PHILIP M. BROWN
Dr. Philip M. Brown is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Dr. Philip M. Brown established and directed the Center for Social and Character Development at Rutgers University, located within the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, where he served as principal investigator on research grants from the U.S. Department of Education. Phil has served for more than 25 years in various policy and program management positions in the Pennsylvania State Department of Health and the New Jersey Department of Education, where he created the first professional educational credential in the U.S. in the substance abuse prevention field. Early in his career he served in the Peace Corps in India and conducted training for the Peace Corps following his service. He is a member of the National School Climate Council, President of the New Jersey Alliance for Social, Emotional and Character Development, and serves on the board of the International Child Assault Prevention Program. Recent publications include being guest editor for a special issue of the Indian journal, Experiments in Education on Humiliation in the Educational Setting which grew directly out of the HDHS Network, at the invitation from Evelin Lindner. Currently he is co-editing The Handbook of Prosocial Education, to be published by Rowman & Littlefield in the fall, 2012. He is currently undergoing rigorous training in grandfathering 101.
Please see here:
• Humiliation, Bullying and Caring in School Communities, paper presented at the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
• Reflections on Policy and Humiliation: Addressing the Needs of Poor Minority Children in New Jersey’s Public Schools, draft paper presented at Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
•  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.
• Prosocial Education, prepared by Ann Higgins D'Alessandro, Fordham University, and edited by Philip Brown, Rutgers University, for the 2010 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 9-10, 2010.
•  Prosocial Development: Defining the Basis for Prosocial Education, discussant background notes presented at the 2011 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 8-9, 2011. See also a slide of the Prosocial Double Helix.

MAGGIE O'NEILL
Maggie O'Neill is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Core 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 a Reader in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK. Until 2009, she was based in Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University. Prior to this she worked for eleven years in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University and before that was ten years in the Department of Sociology at Nottingham Trent 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. She acts as a research consultant on community cohesion issues and has had commissions from the Home Office, and regional Local Authorities. Maggie researches the issue of prostitution, women's experiences, routes in to prostitution, and communities affected (since 1990) and forced migration (since 1998).
An expert in participatory action research (working with people, groups, communities to create change) Maggie has a reputation for developing innovative culture work to imagine new ways of understanding and articulating the experiences of crime and victimization, that breach disciplinary boundaries and expand and enliven the methodological horizons of cultural criminology. Her theoretical concept of ethno-mimesis (the inter-connection of sensitive ethnographic work and visual re-presentations) is a methodological tool as well as a process for exploring lived experience, displacement, exile, belonging and humiliation.
Research funding has been received from the AHRB; Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Home Office; Leicester Local Authority and Local Education Authority, East Midland Arts, Nottingham Trent and Staffordshire Universities.
Please see Maggie's blog at Policy Press.
Books include:
• Adorno, Culture and Feminism (Sage);
• Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling (Polity);
• Prostitution: A Reader (Ashgate) with Roger Matthews;
• Gender and the Public Sector (Routledge) with Jim Barry and Mike Dent;
• Sex Work Now (Willen) with Rosie Campbell.
See also:
• Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis, note presented at the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005;
• together with Ramaswami Harindranath, Theorising Narratives of Exile and Belonging: The Importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in “Understanding” Asylum, in Qualitative Sociology Review, II (1, April 2006), pp. 39-52.
• Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR), abstract presented at the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.
• Re-Imagining Diaspora through Ethno-Mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging (2007). In: Reimagining Diasporas: Transnational Lives and the Media, edited by Olga Guedes-Bailey (Liverpool John-Moores University), Myria Georgiou (University of Leeds), and Ramaswami Harindranath (University of Melbourne). Published by Palgrave Publishers, UK.
• Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk), abstract presented at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
• "Making Connections: Ethno-mimesis, Migration and Diaspora," in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 14, 289-302, September 2009, doi:10.1057/pcs.2009.5.

