Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below links to examples of humiliation in the media. Many thanks to Floyd Rudmin!
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind08192008.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/15/content_9345701.htm
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below information from Marta Carlson on upcoming Work and Family Constellations Workshops.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Dear Friends,
I am happy to announce that there will be more opportunities for Work and Family Constellations again this year. Dates are
Sept. 14, 2008
Nov. 9, 2008
Jan. 11, 2009
March 8, 2009
Sundays, from 12 to 6 pm
Location
Union Church of Hinsdale
137 S Garfield Ave,
Hinsdale, IL 60521
(630) 323-4303
More information: mcarlson[@]e-gate22.com
We all experience times in our lives when we realize that we:
· Experience the same failures and disappointments over and over
· Keep making the same painful choices
· Repeating the same patterns in spite of ourselves
We begin to notice that we have been blindly loyal to old family patterns that have also crept into our other relationships and work lives. But we do not know where all these entanglements came from or how to become disentangled and move forward fulfilling our true purpose.
These workshops are designed to help individuals achieve clarity and understanding of the unspoken inter-connectedness between family members or other people in our personal and work relationships. This clarity helps us achieve peaceful resolution and fulfill our true purpose
These moving and emotional workshops allow the participants experience their issues through the eyes of representatives. Amazingly, scenes of resolution provide opportunities for reflection for everyone present. Everyone in the constellation begins a healing process for issues in their own lives and move forward.
Dear HumanDHS Friend!
Please join me in celebrating Dan Bar-On and his life and work! We are deeply saddened that he has left us today.
Dear Annette Engler, who has worked closely with Dan for many years, brought the sad news to us.
We wish to send our deepfelt condolences to Dan’s family, on behalf of our entire HumanDHS network!
Dan’s work has helped to profoundly humanise our world! We wish to express our deepest appreciation, recognition, admiration and gratitude!
Evelin
Dear HumanDHS Friend!
Please see Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq: Policies, Programs and International Perspectives by Adenrele Awotona!
We send you our warm congratulations, dear Adenrele!
Most appreciatingly,
Evelin
Title: Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq: Policies, Programs and International Perspectives
Binding: Hardback
Editor: Adenrele Awotona
Date of Publication: 2008-10-01
UK: £39.99
US: $79.99
The scene in Iraq is most troubling; and further failure therein – especially failure in sustainable reconstruction – will compound the tragedy and bring grievous harm to too many: in Iraq, the United States, the Middle East and the Western world. Yet, the current efforts at reconstruction cannot succeed — as we seem to be making many of the same mistakes that were made post-invasion. Simply put, a national occupying power cannot reconstruct a massive societal vacuum by working only top down. Reconstruction is not the simple reversal of destruction. Sustainability requires serious localized reconstitution of localized community infrastructure.
Accordingly, in order to explore how Iraqi communities could be rebuilt in a manner that promotes social justice, economic and political sustainability, and the full participation of all stakeholders, the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA, hosted a four-day international conference of Iraqi and international scholars and practitioners in July 2007. This volume collects some of the papers that were presented at the conference.
Amongst the topics that the contributing authors have explored are the following: the role of organizations and institutions in defining strategies for sustainable rebuilding of community; rebuilding the Iraqi Oil Industry; and, successful project strategies in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The book concludes with a presentation of a number of international perspectives and their lessons for Iraq. These studies spring from Afghanistan, the United States of America and Africa.
Adenrele Awotona is the Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He was a Director of Studies for the British Council International Seminars (Reconstruction after disasters) in the United Kingdom. His publications include: Reconstruction after disaster: issues and practices (edited, Ashgate, 1997); and, “Approaches to post-war reconstruction and development: lessons from Africa”, Habitat International, Vol.16, No.4. (1992).
“Rebuilding sustainable communities in Iraq: policies, programs and international perspectives” should elicit an enthusiastic response from a variety of countries and international organizations which are interested in the topics covered in this book.”
Fuad Safwat, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Boston
“While the rest of the world focuses on the success and failure of military operations, millions of Iraqis are dealing with the destruction of their lives and their country. Rarely is any attention given to describing what a hopeful resolution to the devastation might be. Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq gives us hope. It tackles the overwhelming problem of rebuilding Iraq–helping its children, families and institutions heal–in an insightful, systematic and believable way. Let us hope that this book will inspire many to focus their thoughts, feelings and actions on reconciliation, not war.”
Diane Levin, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Wheelock College
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below some links to media articles that notably mention humiliation. Thanks to Floyd Rudmin and Lee Beaumont.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Humiliation mentioned in Media Items
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/16/georgia.russia1
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/anne-penketh-moscow-flexed
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/15/content_9345701.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/16/georgia.russia1
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832701,00.html
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below a note from Kathleen Fries on the Synergos Social Innovators Program.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
Dear Friends
Given your connection to individuals and/ or groups in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and/ or Palestine, I share with you a wonderful award supported by my organization: Synergos Social Innovators Program. .
