a transmedia artist born in 1957. His work explores the potentiality of various media from video, to virtual reality, Web and wireless art, public space large scale art installations and interactive exhibitions. Maurice Benayoun's work has been widely exhibited all over the world and received numerous international awards and prizes. [read more]

	ABDI ROBLE Please see his contributions to the HumanDHS World Art for Equal Dignity project. Abdi Roble immigrated to the United States in 1989, and later moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he developed his passion for photography. He started two photography groups – the Focus Group (1998) and the African American Photographers of North America (1999). [read more]

	KENNETH HEMMERICK Born in Montreal, Canada, K Kenneth Hemmerick graduated from Concordia University, earning a BFA with distinction in Interdisciplinary Studies. He also took music at Le Conservatoire de musique de Québec where he studied viola with Otto Joachim and piano with Anton Krashinski. He also studied piano with Dr. Daisy Peterson Sweeney, his foster mother. Kenneth has kindly contributed to HumanDHS's World Art for Equal Dignity Project page and has furthermore kindly agreed to be the Director of our Prevent Suicide by Extending Equal Dignity to All project. [read more]

	HILARIE ROSEMAN Hilarie Roseman earned her BA (1988) from Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne Australia, and her MA (2000) from RMIT Melbourne, Australia (in Communication Research). She has a Diploma of Visual Arts (2003) from East Gippsland Institute of TAFE. Hilarie and her husband John have eight children and twelve grandchildren and live in Victoria, Australia. [read more]

	VERENA BENTZEN [read more]

	PANDORA HOPKINS Pandora Hopkins, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), is a full-time writer. She was formerly a faculty member of Yale University, Rutgers University and CUNY (City University of New York), and Mexico/US. [read more]

	ZAHID SHAHAB AHMED Zahid Shahab Ahmed is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. Zahid is one of the postgraduates from UPEACE in peace education. Soon after finishing his course work he went to Sao Paulo, Brazil in July 2006 to train youngsters from all over the world with his workshops on youth for peace: youth cooperation and peace education. While being at the UPEACE, he also participated in the peace education curriculum development workshop (Canada), the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights conference (USA), and also did a summer in the advanced study of non-violent conflicts from the Fletcher School, Tufts University (USA). [read more]

	ODA KLEMPE Oda Klempe [read more]

	EVELIN FRERK Evelin Frerk was born in Hamburg in North Germany. Initially, she worked as a journalist. From 1977-1989, she studied Ethnology and Journalism, and travelled the Northern Sahara. Subsequently, she left journalism and made photography her medium of expression. She documented, for example, the "Hamburger Ideenkette" that was orgnised by Evelin Lindner in 1993. [read more]

	JOSÉ CALVO GONZÁLEZ José Calvo González (n. Sevilla 1956) est Licencié en Droit (spécialité Droit Privé) pour l´Université de Sevilla (1978). Docteur en Droit (1984). Professeur de Théorie du Droit et Philosophie du Droit (Faculté de Droit. Université de Málaga. Espagne) (1986). [read more]

	TONYA R. HAMMER Tonya R. Hammer is also a Member of the Global Coordinating Team, and the HumanDHS Research Team. In August 2008, Tonya took up the position of Assistant Professor with the University of Houston-Clear Lake, in Texas, U.S.A. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at the Counselor Education and Supervision department at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. Her Masters degree in Psychology and Counseling is from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas and her bachelor's degree is in English from the University of Texas, Arlington. [read more]

	MYRA MENDIBLE Myra Mendible is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. Myra is Associate Professor in the Humanities Division at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, where she teaches Contemporary Literature and Ethnic Studies courses for the English Department. She was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to the US as a child. Mendible earned a Ph.D. (with honors) in American Literature and Culture Studies from the University of Miami in 1993 and then joined Florida Gulf Coast University as founding faculty in 1994. [read more]

	MERCEDES GONZALES ST. ELIN Mercedes Gonzales St.Elin (Peru/Switzerland/U.S.A) is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. Mercedes born in Peru. She is a lawyer (BA in Law from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón; LLM in Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law from University of Geneva and Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva). She is the director of the Migrant Farmworkers Project, Legal Aid of Western Missouri. As to her professional experience, she worked in Geneva, at the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affaires, Geneva Branch, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica, and for the Peruvian Ombudsman. The title of her project is Dignity-Humiliation in the Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Latin America: The examples of Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Mexico. [read more]