YA'IR RONEN
Ya'ir Ronen is currently a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University, in Israel. Trained in law and counseling, he has been involved in child advocacy and social activism adopting the perspective that law should act as a healing therapeutic force. As a child advocate, he worked with youth at risk, youth in conflict with the law, Palestinian and Israeli youth involved in the Palestinian Israeli conflict, and he promoted legal and policy reform in Israeli child law. This year, two collections of papers co-edited by him have been published, one in English, "The case for the child – towards a new agenda," and the other in Hebrew, "Human rights and social exclusion in Israel." In his writing, teaching and public work, he is currently exploring how law could relate to human suffering and othering, to the experience of compassion by legal decision makers, to non-violent struggle by youth, and to children's sense of belonging.
Please see:
• On Dignity, Humiliation, Non-violent Struggle and Israeli Jewish Identity, abstract presented at the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.
• On the Child's Right to Identity, the Best Interests of the Child and Human Dignity
Abstract presented at the 13th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies "World Peace through Humiliation-Free Global Human Interactions," in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 20 to 23, 2009.
• Non Violent Opposition to a Violence Ridden Status Quo and Responsiveness to the Child, abstract presented at the 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 10-11, 2009.
• Children Exposed to Humiliation: From Self-Destructiveness to Healing and Hope, abstract presented at the 2011 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 8-9, 2011.

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, and the HumanDHS Research 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.
Prior to 2005, Victoria was Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace Studies at Colgate University, NY, where she lectured in conflict resolution and peace studies. Earlier, Victoria was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Sabanci University, in Turkey. She lectured in the MA Program in Conflict Resolution and Analysis and also conducts research on conflict resolution processes and the politics of communication.
Victoria holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Studies. She published various papers on multi-track diplomacy, human trafficking, the public diplomacy of armed groups and the formation of political violence in post-conflict societies. Central to her work has been a conceptualisation of post-conflict processes through the study of social, gendered, cultural, economic and political humiliation. She conducted field research in Lebanon with the Hezbollah, in Bosnia-Herzegovina on human trafficking and organised crime, and in Fallujah (post-Saddam Iraq) with emerging armed groups. She is also involved in gender training for peacekeeping operations, and has lectured to various armed forces on the subject.
Please see:
•  The Dialectics of Humiliation: Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq (2003, unpublished Draft (Not to be cited without Author's authorization).
•  co-authored with Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2005), "The Honor Factor", Op Ed in The Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2005, p. 5F. Please see here the oringal long version.
•  "Hubris, History, and Humiliation: Quest for Utopia in Post-Saddam Iraq," in Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 56-61, 2006.
• Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny
Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger Security International.

GAY ROSENBLUM-KUMAR
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar is a Public Administration officer in the Governance and Public Administration Branch of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. She works with government officials and their civil society counterparts in developing countries to enhance national capacities for managing conflict through various activities, such as training for individual skill-building, institutional development, and strengthening development practice and democratic governance.
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar currently advises on projects that develop skills to manage and mitigate conflict including regional projects in sub-Saharan Africa as well as national projects in Ghana, Guyana, Romania, and Zimbabwe. Prior to joining the United Nations, she worked with several international NGOs on anti-apartheid and development issues.
Please see Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy, note presented at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. Please see furthermore Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public policy for disaffection or cohesion?, note presented at Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.

TIMOTHEE NGAKOUTOU
Timothée Ngakoutou is also is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
He was born in Sibut (Central-africa Republic) and is a national of Chad. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Sorbonne in Paris, and another Ph.D. in "D'Etat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines" also from Sorbonne. He has been a Professor at the University of Chad, and the Director of the National Human Sciences Institute in Chad.
Furthermore, Timothée Ngakoutou has been the Director General of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports in Chad, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Chad. He has also been the Secretary General of the African Association of Psychology, as well as the Regional Adviser for Social and Human Sciences in Africa, and Head of the Regional Office of Unesco in Africa, in Dakar. He has also been Head of the Democracy and Governance Section at Unesco in Paris, and the Director of the Division of Social Sciences, Research and Policy at Unesco in Paris.

SAMIR SANAD BASTA
Samir Sanad Basta is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
He 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.

