Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on a conference on BBC overseas broadcasting.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
A conference to evaluate 75 years of BBC overseas broadcasting

18-19 December 2007, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

This conference brings together academics and broadcasters, writers, producers and media policy makers, in order to debate the past legacy and future directions of British overseas broadcasting.

Through the prism of the BBC World Service (and its international broadcasting rivals) we address crucial issues for political, technological and socio-cultural change, such as: national perspectives and cosmopolitanism; objectivity and cultural relativism; freedom of expression; public and cultural diplomacy; diasporic cultures and transnational communication; media and development.

Since 1932 the BBC (then known as the Empire Service) has been broadcasting to many parts of the world, in up to 44 languages. What is now known as the BBC World Service (BBCWS) is widely respected and trusted, even though it is funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, ostensibly to promote British interests and perspectives abroad. BBC journalists have continually fought to protect their editorial independence.

BBCWS has long been a major employer of exilic, dissident writers. Displaced populations (refugees and other diasporas) are significant among its audiences. BBCWS can therefore be considered as a multi-diasporic ‘contact zone’ where politics and creativity merge – sometimes with unintended consequences.

Over this two-day conference, 50 papers will be presented by speakers from the UK and around the world. Among the confirmed contributors: Nigel Chapman, Behrouz Afagh, Nick Cull, Ali Fisher, Simon Derry, Graham Mytton, Igor Pomeranzev, Hosam el Sokkari, Gwyneth Williams, Jerry Timmins, Jean Seaton, Paddy Scannell, Philip Seib, Andrew Taussig, Jolyon Welsh and Zinovy Zinik.

Registration fees (inclusive of lunch): Full £50, Concessions £25.
Please use the attached conference booking form.
Deadline for registration is 12 December 2007.
To pay by credit card, use the attached credit card form. Do not e-mail us the card details as this may not be safe. Please either post or fax the form to us.

For further information please see http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/diasporas/
http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/forthcoming.html or contact CRESC@manchester.ac.uk

This Conference is supported by the AHRC project ‘Tuning In: Diasporic Contact Zones at BBC World Service’ at the Open University, the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester and the Open University, and the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below details of a one-day conference on December 1st.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Trajectories of Indian Independence: 1857, 1947, 2007…
One-day conference
December 1, 2007
Sunderland University
Organized by the Northern Association of Postcolonial Studies

2007 marks the 150th anniversary of Indian ‘mutiny,’ and the 60th anniversary of Indian independence and partition. Anniversaries are customs to memorise history, to signpost events, and to sustain legacies. They are means to resurrect history amidst the ruins of the present and now which enables one to reassess and recuperate history as everyday narrative and visual/literary representation. Through such anniversaries, in other words, history ceases to be authoritative. This one-day conference, coinciding with such anniversaries of Indian history, attempts a similar critical resurrection of history in the contemporary climate of widespread and popular Indophilia. The temporal trajectory suggested in the title is a starting point for such rereadings of Indian history. Whether we see it as a linear chronology or not, whether we see them as discontinuous episodes in a longer durée, these events defined the contours of colonial and postcolonial India. How could we revisit such events now? Could we productively return to the ‘mutiny’/’war of independence’ debate now? Could we reopen the traumatic experience of the partition of India that witnessed one of the largest exoduses of people and one of the worst genocides in human history? How could one talk about the present moment of history vis-à-vis such historical events?

Registration and lunch are free.

Please contact Neelam Srivastava neelam.srivastava[@]ncl.ac.uk if you wish to attend.

PROGRAMME OF THE DAY

9-10 : Registration
10 – 11

Dr Alex Tickell, (University of Portsmouth):
“Cawnpore and Colonial Charivari: Memorial and Counterinsurgency in Anglo-Indian Popular Culture”.

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30- 12:30
Dr Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Leeds University):
“Shared anniversaries, separate histories? Post-1947 trajectories of Indian and Pakistani visual art.”

