Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

please note the lecture announced below.

With kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff

Date: Tuesday, April 13th
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
Location: Columbia University, TBA
Presentation followed by reception

Please RSVP to Juliette de Wolfe at dewolfe /at/ tc.edu

In this presentation Dr. Demetrios A. Theophylactou, Senior Associate Member at the European Studies Centre at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, will explore the legal dimension of the EU model, from a comparative (theoretical) perspective, with respect to its (potentially positive) effects on conflict resolution, prevention and ‘provention’, i.e., moving beyond prevention toward the creation of conditions that are conducive to sustained, cooperative interaction between peoples and states. [i]
The analysis touches on post-modern/ liberal democracy theory as well as soft power. It posits that supranational legal institutions are likely to promote trust and induce cooperative behavior both within states and across borders.
[i] Burton, John W.  Conflict: Resolution an d Provention. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.

Website: www.tc.edu/icccr

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

please note the announcement below, sent by Ron Kraybill, author of Style Matters Inventory.

Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff

Revision of Trainers Guide to Successful Conflict Styles Workshops

I’ve recently revised and upgraded my 18 page trainers guide, written to assist trainers to lead a workshop on a five-styles-of-conflict framework, such as the Thomas Kilmann or my own Style Matters Inventory. You can download it free at www.RiverhouseEpress.com. I wrote it based on 30 years experience as a trainer and trainer of trainers on six continents. You will not find more info on the topic in 18 pages anywhere, at any price!

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

please find below a

Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff

Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton
Politics of Fear; Fear of Politics
Wednesday 15 - Friday 17 September 2010

We live in a world that is dominated by fear. This avowedly interdisciplinary conference seeks to do two things: to describe and analyse what might be termed the contemporary spheres and roles of fear as it is played out both in social, cultural and intellectual life and in day to day life; and to offer ways of escaping those fears.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to Nicola Clewer by 15 May 2010:

nc95 /at/ brighton.ac.uk

For the full call for papers please visit the CAPPE website: www.brighton.ac.uk/CAPPE

Nicola Clewer
University of Brighton

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=174752

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

please find below the call for papers, as recently announced at the H-Net web site.

Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED BOOK

Location: Kentucky, Date: 2010-04-10

We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter in an edited textbook focusing on African experience. This book is intended to give both instructors of African history and college students a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Africa’s cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, religious and philosophical worldviews, etc. The editors welcome scholarly submissions from academics and researchers in the field. Please consult the list of topics below and submit a 300-word abstract of your proposed paper to ogechi.anyanwu@eku.edu and salome.nnoromele@eku.edu on or before April 10, 2010. You will receive notifications of acceptance of abstracts on April 30, 2010.

Contact: ogechi.anyanwu /at/ eku.edu

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=174709

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

please find below a recent announcement at the H-Net web site. A discussion with Costas Douzinas, Conor Gearty and Adam Weiss, Leah Bassel and Engin F. Isin (Co-chairs) will be accessible as podcast.

Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff

Date: 2010-06-10

Description: In the wake of the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights, this public discussion panel seeks to explore acentral and increasing tension between, on the one hand, the human rights tradition which dissociates rights from membership in abounded community by making rights universal and, on the otherhand, the modern tradition of citizenship that links rights and political participation to a nation-state. Conventional understandings and practices of the relationship between rights, recognition, territory and membership are increasingly blurred and it has become imperative to generate vocabularies, conceptual tools and programmes for action that are equal to the challenge of understanding and addressing the exclusion and marginalisation of rightless others in a globalising world. The panelists will examine, challenge and rethink the tension between ‘particular, nationally-bounded’ citizenship and ‘natural’ human rights  drawing on the insights of theoretical and empirical scholarship and of the politics of human rights activism.

Contact: r.wolf /at/ rhul.ac.uk

URL: backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/02/afterhuman-rights/

Announcement ID: 174580

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=174580

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

please find below some info about this new book.

Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff

Leitz Inc. was an internationally recognized brand that reflected credit on the newly resurgent Reich. The company produced range-finders and other optical systems for the German military. Also, the Nazi government desperately needed hard currency from abroad, and Leitz’s single biggest market for optical goods was the United States .
Even so, members of the Leitz family and firm suffered for their good works. A top executive, Alfred Turk, was jailed for working to help Jews and freed only after the payment of a large bribe.
Leitz’s daughter, Elsie Kuhn-Leitz, was imprisoned by the Gestapo after she was caught at the border, helping Jewish women cross into Switzerland . She eventually was freed but endured rough treatment in the course of questioning.
She also fell under suspicion when she attempted to improve the living conditions of 700 to 800 Ukrainian slave laborers, all of them women, who had been assigned to work in the plant during the 1940s.
(After the war, Kuhn-Leitz received numerous honors for her humanitarian efforts, among them the Officier d’honneur des Palms Academic from France in 1965 and the Aristide Briand Medal from the European Academy in the 1970s.)
Why has no one told this story until now? According to the late Norman Lipton, a freelance writer and editor, the Leitz family wanted no publicity for its heroic efforts. Only after the last member of the Leitz family was dead did the “Leica Freedom Train” finally come to light.
It is now the subject of a book, “The Greatest Invention of the Leitz Family: The Leica Freedom Train,” by Frank Dabba Smith, a California-born Rabbi currently living in England.

