REINHARD WOLF
Reinhard Wolf is a professor of international relations at the Department of Political Science at Goethe University, Frankfurt/M.  His current research focuses on the relevance of respect and disrespect in international relations, notably on the expression of, sensitivity to and consequences of disrespect among states and nations.  He is especially interested in applying insights and findings from both philosophy and social psychology to theoretical and empirical studies in international relations.
Please see:
• Respect and International Relations: State Motives, Social Mechanisms and Hypotheses
Paper presented at the 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.
• Respect and International Relations: State Motives, Social Mechanisms and Hypotheses, abstract presented at the 13th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies "World Peace through Humiliation-Free Global Human Interactions" in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 20 to 23, 2009.

WERNER SCHIRMER
Werner Schirmer, PhD, studied sociology, political science and psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich/Germany and earned his doctoral title in 2007. His thesis examined how threats and security problems are constructed by communication processes and how they function in social relations. At present, he is working in a research project on respect and disrespect in the relations between Swedish natives and immigrants/ethnic minorities, conducted at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University/Sweden. The purpose of the project is twofold: 1) to understand the meaning of respect in ethnic relations and 2) to contribute to a sociological theory of respect in social interactions. One of Werner's current major research interests is to study interethnic encounters in which participants’ legitimate expectations are unintentionally violated and thereby understood as disrespectful behavior. Werner Schirmer has been and is still working as instructor and supervisor for undergraduate students in a variety of topics in Sociology at the Universities of Munich, Uppsala and Gävle/Sweden.
Please see here some of his publications:
• Co-authored with Wendelin Reich, and Linda Hamann (2009), The Folk Concept of Respect, Unpublished working paper, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden: Paper presented at the 13th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies "World Peace through Humiliation-Free Global Human Interactions" in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 20 to 23, 2009.
•  Co-authored with Wendelin Reich (2009), A Theory of Respect, Unpublished working paper, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden: Work in progress, a shortened version of this manuscript will be presented in the Theory Section at the The American Sociological Association conference in San Francisco in August 2009.

PAUL A. STOKES
Paul A. Stokes is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. He is part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team.
Paul A. Stokes is a College Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Dublin, since 1996 and a member of the Faculty of Human Sciences in UCD. During the academic year 2000-2001 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). Dr. Stokes also acts as Consultant to Edelman Ireland PR in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He is furthermore a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society of Great Britain and a member of the Metaphorm on the Cybernetics of Governance based at the University of Sunderland. He is also a Board Member of the Collegium Humanun based in Zurich. For a number of years, Paul Stokes (together with colleagues - sociologists, psychoanalysts and group analytic therapists), has been investigating relations between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland with a view to deepening our understanding of the sources of the conflict in Northern Ireland. The particular focus was the state of social bonds between these groups and the role of shame and humiliation in this conflict.
Please see We Are All Humiliated, note presented at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. See also ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, 1968-2005: A Case of Mutual Humiliation, in Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 17-21, 2006.

ALICIA CABEZUDO
Alicia Cabezudo is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team.
Alicia is a Professor and Peace / Human Rights Educator and Consultant. Until recently, she was the Director of Educating Cities Latin America (International Relations Bureau, Municipality of Rosario, Argentina). The issue of humiliation is of deep concern to her because of the sufferings in the Latin-American region through dictatorship and torture. Her goal is to work on humiliation by trying to build a strong democratic consciousness – after the traumatic experiences of the region – from the individual and social point of view, and how to strengthen both individuals and societies in this direction. Her work as Director of Educating Cities – a strong international association developing educative programmes in cities – has given her the chance to work in Latin American Town Halls in order to approach this goal.

BERNARD HOFFERT
Professor Bernard Hoffert is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Professor Bernard Hoffert is the Head of Department of Fine Arts, and the Associate Dean of the External Affairs Faculty of Art and Design, at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. His paintings, installations and presentations have been in major international art events around the world. Bernard Hoffert is the author of four books, more than sixty catalogue essays and articles on art and art education, and more than 400 art reviews. He served as World President of the International Association of Art, UNESCO from 1992 to 1995 (the Association is the non-government organization of UNESCO which represents art and artists). He is also the Honorary President of the International Association of Art, UNESCO, and Honorary President of the Asia-Pacific Regional Council of the International Association of Art, UNESCO. Please see Combating Terror: Security through Art Education, paper presented at the 2006 UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education. Please see, furthermore, Innovation and Conflict: Finding Creative Solutions to Social Problems, a paper presented at HumanHDS, Monash University, 2006, and Creativity in the Service of Humanity: Design for an Equitable World, another paper presented at HumanHDS, Monash University, 2006.