12:30-2 — lunch

2-3
Professor Javed Majeed (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London):
“1947 and secularism’s opportunity”

3-3:30 – tea break

3:30-4:30
Roundtable with all the speakers and audience

4:30-6:30
Screening of Junoon (1978), dir. Shyam Benegal

Following the establishment of the East India Company in 1857, some Mughals, led by Sarfaraz Khan, decided to rebel against their British masters, killing many, and forcing others to flee. Three women from the Labadoor family, Grandma, Mariam, and Ruth, seek shelter with a local money-lender, Lala Ramjimal, who would like to recover his money from the Labadoors and has a vented interest in their survival. But he is unable to keep their presence secret, and Javed Khan and his men storm into his home, and take the three women to Javed’s house. Under normal circumstances, these three would have been beheaded and Ramjimal and his family severely punished, but Javed would like to make Ruth his second wife. Mariam and Javed’s wife, Firdaus, strongly oppose this move, but Javed is clearly obsessed by Ruth’s beauty and nothing will deter him from marrying her. Then things gets really complicated when Ruth starts having feelings for Javed, and the British seek retribution for those killed by the Mughals.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information and a link to the new school curriculum in New Zealand.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz

The New Zealand Curriculum includes and explains:

The vision for young people who are confident, connected, actively involved lifelong learners.
the principles that guided the curriculum’s development: high expectations, Treaty of Waitangi, cultural diversity, inclusion, learning to learn, community engagement, coherence and future focus.

The values that will be developed and modelled through teaching and learning: excellence; innovation, enquiry, and curiosity; diversity; equity; community and participation; ecological sustainability; integrity and respect.

The key competencies – the capabilities people need in order to live, learn, work, and contribute as active members of their communities. They are: managing self; relating to others; participating and contributing; thinking; and using language, symbols, and texts.
the eight learning areas: social sciences; arts; technology; science; mathematics and statistics; health and physical education; English; and learning languages. The new curriculum explains the rationale and the structure of each of these learning areas.

Effective pedagogy, reinforcing the importance of effective teaching and learning and providing guidance for teachers.

The designing and planning sections to provide guidance to schools on working with their communities to design and implement the curriculum, to plan for clear learning objectives and to assess for learning. Schools are advised on how to incorporate significant themes such as sustainability, citizenship, enterprise, globalisation, and financial literacy into their teaching programmes.

From a survey of students:

Social science
Social science drew many positive comments. “It should be the biggest subject in schools,” said one student. “It helps you learn what you want,” said another. The teacher’s attitude and approach to the subject appeared to be significant in students’ enjoyment – or otherwise – of social science.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on a book The Whisperers and a NY Times article.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

THE WHISPERERS
Private Life in Stalin’s Russia.
By Orlando Figes.
Illustrated. 740 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $35.

Excerpt from NY Times Article:

For many years, Orlando Figes observes, the memoirs of intellectual dissidents, like Eugenia Ginzburg and Nadezhda Mandelstam, and the work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “were widely greeted as the ‘authentic voice’ of ‘the silenced,’” telling us “what it had ‘been like’ to live through the Stalin Terror as an ordinary citizen.” Their books did indeed reflect the experience of people like themselves, who were “strongly committed to ideals of freedom and individualism.” But they did not represent what happened to millions of other people who were not opponents of the regime and did not engage in any kind of substantial dissent, but were still dispatched to labor camps, to exile in remote settlements or to summary execution.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below a new free e-book on Global Governance.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

People-Centred Global Governance - Making it Happen!

by John M. Bunzl
Founder, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation

Download for free at:

http://www.simpol.org/en/books/PCGG.pdf

As global problems such as global warming, global poverty, pollution, terrorism and runaway corporate power increasingly outstrip the capacity of national and international governance institutions to solve them, the issue of global governance is rapidly moving up the international political agenda. In this book, Bunzl draws on the work of a number of leading evolutionary thinkers to show that both the process of globalisation itself, and the evolution of a binding system of global governance, are natural parts of human evolution.

“A systemic and ingenious strategy for applying people power in all countries to encourage their politicians toward ‘win-win global solutions’.”

Hazel Henderson
Author, Building a Win-Win World and Planetary Citizenship

“Simultaneous Policy (SP) is an evolutionary imperative in a competitive world that now demands new forms of co-operation in order to address global issues that cannot be resolved by one nation alone. In this new book John Bunzl analyses some key aspects of governance and sets SP in the context of transformative evolutionary change in our economic and political systems. The book is a timely contribution to continuing debates about structures and processes of global governance, showing exactly why our current international institutions are not fit for purpose.”