AMY C. HUDNALL
Amy C. Hudnall is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). She is furthermore 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. Her work focuses on cross-cultural trauma and genocide from an historical perspective, and she teaches courses on peace and conflict. She has presented and published on captivity trauma, human rights, secondary trauma, cultural relativism, and cross-cultural conflict. She received her M.A. in history at Appalachian State University and also studied at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilian-Universität in Germany.
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.
Please see "Humiliation and Domination under American Eyes: German POWs in the continental United States, 1942-1945," in Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 33-39, 2006.

ELLEN RAIDER
Ellen Raider is a recognized authority in the field of conflict resolution, negotiation, and mediation training. Her work has been cited in numerous publications, and she has been a leading advocate for increasing awareness of the impact of culture on the conflict resolution process. Since 1978, she has taught international negotiation skills to thousands of corporate executives and diplomats in the United States and abroad. Her clients have included the United Nations, the European Economic Community, IBM, AT&T, General Electric, and Schering International. In 1988, she was asked to set up the training department of the research-based International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. In that capacity she has conducted workshops and created training materials for teachers, administrators, school boards, parents, and students.
Ellen is co founder of the Independent Commission on Public Education (iCOPE). ICOPE's  mission is to create a new Human Rights-based system of public education for NYC. One of iCOPE partners in this education work is The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) who promotes a human rights vision for the United States that ensures dignity and access to the basic resources needed for human development and civic participation. See their excellent report called  "Deprived of Dignity."
•  Ellen Raider's contribution to 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007, is entitled Humiliating Experiences that Parents and Students Face in Schools (using info from the report, our tribunals, and our "Education is a Human Rights" campaign).

JEAN-DAMASCÈNE GASANABO
Jean-Damascène Gasanabo (Damas) is Member of our HumanDHS Global Core Team, and Research Team.
Jean-Damascène Gasanabo (Damas) has a PhD in Education from the University of Geneva, Switzerland (2004) and his thesis pertains to the analysis of history textbooks and the construction of exclusive identities in Rwanda from 1962 to 1994. After his studies, he worked with UNESCO in Paris as Consultant in Education Sector for the project Fostering Peaceful Co-Existence through Analysis and Revision of History Curricula and School Textbooks in South-Eastern Europe (2005-2006). He has also collaborated as Programme Specialist for The United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children (2006). From October 2006 to August 2008, he was Head of Support for Communication, Research and Special Projects at Geneva Call, an international humanitarian organisation. Then he went back to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as Consultant in the Sector of Education for the projects Education for Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of school related gender-based violence in post-conflict countries: from African case studies to international cooperation as well as in the Sector of Social and Human Sciences where he was responsible for producing Policy Briefs for the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme. After Paris, he worked as Senior Consultant for Spectacle Learning Media and contributed on the project A Place to Learn: Review of International Research on Creating and Sustaining Enabling Conditions for Learning.
Damas has published various articles and contributed to a number of collective works including:
• “Two families, two destinies: A Personal Perspective on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994,” published by Professor Quintard Taylor, Faculty of History, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, August 2009. See: http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/two-families-two-destiniespersonal-perspective-rwandan-genocide-1994.
• “Rwandan Genocide: Sociological, Economic and Psychological Consequences”, In Seema Shekhawat & Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra (eds.), Afro-Asian Conflicts: Changing Contours, Costs and Consequences, 1st edition, New Delhi, New Century Publications, 2008, pp. 193-216
• « Le génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda » (co-authored with Jean-Pierre Chrétien), in Barbara Lefebvre & Sophie Ferhadjian (eds.), Comprendre les génocides du XXe siècle. Comparer – Enseigner, Paris, Bréal, 2007, pp. 130-153
• “School History and Mechanisms for the Construction of Exclusive Identities: The Case of Rwanda from 1962 to 1994”, in UNESCO-IBE, Textbooks and Quality Learning for All: Some Lessons Learned from International Experiences, Paris, UNESCO-IBE, 2006, pp. 365-404
• “The Rwandan Akazi (Forced Labour) System, History, and Humiliation”. Social Alternatives (Special Issue ‘Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives’), University of Queensland, Australia, Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, 2006, pp. 50-55.