The web application can be found here: http://www.synergos.org/socialinnovators/
Please direct all inquiries to the program coordinator, Sarina Beges: sbeges[@]synergos.
Dear HumanDHS Friend!
Please be warmly invited to the presentation by Jean-Damascène Gasanabo entitled “History Textbooks and the Construction of Exclusive Identities: The Case of Rwanda between 1962 and 1994″!
Please see the details further down.
Most warmly,
Evelin
Velkommen til HL-senterets forskningsseminar:
Onsdag 3. september 2008
Kl. 14.00-16.00
Sted: HL-senteret, Huk aveny 56 (bus 30)
Jean-Damascène Gasanabo
History Textbooks and the Construction of Exclusive Identities
The Case of Rwanda between 1962 and 1994
Before the arrival of missionaries in Rwanda in 1900, writing was essentially unknown in Rwandan society. The oral tradition functioned as the only source of collective memory. With the introduction of the school system during the Belgian colonial period, Rwandan students were exposed to formal education, using the educational materials designed and produced by colonial and religious authorities. At that time, Rwandan history was not thought as a separate discipline but was incorporated into literature courses and a special subject, “Kurerera Imana” (“Educating for God’s Sake”). Following Rwanda’s independence in 1962, school textbooks have been produced for all disciplines, including history.
The analysis of history textbooks for primary and secondary schools in Rwanda prior to the 1994 genocide reveals the trend to emphasize the differences rather than similarities between Hutus, Tutsis, and Twas. The texts stressed the different origins of various ethnic groups and the different times of their arrival in Rwanda. Hence, Rwandan students learned at school that the Tutsis had arrived after the Twas and the Hutus, and that they colonized the other two ethnic groups like the “white people” had done later. On the basis of his research carried out in Rwanda and Switzerland, Jean-Damascène Gasanabo argues that the refusal to consider Tutsis as true Rwandans was a political instrument used by Hutu authorities to exclude them from the society and to incite hatred between the ethnic communities. Consequently, the 1994 genocide was not a spontaneous act perpetrated by the Hutus to avenge the death of President Habyarimana but the result of a long process of constructing exclusive identities.
Jean-Damascène Gasanabo received a PhD in Education from the University of Geneva. Between 2005 and 2006 he worked at UNESCO in Paris as an Education Consultant for the project “Fostering Peaceful Co-Existence through Analysis and Revision of History Curricula and School Textbooks in South-Eastern Europe” (2005-2006) and a Program Specialist for “The United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children” (2006). Until August 2008, he was Head of Support for Communication, Research, and Special Projects at Geneva Call, an international humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. Jean-Damascène Gasanabo has published extensively on the subjects related to Rwanda genocide and the construction of exclusive identities.
Foredraget varer i 45 min med påfølgende diskusjon. Velkommen!
Dear HumanDHS Friend!
Let me draw your attention to the following extremely useful and important book:
Christie, Daniel J., Wagner, Richard V., and Winter, Deborah Du Nann (Eds.) (2001). Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology in the 21st Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Please see the following message that Dan Christie, one of the editors, has sent us:
“I also thought you might like to know that although there’s a great deal of interest in peace psychology around the world, in many parts of the world, the cost for textbooks is often prohibitive. Fortunately, we’ve been able to have the copyright of a book I co-edited in 2001 on peace psychology with Dick Wagner and Deborah Winter reverted to us. The book is now available for downloading at no cost.
http://academic.marion.ohio-state.edu/dchristie/Peace%20Psychology%20Book.html.
Dear Dan!
These are wonderful news! Thank you very much! Our HumanDHS network members, particularly those based in world regions without access to libraries, will be extremely grateful and appreciative of your offer!
Let me send you, on behalf of our entire network, our warm appreciation for your important work!
Evelin
Dear HumanDHS Friend,
Dear Floyd Rudmin makes us aware of the article you see below. He writes: “Paragraphs 10 and 11: USA humiliating Russia now leading to nuclear war. This essay well fits Evelin’s much quoted claim that ‘humiliation is the nuclear bomb of emotions’.”
Thanks a lot, dear Floyd!
Evelin
A Cold Chill Down the Spine: Leave Georgia Alone, George
By William S. Lind
August 19, 2008
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind08192008.html
What interests does the United States have at stake in the war between Russia and Georgia? Only one: that we remain out of it…
It beggars the imagination to think that America could find itself in a nuclear confrontation with a post-Soviet Russia. But if the White House acts in accordance with its rhetoric, the next few weeks or even days may witness just such a strategic catastrophe…
Please read the entire article at http://www.counterpunch.org/lind08192008.html.
Dear HumanDHS Friend,
Dear Floyd Rudmin makes us aware of the article you see below, indicating that Russia’s relationship with the West is characterized by humiliation.
Thanks a lot, dear Floyd!
Evelin
Anne Penketh: Moscow flexed military muscle, and left West humiliated
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Independent.co.uk
Russia is back. That is the indisputable result of the six-day war in the heart of Europe which may have changed the borders of a state for ever….
Please read the rest of the article at
http://www.independent.co.uk/.