Cross-Cultural Linguistics for Equal Dignity (CCLEQ)

•  Thomas Clough Daffern, Director and Coordinator
Director, International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, Wales and London, UK

 

•  Francisco Gomes de Matos, Director and Coordinator
An Applied Peace Linguist, Recife, Brazil, E-mail fcgm@hotlink.com.br, currently also a Consultant to Associação Brasil América, a Binational Center

HumanDHS is primarily grounded in academic work. We are independent of any religious or political agenda. However, we wish to bring academic work into "real life." Our research focuses on topics such as dignity (with humiliation as its violation), or, more precisely, on respect for equal dignity for all human beings in the world. This is not only our research topic, but also our core value, in line with Article 1 of the Human Rights Declaration that states that every human being is born with equal dignity (that ought not be humiliated). We agree with Professor Shibley Telhami, who advocates the building of bridges from academia as follows, "I have always believed that good scholarship can be relevant and consequential for public policy. It is possible to affect public policy without being an advocate; to be passionate about peace without losing analytical rigor; to be moved by what is just while conceding that no one has a monopoly on justice." We would like to add that we believe that good scholarship can be relevant and consequential not only for public policy, but for raising awareness in general.

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Humiliation in Russian
Humiliation in Russian: унижение (uneejenije), or "making low" (Olga Botcharova, December 2006)

Japanese Expressions of Humiliation
Assembled by Midori Suzuki, Tokyo, 2004.

Universality of Humiliation
by Bill Templer (2006)
Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna
Bankrang village
Phitsanulok province, Thailand.

Cross-Cultural Linguistics
Thomas Clough Daffern works on cross-cultural linguistics. His work was first published in the Muses Journal, Issue 6, 1999. Please see also Appendix 5 in Thomas Daffern's PhD thesis: Multilingual Dictionary for Multifaith and Multicultural Mediation and Education

Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of Enlightenment
Please see here other work by Thomas Clough Daffern:
Enlightenments: Towards a Comparative Analysis of the Philosophies of Enlightenment in Buddhist, Eastern and Western Thought and the Search for a Holistic Enlightenment Suitable for the Contemporary World
Paper prepared for the SOAS Buddhist Conference for Dongguk University on Global Ecological problems and the Buddhist Perspective, February 2005

International Institute for Peace Studies and Global Philosophy
Please see here the International Institute for Peace Studies and Global Philosophy (IIPSGP) Newsletter, Summer 2005 and Summer 2006 by Thomas Clough Daffern