Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on a summer course on human rights at the CEU, Budapest.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Budapest CEU: Summer Course on Human Rights

We would like to solicit your help to promote the summer course on “Teaching Law, Human Rights and Ethics” among your colleagues, your graduate students, or any interested researchers.

Course Dates: July 6-10, 2009
Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary
Course description: http://www.sun.ceu.hu/teaching-law

Course Directors:

Philip Genty, Columbia University School of Law, New York, USA; Lusine Hovhannisian, Public Interest Law Institute, New York, USA; Daniela Ikawa, Public Interest law Institute, New York, USA; Edwin Rekosh, Public Interest Law Institute, Budapest, Hungary

This is a one-week course for junior and mid-career law faculty as well as senior students interested in pursuing an academic career and wishing to learn more about the use of innovative methods of teaching. The course is devoted to giving participants knowledge on cutting-edge topics, specifically within the themes of: (1) human rights, and (2) professional ethics. The course will also provide skills development in new methods of pedagogy. The ultimate goal of the course is to convey challenging material, technical know-how and motivation to a group of young academics, who will be expected to have an impact on reform of higher legal education through their own curricular innovations.

Language of instruction: English

Tuition fee: EUR 250. Financial aid is available.

Application deadline: February 16, 2009

Online application (from mid-November): http://www.sun.ceu.hu/apply
(Attachments to be sent to: sun09-teaching[@]ceu.hu )

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on the Peace Games Initiative for New York Schools.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Peace Games Initiative: New York Schools

Peace Games is looking for enthusiastic volunteers and interns to join us in delivering our exciting school-based peace and social justice program & curriculum in New York City public schools. Peace Games volunteers teach collaborative games, conflict resolution, anti-bias education and communication skills in classrooms, on the playground and in the lunchroom.

Volunteering/Interning with Peace Games is a semester long commitment of at least 3 hours a week and up to 15 hours per week. We can be flexible to the student’s schedule.

There are a few paid internships available. However, we are able to accommodate many students who are anxious to receive course credit for their volunteer time, need to complete field work requirements or want to teach Peace Games as part of their federal work/study program.

Our mandatory two-day training is
Friday, January 23 from 5pm to 9 pm
&
Saturday, January 24 from 9 am to 5 pm
at Fordham University, Lincoln Center
(corner of 60th Street & Columbus Avenue)

For more info please call at (212) 337-8882 or e-mail:
volunteerny[@]peacegames.org

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below the Africavenir Newsletter: Haitianische Revolution / Bob Marley / Fotos und Fuehrungen

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Haitianische Revolution / Bob Marley / Fotos und Fuehrungen

im heutigen Programm des Festivals “200 Jahre später…” wenden wir uns in einem Vortrag zunächst der Rolle der Haitianischen Revolution im Kampf gegen den europäischen Sklavenhandel und die Sklaverei zu und besonders der Person Toussaint Louverture. Haiti erkämpfte sich nicht nur als erster Staat in Lateinamerika in Unabhängigkeit, sondern führte auch einen aktiven Kampf gegen den Sklavenhandel und die Sklaverei und unterstützte Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen in ganz Lateinamerika. Der Vortrag von Marie Biloa-Onana findet um 18 Uhr statt. http://africavenir.com/news/2008/10/2147

Im Anschluss (20 Uhr) zeigen wir den Dokumentarfilm „Land of Look Behind“ (OengU), der mit der Beerdigung der Rastafari und Reggae Ikone Bob Marley startet, jedoch bald zu einer intensiven, aber auch immer relaxten Meditation über Jamaikas Musik und Religion, seine Traditionen und seinen Stolz wird. Eintritt: 5 € / erm. 3 €. http://africavenir.com/news/2008/10/2146

Fotos von der Eröffnungszeremonie
Die ersten Fotos der Eröffnungszeremonie am vergangenen Sonntag sind online. Diese wunderbaren Bilder machte die Photographin Daniela Incoronato. Die Bilder sind einzusehen unter: http://www.africavenir.com/gallery/index.php

„200 Jahre später…“ Interview auf radio múltikúlti
Heute, Dienstag 25.11.2008, um 13.10 Uhr sind Philippa Ebéné und Eric Van Grasdorff live zu Gast in der Metro auf radio múltikúlti (auf 96,3), um über die Ausstellung und das Projekt „200 Jahre später…“ zu sprechen.