EDWARD NEWMAN
Edward Newman is the Academic Programme Officer and Director of Studies on Conflict and Security at the United Nations University in Tokyo. He was educated in the United Kingdom at the University of Keele and the University of Kent, where he received a Ph.D. in International Relations. He has taught in Japan, as a lecturer at Shumei University and Aoyama Gakuin University, and has been a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo. He is also a founding executive editor of the journal International Relations of the Asia Pacific, published by Oxford University Press. Recent publications include The UN Role in Promoting Democracy: Between Ideals and Reality (co-edited, UNU Press, 2004), Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability, and the State (co-edited, UNU Press, 2003), Recovering from Civil Conflict: Reconciliation, Peace and Development (co-edited, Frank Cass, 2002), Democracy in Latin America: (Re)Constructing Political Society (co-edited, UNU Press, 2001), The United Nations and Human Security (co-edited, Palgrave, 2001), and The UN Secretary-General from the Cold War to the New Era (Macmillan, 1998), The Changing Nature of Democracy (co-edited UNU Press, 1998). His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Global Dialogue, International Peacekeeping, The International Journal of Human Rights, International Studies Perspectives, Japan Review of International Affairs, Journal of East Asian Studies, and Security Dialogue.

ASHRAF SALAMA
Ashraf Salam is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, and the Director and Coordinator of the HumanDHS World Architecture for Equal Dignity project.
Dr. Ashraf Salama is Professor of Architecture in the Architectural Engineering Program of Qatar University in Doha. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals-KFUPM. He was the Director of Research and Consulting at Adams Group Consultants in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (2001-04). He is a licensed architect in Egypt, trained at Al Azhar University and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. He is Associate Professor of Architecture, Al Azhar University, Cairo (on leave of absence), and former Chairman of the Department of Architecture, Misr International University in Cairo (1996-01). Dr. Salama has written over 50 articles and papers in local and international conferences and archival journals, and trade magazines; published three books on Architectural Education: Designing the Design Studio, Human Factors in Environmental Design, and Architectural Education Today; delivered lectures and presentations in over 25 countries; and contributed widely to international publications. He was member of the UIA/UNESCO International Committee of Architectural Education, and the Director of Architectural Education Work Program of the International Union of Architects-UIA (1995-00). He is currently co-Convener of the International Association for People-Environments Studies-IAPS Education Network.
He was the recipient of the first award of the International Architecture Design Studio, University of Montreal, Canada, 1990, and in 1998 he won the Paul Chemetove Prize for his project on Architecture and the Eradication of Poverty, a United Nations International Ideas Competition. Dr. Salama served as a consultant to the Egyptian Ministries of Tourism and Culture. He also served as member in the international jury for projects within the context of the revitalization of Sarajevo, Bosnia, and a UIA Jury member in the international competition on designing a central urban park in La Paz, Bolivia. He has been appointed a technical reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in Geneva, Award Cycle (1998-01). Salama has been involved with the Community Development Group of the College of Design, North Carolina State University (1993-95). His academic experience includes teaching courses on Programming and Space Planning, Research and Design Methods, Applications of Socio-Behavioral Studies in Design, and Interior Design, Architectural and Community Design Studios. His professional experience includes consultancy for several government and public agencies, and managing design projects from inception through programming and space planning, encountering users and environmental constraints. His recent research places emphasis on design studio teaching practices, and workplace and learning environments.
