Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find here a link to the July 2007 newsletter of AficaAvenir.

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Brian Ward

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below a Call for Papers - 29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

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Brian Ward

29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum

“Going Public with Ethnography in Education”
February 29 and March 1, 2008

Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

CALL for PAPERS

ONLINE SUBMISSIONS OPEN: August 15, 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October
15, 2007
NOTIFICATION: Early November 2007
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE: Early January 2008

What counts as learning? In the current public discourse of
ever-narrowing definitions of learning, achievement, and educational
value, ethnographic research offers powerful evidence that not
everything that matters is being counted. Ethnographers of education
around the world continue to reveal the importance and complexity of
social, cultural, and linguistic life in schools, of processes of
learning, and of the intricate relationships upon which it depends.
How can we make accounts of this complexity heard within a popular
discourse and public policy that seem ever more committed to
simplifying definitions and solutions? With all that we know and
continue to discover through ethnography in education, how do we go
public? How do we engage with the media, with popular discourse, and
with public policy on burning social and educational issues in ways
that will influence what counts as learning and what counts as
research?

The Ethnography in Education Research Forum invites papers
that explore and expand upon what counts as learning and achievement,
what counts as research and gets counted as research, and what methods
of data analysis and representation can be used to communicate findings
about the complex and processual nature of learning and education to
audiences outside, as well as inside, the academy.

Plenary Speakers:
Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University
Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego

All proposals may be submitted online beginning August 15:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS:
Proposals are requested for presentations in the following categories:

1. Individual Paper (Traditional or Work-in-Progress) 2. Group
Sessions (Traditional or Work-in-Progress) 3. Data Analysis
Consultation

Practitioner Research: For Individual Papers and Group Sessions, you
may choose to designate your presentation as PRACTITIONER RESEARCH.
Practitioner research presentations focus on research by teachers and
other practitioners in educational settings (e.g., school principals,
counselors, non-teaching aides, parents, students, and other members of
school communities). Practitioner research presentations are
particularly featured on Saturday, known as Practitioner Research Day.

1. Individual Papers: (15 minutes)
Individual papers by one or more authors. Either final analyses,
results, and conclusions (Traditional) or preliminary findings and
tentative conclusions (Work-in-Progress) may be submitted. Indicate practitioner research,
if you so choose.

2. Group Sessions (75 minutes)
A full session of no fewer than three, and no more than six presenters,
including a discussant. These sessions may vary in organization: a set
of individual papers, a panel discussion, a plan for interaction among
members of the audience in discussion or workshop groups are possible
formats. Either final analyses, results, and conclusions (Traditional)
or preliminary findings and tentative conclusions (Work-in-Progress)
may be submitted. Indicate practitioner research, if you so choose.

3. Data Analysis Consultation (30 minutes) Individual submissions only.
Presenters offer data along with questions about analysis for
consultation with expert researchers and conference participants.
Data analysis consultation is by definition Work-in-Progress.
Presenters must follow specific guidelines available online:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/dacinstructions.php

PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA:

1. Significance for education
2. Conceptual orientation
3. Methodology
4. Interpretation
5. Quality of analysis
6. Depth and clarity

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS:

Everyone must submit:

A. Summary (limit 100 words)
This should be a brief overview of the work to be presented.

B. Description (limit 1500 words)
Selection is based on the description. A detailed description of the
work to be presented should be submitted including conceptual
orientation, data collection and analysis methods, data interpretation,
and significance to education.

Special Instruction for Group Sessions
Submit Summary and Description of the session overall, as specified
above. If the session consists of a set of individual papers, the
group session proposal must also include a description for each individual presentation.

All proposals must be submitted online:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

Questions
E-mail: cue[@]gse.upenn.edu

Center for Urban Ethnography
Ethnography in Education Research Forum 3700 Walnut St.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
215-898-3273

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find here a link to the Intervention Journals, with a summary of the July 2007 Journal below.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Intervention Journal: Volume 5: Number 2: July 2007

Linking economics and emotions: towards a more integrated understanding of empowerment in conflict areas
Barbara Weyermann
A tool is introduced that helps to better understand and assess the true extent of individual and collective disempowerment in conflict areas and to facilitate an integrated psychosocial approach to empowerment. Its application is illustrated with two examples: In economic projects in Nepal, staff looked more closely at their individual beneficiaries and realized how the fears of past and future influence economic performance; in a psychosocial project in Gaza, the tool helped counsellors to take the material needs of their clients more seriously and to turn sewing and pottery courses from occupational therapy into a form of economic empowerment.

Mathematics, psychosocial work and human rights: a unique partnership between technical consultants and community organizers in India
Martha Bragin, Vrunda Prabhu & Bronislaw Czarnocha
Best practice in psychosocial work with marginalized populations emphasizes the importance of community participatory approaches. However, the majority of field reports describe donor initiated projects in which the goal is community empowerment, ownership and control, rather than reports about collaboration with activist movements arising from the communities themselves. This paper addresses one recent example of the latter form of collaboration, in which activists of a social movement in Tamil Nadu, India requested brief, targeted, external psychosocial assistance, following the tsunami of December 2004. The focus of the assistance, at the community’s request, was to increase cognitive capacity among children and volunteer teachers in a community education program.