David Lorimer

Editor, Network, the magazine of the Scientific & Medical Network

“In an age when our problems are global and national governance structures are weakened and inadequate, it is absolutely necessary to think about the shape of effective global governance. This cannot be simply national government “writ large” for that would also enlarge the problems and inefficiencies of national governance. It must be a holistic and evolutionary governance system, and to the articulation of the essential features of such a system John Bunzl’s book makes a major contribution. Highly recommended reading for everyone concerned with our collective future on this small and largely mismanaged planet.”

Dr. Ervin Laszlo

Futurist, author and systems theorist. President of Club of Budapest

“John Bunzl convincingly demonstrates that if you want to contribute consciously to the successful advancement of the evolutionary process on this planet, you should support the Simultaneous Policy. The SP is a powerful and practical means of actualizing the next great step in evolution on earth - the formation of a cooperative and sustainable planetary civilization.”

John Stewart

Author, Evolution’s Arrow – the direction of evolution and the future of humanity

“This publication presents a unique long term approach to governance and environmental issues. It offers solutions based on the concept of unity in diversity. As such it is bound to produce controversy and debate!”

Diana Schumacher

Former President, The Schumacher Society

Download for free from:
http://www.simpol.org/en/books/Books_FS.htm

Synopsis:

As global problems such as global warming, global poverty, pollution, terrorism and runaway corporate power increasingly outstrip the capacity of national and international governance institutions to solve them, the issue of global governance is rapidly moving up the international political agenda. In this book, Bunzl draws on the work of a number of leading evolutionary thinkers to show that both the process of globalisation itself, and the evolution of a binding system of global governance, are natural parts of human evolution.

The central dilemma of achieving a healthy form of global governance, Bunzl shows, is that its implementation must be by popular consent, and yet it must also be consented to and implemented by nation-states. For only nation-states have the authority and capacity to do so. But present inter-governmental efforts to solve global warming and other global problems are proving wholly inadequate and are showing the nation-state system to be incapable of such a move. The solution, Bunzl argues, is to devise a way for global citizens to use their votes in their respective national elections to drive their politicians and governments to implement global governance and to do so in a way that does not require nations to act against their own self-interest. Furthermore, he presents the Simultaneous Policy as one means by which this can be achieved, arguing it to be the world’s first genuine form of global electoral politics.

Beyond this, if the evolution of global governance is a natural, albeit by no means assured, evolutionary phenomenon, Bunzl argues that any organisation purporting to become the world’s over-arching institution of global governance would likely have to display characteristics which are in substantial accord with the dynamics of evolutionary transformation. These dynamics have, after all, already been set out very clearly by the prominent American philosopher, Ken Wilber, in his “20 Tenets of holons and holarchies”. The value of Wilber’s 20 Tenets is that they provide reasonably objective criteria against which to analyse and compare the various existing and emergent global governance initiatives (as well as existing institutions such as the United Nations) to assess their potential, or otherwise, for evolving to become the world’s organisation of binding global governance.

Bunzl proceeds to analyse the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), tenet by tenet, making a convincing argument as to its congruity with Wilber’s Tenets and its potential for effecting global transformation at all levels of the human social holarchy towards a system of people-centred global governance. ISPO is also briefly viewed from Wilber’s “all-quadrant, all-level (AQAL)” standpoint and ISPO’s progress in the real world is also discussed, showing that it is already in the process of its own becoming.

By analysing ISPO in this way, Bunzl lays down the gauntlet - a challenge - to all other would-be global governance initiatives to declare themselves in similar fashion. From such a debate, both those with a special interest in globalisation and governance and the wider public will be able to see which initiatives have the potential to succeed and thus merit our active involvement and support.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below a newspaper article on World Dignity Day in India.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Dignity Forum to hold rally on December 5

By Our Staff Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC. 1 . The World Dignity Forum, an organisation working against casteism and racism, is organising a rally on December 5 to assert dignity as a universal concern without any distinction of caste and creed. Several social groups have extended support to it.

The World Dignity Forum was officially launched as one of the key international events in the World Social Forum in January this year when it was decided to observe December 5 as World Dignity Day and International Day of Dalits Struggle.