Please see some of Dr. Ashraf Salama's work here:
•  Incorporating Knowledge about Cultural Diversity into Architectural Pedagogy (1999).
•  Skill-Based / Knowledge-Based Architectural Pedagogies: An Argument for Creating Humane Environments, paper given by Ashraf Salama at the 7th International Conference on Humane Habitat-ICHH-05 – The International Association of Humane Habitat IAHH, Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India, January 29-31, 2005.
•  Shores of the Mediterranean: Architecture as a Language of Peace, co-edited by Ashraf Salama with colleagues from Napoli, Italy, Donatella Mazzoleni, Giuseppe Anzani, Marichela Sepe, and Maria Maddalena Simone, 2005. Intra Moenia, Rome and Naples, Italy: Edizioni.
•  Patterns of Change in Work Environments: A Process-Employee Centered Paradigm, introductory speech given by Ashraf Salama at the 8th International Conference of IAHH-the International Association for Humane Habitat- Sustainable and Humane Workplaces. Mumbay, India, January 27-29, 2006.
•  Architecture as Language of Peace: Democracy and Collaborative Design Processes, a short course by Dr. Ashraf Salama.
•  PLADEW: A Tool for Teachers Awareness of School Building Sustainability: The Case of Carmel School, Mathews, North Carolina, in the Global Built Environment Review-GBER, International Center for Development and Environment Studies ICDES, Vol. 5, 2005, Issue (1), Edge Hill, Lancashire, United Kingdom. ISSN 1474 6824.
•  A Process Oriented Design Pedagogy: KFUPM Sophomore Studio, in the Journal of the Center for Education in the Built Environment-CEBE Transactions, University of Cardiff, Vol. 2, 2005, Issue (2), Cardiff, United Kingdom. ISSN 1745-0322.
•  Design Studio Teaching Practices: Between Traditional, Revolutionary, and Virtual Models, with Guest Editor Ashraf Salama, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture, in Open House International (OHI) (Academic Refereed Journal), Special Issue, Volume 31, No.3, September 2006 (Contact "Carol Nicholson" Carol.Nicholson@ribaenterprises.com).
•  Symbolism and Identity in the Eyes of Arabia’s Budding Professionals, in LAYERMAG... An Online Magazine on Architecture, Art, and Design, and Media Studies.
•  A Lifestyle Theories Approach for Affordable Housing Research in Saudi Arabia, in the Emirates Journal for Engineering Research, Vol. 11, 2006, Issue (1), United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE.
•  Learning from the Environment: Evaluation Research and Experience Based Architectural Pedagogy, in the Journal of the Center for Education in the Built Environment-CEBE Transactions, University of Cardiff, Vol. 3, 2006, Issue (1), Cardiff, United Kingdom. ISSN 1745-0322.
•  A Typological Perspective: The Impact of Cultural Paradigmatic Shifts on the Evolution of Courtyard Houses in Cairo, in the Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University. Vol. 23, 2006, Issue (1). METU-JFA, Ankara, Turkey.
•  Ashraf is the Chief-Editor of the new Journal ArchNet-IJAR, an interdisciplinary scholarly online publication of architecture, planning, and built environment studies. Please see here an outline and the submission notes to authors. The journal aims at establishing a bridge between theory and practice in the fields of architectural and design research, and urban planning and built environment studies. It reports on the latest research findings innovative approaches for creating responsive environments, with special focus on developing countries. The journal has two international boards; advisory and editorial. The range of knowledge and expertise of the boards members ensures high quality scholarly papers and allows for a comprehensive academic review of contributions that span wide spectrum of issues, methods, theoretical approach and architectural and development practices.
•  New Book! Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future, by Ashraf M. Salama and Nicholas Wilkinson (editors), Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK: The Urban International Press (2007). ISBN: 1-872811-09-04. The Urban International Press, P.O Box 74, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE9 5UZ, UK. e-mail Carol Nicholson: carol.nicholson[@]ribaenterprises.com for more information.

