The Peace Education Center invites you to attend a special conversation with distinguished visiting international scholar Evelin Lindner

PEACE EDUCATION’S RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS HUMILIATION: AN INSIDIOUS THREAT TO PEACE

Thursday, November 30 - 3:30-5:00pm

Teachers College, Columbia University
Room 285 Grace Dodge
(525 West 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam)

NO RSVP REQUIRED

We live in a world that is characterized by two historically unprecedented phenomena -- increased global interdependence and human rights ideals and advocacy. Human rights, however, combined with globalization, increases feelings of humiliation. If unattended, these feelings of humiliation can lead to violence, thus undermining peaceful efforts toward a comprehensive implementation of human rights. Dr. Lindner calls upon the field of Peace Education to take up primary responsibility to clarify and guide this transition in a constructive way, namely to act in the spirit of a Nelson Mandela who resisted turning humiliation into violence, but transformed it into constructive social change.

Evelin G. Lindner holds PhDs in social medicine and also in social psychology. In 1996-2001, she carried out research on the concept of humiliation and its role in genocide and war. Lindner has established the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network (HumanDHS) for further work on dignity and humiliation. As a global citizen, Dr. Lindner teaches as senior lecturer atUniversity of Oslo; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; is affiliated with Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, and guest teaches at Columbia University and many others. Her book Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict was published by Praeger/Greenwood in 2006.

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