	RINA KASHYAP Rina Kashyap is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, (EMU). She is the Chair of the Department of Journalism at Lady Shri Ram College (LSR), University of Delhi. She has held this position since the inception of the department in 1995. She is also a faculty member in the Department of Political Science in the same college. While at EMU, she will be co-teaching the course, Women, Trauma, Leadership and Peacebuilding at the Summer (2006) Peacebuilding Institute at EMU. [read more]

	ZHANG XUAN (AGGIE) Aggie conducts her graduate studies at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing, China. Prior to that she was a psychology student at the Department of Psychology in Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Two of her research papers were published in Chinese psychological journals. Her goal is to raise Chinese students' awareness of mental health. [read more]

	NUNO LUZIO [read more]

	MICHEL DANINO Born in France in 1956, from the age of fifteen Michel Danino was drawn to India and to Sri Aurobindo and Mother. In 1977, after four years of higher scientific studies, he left for India. He participated in the English translation and publication of many books related to Sri Aurobindo and Mother, in particular Mothers Agenda (13 volumes). [read more]

	BRIAN LYNCH Brian Lynch, M.D., has been in private medical practice for 20 years in Chicago, Ill, U.S. While educated as a Family Practitioner he has come to be an almost full time psychotherapist with a concentration in “substance” abuse. [...] He is author of “How To Get Where You Want To Go: Twelve Steps To Emotional Health: Knowing your emotions and how to use them.” This is a general primer on Affect Psychology and was first meant to be for physicians. [read more]

	KATHLEEN FREIS Kathleen Freis is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. Kathleen is the Manager of Group Offerings for Synergos, an organization that helps bring global philanthropists together to deepen their knowledge and commitment to social justice philanthropy. Kathleen is responsible for designing, facilitating and evaluating educational and reflective meetings, events, retreats, and workshops including overseas site visits that expose individuals to humanitarian fieldwork. [read more]

	MICHAEL F. BRITTON Michael Britton is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the Global Advisory Board, 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. [read more]

	ZAHUR AHMED CHOUDHRI Zahur Ahmed Choudhri is also a Member of the Global Advisory Board, and HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team. 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. [read more]

	JESSICA E. CICHALSKI Jessica E. Cichalski is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team. [read more]

	OLGA R. PEREZ Olga R. Perez is a mediator in a not for profit program in New York that provides intensive therapy, social work and mediation services to adolescents and families where there is high risk of child placement (due to behavioral problems) or where the child is transitioning from placement back into the family setting. [read more]

	BENTE LOHNE [read more]

	HARSH AGARWAL Harsh Agarwal is also Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project. He has worked with several leading National and International Organisation including the United Nations both in India and abroad. He has worked closely with young people from more than 40 different countries which has increased his understanding of different cultures, societies, human behaviour, and social issues. [read more]

	MARILIA BORGES COSTA Marilia Borges Costa did Graduate and Undergraduate studies in Letters and Foreign Languages at the Universisty of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her Master's thesis in Chinese-American literature is entitled "Diasporic Threads in the Narratives of The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston". She taught Portuguese at Beijing University in 2004-5 and at present is teaching English and Portuguese at Beijing Union University. [read more]

	BRIAN WARD Brian is also a member of the HumanDHS Gobal Coordinating Team. Brian presents himself to us as follows: My name is Brian Ward and I am a 55 year old male New Zealander from Irish and Scottish descent. I am married with two teenage children and a 27 year old daughter from an earlier marriage. My work has been mostly as a public servant as a traffic and roading engineer, and I now work from home as a consultant. [read more]

	SARA KHAN Sara Khan is currently a lecturer and research coordinator at Center for Media and Communication studies at International Islamic University Islamabad. She has an academic background in Media studies as well as gender and peace studies. In line with her Journalism studies, Sara Khan worked for several publications and media outlets. [read more]

	TINA OTTMAN Esta Tina Ottman is also a Member of the HumanDHS's Research Team, and Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Films for Equal Dignity Project. Born in Manchester, UK, and educated at Oxford University, Tina Ottman is [...] currently associate professor at the School of Government (in the School of Law) at Kyoto University, Japan. She attempts to balance research interests in Israel/Palestine/gender with labour activism, and is a coordinator of the Japan conference series Peace as A Global Language. [read more]

