Education Team

E-Classroom (forthcoming)

"Humiliation in the Academic Setting": A Special Symposium Issue (2008)

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Education

The education branch of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) aims to increase our understanding of the negative consequences of humiliation and generate support of alternative approaches that promote human dignity.

We wish to disseminate the research findings related to dignity (with humiliation as its violation) to a wide variety of audiences. Thereby we wish to contribute to the capacity of people to build peaceful societies and be mindful of how humiliation may disrupt the social fabric and how social cohesion may be sustained by preventing humiliation from occurring.

Since we are a global network, we do not engage in educational activities as an organization. Instead, we wish to develop our global network and website as a platform for opportunities for whoever resonates with our vision and desires to contribute to bringing it to life. In the spirit of this vision, we hope to nurture an organic growth of our educational activities, by inspiring the creativity, passion, and dedication of our members. In the case of education, this means, for example, developing new ways of combining face-to-face and online educational activities that can reach people in all parts of the world. There could be many different modules, provided by teachers from all over the world, forming various parts of our face-to-face and online educational activities. We would be extremely happy to see in 5, 10, and 15 years a fluid and always expanding educational HumanDHS program with many elements, affiliated to many educational institutions all around the world, giving credit in many curricula, and being attainable by students from all parts of the world. It lies in the nature of this vision that this website will never be "finished."

Please note: The views expressed on this website, as in any of the HumanDHS publications, do not represent any official HumanDHS position. All HumanDHS publications present the views and research findings of the individual authors, with the aim of promoting the development of ideas and discussion about major concerns of human dignity and humiliation studies and related fields.

Please read here reflections by Annette Engler (August 26, 2006, in a personal message):
"I think we, as students, have dismissed our feelings of humiliation in academia in replace of intellectual incompetence. Henceforth, we have accepted intellectual incompetence within ourselves creating a sort of self-humiliating effect. This effect perpetuates a more vicious cycle which we then begin to internalize into variations of silence, i.e., public speaking, journal writing and research presentations. Instances where we are not ourselves or fear being ourselves. Humiliation in the Academic Setting is like a vacuum of intellectual processes because it is the one place where students cannot escape as they journey to scholarship."

You are invited to develop ideas and projects that aim at preventing and healing humiliation.

Please see also our World University for Equal Dignity idea:
Global interdependence forces humankind to face its global challenges, both ecological and social, as a shared responsibility that has to be shouldered jointly. The consequences of global interdependence will punish all, if we try to preserve a conceptualization of the world as entailing independent national entities that can survive as isolated "islands."
Our aim is therefore to invite academics around the world into the notion that academics around the world carry a joint responsibility to lead the world away from deepening divides that might cost us our survival in times when only global cooperation can address the global problems that we have.
Why is there not a World University dedicated to the human rights ideal that all humans deserve to live dignified lives? Such a World University should exist, and, ideally, connect all national universities. Academic freedom ought to be exercised globally and not harnessed into national interests.

•  Teaching
•  Publications
•  Supervising graduate students
•  Providing scholarships
•  Cooperation partners
•  Other actors

 

Teaching


Disasters As a Chance to Implement Novel Solutions that Highlight Attention to Human Dignity
Contribution as Panelist to the International Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and Their Families after Disasters, at the College of Public and Community Service University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA, November 16-19, 2008. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. See all presenters.

What the World’s Cultures Can Contribute to Creating a Sustainable Future for Humankind
Oslo: Paper prepared for the 11th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), 23th June-1st July 2008, in Norway.

The Relevance of Humiliation Studies for the Prevention of Terrorism
Paper presented to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop ‘Indigenous Terrorism: Understanding and Addressing the Root Causes of Radicalisation among Groups with an Immigrant Heritage in Europe,’ Budapest, Hungary 7-9th March, 2008. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures. See here a long first draft of the paper.

Gaialogues with Joanna Harcourt-Smith
February 09, 2008 - Dr. Evelin Gerda Lindner
(41 minutes - 19mb)
Social psychologist and founding director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, a global fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners whose vision is to serve as a global enabling platform, giving space and encouragement to people who wish to dignify our world and transcend humiliation.