JENNIFER S. GOLDMAN
Dr. Jennifer S. Goldman is an Instructor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University and a member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. She has conducted extensive research on the role of emotions in protracted conflict. Her dissertation The Differential Effects of Collective- Versus Personal-level Humiliating Experiences focused on the role humiliation plays in exacerbating conflict. She is currently examining how leaders use wisdom to successfully transform long-term conflicts.
Dr. Goldman's research has been supported by a multi-year Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), and grants from BeyondIntractability.org and the Office of Policy & Research and the Dean's Office at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has published articles in outlets including Peace and Conflict Studies and the Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, Second Edition.
In addition, Dr. Goldman is an organizational psychologist and executive coach with over a decade of experience serving clients in corporate, academic, and non-profit contexts. She is recognized for enabling individuals to successfully negotiate and manage conflict and to align personal values with day-to-day decisions to produce extraordinary results for the mselves and their constituencies. Dr. Goldman has served as Director of Negotiation Programs at Mediation Works Inc., a dispute resolution organization based in Boston, has taught in the internationally acclaimed Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School, and has served as a mediator in the District Court Department of the Massachusetts Trial Court. She earned her B.A. from Tufts University and her Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
Please see:
• Peter T. Coleman and Jennifer Goldman, Conflict and Humiliation, note presented at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
• How Humiliation Fuels Intractable Conflict: The Effects of Emotional Roles on Recall and Reactions to Conflictual Encounters by Jennifer S. Goldman and Peter T. Coleman, work in progress, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005.
• A Theoretical Understanding of How Emotions Fuel Intractable Conflict: The Case of Humiliation by Jennifer S. Goldman and Peter T. Coleman (2005), paper presented at Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
• Humiliation and Aggression, abstract prepared by Jennifer Goldman for Round Table 2 of the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

ANNITA MILICEVIC
Anita Milicevic

ZAHID SHAHAB AHMED
Zahid Shahab Ahmed is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Zahid Shahab Ahmed is Assistant Professor at the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) in Pakistan and the pioneer of the university's Department of Peace and Conflict. He also leads the South Asia Centre for Peace (SACP) and South Asia Peace Magazine (please contact sacp.pakistan [at] gmail.com for more information). He did his PhD in Peace Studies with a focus on regional peace and security in South Asia at the University of New England in Australia. From September 2009 he conducted fieldwork in Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Zahid is a postgraduate from UPEACE in peace education. In July 2006, soon after finishing his course work in Costa Rica, he went to Sao Paulo, Brazil, to train young people from all over the world with his workshops on youth for peace entitled Youth Cooperation and Peace Education. While studying at the UPEACE, he also participated in the peace education curriculum development workshop (Canada), the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights conference (USA), and also spent a summer in the advanced study program on non-violent conflicts at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA.
Until recently, Zahid worked for the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES) Pakistan as a program officer in Conflict Transformation & Conflict Sensitive Management. Nowadays, many development actors are interested in doing peace and conflict assessment of their projects, and that is where Zahid fits in with his expertise.
Before finding his way towards UPEACE, he was working as a Program Officer for a Pakistani NGO (Sahil) against child sexual abuse. Furthermore, he has also worked for the Overseas Development Institute, London, as an independent researcher for a case study on the youth policy of Pakistan. He has also worked as a research consultant for the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Pakistan) and the National Institute of Health (Pakistan). The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama (WISCOMP), India, awarded him with a conflict transformation award-2005 to conduct a research in India and Pakistan on teachers' attitudes and practices towards Indo-Pak conflict.
Zahid has also been awarded with a Youth Service Award-2005 by a Pakistani Youth NGO (Jawan Pakistan) for his work on youth policy of Pakistan and child rights awareness. Zahid has conducted research on children's and women's rights. He has represented youth of Pakistan at the World Youth Peace Summit Asia-Pacific in 2004 in Bangkok, Thailand, at the Conflict Transformation Workshop in 2004 in New Delhi, India, and at the New Tactics in Human Rights-International Symposium in 2004 in Ankara, Turkey. Zahid has widely published on various issues, such as women's and children's rights, peace, diversity, coexistence, religion, and religious leaders. Zahid has done his Master's in Sociology from University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan) and graduated in Economics & Journalism from University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Zahid is committed to induce the positive spirits into the minds of people through education for peace and international understanding, which will lead to peace and stability on earth.
Please see:
•  Poverty, Family Stress & Parenting, March 2005, as well as his paper on the Situation of Human Rights in Bangladesh, 2005. See also Zahid's Report from Auroville (March 2005) and Poverty, Globalization, Social Customs & South Asian Children in Prostitution (April 2005).
•  Extremism in Pakistan and India: The case of the Jamaat-e-Islami and Shiv Sena, co-authored with Rajeshwari Balasubramanian, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Regional Centre for Strategic Studies.
• Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA): Lessons from Pakistan, Peace and Conflict Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011, pp. 12-27 [refereed Journal article]
• A review of the book entitled “Asia’s New Regionalism” by Ellen L. Frost, published in the Journal of South Asian Development.
• Terrorism and Pakistan’s security dilemma, web article.