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

thanks are due to Dan Smith who made us aware of a recent publication about the climate discourse. There, he advocates for a calm and reasoned voice when discussing climate change issues. Please see below.

Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff

Hello –

Last night I finally succeeded in getting some long-germinating thoughts on climate discourse onto my blog. I’m especially looking at the UEA emails affair and, separately, the issue of the religiosity of some people’s approach on either side of the argument. I hope you might be interested; if so, go to http://dansmithsblog.com/2010/03/12/chaff-noise-and-fog-in-the-climate-debate/

Best

Dan Smith

Secretary General
International Alert, London
http://www.international-alert.org
For discussion of world issues go to www.dansmithsblog.com

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

this call for papers reached us via the Management Research Network.

Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff

12-14 July, 2010
Venue: Imperial College, London, UK

Website:   http://www.worldconferencecare.com

Academics and researchers are invited to submit theoretical and empirical papers, abstracts and case studies relating to Modern Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Strategic Management, Strategic Human Resource Management, Managing People and Organisation, Managing Change, International Business, Management of Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Development, Management Science, Operations Management, Business Dynamics, Strategic Policy and Entrepreneurship, Managing Multinational Enterprise, Environmental Management, Corporate Governance, Public Institutions Management, Governance, Supply Chain Management, Hospitability Industry Management,
Contemporary Issues in Management, and all other Management areas. This is the third annual conference in London organised by the World Business Institute and Five International journals.

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY AND BEST PAPER AWARD:

All papers will be blind reviewed and all refereed papers will be published as Electronic Refereed Conference
Proceedings with an ISBN. All accepted papers will be considered for publication in the Following peer reviewed referred international print and online journals:

- World Journal of Management
- Journal of Business and Policy Research
- International Review of Business Research Papers

Best papers will be announced and published in the special issues of the above journals. Winners will be honoured with prizes and certificates at the conference dinner.

DEADLINES:

Paper Submission Deadline:          June 4, 2010

Notification of paper Acceptance:   Within 2 weeks after
submission

Registration Deadline:              June 18, 2010

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Please send electronic copy of your abstract and/or full paper concurrently (only Word document) to following both emails to avoid any technical problem relating to paper submission.

Email:         conpap /at/ wbint.org
and            haqz53 /at/ gmail.com

CONTACT:       Prof. Zia Haqq
Chair, Paper Secretariat
Email:         haqq50 /at/ wbint.org
and            haqz53 /at/ gmail.com

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

here is an update about TFF, the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research. Many thanks for making us aware go to Jan Oberg, member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Group and director of TFF.

Jan Oberg wrote:

TFF won’t work for peace and development and ignore the places where millions of citizens meet, seek knowledge and interact.

Whether or not you like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, we post TFF’s analyses and proposals there and highlight quality work done by others. Used intelligently, they are global learning and debating communities with considerable potentials. So…

TFF WorldAffairs
Our new service with links to background articles selected for you by Jan Oberg - insights into the important, the bizarre, the sad and the good of our world.
You do NOT have to be a Twitter user to browse and benefit! Just click and see for yourself!
http://twitter.com/TFFworldaffairs

TFF Facebook
Peace- and security-relevant analyses and debate articles carefully selected by Sarah Molaiepour and Jan Oberg. You do not have to be on Facebook to access the links - only if you want to be interactive - which we hope you will.
If you are on Facebook support TFF by becoming a fan. The more fans, the more will pay attention and the better the message of peace will proliferate. Already 750 “Fans” of TFF.
This is the place for you to browse and comment, to take part in the world debate. And…tell your friends to join. It can’t be easier and more rewarding.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/TFF-Transnational-Foundation-for-Peace-and-Future-Research/103935069385 or http://tiny.cc/o24SV

TNN - TFF News Navigator
If you want to make your own selection from around 350 mainstream and alternative news sources around the world, there is only TNN…
http://www.transnational.org/Resources_Media/TNN.html

TFF Associates - articles, analyses and videos
Always new stuff from TFF’s 70 Associates, original, creative, critical and constructive
http://www.transnational.org

Write to me if you ever visit a TFF site and find nothing new, nothing to disagree with, nothing surprising or nothing hopeful.

Kind regards
Jan Oberg

Dear HumanDHS network friends,

let me forward to you this message from “The Center for a New American Dream”.

Kind regards
Uli Spalthoff

The Pew Research Center publishes a series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation.

A new report by the Pew Research Center has discovered that a fundamental shift is occurring in the Millennial Generation, defined as those born since 1980. Members of the Millennial Generation listed their top priorities as being a good parent, spouse, and helping others. Meanwhile the more individual pursuits of becoming famous or having a high paying career have become lower priorities. This group, mostly consisting of college students and recent graduates, is also likely to report less conflict with their parents than in previous generations and is twice as likely to feel obligated to allow a sick parent to move in with them than their predecessors. On top all of that, Millennials have a brighter vision of both their future and that of the nation as a whole then do those over sixty. This report serves as good news that more young people are finding the value in connections with other people instead of an accumulation of stuff. The Center for a New American Dream has been working to promote a more family, community and earth centric approach to life since its founding in the mid 1990’s. To learn more about how you can discover what matters most in life, visit our website.