Introductory Presentation to the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. See a transcription of the first part of this talk.
This talk had two parts, related to Lindner's two roles. Her first role is to be the principal convener of this workshop and our overall HumanDHS network, together with Linda Hartling. Her second role is to be one HumanDHS researcher among many other HumanDHS researchers. Respectively, the first part of her talk addressed the overall aim of our HumanDHS work, while the second part gave a very brief introduction to her theory of humiliation. She uses a particularly broad lens, both with respect to the length of history (entire history of Homo sapiens) she includes, as well as with respect to its transcultural approach. Her theory highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics (unprecedented significance of the phenomenon of humiliation) that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso and micro levels, and in all fields of public policy.
Please see early versions of the second part, Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force? here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742); see a more recent version in the first issue of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007.

Workshop "Dynamics of Humiliation in a Globalizing World"
The Kurt Lewin Center, in Bethel, Maine, USA, November 2007 (postponed).
Lecturer: Evelin Lindner and Linda Hartling, in a collective effort with Edie and Charles Seashore, together with all participants, supported by Martha Manning.

Genocide, Humiliation, and Conflict
Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian University, Boone, North Carolina, USA, November 10-14, 2007.
Guest lecturer Evelin Lindner, invited by Amy Hudnall, Adjunct Instructor, Coordinator of Peace Studies, supported by Jennifer Kirby.
• Genocide, Humiliation, and Conflict
Carol Grotnes Belk Library and Information Commons at Appalachian State University, Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in Room 114.
• On a Personal Level, Genocide, Its Relationship to Humiliation, and How to Prevent It in the Future
Genocide Class (freshman ) of Amy Hudnall, Adjunct Instructor, Coordinator of Peace Studies, Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian University, Boone, North Carolina, USA, November 13, 2007.
• The Role of Humiliation in the Holocaust, Germany and Rwanda
Holocaust Class of Rennie Brantz, Professor of History, Co-Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian University, Boone, North Carolina, USA, November 13, 2007, organized by Amy Hudnall.
• The Role of Humiliation in Ethnic Conflicts
Ethnic Conflict Class (junior level seminar class) of Anatoly V. Isaenko, Ph.D. Associate Professor at the Department of History, Appalachian University, Boone, North Carolina, USA, November 12, 2007.
Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

The Theory of Humiliation and Its Application
Course PSYC32 03, Anvendt sosialpsykologi, Universitet i Oslo, Psykologisk institutt, Harald Schjelderups hus, Forskningsveien 3, Aud 3, 16. oktober 2007. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see picture.

Humiliation
Course PSYPRO 4030, kull 24, in the Series Social Psychological Theory and Method, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, room 12.405, 8th-11th October 2007. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

New Developments in Psychology: Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Psychology Department, The University of Queensland, convened by Winnifred Louis, Professor of Psychology, August 29th 2007, 4-5pm in Room 306 of the McElwain (psychology) building. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.
Abstract: This seminar is about humiliation, globalization, human rights, and dignity. The central question is the following: Could it be the case in a globalizing world in which people are increasingly exposed to human rights advocacy, that acts of humiliation and feelings of humiliation emerge as the most significant phenomena to resolve? This seminar suggests that this is the case. It claims that the citizens of this world share a common ground, namely a yearning for recognition
and respect that connects them and draws them into relationships. The seminarargues that many of the observable rifts among people may stem from the humiliation that is felt when recognition and respect are lacking. The seminar
proposes that only if the human desire for respect is cherished, respected, and nurtured, and if people are attributed equal dignity in this process, can differences turn into valuable diversities and sources of enrichmentboth globally and
locallyinstead of sources of disruption.