	BILL LELAND Born in San Francisco, California in 1940, Bill has had a variety of life experiences which have contributed to his continuing lifelong learning. His formal education brought him an undergraduate degree (B.A.) in history from Amherst College and a graduate degree (M.A.) in counseling from Stanford University. Bill’s entire employment career has been in either education or in the nonprofit sector. [read more]

	ALEXANDER PATRUT Alexander Patrut is also a member of our HumanDHS Education Team. Alexander Patrut, né Berger, Ph.D., studied Applied Cultural Studies and Pedagogy at the University of Lüneburg (Germany) and did his Ph.D. on the History of Mass Media and Environmental History. He is member of the Centre of Excellence “Paul Celan” at the University of Bucharest (Romania) and works as a self employed proofreader and coach and as a supervisor of Master's Thesis at the University of Lüneburg. Furthermore he does an additional study of History, German Literature and Pedagogy at the University of Trier (Germany). [read more]

	INGE A. DANAHER Inge Danaher has spent most of her working life in the IT industry and most of it working for the Shell Company of Australia in various capacities from Analyst Programmer through to Senior Project Manager. [read more]

	PATRICIA WONG HALL (RISHA) Please see some of Risha's work on the HumanDHS World Art for Equal Dignity page. 'Risha' was born and raised in a Buddhist family in the USA and her Asian American family has lived in America since the 1800's. She has college degrees in English (Ethnic Literature), Religious Studies/Women's Studies, and Art Education. She completed her graduate research on South Asian women writers while living in India. She is an educator, visual artist, diversity consultant, and author. She has served as an Advisory Council member for a couple of diversity training groups on the west coast. She is the proprietor of "Risha Arts." [read more]

	ATLE HETLAND Atle Hetland is also a member of the HumanDHS Education Team. He is a Norwegian citizen. He has since 1984 mostly worked outside his home country, including as a Norwegian diplomat, international civil servant and in other functions. He has set up home in Nairobi Kenya but has during the last several years spent most of his time in Pakistan, with visits to Afghanistan. He is a Mass Media Candidate (Volda), Fil.Kand. (Gothenburg), Cand.Mag. & Cand.Polit. (Oslo), Fil.Dr./Ph.D. studies (Stockholm/Oslo), with further research with affiliation to his old Scandinavian universities and the East-African Universities of Dar-es-Salaam and Nairobi. [read more]

	JENNIFER KIRBY Jennifer Kirby is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, and of the HumanDHS Research Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Biology. At the university she published her senior thesis on "The Nature of Holocaust Survivor Poetry: The Power of Poetic Expression." [read more]

	SALMAN TÜRKEN Salman Türken is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team , and of the HumanDHS Research Team. Defining himself as a cosmopolitan, Salman is interested in studies of all levels of analysis that influence and change both individuals and societies in this globalization era. Influenced by critical social psychology, ideology - understood as common sense, as legitimizing and reproducing unequal power relations which might also lead to humiliation in intergroup relations - is now the main research topic for him. [read more]

	AMI DAYAN Ami Dayan is and Israeli/American playwright, director, performer dedicated to producing plays from diverse backgrounds and theatrical lineages, with strong sociopolitical relevance to current affairs, and unwavering artistic integrity. Ami studied, and worked professionally in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. [read more]

	SYLVESTER LAHAI Sylvester was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He explains: "At the height of the war in the 90's in my country I volunteered to serve as a relief officer for displaced persons and refugees trapped behind hostile territory. The inspiration of serving humanity grew after my personal experience during the war..." [read more]

	BHANTE CHIPAMONG CHOWDHURY Bhante Chipamong Chowdhury (Revata Dhamma), a member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and co-coordinator of the HumanDHS World Gender Relations for Equal Dignity (WGenderRED) project, is also a Board member of the Alumni Association of the PIGPBS, University of Kelania, and member of Sri Lanka Association of Buddhist Studies. He is originally from a minority Buddhist community of Bangladesh known as Marma, and was raised in several orphanages during his early years. He holds a B.A. from Yangon (Burma/Myanmar) in Buddhist Studies, and a M.A. from Colombo (Sri Lanka ) in a similar field. [read more]

	ANTOINETTE ERRANTE Antoinette Errante is an Associate Professor in Comparative and Historical Studies of Education in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at The Ohio State University. Her research has focused on the evolving nature of educational policy and learning contexts in colonial and post-colonial societies, with a particular emphasis on lusophone and sub-saharan Africa. [read more]

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