NIMROD SHEINMAN
Nimrod Sheinman is the founder and director of the Israel Center for Mind-Body Medicine. He is a Naturopathic physician and an expert in Mind-Body Medicine and Mind-Body Health. He specializes in the role of emotions, beliefs, thoughts and images on illness, health and healing, and in the applications of mind-body medicine in the fields of therapy, education and group processes. The Israel Center for Mind-Body Medicine is devoted to the role of emotions, thoughts, beliefs and experiences in ones life and in society, and to the spiritual dimension and its significance, influence and power in illness, wellness and healing. In our work, we integrate East-West Psychology, Contemplative Traditions, Meditation Practices and Mindfulness based approaches. Our projects include: Mind Body and Mindfulness within education, schools and with children; Advanced Training in Mind-Body Psycho-therapies for clinical practice; Mindfulness and Spirituality in Organization projects, Mind-Body-Spirit Education and experiential learning for the general public; Mind-body Therapy for Cancer Patients and their families; and Mind-Body General Clinic.

MACLEANS A. GEO-JAJA
Macleans A. Geo-JaJa is a Professor of Economics and Education at Brigham Young University in the United States, where he teaches Economics of Education, Development Education, and Human Rights and Poverty courses. He conducts research in the areas of Human Development, Human Rights in Education, Globalization and Poverty, Development Education, and Economics of Education. His is widely published in top tier international journals and has contributed numerous chapters in peer reviewed edited books. Serving as technical expert in China, he worked with colleagues to establish an Institute of Africa Studies and a Teacher-Team Development Program for China’s transforming economy and education system. He has undertaken missions and policy studies in his specialty areas for a wide range of international donor organizations (World Bank, USAID, UNDP, etc) and national governments.
He is a member of the Publication Committee of the World Congress of Comparative Education Society (WCCES) and a member of the editorial consulting Board of the International Review of Education (IRE) a journal of UNESCO. In recognition of his contribution in the field, he has been invited as Guest editor to tier one journal in his field. In 2006, he was appointed to the Governor Huntsman Task Force on Refugee Resettlement in Utah; this was in recognition of his contribution and scholarly work on Equity and dignity in refugee resettlement and reintegration. In 2007, Professor Geo-JaJa was appointed a member of The Nigerian National Think Tank, in recognition of his community and scholarly contribution in the area of poverty, equity in education and human development, as well as dignity institution in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Currently, he serves as the Chair of National Think Tank on the Review of the Nigerian Constitution. He spent many years as Professor of Economics at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, as well as at the University of Utah in the USA.
Please see:
•  Language As a Right in Education: A Case Study of Zanzibar Curriculum Reform, abstract presented by Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite &  MacLeans Geo-JaJa at the 2011 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 8-9, 2011.

