Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear HumanDHS Friends!

COMMENT by Brian Lynch:

I have been in a correspondence with someone for about a year now about shame and humiliation yet they recently said “[shaming] Sometimes it may be otherwise: an effective, non-lethal way to prevent repetition of bad acts.” Here in this article it would seem we have the same attitude. It would seem the idea of positive reenforcement doesn’t even occur to such people once on this path.

The start of the article:

Nidhi Sharma - AHN News Writer
Memphis, TN (AHN) - Drivers in Memphis, Tennessee were surprised to see a teenage girl on Sunday who held the following sign: “I don’t obey my parents, I’m a liar. I steal from my mom. I have a bad attitude.”

The 13-year-old girl Tashara Wilkins was punished by her mom Cherie Wilkins after she was fed up with the misbehavior of her daughter

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007753903

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Dear HumanDHS Friends!

COMMENT by Brian Lynch:

This article is posted due to its content and as “humiliation” is used in the title.

By Special to the Sun
May 16, 2007

A Midtown doorman is suing a couple and a building management firm for $2 million, alleging they humiliated him by wrongly accusing him of stealing a Christmas bonus intended for another domestic employee.

http://www.nysun.com/article/54584

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Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find here a link to the August 2007 issue of the Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence Newsletter

The central theme this month is Milllenium Development Goal 8, Global Partnership for Development

Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D.
Website: The Pelican Web
http://www.pelicanweb.org

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Brian Ward

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below details of the upcoming conference in October.

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Brian Ward

WHATS THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Conference
October 5-7, 2007

Conference website here

A keynote speaker is HDHS Advisory Board Member Riane Eisler who is a world-renowned social scientist and the author of the best-selling THE CHALICE AND THE BLADE. Her new book is THE REAL WEALTH OF NATIONS: CREATING A CARING ECONOMICS

Isnt it time we started asking the right question? Welcome to the beginning of the WHATS THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Campaign. The WHATS THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Conference, October 5-7th, in Washington DC is our kick-off event.

We believe that progressives must venture beyond their specific issue silos and come to a better understanding of the linkages between quality of life, health, social justice, economic security and environmental sustainability, to build alliances which offer policy ideas that can improve our society in multiple ways.

AN ONGOING CAMPAIGN
Your ideas, innovation and support will shape how we further develop and expand this campaign. Our goal is to bring enough attention to this question that it becomes part of the 2008 election dialogue and that the economic policy ideas generated by this conference are taken seriously by all candidates for political office. We are already working to develop university curriculum materials, power point presentations, international country comparisons and other materials that many of you may find useful in the coming year.

Sincerely,
Laura Pacheco (617) 694-7998 and John de Graaf (206) 443-6747
Conference Organizers

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below information on a 2006 book by Dr Thomas Kida.

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Brian Ward

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Don’t Believe Everything You Think
Dr. Thomas Kida.

It is about a complex process of how our human brain/perception works, it is presented in a very simple way and supported by uncompromised logic — challenging and fascinating!

An excerpt from a Robert G Muller review:

“Kida’s approach is not only theoretical. He uses real-life scenarios to show how decision-making based on poor information and/or improper processing of information affects our lives in negative ways”

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below details of a new networking website in Conflict Resolution.

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Brian Ward

Peace and Collaborative Development Networking

http://internationalpeaceandconflict.ning.com/

This is a free professional networking site to encourage interaction between individuals & organizations worldwide involved in development, human rights, civil society development, conflict resolution, democratization, and related fields. Members are encouraged to dialogue and share resources. You can find local partners and practitioners around the world as well as exchange best practices. In addition members can create their own blogs.