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Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on a book first published in 2006.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

The Science of Oneness: A Worldview for the Twenty-First Century by Malcolm Hollick
http://www.o-books.com/product_info.php?products_id=352

First published 2006

CONTENT: This major work outlines the philosophy and methods of a new Science of Oneness, and takes a fresh look at the findings of modern science. Weaving together the insights of science, spiritual traditions and diverse cultures, it balances openness to all sources of knowledge with critical evaluation of their reliability. Each Part offers activities, guided meditations, and thought-provoking questions and quotations to stimulate intuitive as well as intellectual understanding.

The Science of Oneness presents a scientifically valid vision of reality that is conscious, creative, loving, and purposeful. It provides a coherent world view for cultural creatives, the holism movement, and everyone searching for meaning in our fragmented world. And it challenges us all to help guide the evolution of humanity and the Earth in positive directions.

AUTHOR: After a long academic career spanning many disciplines, Malcolm Hollick left the University of Western Australia in 1997 to join the Findhorn Community in Scotland. He was foundation Principal of Findhorn Foundation College, and is currently a member of the Steering Group for the University for Spirit Forum in the UK.

Thursday 22 November, 2007 Copyright © 2004 John Hunt Publishing Ltd

Dear Friends of HumanDHS network

I am posting a call for papers for a conference on Violence & the Contexts of Hostility to be held in Budapest in May 2008 because I think it may interest many of you.

Most warmly!

Zuzana Luckay

This multi- and inter-disciplinary research and publications conference aims to identify and understand violence in contemporary life. The project will pay particular attention to the different contexts and places where violence develops, occurs and where its effects are felt; from the interpersonal to the international, from the empirical to the symbolic. Attention will also focus on uncovering the motives, dynamics and functions that violence has for individuals, groups, populations and societies, as well as for bonds and social relations in the private, institutional and public spheres of life. Exploring and understanding representations of violence in media, art and literature is a key part of the conference.

Violence has been part of societies and used as a political tool in multiple ways: to unite or divide, to produce fear and compliance, to incite or neutralize mobilization, to resist domination or to impose subordination. It has been touted as the only path for liberation or the inevitable road to annihilation and destruction, as a necessary means for transformation or as the ultimate form to avoid change and defend the status quo. And despite global, national and local efforts to minimize, reduce or eliminate it violence remains a horrifying feature of today’s world and life.

The conference will be structured around seven main themes; papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on the following:

1. Perspectives for Understanding Violence
Exploring the methodologies available for uncovering the underlying factors which contribute to violence, the perspectives provided by all disciplines and field practitioners for attempting to understand violence and the models available for developing interdisciplinary studies for comprehending the complexities of violence.

2. Motives and Goals of Violence
Assessing the impulses, motivations, invitations and the allure of violence; analysing the motives and goals of violent attitudes, acts and behaviours.

3. Generating Enemies, Being Violent
Understanding the construction of enemies and the production of violence; identifying the processes that generate and establish violence as part of life and as normal.

4. Contexts of Hostility and Violence
Situating the specific contexts where violence emerges, develops and affects the lives of people; capturing the links between time, space, frames of mind and social institutions.

5. Violence, Victims and Others
Understanding violence by understanding the impact it has on its victims. Understanding the subjects that produce violence and violence that produce subjects or the mutually constitutive link between subjects and violence.

6. Resisting, Countering and Preventing Violence
How to promote, foster and develop counter cultures to violence? Knowledge, systems of meaning, movements and organizations that work to counter, neutralise and prevent violence.

7. Representations of Violence
Gauging the role of media in recording, portraying, disseminating and reflecting on violence. All forms of media are included - radio, television, cinema, theatre, graffiti, internet, music, art, sculpture, books, propaganda. The methods and intentions of portrayal and the symbolic effects will be assessed.

Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 18th January 2008. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 18th April 2008.

for further details please see http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hhv/vcce/vch7/cfp.html

The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below the AfricAvenir Newsletter.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

AfricAvenir Newsletter

mit diesem Newsletter möchten wir wie immer auf eine ganze Reihe interessanter Veranstaltungen und Publikationen hinweisen. Erinnern möchten wir vor allem an die morgige Vorführung des Films “Die Nacht der Wahrheit” von Fanta Régina Nacro. Besonders wichtig ist uns auch die Ankündigung einer weiteren Veranstaltung zum Gedenken an Thomas Sankara am 3. Dezember um 19.30 Uhr. Anlass ist der Berlinbesuch des außenpolitischen Beraters und Erziehungsministers in der Regierung Thomas Sankaras, Fidèle Kientega.