KWARTARINI WAHYU YUNIARTI
Kwartarini Wahyu "Bo" Yuniarti is a senior staff member at the Faculty of Psychology of the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, since 1989 until present. She has accomplished her first six years of training in Education Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology UGM (1982–1988). A-2000-hour clinical psychology internship program was successfully carried out at a terminal psychiatric hospital, Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, LA, USA (1989–1990). She has received a Rockefeller Award to sponsor her master degree in Medical Social Science from the Faculty of Medicine, Newcastle University, New South Wales, Australia (1994–1999). Her research thesis was on the Discrepancy between Hygiene–Related Knowledge and Practices among Mothers of Children with Diarrhea. She has received the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Award - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - for her Doctorate Program and has accomplished her Doctorate Degree from the Faculty of Psychology – Hamburg University, Germany (1999 to 2004).
Kwartarini Yuniarti has been connected with the MAPI Research Institute in Lyon, France, as a senior translator for Indonesia, in the field of cultural and linguistic validation for psychometric instruments, from foreign language to Indonesian. Within the last five years, she has received an award for a two months research stay in Hamburg, Germany, from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). In the years of 2006 and 2009, she was enabled by DAAD to attend a scientific workshop and carry out a research stay in Leipzig, focusing on disaster studies. Since 2006, Kwartarini Yuniarti is associated with the Network for Humanitarian Studies, U-to-U international collaboration with Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen, supervising the field works of the European students in Indonesia. She has also received the European Commission Award for teaching and research in Europe, 2009, hosted by the Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen. Recently she received the Fulbright Award for the Senior Research Program at the Rutgers University in the USA, working at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.
Kwartarini Yuniarti is the current director of Center for Indigenous and Cultural Psychology, at the Faculty of Psychology, UGM, in addition to the Coordinator of Graduate Education for Professional Clinical Psychology. Professionally, she is associated with the International Network of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Network of Humanitarian Action, the Indonesian Psychological Association, and the Asian Association for Social Psychology. Her main research interests are in the fields of Health Psychology, Indigenous psychology, and Cross-cultural psychology.
Apart from many articles, Kwartarini has published the following books:
• Kwartarini, W.Y,. (2010). Going through Acculturation. The cultural experience of Indonesian students living in Germany. Berlin. Lambert Academic Publishing.
• Kwartarini, W.Y,. (2011). Knowledge is not enough. Berlin. Lambert Academic Publishing.

MIRAJ U. DESAI
Miraj U. Desai, M.A., is currently a psychology fellow at the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Fordham University. He completed his B.A. Summa Cum Laude with Honors at Miami University, during which he also spent time at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, conducting research on international health and development with a focus on South Asia.
Miraj has spent considerable time living in India and working with Sangath—a mental health focused non-profit/non-governmental organization—on a project investigating the local experience of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). His dissertation specifically examines the indigenous understandings of ASD from parents’ perspectives in Goa, India. Miraj has previously worked with low-income and refugee populations in NYC, conducting bilingual therapy at Bellevue/NYU’s Program for Survivors of Torture. His Master’s thesis on the lived experience of depression in primary care received the Sidney Jourard Award from APA Division 32, Society for Humanistic Psychology. In addition, Miraj has published or presented at national conferences on topics pertaining to phenomenological psychology, critical/postcolonial psychology, psychoanalysis, spirituality and religion, history of psychology (esp. Fanon, Fromm, and Boss), the psychology of music, and philosophy of science. He is a member of the Task Force on Indigenous Psychology for APA Division 32 and also a past recipient of the Minority Fellowship of the APA.

DHARMACHARI GUNAKETU
Dharmachari Gunaketu was trained as an economist and got interested in alternative economics. He started meditating and practicing with the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, worked with them enlarging a buddhist centre in Manchester and got ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in 1996. He carried on working in Manchester until 2000 when he decided to go back to Oslo to see how he could live, work and serve the world there. Now, he wants to make use of meditation and teachings of the Buddha in connection with other "languages" and tools, most notably "Nonviolent communication" and gestalt therapy in the general work to make the world a more just, peaceful and friendly place. In this work he is now seeking partners, connections and opportunities.

CHRISTOPHER SANTEE
Christopher Santee is also a Member in our HumanDHS Global Core 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.
Recently named Project Associate for the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network, Christopher will be working to aid the creation of a peer reviewed e-journal as well as a composited book on the study of humiliation.
Prior to 2006 Christopher was a member of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in Boulder, Colorado, organizing rallies and informational gatherings on the occupation of Iraq by the US as well as anti-racial profiling campaigns for US immigrant groups in the Colorado area through the Safety Net. Some of his work there included organizing a benefit concert for freetheslaves.net, featuring internationally renowned poet and activist Saul Williams in April, 2005. Through the service learning program at Naropa University, Christopher also coached high school students in community organizing and political activism on issues of civil rights and awareness utilizing the model of Public Achievement from the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Minnesota.
Please see American Diversity and the Role of Humiliation, note presented at the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

SALMAN TÜRKEN
Salman Türken is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core 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 globalisation era. Influenced by critical social psychology, ideology - understood as common sense, as legitimising and reproducing unequal power relations which might also lead to humiliation in intergroup relations - is now the main research topic for him.
Salman holds a MA degree in psychology from the University of Oslo, where he for the time being holds a position as a lecturer in social psychology. In his MA thesis (2006), Salman developed a brief cross-culturally stable scale that measures global identity, arguing that more and more people around the globe transcend national and territorial boundaries, identify first and foremost with their shared humanity (rather than seeking parochial ends), and show responsibility for and “engage the distant other.”

