Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HuamDHS) is proud to publish the Meeting Notes of its first Annual Meeting in Paris, September 2003.

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Contents

Day One, September 12, 2003

Humiliation: How to Defuse Conflict and Violence in the World and Our Lives
I. Why study humiliation?
II. Where do we find cases of humiliation?
III. What is humiliation?
IV. What is new?
V. What do we do now?

Appreciative Psychology and Humiliation
I. Humiliation as a Collective Phenomenon
II. Humiliation as a Barrier to Our Inherent Capacity for Awe and Wonderment
III. The Mental Scrim: How We Create Reality In Our Minds
IV. Appreciative Psychology as an Antidote to Humiliation

Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation
I. Introduction
II. Three goals for this talk
III. Relational-Cultural theory (RCT)
IV. A relational analysis of shame and humiliation
V. Relational ways to transform shame and humiliation

Discussion on Humiliation

Day Two, September 13, 2003

The Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq
I. Introduction
II. Objectives
III. Honor, shame and humiliation ? What is it?
IV. Victimizer and victim point of view
V. Honor and Iraqi women
VI. Mediatisation
VII. Fallujah
VIII. How do you repair? Recommendations

Cross-Cultural Communication: HRI Profile
I. A behavioral model to understand humiliation
II. How the model helps to understand causes and reactions to humiliation

Discussion of the Future of the Group and the Center at Columbia University

A Conversation with Arne Næss
I. Introduction by Evelin Lindner
II. First questions: What is humiliation? What is non-violent conflict resolution?
III. Kit-fai: Tell us about Gandhi non-violence and liberation
IV. Kit-fai: Why don?t you like pacifism?

Discussion on Humiliation

Discussion of the Center for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Reference List