Aufgrund der Vielzahl von Veranstaltungen und Publikationen werden wir in den kommenden Wochen öfter als gewohnt Ankündigungen über diesen Verteiler verschicken.

Inhalt:
1. AfricAvenir in Berlin
2. AfricAvenir in Douala
3. Neu auf www.africavenir.org
4. Weitere Veranstaltungen
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1. AFRICAVENIR IN BERLIN

Filmreihe “african reflections - female directors”: „La Nuit de la Vérité – Die Nacht der Wahrheit“
Im Rahmen unserer monatlich stattfindenden Filmreihe „african reflections – female directors in cinema“ lädt AfricAvenir am Sonntag, den 25. November 2007 um 17:15 Uhr zur Vorführung von Fanta Régina Nacros preisgekröntem Film „La Nuit de la Vérité – Die Nacht der Wahrheit“ in das Filmtheater Hackesche Höfe. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1623/

Film und Diskussion: Gedenken an Thomas Sankara - Unbestechlich und revolutionär
Aus Anlass des Berlinaufenthalts des außenpolitischen Beraters und Erziehungsministers in der Regierung Thomas Sankaras, Fidèle Kientega, laden AfricAvenir und die Flüchtlingsinitiative Brandenburg am Montag, den 3. Dezember um 19.30 Uhr ins A17 (Admiralstr. 17, U-Bhf Kottbusser Tor) zur Filmvorführung mit anschließender Diskussion. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1639/

Filmreihe: 09. Dezember 2007, 17:15 UhrNa Cidade Vazia – Der verschwundene Ort
R: Maria Joao Ganga, Portugal/Angola 2003, 90 min. Den aus einer der Kriegsregionen kommenden Kriegswaisen N’Dala verschlägt es in die Großstadt Luanda, wo er sich mit dem älteren Jungen Ze anfreundet. Dieser überredet ihn zur Teilnahme an einem Raubüberfall, der tragische Folgen haben wird. http://www.africavenir.com/africavenir/berlin/film/film-presentations.php

2. AFRICAVENIR IN DOUALA

Rapport: Cinéma africain et la construction de l’identité africaine
La fondation AfricAvenir a animé un débat sur le rôle du cinéma dans la société africaine et l’impact des films africains sur l’identité des Africains. A partir du mois de janvier 2008, la Fondation AfricAvenir donnera l’opportunité aux jeunes et moins jeunes de la ville de Douala et de ses environs de renforcer leur personnalité à travers un vaste programme de cinéma comprenant entre autres les discussions, et les projections des films africains à la Fondation, dans les lycées et universités, mais aussi dans les quartiers et les villages. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1624

Rapport: La femme africaine d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
Rapport rédigé par Mlle SIGA ZAKO Emilie Christelle de la “causerie éducative, éducation à la citoyenneté” sur le thème: “La femme africaine d’hier et d’aujourd’hui: évolution ou stagnation. Quelles perspectives pour le futur?” qui a eu lieu mercredi 31 octobre 2007 à la Fondation AfricAvenir à Douala. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1614/

3. NEU AUF www.africavenir.org

Linguistic diversity in South Africa and the challenges of the African Renaissance
Paper presented by Dr. Neville Alexander on the 20th November 2007 at the South African Embassy in Berlin. One of the main points of his presentation was: How do we assist in the decolonisation of the mind of the billions of people who are held in thrall by the demonstrable “superiority” of the global languages as propagated and prioritised by their own ruling groups and strata? http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1635/

Quelle politique linguistique dans l’éducation et la science en Afrique
Conférence présentée par le Dr. Nseme Clédor lors du Forum de Dialogue d’AfricAvenir International à Berlin, le 21 novembre 2007. Le progrès social en Afrique ne pourra se faire durablement sans la valorisation des langues et cultures africaines et leur libre circulation à côté des langues indo-européennes dans tous les domaines de la vie moderne. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1636/