ARIEL LUBLIN
Ariel Lublin is an Associate Principal at Consensus - an international negotiation, conflict-resolution, and peace-building firm – where Ariel Lublin consults, leads trainings, and conducts peace-building dialogues for international organizations, governments, Fortune 500 companies, law enforcement agencies, and NGOs. She also teaches at Columbia University in the School of International Public Affairs (SIPA) and in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Masters Degree Program, and she serves as a custody/visitation mediator for NYC Family Court.
In 2007, Lublin was engaged by GTZ to consult and train trainers in their Sri Lankan conflict transformation program. From 2002 to 2005, she directed the Center for Court Innovation's Midtown Civic Partnership, where she led victim-offender restorative-justice conferences and convened multi-stakeholder mediations for entrenched conflicts involving Manhattan-based businesses, law enforcement, community leaders and public officials.
Ariel Lublin was the assistant producer of Poisoned Chalice: The UN in Iraq, a documentary film released in 2006. (Available for free viewing at www.vimeo.com/ with the password: iraq2005)  She assisted in the organization and documentation of the first two Women Waging Peace conferences and has been published in Bhumi Magazine of International Development.
Ariel Lublin formerly taught Dispute Resolution and Sociology at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and she was a Teaching Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She holds a Masters of Education from Harvard University, with an individualized focus in Leadership Development and Conflict Resolution. Please read more about her here.
See here:
•  Addressing Humiliation through Listening with Respect: A Restorative Justice Model for Victims, Offenders, and Law Enforcement, note presented at Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.

MARTIN DONOHOE
Martin Donohoe's slide shows, articles, and syllabi can be found at www.publichealthandsocialjustice.org or www.phsj.org. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in Community Health at Portland State University, practices internal medicine, and was Chief Scientific Advisor to Oregon PSR’s Campaign for Safe Food for the last decade. He received his BS and MD from UCLA, completed internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. He teaches courses in medical humanities, public health, social justice ethics, and women’s studies.

