Dear HumanDHS network friends,
I am pleased to draw your attention to the blog of our friend Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra. Recently he blogged about a visit to City Hall in Belfast to see the celebrations of St Patrick’s day:
http://damahapatra.blogspot.com/2010/03/st-patricks-day-at-belfast.html
Aurobinda is featured at our website. See here.
Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff
Dear HumanDHS network friends,
it is a pleasure to forward the message of our friend Zahid Shahab Ahmed, see below.
Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff
Hi!
Please, have a look at my article on “Human Rights and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)“, which is published on the European Academy’s website. I look forward to receiving your comments, if any.
With best wishes,
Zahid Shahab Ahmed
Dear HumanDHS network friends,
please find below an announcement from our friend Erga. You may find her profiled at our website http://www.humiliationstudies.org/intervention/filmteam.php (please scroll down to Izzy Abrahami / Erga Netz).
Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff
Dear friends!
The European Union has organized a short film competition, and our entry ‘Mr. Empty Head’ is selected!
Quite surprising, as this is a satirical song against politicians…
It’s written and performed by Merel Moistra and you’re welcome to enjoy it (click here), and to pass the word!
And if you like “Mr. Empty Head”, please leave a comment and vote highly for it!
[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcl8cz_mr-empty-head_news]
Many greetings -
Erga
Erga Netz
Abrahami-Netz TV Productions
Koninginneweg 89, 1075 CJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.antv.nl
Dear HumanDHS network friends,
as announced below, Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, who is also a member of our Research Team (see here for details), is preparing a book on this important topic.
Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff
Title: Mapping Conflict and Peace in Eurasia, edited volume
The Eurasian Conflicts in international politics are known for their embedded nature transcending beyond a mono-factor for analysis. Owing to diversity and fragility many states have not matured towards coherent status of nation building; rather it appears the agenda has remained unfinished due to disturbed ethnic aspirations, fragile borders, inherent complications and power interventions. These factors have made this emerging region in the post-Cold war era a hotbed of conflicts. Papers are solicited for an edited volume analyzing major conflicts in the region (including South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Kosovo, Nagorno Karabakh, Chechnya, Kashmir, Balochistan, Tibet, Xinjiang) with main focus on the attempts and prospects of peace; aim of the volume being understanding the Eurasian conflicts from a peace perspective.
Interested contributors should send a 500-word abstract along with two page CV by April 15, 2010.
Dr. Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Centre for Central Eurasian Studies
University of Mumbai,
Mumbai, India.
Email: a.mahapatra34 /at/ gmail.com
Dear HumanDHS network friends!
Please check out this conference: www.stopgirlbullying.com
It is a three day conference on relational aggression, humiliation/ dignity issues, bullying etc. Our dear member of the HumanDHS Core Team Stefanie Heuer will be speaking in a breakout session doing DignityRocks!
Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff
Dear HumanDHS network friends
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Evelin Lindner’s new book!
Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security:
Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Afterword by Linda Hartling in honor of Jean Baker Miller and Donald C. Klein
Published by Praeger Security International
Here’s what people are saying!
“The future of humankind is at stake. In times of crisis, we need people of courage, people who step out of the beaten track of familiarity and look at the situation from a new perspective. Few people have the global experience and transdisciplinary background that Evelin Lindner brings to this task. This book is a wake-up call and a guideline for humanity to follow if it wishes to survive.” - Ole Danbolt Mjøs, MD, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Past President of the University of Tromsø, Norway, Past Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Norway
“In her book, Evelin Lindner makes a quantum leap from humiliation to human dignity with love. She writes for everyone who has ever despaired at the state of the world we live in. Her book is filled with the concrete optimism of practitioners who never discard anyone in their actions. In the current times of uncertainty, it is an ode to life, interconnectedness and relationships. The book leaves one with the feeling that it is never too late to live a fulfilling existence alongside family, friends and nature. It will no doubt resonate in our co-evolutionary thoughts for years to come.” - Victoria C. Fontan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica and author of Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq (Praeger, 2009).
“Dr. Evelin Lindner is a leading voice in the newly emerging field of humiliation studies. Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs is an ambitious work which deals with emotions, previously overlooked, which are central to the human experience. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to the field.” - Aaron Lazare, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Chancellor and Dean Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of On Apology (Oxford University, 2004). To read more, please see: http://www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin042.php
In celebration of this new publication, we will send you a copy of this remarkable book (List price: $44.99) in appreciation for your donation of $100 or more to the Global Education Fund: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3CRRSZFBUHSTW
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below an invitation to the Human DHS Public Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
December 10, 2009
Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street, New York, Milbank Chapel
(subway 1, exit 116th Street)
5.00 pm - 8.00 pm Public Reception at Milbank Chapel
“What Do the Concepts of Human Dignity and Humiliation Mean to You, Your community, and Beyond?”
with eminent scholars and leading thinkers Everybody is invited! Bring your friends! (Entrance is free)
• 5.00-5.30 pm Reception
We have refreshments! We mingle and met!
• 5.30-5.45 pm Musical introduction by Yacouba Sissoko, kora player from Mali
We, as HumanDHS, wish to dignify our world. Giving visibility to cultural diversity is part of this endeavor. Music is among the richest treasures of the world’s cultural heritage. The kora is an African lute instrument. We thank Ikhlaq Hussain for kindly bringing Yacouba Sissoko to our workshop!