The future of blackness in predominantly white milieus
Paper presented by Abraham Chupe Serote on 03 October 2007 at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. Using two studies both about the experiences and perceptions of black members of faculty on race and racism, in predominantly white academic milieus, the paper demonstrates that ‘race’ is still a significant marker of privilege and despite the rhetoric of equity and redress, black faculty has continued to live in the fringes. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1625/

4. WEITERE VERANSTALTUNGEN

Kolonialverbrecher ehren? Wege zu einem verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit kolonialistischen Straßennamen
Am 27. Nov. 2007 um 19:00 Uhr lädt der Berliner Entwicklungspolitische Ratschlag zum 11. Forum Berliner Entwicklungspolitik ins Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, Greifswalder Str. 4, Tram M4 Am Friedrichshain, Robert Havemann-Saal. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1640/

Preview AFRIKAMERA: “Ezra” von Newton Aduaka
Am Donnerstag, den 29. November 2007 um 19:30 Uhr lädt toucouleur e.V. zur Preview von AFRIKAMERA ins Filmtheater Hackesche Höfe ein. Gezeigt wird “Ezra” von Newton Aduaka, der 2007 den Großen Preis beim FESPACO gewonnen hat. Im Anschluss an die Filmvorführung findet eine Diskussion mit Newton Aduaka und Prof. Yacouba Konaté, Kunstkritiker aus der Elfenbeinküste statt. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1583/

Filme von Nouri Bouzid: “Puppen aus Ton” und “Making of..”
Am Samstag, den 01. und Sonntag, den 02. Dezember werden zwei ausgewählte Spielfilme des tunesischen Regisseurs Nouri Bouzid gezeigt. Der Regisseur, der am 30.11.07 in Berlin mit dem Ibn Rushd Preis 2007 ausgezeichnet wird, wird anwesend sein. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1634

Erzbischof Desmond Tutu legt Stein der “Hoffnung” im Berliner Tiergarten
Desmond Tutu, der am Sonntag, den 2. Dezember in Hamburg den “Marion Dönhoff Preis” entgegen nimmt, wird anschließend nach Berlin reisen, um am Montag, den 3. Dezember um 11.00 Uhr der Einweihung des afrikanischen Steins im Rahmen des Global Stones Peace Project beizuwohnen. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1631

Worldtronics: Congo Bolia We Ndenge - Kasai Allstars - Konono No. 1
‘As distorted and dirty, and beautiful and funky as James Brown or Fela Kuti. Forget all your preconceptions about African music!’ wrote Britain’s Observer newspaper. Friday 30.11.2007 20:00h. House of the Cultures of the World, Berlin. Admission: 13 Euro, concessions 10 Euro. http://africavenir.com/news/2007/11/1633

Fachgespräch zum Thema “Darfur - Dafür interessiert die Welt sich nicht”
Am 5. Dezember 2007 um 14:00h lädt die Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken in Kooperation mit dem Berliner Entwicklungspolitischen Ratschlag (BER) e.V. zu einer Podiumsdiskussion ins Berliner Haus der Demokratie / Robert-Havemann-Saal ein.

Gumbo - Theater mit Gehörlosen und Hörenden
Man nehme eine Gruppe gehörloser und hörender südafrikanischer Theatermacher, addiere ein Märchen voller furchtbarer Begebenheiten, versteckter Romanzen und neu erwachtem Mut, mische Clowning hinzu, Gebärdensprache und ein wenig Spuk …. und was wird daraus …. GUMBO. Speziell gebraut, um die Seele zu rühren. 13.12.2007, 18.00 und 20.30 Uhr, Werkstatt der Kulturen. Eintritt: 14,- / 10,- €

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Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below a job opportunity with the International Organization for Migration, Mission with Regional Function, Nairobi.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

International Organization for Migration, Mission with Regional Function Nairobi

Rhapta Road, Westlands
P.O.Box 55040, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 20 4444 174. Fax: (254) 20 4449 577.
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VACANCY NOTICE
IOM/031/07
Functional Title: CONSULTANT - Senior Researcher
Duty Station: Nairobi (Kenya) with frequent travel in the region
Duration of Assignment: 8 months
Starting Date: 10.01.2008
Terms of Reference
Research Assessment of Trafficking in Men from East Africa and the Horn to South Africa.