Craig Zelizer, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Georgetown University
Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution
Department of Government
Georgetown University
37th & O Street, NW
Washington, DC 20057

Tel. (202)687-0512
Fax (202)687-5858

Email: cz52[@]georgetown.edu

web: http://conflictresolution.georgetown.edu

Dear HumanDHS Friends!
Patricia W. Hall (Risha) informs us of her book on hate crimes, please see further down.
Most warmly!
Evelin

“… My book on hate crimes is called Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance, published in 2001. My book introduction and the book reviews are available online at: www.rowmanlittlefield.com or www.altamirapress.com.
Prof. Howard Zinn (Boston University) is one of the book reviewers.

Thanks to Amazon.com, this volume is now being marketed in six countries. The book is now priced at about $37 for paperback and $87 for hardback.

My co-author is Mr. Victor Hwang, a civil rights lawyer. Several of the articles in this anthology are written by civil rights lawyers. The Afterword is by Mary-Woo Sims (formerly the chief commissioner with the British Columbia Human Rights Commission).

In the epilogue of my book, I discuss the relationship between the Jewish Holocaust / neo-Nazism and anti-Asian violence, with quotes from Simon Wiesenthal’s book, ‘Sunflower.’ I saw some connections there, since white supremacists continue to target Jews, people of color, gays and others who are marginalized in the U.S.
…

Peace to you,
Risha

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find here a link to a 2007 book on Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below a summary of the articles in the Common Ground News Service - Bulletin 25-31 July 2007

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Brian Ward

Common Ground News Service
Partners in Humanity (CGNews-PiH)
for constructive & vibrant Muslim-Western relations

25 July - 00 August 2007

The Common Ground News Service – Partners in Humanity (CGNews-PiH) aims to promote constructive perspectives and dialogue about Muslim–Western relations. CGNews-PiH is available in Arabic, English, French and Indonesian. Pplease visit our website at www.commongroundnews.org .

Unless otherwise noted, copyright permission has been obtained and articles may be reprinted by any news outlet or publication. Please acknowledge both the original source and the Common Ground News Service (CGNews).

Inside this edition

1) American-style universities prove popular in the Arab world by Shafeeq Ghabra
Shafeeq Ghabra, president of Jusoor Arabiya and professor of Political Science at Kuwait University, presents the results of a recent study on American-style university education and its popularity in the Arab world while Arab support for US foreign policy is at an all-time low.
(Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 24 July 2007)

2) ~Youth Views~ Conventional warfare cannot combat terrorism by Stephen J. Coulthart
Stephen Coulthart, a graduate student studying diplomacy and international affairs at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall in New Jersey, considers the success of conventional warfare in tackling the threat of terrorism that faces our generation and finds it falls short. Identifying the gaps, he suggests an alternate, more comprehensive strategy.
(Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 24 July 2007)

3) Not in our name by Asim Siddiqui
Asim Siddiqui, chairman and a founding trustee of the City Circle, a network of young British Muslim professionals, contemplates whether foreign policy is to blame for recent terrorist activity in the United Kingdom, or whether this is only an excuse that diverts attention from the need to tackle violent extremism from within.
(Source: Guardian, 9 July 2007)

4) In the name of inspiration by Naif Al-Mutawa
Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of The 99, the internationally acclaimed group of superheroes based on an Islamic archetype, conducts some simple tests to determine whether a book can be blamed for inspiring readers to kill, and whether responsibility for interpretation lies elsewhere.
(Source: Arab News, 19 July 2007)

5) Quelling the current of terrorism: an interview with Nouri Bouzid by Larissa Bender
Larissa Bender, editorial staff member for the German publication Qantara.de, asks Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid why some religious extremists turn to terrorism and what can be done to prevent it.
(Source: Qantara.de, 11 July 2007)

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below a note from Poonam Lakra from the Henry Martyn Institute (HMI), Hyderabad.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Poonam Lakra wrote:

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Henry Martyn Institute (HMI), Hyderabad.

HMI embarked on an innovative project in 1998 where it created a project for women to get together to dialogue around issues of interfaith and other differences using the journey methodology to create space for openness and transcendence of barriers to occur. We are now in the final phase of this project and invite you to participate in the discussions, critiques and analyses that will take place in Hyderabad , India in October this year.