JOSÉ CALVO GONZÁLEZ
José Calvo González (n. Sevilla 1956) est Licencié en Droit (spécialité Droit Privé) pour l´Université de Sevilla (1978). Docteur en Droit (1984). Professeur de Théorie du Droit et Philosophie du Droit (Faculté de Droit. Université de Málaga. Espagne) (1986). Magistrat Suplente de la Cour d´Appellation Civile et Pénale de Málaga (Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Andalucia. Audiencia Provincial de Málaga) (1996). Membre de la Association Française des Historiens des Idées Politiques (Université d'Aix-en-Provence. France), de l' Equipe Internationale de Philosophie pénale (Institut de Criminologie. Université de Paris II. Panthéon-Assas), du Instituto Jurídico Interdisciplinario de la Faculdade de Directo (Universidade do Porto. Portugal). Professeur du Curso de Postgrado y Maestría para el Mejoramiento en el Desempeño del Ejercicio de la Función Jurisdiccional dans le Proyecto de Reforma Judicial y Mejoramiento del Sistema de Justicia (Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad Centroamericana (UCA). Managua. Nicaragua), Professeur de la Maestría en Derecho Procesal y Penal de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad Centroamericana (UCA. Managua. Nicaragua).
Livres:
•  Derecho y Narración. Materiales para una teoría y Crítica narrativista del derecho, Barcelona, Editorial Ariel, 1996, XVII+141 pp.
- La Justicia como relato. Ensayo de una semionarrativa sobre los jueces, Málaga, Editorial Agora, 1996, 210 pp. 2ª ed., 2002, 228 pp.
•  El Cante por Derecho. Las "Carceleras" y el krausofloclorismo andaluz. (Un estudio de Etnología jurídica y Filosofía Penal), con ilustraciones de Eugenio Chicano, Málaga, Ayuntamiento de Málaga, Área de Cultura, 2003, 127 pp.
Articles:
•  "Ghettoización de la Universalidad y futuro de los Derechos Humanos", en Pluralismo, Tolerancia y Derechos, Actas de las XV Jornadas de Filosofía Jurídica y Social, Derechos y Libertades, Revista del Instituto Bartolomé de Las Casas, (Universidad Carlos III. Madrid ), Año II, Julio-Diciembre, 1995, núm. 5, pp. 405-412.
•  Veuillez voir, sur les Droits Humaines, Liberté-Securité et Paix, La fragilidad de los Derechos, Revista de Derecho. Universidad Centroamericana. Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas (Managua. Nicaragua), n m. 9/ 2005, pp. 203-218, et aussi Revista Brasileira de Direito Constitucional, núm. 8 (Ética y Constituiçao), Jul/Dez 2006 (en presse).
•  Veuillez voir aussi Harmonías jurídicas. Algunas notas (musicales) sobre Derecho y Justicia, en Mundo Jurídico 15/10/2005 (Brasil), pp. 1-8 (http://www.mundojuridico.adv.br/sis-artigos/artigos.asp?codigo=705).