1. Background Information
Human trafficking has evolved into one of the most tragic features of contemporary global migration, primarily affecting women and children. Little information exists, however, on the trafficking of men. In response to this lack
of data, IOM will implement a 9-month research assessment of the trafficking of men from between the East and Horn of Africa to South Africa. These two regions are already linked by significant migrant smuggling trends, which IOM
anticipates will increase in response to the construction boom (and perceived work opportunities) expected in South Africa in preparation for 2010 football World Cup. Though IOM recognizes trafficking and smuggling as distinct
migration phenomena, the proposed research is based on the hypothesis that trafficking in men is closely linked with the voluminous, male migrant smuggling patterns linking the East and Horn of Africa with South Africa. A 2003 study1 conducted by IOM has already established that trafficking and smuggling in the region are functionally linked and occur alongside one
another, frequently along shared migration corridors.

As the phenomenon of male trafficking from East Africa and the Horn has not been thoroughly researched, there have to date been no programmatic responses to the perceived problem. The research will therefore serve to identify the problem and propose appropriate action and policy in both East Africa and South Africa to address the three P’s set forth in the Palermo
Protocol – Prevention, Prosecution and Protection.

1 Seduction, Sale and Slavery: Trafficking in Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation in Southern Africa, International
Organization for Migration, Pretoria, May 2003.