The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace & Conflict Studies
Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland, Don Carruthers Room, Level 5, Dorothy Hill PSE Library, Hawken Building (50), at K5 co-ordinates, 14th of August 2007, 12-2pm. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

How Intercultural Communicators Can Contribute to Realizing Humiliation-Free Global Peace
SIETAR Japan Kansai Chapter, June Meeting, 2007, Takatsuki Shiritsu Sogo Shimin Koryu Center, 17th June, 2007. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

Getting Acquainted with Humiliation Studies
Guest Lecture at the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, in Professor Adair Linn Nagata's Course of Intercultural Communication Theory, April 26, 2007. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Intercultural Communication and Humiliation
Guest Lecture at the School of International Politics and Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Seminar for Communication Studies, invited by Professor Kiyoko Sueda, Tokyo, Japan, April 24, 2007. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

The "Framing Power" of International Organizations, and the Cost of Humiliation Paper given at the Interactive Workshop on "Collaborative Learning Environment Characterised by Mutual Respect" at the Department of Applied Psychology, Xixi Campus, Hangzhou, China, 16th April 2007.
The idea for this workshop evolved after the guest lecture given by Lindner at a workshop for graduate students, organised by Professor Hora Tjitra on the occasion of Lindner's visit to the Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, School of Psychology, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 13th April 2006. The title of her talk was: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in a Globalising World: New Forms of Cooperative Approaches to Solve New Social Dilemma Situations as well as Succeed in Intercultural Encounters
•  Please see here Reflections on Feedback from the Audience by Lindner.
•  Please see also some pictures.

How Multicultural Discourses Can Help Construct New Meaning
Paper 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, 15th April 2007.
Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

The Transition of the Link Between Humiliation and Mental Health: From Due Lowliness to Undue Humiliation
Lecture at the International Mental Health Professionals of Japan (IMHPJ) conference on March 17-18, 2007, in Kawaguchiko at Mount Fuji. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.
Please see also International Mental Health Professionals in Japan: Challenges and Opportunities, by Carolyn Zerbe Enns, PhD & Jim McRae, PhD, International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMHPJ), in Psychology International (May-June 2007).

Humiliation
Course PSYPRO 4030, kull 23, in the Series Social Psychological Theory and Method, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, room 12.405, 29th January-2nd February 2007. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Psychological factors in Euro-Arab Relations
Lecture as part of the pilot course "Young Swedish Muslim Peace Agents," 19th-27th January 2007, at the Swedish Institute, with Director Jan Henningsson, in Alexandria, Egypt, 57, 26 July Avenue Mancheya Corniche, 15.30-17:30. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

How Human Rights Abuses Humiliate, and the Consequences for Development and Peace
Lecture as part of the Course "Refugees and Migrants, and a Rights-based Approach to Development," 8th-18th January 2007, organised by Professor Barbara Harrell-Bond, Distinguished Visiting Professor in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, at the Jameel Centre Auditorium, Greek Campus, AUC, Wednesday, 17th January 2007, 16.00-17.30. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?
This talk and paper were first prepared for the "Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict," November 18-19, 2004 at Columbia University, but in various versions also given in the subsequent workshops in 2005, and 2006.
Please see the full paper here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742). Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

On Understanding and Addressing Humiliation
Contribution to Maria Volpe's monthly breakfast meeting (since 9/11 on the first Thursday of each month) at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, December 7, 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please read the Crisis Intervention News and see pictures.

Humiliation as Strongest Force Endangering Peace: Peace Education's Responsibility to Address Humiliation
Conversation at the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 30, 2006, 3:30-5:00 pm, room 285 Grace Dodge. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Humiliation and the Roots of Violence: Human Conflict in a Globalizing World
Presentation at The New Jersey Center for Character Education, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey & The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, New Jersey Department of Education, Center for Applied Psychology, Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., November 14, 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.

Auswirkungen von Demütigung auf Menschen und Völker
Vortrag aus Anlass der 3. Verleihung des SBAP. Preises in Angewandter Psychologie, verliehen vom Schweizerischen Berufsverband für Angewandte Psychologie SBAP an Evelin Lindner, (lecture awarded by the Swiss Association of Applied Psychology to Evelin Lindner, Auditorium Maximum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Main Building, Rämistrasse 101, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, 19th October 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see more details and many pictures.

Ydmykelsens betydning
Foredrag ved direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid (NORAD, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, under Utanriksdepartementet (UD)), Informasjonssenteret, Ruseløkkveien 26, Oslo, 10.00-12.30, 13th October 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.
Intervju med Aase Cathrine Myrtveit, Radio P2, "Verdibørsen," 14. og 15. oktober 2006. Lytt til lydfilen.