ZUZANA LUCKAY MIHALCINOVA
Zuzana Luckay Mihalcinova is also a member of our Global Coordinating Team and project leader of the World Literature for Equal Dignity intervention project.
She received her Ph.D. degree at the P.J. Šafárik University (UPJS) in Košice, Slovakia, in June 2012. In her thesis she addresses the complex concept of dignity by an inter-disciplinary approach within the framework of human rights, normative and descriptive frames, and arts. She is a literature scholar with an MA in English Linguistics and Literature from the University of Pécs, Hungary (PTE). She spent several years in South-Africa doing research at Pretoria University (UP), completing her M.A. on Reconciliation and Forms of Disgrace in J.M. Coetzee's Post-Apartheid Novel, preparing for her Ph.D. in a pre-doctoral year. She is committed to the study of the diverse forms of dignity, as well as the correlation between dignity (dignity as a descriptive concept as a quality) and human dignity (human dignity as an abstract concept). Zsuzsa was born in Czechoslovakia. She grew up in a region that underwent great political and social changes. She has travelled extensively. She is married to Gabriel Mihalcin and they live in Košice, Slovakia.
Past conferences and publications:
• Pécs, Hungary, University of Pécs, ‘HUSSE9’ international conference of Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE), presentation on ‘The Concept of Dignity,’ January 2009
• 'The Concept or Regaining Dignity and the Manifestations of this Process in Post-apartheid South- African Literature,' abstract for presentation at the African Studies Association of UK (ASAUK) conference The Presence of the Past. Africa in the 21st Century held at University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom, in September 2008.
• 'Regaining Dignity: Social and Cultural Dimension of Sustainable Development in Europe,' a presentation at the PhD - FES conference in Bratislava, June 2008, published in “New” Europe and Challenges of Sustainable Development, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
• Representations of Violence in Contemporary South African Fiction, presentation for 'Violence and the Contexts of Hostility,' global inter-disciplinary conference to be held in Budapest, Hungary in May 2008.
• Doing ‘Good’, Maintaining Dignity: the effects of apartheid on ethical choices studied via contemporary South African fiction, abstract of a presentation at ‘Culture, Language And Literature Across Border Regions’ International Conference At Pavol Jozef Šafárik University In Košice, Slovakia , April 2008.
• The Role of Literature in Human Rights: Studying The Art of the Novel Through the Texts of Milan Kundera, J.M. Coetzee and Ernesto Sabato, presentation in the 'Worlds, Texts, Critics' Conference in Durban, South Africa, July 2007.
• Violence, Crime and Fear in Contemporary South-African Literature, presentation at the Violence, Hostility and the Construction of Enemies Conference, 2nd May - 5th May 2007, Budapest, Hungary; please see here the e-book version
• Representations of violence in contemporary South African fiction, in Guggisberg, Marika, and Weir, David (Eds.), Understanding Violence: Contexts and Portrayals, Freeland, Oxfordshire: Inter-Disciplinary.Net.
• Restoring Social Order in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Role of Public Confession and Private Repentance in the Administration of Transitional Justice, abstract of a presentation at the Global Political and Social Order Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006.

ARCHANGEL BYARUHANGA RUKOOKO ("RUKOOKO")
A. Rukooko Byaruhanga is currently an associate professor of philosophy specializing in human rights and applied ethics at the Department of Philosophy, School of Liberal and Performing Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He started lecturing at Makerere University in 1989 after completion of a master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Nairobi. He is also Dean of the School of Liberal and Performing Arts, having served previously as deputy dean (from 2004 to 2009) and Dean, Faculty of Arts (from 2009 to 2011). Besides, from 2006 to 2010, I was serving as a general manager of Makerere Center for Applied Ethics, a professional ethics organization operating in East Africa.
His research and lecturing interests have been dual: one strand of human rights focusing on philosophy and human rights, the right to food, African traditional philosophy; the second, in the area of applied ethics, focusing on leadership ethics and integrity, development ethics, business ethics, professional ethics and African ethics. This is also largely supplemented by routine administrative work including examination of students, both at undergraduate and graduate levels.
In regard to the mandate of Makerere Centre for Applied Ethics, he was involved in consultancy work to train both private and public organizations including the Uganda Directorate of Ethics and Integrity in developing their codes of ethics for government departments (August 2006). Since 2009, as team leader, he facilitated different districts and organizations to develop their codes of ethics.  In December 2006, he trained young leaders across Africa in ethics and integrity in leadership, which was funded by Freedom House, USA. From 2007-2008, he developed a Training Manual of Ethics and Good Governance for the Directorate of Ethics, Office of the President, Uganda. From 2007-2008 (under MACAE), he was contracted by the World Bank in collaboration with Creative Associates International (CAI) and the Association for Professional Societies in East Africa (APSEA Kenya) to write modules for training nurses in Ethics and Integrity and their continuous professional development; see http://www.macae.or.ug. From 2007-2008, he was involved in the Integrity training programs carried out in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mali under the Aga Khan Foundation network which also extended to Armenia.
From 2001-2004, he led and conducted Human Rights training sessions for district and other leaders at Makerere University. From 2001 to 2006, he led MACOMBA link, an organisation that brings together four institutions (Makerere University, Mbarara University, University of Bradford, and Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment) to develop university curriculums in Uganda.     