Yacouba Sissoko, kora player from Mali
• 5.45-6.00 pm Linda M. Hartling welcomes everybody, introduces HumanDHS and explains our framing lead question
Linda M. Hartling introduces the work of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and explains our Appreciative Approach. Then she explains the framing lead question for this public event: “What do the concepts of human dignity and humiliation mean to you, your community, and beyond?” Assisted by James E. Jones, she will ask you to briefly reflect on this question. At the end of our event, she will ask you again to indicate whether the discussions and presentations of our event have (1) changed your views or (2) underpinned them. In this way, we hope to make this event more relational and engage you in our reflections. This is another way of trying to dignify the world (including workshops, conferences, and other events!)!
• Hagitte Gal-Ed welcomes our Guests of Honor: Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely, Community Mayor of Harlem
• 6.00-6.45 pm Conversation with Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely, Linda M. Hartling and Evelin G. Lindner
• 6.45-7.45 pm Panel & Discussion
For more info, go to http://www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting14.php#publicevent
Moderator: Michael Britton
Brief presentations (10 minutes) by panelists followed by an open discussion at the end (20 minutes)
• Reinaldo Rivera speaks to the framing lead question of our event
Reinaldo Rivera, Jr., is working with the U.S. Justice Department as head of the Northeast and Caribbean region’s Conflict Resolution division. His work is to go into communities torn by tensions and conflict, who have either already experienced hate crimes and violence or are on the brink of it, and to work with the various factions to calm the tensions, build bridges, and thereby reduce the likelihood of more violence and more crimes. His work is non-investigative. It is focused on preventing violent disruptions whenever possible. After major conflicts and controversies, the focus becomes peacemaking and helping communities to heal.
• Adenrele Awotona speaks to the framing lead question of our event
by Adenrele Awotona, Founder and Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a former Dean of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
Please see:
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters, presentation held at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Presentation held at the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.
• Ariel Lublin and Francis Mead speak to the framing lead question of our event and present a film on humiliation and revenge, Poisoned Chalice: The UN in Iraq
This documentary Poisoned Chalice: The UN in Iraq shows UN staffers recovering from the attack on the organization’s Baghdad HQ in 2003, and working behind-the-scenes to support Iraq’s constitutional referendum in 2005. The film also hears the views of Iraqi families as they attempt to assimilate the profound changes in their lives. Director Francis Mead survived the 2003 attack unhurt and returned to Baghdad in 2005 with the aim of revealing an under-reported facet of the conflict in Iraq. (Password needed for viewing: iraq2005)
Francis Mead was a reporter and producer for the BBC for ten years before working as a communication officer and TV producer with UNICEF and UNTV in Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as New York.
Francis Mead and assistant producer Ariel Lublin will give a brief introduction to this documentary. Ariel Lublin is a full-time associate at Consensus - an international negotiation, conflict-resolution, and peace-building firm – where Ms. Lublin consults, leads trainings, and conducts peace-building dialogues for international organizations, governments, Fortune 500 companies, law enforcement agencies, and NGOs. She also teaches at Columbia University in the School of International Public Affairs (SIPA) and in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Masters Degree Program, and she serves as a custody/visitation mediator for NYC Family Court.
• 7.45- 8.00 pm Linda M. Hartling, Evelin G. Lindner, James E. Jones, and Michael Britton encourage reflections on the framing question and close the Public Event
• Todd Pate rounds up with a short song of dignity
• 8.00 pm End of Our Public Event!
Dear HumanDHS Friend!
Please let us send you a personal invitation to our Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, December 10-11, 2009, at Columbia University!
We would love having you with us!
We are inviting around 65 participants to the Closed Part of our workshop. If you wish to join us, please write to our email address for conferences (conferences at humiliationstudies.org).
Closed Part of our Workshop:
• Thursday, December 10, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Closed Part, Milbank Chapel, Teachers College
• Friday, December 11, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm, Closed Part, Milbank Chapel
Everybody is welcome to the Public Event! Bring your friends!
• Public Event on Thursday evening, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Milbank Chapel
See www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting14.php for the program as it evolves.
Sending you lots of very warm welcomes!
Evelin
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Evelin G. Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (Dr. med. and Dr. psychol.), Social Scientist
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Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS, www.humiliationstudies.org/)
- affiliated with the University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, Norway (folk.uio.no/evelinl/)
- affiliated with the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, New York
- affiliated with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
- teaching, furthermore, in South East Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and other places globally
(please see www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin.php)
- see the introductory lecture “Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad,” given at the University of Oslo, Norway, on January 2009,
at www.sv.uio.no/it/av/PSYC3203-14.1.09.html
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Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find here a link to Linda Hartling’s Powerpoint Presentation: ‘Envisioning a Vibrant Virtual Organisation’ using the HumanDHS frame of appreciation and connection.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Dear HumanDHS Friend!
Please meet William McConochie!
We congratulate Bill to his important work!
He seeks your support in his research on humiliation!
Please read here his message to everybody:
“Help with humiliation research. Please consider helping with a research project to measure humiliation as a psychological trait. This study measures many other traits as well. It is designed to reveal much about the origins of humiliation and the effects humiliation has on adult behavior. You will immediately receive you scores on many traits measured. The final study report will be published online after 100 persons have completed the questionnaire. It is 181 items long and takes about 30 or 40 minutes to complete. Go to Politicalpsychologyresearch.com, click on the Help Do Research button on the top of the home page. Register and log in. Scroll down to study 8, “Brief Humiliation Study” and enter your responses. You don’t have to do it all at one time. If you find this one fun, do study # 9 too, as it also will tell us more about humiliation. If you are a professor and want to involve a whole class of students, you can contact Dr. Bill McConochie to get a group code. This will enable you to download the data file for your class and receive the names of all who participate, to give them class credit. Bill is at Bill [@] Politicalpsychologyresearch.com.”
Thank you for your support!
Please contact Bill [@] Politicalpsychologyresearch.com directly (rather than indicating your interest as a comment, since this will not reach him as quickly)!
Evelin