Challenges for a future reintegration programme in Somalia : outcomes of an assessment on drug abuse, psychological distress and preferences for reintegration assistance
Michael Odenwald, Harald Hinkel & Elisabeth Schauer
Based on an assessment of over 8000 active militia members and military staff across Somalia, this article reports on three groups of respondents who might require special attention in a future Somali Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) program. The assessment revealed distinct preferences according to region, age and gender. The findings suggest that variables such as the expectations, drug use and the psychological stress of individual ex-combatants will have to be taken into account.

The use of consensus methodology in determining key research and practice: development questions in the field of intervention with children associated with fighting forces
Ager, Boothby and Wessells
A report on a consultative meeting on best practices in care and protection practice with children associated with fighting forces, describes the consensus methodology that was used to identify issues on which research and practice development is needed the most, and identifying the importance of ‘documenting the comparative effectiveness of community- based psychosocial and clinical interventions’.

Medecins Sans Frontieres: mental health care in post-tsunami Aceh Province, a field report
De Gryse and Laumont’s field report from a program in Aceh province, a conflict area in Indonesia, after the tsunami of December 2004 shows that beneficiaries appreciated the community-based group activities the most, organising volleyball training and organizing discussions. Counselling proved to be an unfamiliar approach for the majority of the population that did not always meet their expectations of a fast, practical solution to their problems.

Psychosocial support for children, families and teachers in Iraq
Kos and Zemljak describe how psychosocial activities aimed at child mental health protection were implemented in primary schools and in primary health care settings; the difficulties they encountred and the potential benefits from the involvement of a reliable partner.

Intervention is published in close co-operation with the War Trauma Foundation and IRCT with the co-operation of Wolters Kluwers/Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

Online Resources.

Intervention is participating in several online projects to make information available to the widest possible readership. They include the PILOTS Index to Traumatic Stress Literature http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/publications/pilots/ )

Summaries and papers from previous numbers are downloadable from http://www.interventionjournal.com ..

Full papers from the current issues are available from Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins at http://www.lww.com .

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below an invitation to showcase your peace images and videos from Sarah Maitland who is the Project Coordinator Global Peacebuilders Project

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Dear Global Peacebuilders Participant,

The project is developing quickly, and I will be in touch soon to let you know how you can create an online profile and officially join the database of organisations working around peacebuilding and conflict resolution.

I am writing to invite you to submit to us by email attachment any images or video files that showcase your projects, programmes or initiatives. We want to use these images to showcase your work, and draw the world’s attention to your peacebuilding activities. The images will appear on the Global Peacebuilders website in a specialised image bank. The images and video will be used for no other purpose than to go online into the Global Peacebuilders website, and each one will be referenced back clearly to your organisation, ensuring your work is openly showcased.

Please only email me those images and videos to which you own the rights, and that you consent to appear online on the Global Peacebuilders website. Please also ensure that you are authorised to pass on to these media to me, as a third party. I would also ask you to send no more than 15 files in total.

If you wish to be part of the online image bank, simply email me your media or upload them into an online portal such as www.flickr.com or www.youtube.com and contact me with the location of your media, from where I can download them myself. Your media will then appear online on www.globalpeacebuilders.org when the site is up-and-running.

Looking forward to seeing your work in action,

Sarah

Sarah Maitland
Project Coordinator
Global Peacebuilders Project
Springboard Opportunities Limited
4th Floor
108-112 Royal Avenue
Belfast
BT1 1DL
T: +44 (0)28 9031 5111
F: +44 (0)28 9031 3171
E: sarah[@]springboard-opps.org
W: www.springboard-opps.org

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below a call for ‘pieces’ on peace from Tom H. Hastings
Director, PeaceVoice Project, Oregon Peace Institute

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Dear Peace Educators,

I am Associate Editor of The PeaceWorker. We are doing a special Back to Peace Education School theme for our September issue and would love your pieces (300-1,000 words–due date is August 12–send to me, please). The audience is a literate peace-oriented readership who may know little about Peace and Conflict Studies. They will be interested in pieces such as (but not limited to):

How we started a Peace and Conflict Studies undergrad major

Why we started a Peace Studies masters program

How I work Peace Studies into my 4th grade curricula despite NCLB

Why Peace and Conflict Studies should be taught at every grade level

Career tracks for Peace and Conflict Studies majors

Career tracks for Conflict Resolution graduates

A day in the life of a Peace Studies professor

How Peace and Conflict Studies changed our institution

How Peace Studies can convert a war system to a peace system

Ten lies our students used to believe before Peace Studies

How my student changed our town

Imagine a well-funded Peace and Conflict Studies program

Helping our students help the movement

Can peace be taught?

Should peace be taught?