International Organization for Migration, Mission with Regional Function Nairobi
Rhapta Road, Westlands
P.O.Box 55040, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 20 4444 174. Fax: (254) 20 4449 577.
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2. Project Description
This research project will explore the dimensions of trafficking in men from
East Africa and the Horn to South Africa with specific focus on: i) investigating
the extent to which the broad stream of irregular Somali, Ethiopian, Kenyan,
and Tanzanian male migrants are being transported to South Africa for
purposes of exploitation;2 ii) identifying trafficking routes between countries of
origin, transit, and destination; iii) developing profiles of men trafficked along
these routes; iv) developing profiles of traffickers operating along these
routes; iv) determining the character of sending communities, including
information about specific vulnerabilities; v) documenting traffickers’ modus
operandi; and, vi) documenting the forms of exploitation to which victims are
subjected, the human rights abused involved, and the control and coercion
mechanisms employed.
The study will focus on two known irregular migration routes that link East
Africa and the Horn with South Africa and which roughly follow, overland and
by sea, the profile of Africa’s east coast:
Route 1 – Overland: Irregular migration of men overland from Ethiopia,
Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania to South Africa by way of Kenya, Tanzania,
Mozambique and Swaziland.
Route 2 – Sea & overland: Irregular migration of men by sea from Ethiopia
(via Kenya/Tanzania), Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambican and
South African harbors.
The investigation will cover a variety of relevant nodal points of the two
migration routes, including all likely places of origin for trafficked men in East
Africa and the Horn, likely or known transit points (border posts and border
communities, east coast harbors, airports, major bus and minibus stations),
and likely locations of exploitation in the destination country, South Africa
(major cities, border regions, farms).
3. Project Timeline: NINE (9) MONTHS
The first phase (1 month) will include preparatory work; during the second
phase (6 months), field research will be conducted, and the third phase (2
months) will include final data analysis and finalization of reports.
4. Job Description
Under the overall supervision of the Regional Representative for MRF Nairobi
and under the direct supervision of the Program Development Officer, the
Consultant will implement the project according to the methodology outlined
in the project document. Essential functions:
4.1 Develops research tools in coordination with IOM staff and the other
research team members based in Pretoria;
2 The significant distance between east Africa and South Africa, and therefore the cost of being transported, raises the
possibility that southerly migration along Africa’s east coast is facilitated by agents who offer to put up the costs to poor
migrants, with the expectation of being repaid at a later stage. This begs the question how and under what conditions East
African migrants repay their smugglers – and whether this does not give rise to premeditated forms of exploitation in South
Africa.
International Organization for Migration, Mission with Regional Function Nairobi
Rhapta Road, Westlands
P.O.Box 55040, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 20 4444 174. Fax: (254) 20 4449 577.
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4.2 Pre-tests research tools, as needed, with relevant target groups;
4.3 Conducts field research according to the methodology outlined in the
project document, including, but not limited to:
4.3.1 Investigating trends in the irregular migration of males from
East Africa and the Horn to South Africa; to ascertain the
extent of human trafficking within these migratory channels, to
investigate source areas, routes, and modes of transport used
on the journey to South Africa; and to develop preliminary
profiles of both traffickers and trafficked males.
4.3.2 Cooperating with community and diaspora based organizations
to gain access to the Somali and Ethiopian diaspora in Kenya
and to Somali and Ethiopian men transiting Kenya and
Tanzania en route to South Africa.
4.3.3 Interviewing detained irregular migrants in Kenya and
Tanzania. with authorities’ approval.
4.3.4 Using initial research findings in South Africa to lead to a
variety of locations in search of information along the
transportation routes in East Africa and the Horn.
4.3.5 Taking up duty travel to Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania
and (to a limited extent) South Africa. Spending time in
locations such as source communities, at relevant border
posts, along borderlines and in border communities, at coastal
harbors, and at international airports used for
smuggling/trafficking. Observe cross-border traffic and make
contact with potential informants. As needed, use public
transportation to trace migration corridors linking East Africa
and South Africa in order to gather information about the
transportation process and border-crossing methods, and to
make contact with informants.
4.3.6 Conducting semi-structured interviews of official and nonofficial
secondary sources, including interviews in source
communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and as security
allows Somalia (S/C, Puntland, Somaliland) as well as migrant
communities in Kenya and Tanzania, and of potential and
actual victims in various settings, including, detention centers.
4.3.7 Collecting information, create contacts and interview
immigration “agents”, smugglers and potential human
traffickers;
4.4 Manages and coordinates of the research team’s activities, data
analysis and interpretation of findings;
4.5 Compiles the final version of research results with assistance from the
research team. Including recommendations for preventive and
protective programming.
International Organization for Migration, Mission with Regional Function Nairobi
Rhapta Road, Westlands
P.O.Box 55040, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 20 4444 174. Fax: (254) 20 4449 577.
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5. Deliverables: ( Timelines to be agreed upon with the Supervisor)
5.1 Submission of Periodic progress reports;
5.2 Development and testing or Interview tools;
5.3 Preparation of work plan/s;
5.4 Development of Tour plans and tour reports and minutes;
5.5 Submission of Preliminary findings report (may be included in periodic
progress reports);
5.6 Submissions of the Final report.
6. Desirable Qualifications :
6.1 Education: University Degree in Social Sciences, Migration Studies,
Demography, Public Policy Studies, Journalism or related fields.
6.2 Minimum of 5 years relevant research and/or investigative journalism
experience. Knowledge of and research/investigative experience in
the East Africa and Horn of Africa regions – an advantage.
6.3 Clear understanding of : social science research process or
investigative journalism methodology, of research ethics,
6.4 Knowledge and understanding of research subject and related issues.
6.5 Experience in leading research/investigative teams and extensive field
research experience.
6.6 Proven publications record. Previous publication record on migration
or trafficking an advantage.
6.7 Excellent drafting ability.
6.8 IOM Functional Competencies required: effective communicator,
successful negotiator, creative analytical thinker, active learner and
cross-cultural facilitator.
6.9 Relevant computer skills including Microsoft office, internet, electronic
mail, use of software for the analysis of qualitative data (SAS) a
possible advantage.
6.10 Languages: excellent drafting and spoken English; fluency in one or
more of the following languages: Kiswahili and/or Somali and /or
Oromo and/or Amharic.
Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter quoting the
reference number on the envelope, an updated resume (CV) with three
professional references and a daytime telephone contact as well as two
International Organization for Migration, Mission with Regional Function Nairobi
Rhapta Road, Westlands
P.O.Box 55040, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: (254) 20 4444 174. Fax: (254) 20 4449 577.
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recent examples of their own written work (preferably published work)
to:
Human Resources Department
International Organization for Migration
P.O. Box 55040, 00200 City Square, Nairobi
Or
E-Mail: HRNairobi[@]iom.int
(Please indicate the reference number of the VN on the subject line)
CLOSING DATE: 18 December 2007
Selected candidates must be willing to start not later than 10 January 2008