"Cases of Dignity and Humiliation "
List of stories
Dear HumanDHS Friends!
Please send us stories or cases or witness accounts of dignity and humiliation!
Please see further down also a proposal by Bill Leland for how action groups of four or five people could generate case stories.
• From Our Lips to Your Ears: How Interpreters Are Changing the World (2008)
This is a
book that will consist of stories from interpreters.
• Success Stories of Palestinian-Jewish and Interfaith Relationship Building
Continuously updated by Libby & Len Traubman. See also
http://traubman.igc.org/vids2007.htm.
• Corrie ten Boom and Forgiveness (2007)
by Inge Danaher, Melbourne, Australia, July 2007
• Barbara’s “Stupidity,” “Laziness” and “Craziness”: Why People Fail At School (2007)
by John H. McFadden (Rev.) MFT
• Dispatches from America:
Words in a Time of War (2007)
Henry Kissinger, on Why He Had Supported the Iraq War (2007)
by Mark Danner, a Professor at UC Berkeley and at Bard College who gave his commencement speech entitled "Words in a Time of War: Taking on the President's Rhetoric" to graduates of the Department of Rhetoric at Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley, on May 10, 2007.
• Child of the Nightingale (2006)
by Shanti Kumar, a tale of overcoming humiliation from India
• Humiliation in Teenage Life - from All Angles: He Could Have Been Here Today! (2006)
by Njoki Rodiviko, Kenya
• Hiroshima and What We Can Learn Today: The Story of Koko Kondo (2004)
by Evelin Lindner
• The Story of the Crying Composer (2004)
told by Carlos E. Sluzki at the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY, 2004
• Peace Is Possible (2001)
Heffermehl, Fredrik S. (Ed.), Geneva: International Peace Bureau (IPB) with the support of UNESCO.
• From Lebanon (2000)
by Mary Abu-Saba
• From Rwanda (1999)
• From Somaliland (1998)
Interview with Edna Adan
Message from Bill Leland (June 9, 2007)
Dear HumanDHS Friends!
It is the action focus in the context of human dignity and mutuality which seems to be coming through clearly and powerfully to me. So, what seems to be appearing to me, probably still somewhat fuzzy, is action groups of 4 or 5 people who:
• communicate with each other via the Web,
• commit to manifest in their communications the values of human dignity and mutual empowerment (the Network could coalesce from work already done a set of guidelines),
• commit to act in their everyday lives in whatever context is most appropriate at any given time (work situations, partner relationships, parent-child relationships, etc.) to increase human dignity, decrease humiliation, increase mutual empowerment (the Network could provided stories/exemplary case studies to give ideas about what, for example, in real terms increasing human dignity looks like),
• commit to share their experiences with each other,
• commit to provide support for each other -"listening" (reading in this case) and giving constructive and honest feedback.
These action groups could meet for a set period of time, for example three months. During that time each action group would document one or more stories or case studies which would describe the constructive actions and challenging factors that are involved in walking into and creating the alternative universe.
Each action group could determine which of their stories would be contributed to the Network's central repository of these stories. The repository could be organized according to the type of mutual relationship in point. Overtime, we could expect to see wonderful real life stories which
describe how human dignity and mutual empowerment transformed a wide range of relationships - from families to international conflicts and oppressions.
After a group had been together for, say, three months, each of the 4 or 5 people in that group would then form a new group of 4 or 5 people, and so on.
It would probably be beneficial to have some way of presenting to the entire alternative universe movement the sum of all that is happening. This information could be shared in a variety of ways to the broadest and most diverse public.
Bill adds later: Let me give a bit more of a context. It seems to me that the electronic action groups could serve three main purposes: (1) encourage and support all of us to act; (2) generate exemplary stories and case studies; and, (3) be a way of channeling new people who send emails inquiring about the HDHS Network. It is this third purpose that I did not make clear when I first expressed the notion of action groups. As I understand it, responding as we would like to the numerous emails seems to be a substantial challenge. If we had the action group system going, we could give an initial welcoming reply to a new email and also suggest that one of the best ways to get involved, to establish relationships, would be to join an action group. We would strive to get to the point where each action group would have at least one person with experience with the Network. We could also develop other written information about how the action groups work to be shared with people new to the Network.
Bill Leland, Corralitos, CA
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