Eröffnungsrede des Botschafters Haiti in Deutschland
Am 23.11.2008, anlässlich der Eröffnung des Festivals “200 Jahre später…”, hielt der Botschafter der Republik Haiti in Deutschland, Herr Jean Robert Saget eine Eröffnungsrede, die wir veröffentlichen. http://africavenir.com/news/2008/11/2210

Ausstellung: „Leben im Widerstand“ bis Ende Dezember zu sehen
Die Ausstellung „Leben im Widerstand – Protagonist/innen des Widerstands gegen den europäischen Sklavenhandel und die Sklaverei“ ist auch nach dem Festival täglich zu besichtigen (s. Öffnungszeiten der Werkstatt der Kulturen) bis zum 21.12.2008. Die Ausstellung zeigt auf Leinwand gedruckte Portraits von Frauen und Männern afrikanischer Herkunft, die in unterschiedlicher Weise und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten gegen den von Europa organisierten Sklavenhandel gekämpft haben. http://africavenir.com/news/2008/10/2156

Ausstellung: Gruppenführungen nach Absprache möglich (ab 8 Anmeldungen, 2,50€ pro Person)
AfricAvenir bietet auch Gruppenführungen durch die Ausstellung an. Schulklassen sind weiterhin – auch nach der Festivalwoche – herzlich willkommen, sich geschlossen als Klasse anzumelden. Pro Schüler/in kostet die ca. 1-stündige Führung 2,50€ (Lehrkräfte frei). Auch Erwachsene können sich unter: 200jahre@[]africavenir.org oder 01577- 5364539 anmelden, die Termine können jedoch nur ab 8 Anmeldungen durchgeführt werden. Dieses Angebot gilt bis zum 21.12.2008.

www.AfricAvenir.org

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below an introduction to the new book: One Peace by Janet Wilson.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

New Book: One Peace

ONE PEACE:True Stories of Young Activists celebrates the “Power of One,” and specifically the accomplishments of children from around the globe who have worked to promote world peace. Janet Wilson challenges today’s children to strive to make a difference in this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled and fascinating volume of portraits of many “heroes for today.” Canadian Craig Kielburger, who started Free the Children to help victims of child labor at the age of twelve, has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Farlis Calle, forced to identify the body of a young friend—a victim of her country’s civil war—started the Columbia Children’s Movement for Peace. At age ten, Kimmie Weeks, a refugee from the Liberian civil war, came within a whisper of being buried in a mass grave. Almost miraculously he survived and vowed to make a difference in the lives of other children. At thirteen he established Voices of the Future, Liberia’s first child rights advocacy group. Other portraits feature the accomplishments of children from Sarajevo, Japan, the United Kingdom, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the United States. These moving testaments to the courage and initiative of youth will inspire readers young and old.

www.amazon.com
www.janetwilson.ca

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on a conflict resolution position at Wellesley College.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Visiting Faculty Position — Academic Years 2009/10 and 2010/11

Peace and Justice Studies

The program in Peace and Justice Studies at Wellesley College is seeking
outstanding candidates for a two-year position in conflict
resolution/conflict transformation. The successful candidate’s annual
five-course teaching program would include a mid-level course in this
area, sections of our introductory course, and upper-level courses on
specific topics related to the candidate’s research. We are especially,
but not exclusively, interested in candidates whose conflict resolution
research focuses on gender issues.

This is an experimental position created in response to a recent external
review of the Program. The Program may decide to request a permanent
position to follow on from this experiment.
Wellesley College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and
we are committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and
the curriculum. Candidates who believe they can contribute to that goal
are encouraged to apply.
Applications should include a cover letter addressed to Professor Craig
Murphy, a curriculum vita, a graduate school transcript, examples of
research, a brief statement about the candidateís teaching experience,
teaching evaluations (if available), and names/email addresses of three
references (The final letters should also be addressed to Professor Craig
Murphy). Materials should be submitted through our online application
system at [ https://career.wellesley.edu ]https://career.wellesley.edu. If
circumstances make it impossible to submit any materials through our
application site, you may either email them to [
mailto:working@wellesley.edu ]working@wellesley.edu or mail them to Human
Resources, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.
The deadline for receipt of all application materials is March 1, 2009.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on the Morris K. Udall Foundation.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Udall Foundation Fellowship for environmental public policy or conflict resolution

The Morris K. Udall Foundation is currently accepting applications for the 2009 Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowship. Please help us spread the word by sharing this information with qualified Ph.D. students. The application deadline is February 20, 2009.