Our students have a better analysis than mainstream media pundits

Yours for a nonviolent future,
Tom H. Hastings
Director, PeaceVoice Project, Oregon Peace Institute
http://www.peacevoice.info/
member, Whitefeather Peace Community
3315 N Russet
503 327 8250
http://www.whitefeatherpeace.org/
blog: http://hastingsnonviolence.blogspot.com/
503 725 9173
Portland Catholic Worker

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below a note from Lisa Albrecht introducing a new book.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

The Critical Classroom: Education for Liberation & Movement Building

A new toolkit for scholar activists, students, and community organizers

The Critical Classroom: Education for Liberation & Movement Building

With Walda Katz-Fishman, Rose Brewer and Lisa Albrecht

This toolkit is based in the struggle to link our classrooms
and our communities in the larger struggle for freedom and
justice over the last 500+ years.

Included are essays about the history of the academy and
radical community-based pedagogies, plus socio-political
history, and examples of political practice.

We also include a new Project South Timeline ­ “Radical Education &
Globalization,” plus several popular education workshops and sample syllabi
using Project South’s model of consciousness, vision and strategy
for movement building.

“The Critical Classroom is a wonderful combination of daring and
sensibility both—daring because it puts out imaginative, new approaches
to learning and sensible because it tells us how to carry them out.
Here is an organic treasure-house for opening minds to their potential
for transforming our society, with Rini Templeton drawings throughout
to convey irresistible energy.”

Elizabeth (Betita) Martìnez
Director, Institute for MultiRacial Justice Author, Activist, Educator

ORDER ON LINE FROM PROJECT SOUTH:
www.projectsouth.org —
$25 ­ educators

$20 ­ students/organizers

Lisa Albrecht, Ph.D.
Morse-Mn. Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of Teaching
Director of Undergraduate Studies School of Social Work
193 Peters Hall
St. Paul, MN. 55108
612 624 3669

Social Justice Minor -
http://ssw.che.umn.edu/Programs/socialjustice.html

The PJSA is a non-profit organization that was formed in 2001 as a
result of a merger of the Consortium on Peace research, Education and
Development (COPRED) and the Peace Studies Association (PSA). Both
organizations provided leadership in the broadly defined field of
peace, conflict and justice studies.

We are dedicated to bringing together academics,
K-12 teachers and grassroots activists to explore alternatives to
violence and share visions and strategies for social justice and social
change.

PJSA also serves as a professional association for scholars in the
field of peace and conflict resolution studies.

For more information please visit our website at
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org.

Dear HumanDHS Friends!
Sophie Schaarschmidt kindly makes us aware of the course you see further down!
Thankfully!
Evelin

Dear Friends,

Accademia Psicologia Applicata (APA), expierienced in international and local cooperation, would like to invite you to paricipate in our project in Youth in Action Programme “Bullying - A new sore for the Young People.” The project will take place in Palermo / Italy on 19 - 25 February 2008 for 7 days within 10 different countries…
DEADLINE for sending the Part-3 forms attached, by post and by fax is 30th of July.

…

Musa Kirkar,
Responsible from Department of international Comunications
Associazione Accademia Psicologia Applicata
via Principe di Villafranca, 54
90141, Palermo / Italy
internazionale[@]psicologia-applicata.it
www.psicologia-applicata.it

Bullying Rife in Australian Workplaces - Survey
From: AAP
July 20, 2007

BULLYING is not a problem resigned to the schoolyard, with a survey showing almost three quarters of Australian employees claim they have been bullied in the workplace.

And it’s the bullies who seem to be winning promotions, too.

A survey by online job search provider CareerOne shows 74 per cent of Australian employees claim to have been bullied in the workplace, with 77 per cent saying bullies were more likely to get ahead at work.

Click here to read the full article on the website

Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find below details of a New Book, People Power: Fifty Peacemakers & Their Communities

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Brian Ward

PEOPLE POWER: FIFTY PEACEMAKERS & THEIR COMMUNITIES

by Michael True

“…a great contribution to an overview of the peace movement and the
heroic persons who chose that route to travel. –Jeanne Kinney

“People Power is superb­measured and generous, and graced with all
manner of interesting details. Truly an achievement.” –Daniel Berrigan, S.J.

“.True’s best book. I found it hard to put down because it’s so engaging
and non excesssive.” –Frances Crowe

“It’s an inspiring book and it will be wonderful if young people will read it.
Yes, every home should have one!” –Howard Zinn

Brief portraits of peacemakers around the world, from Thomas Paine to Young
Catholic Workers, including Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez and Dolores
Huerta, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Oscar Romero, Rosa Parks, Randolph Bourne,
Eugene Victor Debs, Dorothy Day, Gandhi,Tolstoy, Jane Addams, Quakers.
ISBN 81 316 0098 4

Rawat Publications, Jawahar Nagar, Jaipur,India 302-994.
tel. 0141-265-1748 Delivery within 7 days.

Distributed in U.S. by South Asia Books, P.O. Box 502, Columbia, MO 65202
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Dear Friends of the HumanDHS network

Please find here a link to the human relations newsletter.

And the newsletter archive is here.

Kind regards
Brian Ward