HAGITTE GAL-ED
Hagitte Gal-Ed is an Israeli born artist, scholar, and educational leader. She is a pioneer in the field of Peace Psychology and Education for Peace, and has extensive teaching and teacher education experience. Her art has been exhibited in the U.S.A., Israel, Europe, and South Africa, and her artworks are in many private collections. Her PhD is the outcome of a long-term dialogue-based international program of peace education through arts and communication media. She developed the concepts of Dialogic Intelligence© (DIN) and the role of ARTiculation© in peace epistemology. Her book-chapter, “Art and Meaning: ARTiculation© as a Modality in Processing Forgiveness and Peace Consciousness” was published in Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009. In 1999, Gal-Ed was a recipient of “Gift of Service to the World Award” by The Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions for her interfaith initiative promoting peace culture at the United Nations. In 2001, she created PEACE TV™, a TV program through MNN, a public access station in NYC, promoting Dialogic Intelligence and innovative initiatives of education for peace. Collaborating Institutions include Columbia University Teachers College, and The Museum of Natural History. In 2006 her Artist & Leader program, combining Contemporary Art and Education for Peace, was selected by PBS, Art:21 for their Outreach Initiative. In 2008 the program was awarded a grant by the CT Commission on Culture.
On December 14, 2010, Hagitte kindly wrote to us: "In the spirit of learning in reciprocity, may I take this opportunity to tell you about Garden Of Peace(c). In 1999 I served as member of the international committee on education for peace at the Assembly of the Parliament of the World's Religions (PWR) in Cape Town, South Africa, and was selected to present Garden Of Peace©, a creative framework and concrete practical design for conflict transformation based on the concepts of Dialogic Intelligence(c) and ARTiculation(c). Garden Of Peace(c) takes the form of an international collaborative garden, combining cooperative training and research on relational dignity and peace leadership with sponsorship and participants from the international community. Its original draft focused on the slopes of the Golan Heights, a contested area between Syria and Israel awaiting transformation. The Garden can be adapted to many places of un-resolved conflict in need for reconciliation processing. Garden Of Peace(c) was endorsed by The Council for PWR, and received the auspices of Shimon Peres, President of Israel, then Head of the Shimon Peres Center For Peace in the Middle East. I offer it to you as a radical educational program to creatively practice, research and develop Human Dignity, peace consciousness and leadership."
On May 30, 2011, Hagitte kindly wrote to us: "In the Spring of 2011, as storms of change took the Middle East by surprise, a Palestinian peace activist, Mohammed Abdel- Rahman, former UN observer of human rights in Palestine with a Master’s degree in political science from Radford University in the USA called his Israeli friend, Dr. Hagitte Gal-Ed, and asked to join forces on implementing the Garden Of Peace in Ramallah. This is the first Palestinian-Israeli collaborative initiative of its kind in the history of the Middle East conflict. Garden Of Peace presents a wealth of new research opportunities on human dignity, innovative conflict transformation, and a culture of peace in the making, which will be presented at the HumanDHS workshops and conferences."
Please see:
•  ARTiculating(c) Human Dignity, presentation summary for the 2010 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 9-10, 2010.
•  Garden Of Peace in the Middle East: ARTiculating Human Dignity with Palestinian Children, presentation summary for the 2011 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 8-9, 2011, together with Mohammed Eid Mousa Abuayash.

AYMAN QWAIDER
Ayman wrote (5th August 2011): "Education is the key factor for self-recognition, which leads to human empowerment, and directly construct a dignified life. That is the reason I am very much attracted and attached the Humiliation and Dignity Studies. I would love to take an active part of this noble mission in life. I would like to share my small experience being a person raised up in a conflict zone and obtained education in Palestine, then moved to Europe to peruse my post graduate studies, I have realized how important the education is in uncertain and unstable context. I just finished my internship at UNESCO HQ Paris where I was working in a Education in Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Situation. Throughout my experience, I have realized the key role in which education plays in constructing human dignity patricianly in a conflict zones. Education has even essential role to play in letting people discover and explore themselves more deeply and letting them see the other as a human being."