How Can We Reduce the Effects of Humiliation?
Lecture at Norges Fredsråd (Norwegian Peace Council), Oslo, 17.00-19.30, 11th October, 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Ydmykelse og konflikt
Lecture in Applied Psychology for 4th Semester Social Psychology, Profesjonsstudiet, at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 10th October, 2006, 10:15-12.00. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Humiliation
Course PSYPRO 4030 Autumn 2006, kull 22, in the Series Social Psychological Theory and Method, at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 2nd-6th October 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Avoiding Humiliation - From Intercultural Communication to Global Inter-Human Communication
Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) Japan lecture, June 9, 2006, 7:00-9:00 pm,
Reitaku University Tokyo Kenkyu Center (Shinjuku i-Land Tower, 4th Floor). Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see here a draft for the lecture for your comments. Please click here to see pictures.
Program Description on SIETAR Japan Program Announcement for June 2006: Dr. Evelin Lindner inscribes the notion of pride, honor, dignity, humiliation, and humility into current historic and cultural transitions, identifying 2 current forces in world affairs. She will discuss how identity building and global inter-human communication are necessaryto avoid possible destructive effects from humiliation.
Presenter: Dr. Evelin Gerda Lindner is a well-known, committed, and multidisciplinary advocate for humanity in a global society. Her work on the effects of humiliation on individuals and communities has made a significant contribution to the study of peace. The founder of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies global network, Dr. Lindner is affiliated, among others, with the University in Oslo. She will be publishing her latest book in June.

Avoiding Humiliation - From Intercultural Communication to Global Inter-Human Communication
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, in Professor Adair Linn Nagata's Course of Intercultural Communication, June 8, 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Locating the Researcher in Time and Space: What Led Me to Do Research on Humiliation and International Conflict
Interpersonal Communication class organized by Professor Jacqueline Howell Wasilewski, Intercultural Communication, Division of International Studies, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, June 8, 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in a Globalising World: New Forms of Cooperative Approaches to Solve New Social Dilemma Situations as well as Succeed in Intercultural Encounters
Workshop for graduate students, organised by Professor Hora Tjitra on the occasion of Evelin Lindner's visit to the Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, School of Psychology, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 13th April 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Humiliation
Course PSYPRO 4030 Spring 2006, kull 21, in the Series Social Psychological Theory and Method, at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 27th February-3rd March 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Human Dignity and Humiliation
Course PSYPRO 4030 Autumn 2005, kull 20, at the Department of Psychology, NTNU, University of Trondheim, Norway, 10th-14th October 2005. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Gender and Life Designs in a Global Perspective: What are 'Dignified' Life Designs, and When Do We Feel Humiliated?
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, in Professor Adair Linn Nagata's Course of Interpersonal Communication, June 28, 2005. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?
Course organised by Professor Sayaka Funada-Classen, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 12th May, 2005. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Gender and Life Designs in a Global Perspective: What are 'Dignified' Life Designs, and When Do We Feel Humiliated?
Course organised by Professor Kazuko Tanaka, Founder of the Center for Gender Studies at the Division of International Studies, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, 10th May 2005. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

On the Theme of Humiliation
Course PSY 4030 Spring 2005 at the Department of Psychology, NTNU, University of Trondheim, Norway, 12th-14th January 2005. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

Conflict Resolution & the Psychology of Humiliation
Course ORLJ 4859 Fall 2004 at Columbia University, New York, USA, November 12-14, 2004. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

The Role of Humiliation in Conflict and War
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, in Professor Nagata's Course of Intercultural Communication, June 9, 2004. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.

 

 

Publications

"Humiliation in the Academic Setting": A Special Symposium Issue, forthcoming

 

Supervising graduate students

 

 

Providing scholarships for doctoral students and mid-career practitioners from the South

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies envisages to generate funding for scholarships with projects such as World Clothes for Equal Dignity.

 

 

Cooperation partners

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies engages in global cooperation and exchange. It is linking up with many academic and educational institutions around the world and is eager to increase its network further. In the following a number of cooperation partners are named. Please see also our specific subpage of partners, our links page, and our Global Core Team with their academic affiliations, as well as our Global Advisory Board.

UN, UNPAN Capacity Building in Conflict Resolution
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar has developed impressive educational activities that aim at filling with life the very raison d'être of the United Nations, namely global prevention of violent conflict.

Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University
Janet Gerson is Acting Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has also taught through the International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution. She was the founding director of Dance Stream, Inc., a dance company and vehicle for community building through the arts in Washington Heights and Inwood. She has served as advisor and facilitator at TOPLAB, Theatre of the Oppressed Laboratory in New York. Her work concerns the interrelatedness of conflict studies, nonviolent strategies, and peace education.

University of Oslo, Department of Psychology
Evelin Lindner has carried out her doctoral research on humiliation at the Department of Psychology of the University of Oslo, starting in 1996, and is regularly teaching in Norway since. She has strong ties both within the academic field in Norway and related research institutions and NGOs. At the universities in Oslo, Trondheim, and Tromsø, currently strong initiatives emerge to set up peace studies. Especially Trondheim is very interested in linking up with Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. As in the case of LOGIN, the network idea with Norway envisages that students from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies group and Norwegian universities cooperate and engage in exchange.

University of Trondheim, Department of Psychology
The Department of Psychology in Trondheim focusses on Social Psychology and Community Psychology, see for example, Hroar Klempe's work. The research field of social psychology involves the human being interacting with the surrounding environment. This rather wide definition gives a hint of the multitude of research interests found in the field. It is concerned with understanding, as well as predicting, human behavior. Values and beliefs are basic concepts, and exemplify one point of departure in the area, i.e. the individual point of view, where internal, or internalized, cognitive, affective and emotional structures are studied regarding developments, functions, change and use in social interactions. Studies related to attitudes, cognitive dissonance, self and identity, social explanations and attribution processes, social categories and schemas, are recognized here. One also finds social cognition areas such as studies of social inference, heuristics and biases.

University of Tromsø, Norway
Vidar Vambheim is Associate Professor at the Department of Education at the University of Tromsø and Coordinator of the the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS). CPS studies nonviolent conflict handling empirically and comparatively and applies a multi-disciplinary pluralistic approach. CPS discusses the theoretical implications and communicate the results to a wide audience.

Center for Global Community & World Law
Virginia Swain is the co-founder of the Center for Global Community & World Law (together with her husband, historian Joseph P. Baratta, Ph.D.; see www.global-leader.org). Virginia Swain would be delighted to have students from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network work with her on the future of the United Nations.

AfricAvenir Foundation for Development, International Cooperation and Peace
AfricAvenir is a non-governmental and non-profit organization created in 1990 by a team of African and European academics and activists in Douala, Cameroon. Eric Van Grassdorff is a central player. The initial idea goes back to Prof. Kum a Ndumbe III, simultaneously traditional leader and university professor with extensive teaching experience in Europe and Africa . Since 2000, AfricAvenir also has an official German section.
As a research institution, AfricAvenir will not only give scholars and students of HumanDHS the opportunity of doing research in an African country, but also provide the necessary environment and connections on the ground.

Falstad Centre
Bjørn Aksel Flatås is Director of Research of Falstad, a Memorial and Human Rights Centre. The foundation was established in 2000. Education, documentation and communication concerning the history of imprisonment during World War II and Human Rights constitute the core activities of the centre. In October 1941, Falstad Special school for handicapped boys was taken over by the German occupying power and transferred into SS Strafgefangenenlager Falstad, a detention camp for political prisoners. Later, Russian POW's were imprisoned here together with Yugoslav partisans and Polish forced labourer's. The camp contained prisoners from 13 countries during the War years. A total of 5000 prisoners were registered at Falstad. Today, the Museum gives the younger generation an insight in conditions during WW II that eventually lead to the Declaration of Human Rights as a resolution in UN in 1948.

 

 

Other actors
(Please send us more links!)

International Bureau of Education
Sobhi Tawil has been co-ordinating the Capacity Building for Curriculum Development programme at the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (Geneva) since 2002. He was formerly the head of the Exploring Humanitarian Law project (19992001) at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He also lectures in Education, Conflict and Development at the Graduate Institute for Development Studies (IUED) in Geneva. Alexandra Harley assisted in developing and managing the Curriculum Change and Social Cohesion in Conflict-Affected Societies project at the International Bureau of Education (20022003). Prior to her work on this project, Ms. Harley taught environmental education in Nicaragua (19982000) where, following Hurricane Mitch, she founded and directed a small NGO to support populations affected by the disaster.
Sobhi Tawil and Alexandra Harley are the authors of Education and Identity-based Conflict: Assessing curriculum policy for social and civic reconstruction, in Tawil, S. & Harley, A., Education, Conflict and Social Cohesion ( Geneva: UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2004). Please see also the announcement of their publication.