The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships of up to $24,000 to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy and/or U.S. environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation. Interdisciplinary projects are particularly welcome. Fellows must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals or U.S. permanent residents, and their dissertation research must be relevant to U.S. environmental policy.

Program details, additional information, profiles of previous fellows and applications are available at http://www.udall.gov. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Jane Curlin at curlin[@]udall.gov.

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below information on the next ACRGNY Roundtable on 8th January.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

The ACRGNY January Roundtable Breakfast will be held on Thursday, January 8th, due to the holiday.

Peace-related Efforts in Northern Ireland: an Intergenerational Cross-Community Project

Jill Strauss will address religious prejudice and age related bias, the role of imagination in times of transition and how the creation of art and the art work can be used to teach the attitudes, skills and knowledge of peace. Drawing from her doctoral fieldwork project, she will discuss how peace and conflict theory can be applied to the creation and viewing of art. Central to this discussion will be intergenerational cross-community (Protestant and Catholic) workshops which took place over three months in Portadown, Northern Ireland. The project culminated in a two-month exhibition entitled Impressions at the Millennium Court Arts Centre. All the emerging artists (except one) are from the North of Ireland and 23 years old or younger. These young people and others like them have grown up since the 1994 Ceasefires and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in a society in transition from violence to (relative) peace but in some cases have inherited the prejudices and stereotypes of the past. At the same time, the older people have first-hand experience and knowledge of the Troubles and also an earlier, more integrated Northern Ireland.

ASSOCIATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Greater New York Chapter
www.acrgny.org

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below details on a free public colloquiuim on military violence against women.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

MILITARY VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
A MAJOR THREAT TO PEACE

Free Public Colloquium

Col. Ann Wright, US Army (Retired)

Addressing sexual violence against women in the US military and by US military against civilian populations residing near US military bases.

January 6, 2009
3:00-5:00PM

The Interchurch Center
475 Riverside Drive, New York City (At West 120th Street, Claremont
Ave. entrance)

Col. Ann Wright, an internationally known peace activist, is a career military and foreign service officer of ambassadorial rank, recipient of the US Department of State’s heroism award for her service in the evacuation of Sierra Leone, who resigned from the State Department as an act of conscience on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003. She has done extensive reporting and writing on military violence against women.

Responses:

Rev. Chloe Breyer, Director of the Interfaith Center of New York

Dr. Betty Reardon, Founding Director Emeritus, International Institute
on Peace Education (IIPE) and Board Member of Global Education
Associates

Chair: Janet Gerson, Co-Director, Peace Education Center at Teachers
College, Columbia University

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find here a link to a new Peace Partnership International Initiative, The National Peace Academy.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Dear HumanDHS network friends

Please find below a list of essays contained in the Special Viewpoints issue from the Middle East Institute.

Kind regards
Brian Ward

Architecture and Urbanism in the Middle East

www.mideasti.org

Essays

Labyrinth: Moroccan Medinas, by Simon O’Meara

Tourism and Preservation in Colonial North Africa, by Brian McLaren

Cairo’s Plurality of Architectural Trends and the Continuous Search for Identity,
by Ashraf M. Salama

Egypt: Modernity and Identity, by Nasser Rabbat
Jerusalem Architecture: Old Is Bitter, New Is Ugly,
by Annabel Jane Wharton

Global Capital, Urban Regeneration, and Heritage Conservation in the Levant,
by Rami Daher

The Contemporary Built Environment in the Arab Middle East,
by Mohammad al-Asad

Conservatism versus Modernism: Hesitant Urban Identity in Saudi Arabia,
by Mashary A. Al-Naim

Old Heritage, New Heritage: Building in Sana‘a, Yemen,
by Michele Lamprakos

Tall Identity…Lost Sustainability,
by Yasser Mahgoub and Anas Al-Omaim

Doha: Between Making an Instant City and Skirmishing Globalization,
by Ashraf M. Salama