CLAUDIA ARCOS DUARTE
Claudia Arcos Duarte was born in Santiago de Chile. Her family was forced into exile in 1974, after dictator Augusto Pinochet had come to power in 1973. First, her family went to Argentina, for three years, then the coup in Argentina forced the family to seek refuge in Germany. Claudia grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She stayed there for nine years, later returning to Germany several times for her education. Like many young Chileans, who could have stayed in exile, at some point, she decided to return to Chile, this was in September 1984, to help resist the dictatorship. Since then, aside from raising three children, she has worked as an activist to promote social causes. She taught as a teacher at private schools and helped socially disadvantaged children. She also was a radio commentator discussing questions of philosophy, identity, and human dignity. Today, she is also an author, preparing several books based on the letters she wrote over the years, about her traumatic experiences with exile, with resisting dictatorship, with cross-cultural conflicts, and the presently existing problems with relationships between women and men. Her narratives aim to not just describe problems. Her style is humorous despite the gravity of the problems she addresses. In this manner, she opens space for hope, for new visions for the future, for new ways of living together, in caring mutuality.
Please see the following videos:
• Che Guevaras Bedeutung für die Südamerikanische Jugend (The Significance of Che Guevara for Today's Youth in South America) (Deutsch)
• La Importancia del Che Guevara de la Juventud de Hoy en América Latina (Español)
- English: These two videos dialogues between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner were created on 7th April 2012 in Limache, Chile. The first video is in German, the second represents the Spanish version. The videos were recorded by Claudia's son Luciano.
- Deutsch: Diese beiden Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner wurden am 7. April 2012 in Limache, Chile, erstellt. Das erste Video ist in deutscher Sprache, das zweite ist die spanische Version. Die Videos wurden von Claudias Sohn Luciano aufgezeichnet.
- Español: Estos dos vídeos diálogos entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner se creó el 7 de abril de 2012 en Limache, Chile. El primer vídeo está en alemán, la segunda representa su versión en español. Los videos fueron grabados por el hijo de Claudia, Luciano.
• Claudia Arcos Duarte: Eine Chilenische Biographie (Claudia Duarte Arcos: A Chilean Biography) (Deutsch, 7th April 2012)
• Claudia Arcos Duarte: Una Biografía de Chile (Español, 8th April 2012)
- English: These two videos dialogues between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner were created on 7th and 15th April 2012 in Limache and in Caleu, Chile. The first video is in German, the second represents the Spanish version. The first video was recorded by Claudia's son Luciano in Limache, the second by Alberto Neumann in Caleo.
- Deutsch: Diese beiden Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner wurden am 7. und 15. April 2012 in Limache und in Caleu, Chile, erstellt. Das erste Video ist in deutscher Sprache, das zweite ist die spanische Version. Das erste Videos wurde von Claudias Sohn Luciano in Limache aufgezeichnet, das zweite von Alberto Neumann in Caleu.
- Español: Estos dos vídeos diálogos entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner se creó el 7 y 15 de abril de 2012 en Limache y en Caleu, Chile. El primer vídeo está en alemán, la segunda representa su versión en español. Los videos fueron grabados por el hijo de Claudia, Luciano, en Limache, y por Alberto Neumann en Caleu.
• Claudia Arcos Duarte: Mann und Frau heute / El Hombre y la Mujer de Hoy (Claudia Duarte Arcos: A Chilean Biography) (Deutsch/Español, 15th April 2012)
- English: This video dialogue between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner was created on 15th April 2012 in Caleu, Chile. It is both in German and Spanish and was recorded by Alberto Neumann.
- Deutsch: Dieser Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner wurde am 15. April 2012 in Caleu, Chile, erstellt. Das Video ist in deutscher und spanischer Sprache und wurde von Alberto Neumann aufgezeichnet.
- Español: Este diálogo vídeo entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner fue creado el 15 de abril 2012 en Caleu, Chile. Es a la vez en alemán y español y fue grabado por Alberto Neumann.
• Claudia Arcos Duarte & Alberto Neumann: Exilerfahrungen / Experiencia del Exilio (Deutsch/Español, 15th April 2012)
- English: This video dialogue between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Alberto Neumann was created on 15th April 2012 in Caleu, Chile. It is both in German and Spanish and was recorded by Evelin Lindner.
- Deutsch: Dieser Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Alberto Neumann wurde am 15. April 2012 in Caleu, Chile, erstellt. Das Video ist in deutscher und spanischer Sprache und wurde von Evelin Lindner aufgezeichnet.
- Español: Este diálogo vídeo entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Alberto Neumann fue creado el 15 de abril 2012 en Caleu, Chile. Es a la vez en alemán y español y fue grabado por Evelin Lindner.
• Claudia Arcos Duarte & Evelin Lindner: Die Identität einer Stadt / La Identidad de una Ciudad (Deutsch/Español, 12th April 2012) English: Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner use Limache, Chile, as an example to explain how large supermarket chains may fail to provide the "progress" that they promise. Claudia and Evelin are filming each other, 12th April 2012.
Deutsch: Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner nehmen Limache in Chile als ein Beispiel dafür, wie grosse Supermarktketten möglicherweise nicht den Fortschritt bringen, den sie versprechen. Claudia und Evelin filmen sich gegenseitig, 12. April 2012.
Español: Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner uso Limache, Chile, como en el ejemplo para explicar cómo grandes cadenas de supermercados puede que no proporcionan el "progreso" que prometen. Claudia Duarte y Evelin están filmando entre sí, 12 de abril 2012.