Education for Peace International
The main purpose of EFP-International and its sister Institutes is to develop and implement peace education programs in all parts of the world for all segments of human society. Through in-depth, systematic and sustained programs of Education for Peace (EFP), every generation of new leaders and citizens is equipped with the necessary insights and skills to decrease the occurrence and intensity of conflict to prevent its descent into violence and war. More importantly, they are then able to dedicate their talents and energies to the creation of a sustained and progressive culture of peace.

The Global Campaign for Peace Education
The Global Campaign for Peace Education (GCPE) seeks to develop the capacities, in teachers and learners, to face challenges of unprecedented proportion: the continued development of weapons of mass destruction, armed conflicts between states and ethnic groups, the spread of racism, gender inequality, community violence, the huge and widening gap between the rich and the poor throughout the globalized economy, massive violations of human rights and the degradation of the environment.

Center for Peace Education, Miriam College, Q.C., Philippines
The Center's mission is to help advance a culture of peace through education.
A culture of peace is a set of values, modes of behavior and ways of life that reflects respect for life and for human dignity, rejects violence in all its forms, prevents violent conflicts by tackling their root causes, and recognizes the importance of cooperation, tolerance and dialogue.

International Tolerance Network

Conflict Resolution Education Around the World

Peacemakers Trust

Peace Education and Conflict Resolution
This is a handbook about project-work on peace education and conflict resolution in schools.

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--Peace

The International Network on Conflict Resolution in Education and Peace Education (INCREPE)

The Peace Alliance - Campaign for a Department of Peace

Mayors for Peace: Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Study Courses
The experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are barely mentioned in most academic systems. Few colleges or universities have any courses at all that convey this experience to our young. While the evil of holocaust has been shared globally as a common recognition, the evil of nuclear weapons has not been shared. In other words, the experience in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has never achieved comparable recognition to the holocaust. Therefore it would be necessary to promote this course to make younger generation to recognize what was resulted by the use of A-bombing and its effect on the human family.

Megaconference Jr.
Megaconference Jr. is a project designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other's learning in real time, using advanced multi-point video conferencing technology. Presenters will design and conduct videoconference-based presentation and activities focused on both academic and cultural issues. Participants will be able to address questions to presenters and to collaborate with geographically diverse peers in collaborative learning activities, thus building international cultural awareness.
The conference addresses local and national curriculum standards in multiple subject areas. It will also help students and teachers develop the capacity to effectively utilize high-speed networks, videoconferencing and other emerging technologies to enhance learning experiences.

Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Founded in 1986 through a generous gift from Mrs. Joan B. Kroc, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame conducts research, education, and outreach programs on the causes of violence and the conditions for sustainable peace.
The institute's research agenda focuses on the religious and ethnic dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding; the ethics of the use of force; and the peacemaking role of international norms, policies and institutions, including a focus on economic sanctions and enforcement of human rights. In addition to individual research by faculty in a wide range of disciplines, the institute organizes collaborative research projects on these themes.
T he institute's unique M.A. program equips scholar-practitioners with theoretical and practical skills needed for diverse careers in peacebuilding. Inspired by the vision of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh CSC, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, the program attracts students from around the world to study peacemaking while building cross-cultural understanding among themselves. The institute also offers an innovative undergraduate supplementary major and interdisciplinary minor in peace studies which focus on the conditions needed for a just and peaceful world order.
The institute reaches out to national and international communities through media commentary , online and print publications, and workshops for non-governmental and religious organizations. Kroc Institute faculty also contribute to both international policy discussions and peacebuilding practice through their various professional roles and responsibilities in international organizations in the private and public sectors.
The institute's programs are conducted by core faculty and staff , and by faculty fellows representing more than a dozen departments and professional schools at Notre Dame.