SALMAN TÜRKEN
Salman Türken is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team.
Defining himself as a cosmopolitan, Salman is interested in studies of all levels of analysis that influence and change both individuals and societies in this globalisation era. Influenced by critical social psychology, ideology - understood as common sense, as legitimising and reproducing unequal power relations which might also lead to humiliation in intergroup relations - is now the main research topic for him.
Salman holds a MA degree in psychology from the University of Oslo, where he for the time being holds a position as a lecturer in social psychology. In his MA thesis (2006), Salman developed a brief cross-culturally stable scale that measures global identity, arguing that more and more people around the globe transcend national and territorial boundaries, identify first and foremost with their shared humanity (rather than seeking parochial ends), and show responsibility for and "engage the distant other."

VERONICA FYNN
Veronica Fynn holds a BSc (hons) in Zoology/Biochemistry from the University of Ghana, a BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia, a Master in Public Health from the University of Nottingham, a Masters in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School and is currently doing her PhD in Law at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Canada. Her research interest centers on vulnerable populations (e.g., women and children in armed conflicts) with emphasis on health, education, law, research and development. She is the Executive Director/Co-Founder of EV Research Inc and the Editor-in-Chief of the newly developed Journal of Internal Displacement.

SUBRATA GHOSHROY
Subrata Ghoshroy is a Research Associate in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Massachu­setts Institute of Technology, USA. His current research interests are global security with particular reference to South Asia, nuclear weapons proliferation, and disarmament. Previously he was a Senior Defense Analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and served in the U.S. Congress as a professional staff member and as a Science Fellow. Subrata was also a Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. He was the first and the only person in the 90-year history of GAO to blow the whistle on his discovery of fraud in a major military program. He was trained as an electrical engineer and spent two decades in defense research and development. He holds Master’s degrees in electrical engineering and in public policy. Most recently, he co-edited South Asia at a Crossroads, published by Nomos, Baden Baden, Germany in May 2010. Subrata was born in India and maintains close contact with his family and friends there although he has lived in the U.S. for the last forty years.

WELLINGTON M. LIRA
Wellington Marinho de Lira is natural of Recife, Pernambuco State located in the Northeast of Brazil. Professor at UFRPE (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco) since 2009, he has a Master in Applied Linguistics and several researches in this area. In 2012 he was a visiting professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA. During his stay, he learned about language prejudices between the North and the South of the USA, and could compare it with the same situation between Northeast / Southeast in Brazil. Back to Brazil he met the Professor Evelin Lindner and was introduced to the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Group. Since then he has started a new approach in his research, giving lectures in Brazil and outside the country. In 2012 he presented the plan of his new research at the International Conference of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies Group at the University of Oslo, gave a lecture at the University of Santiago and at UMCE, both in Chile. In 2013 he gave also a lecture about the same theme at Magnitogorsk State University in Russia. His current research is titled: Language Education for Promoting Dignity and Helping Overcome Humiliation: Principles and Practices for Language Teachers.

MAGGIE O'NEILL
Maggie O'Neill is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHs Global Core Team, and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Maggie is particularly an Academic Advisor to our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. She is furthermore a Member of the Academic Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Maggie is based in Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University. Prior to this she worked for eleven years in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University and before that was ten years in the Department of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. She co-edited Sociology (with Tony Spybey): the journal of the British Sociological Association from 1999-2002; she is a member of various professional associations including the National Network of Sex Work Projects and the British Sociological Association and British Criminology Association. She acts as a research consultant on community cohesion issues and has had commissions from the Home Office, and regional Local Authorities. Maggie researches the issue of prostitution, women's experiences, routes in to prostitution, and communities affected (since 1990) and forced migration (since 1998).
An expert in participatory action research (working with people, groups, communities to create change) Maggie has a reputation for developing innovative culture work to imagine new ways of understanding and articulating the experiences of crime and victimization, that breach disciplinary boundaries and expand and enliven the methodological horizons of cultural criminology. Her theoretical concept of ethno-mimesis (the inter-connection of sensitive ethnographic work and visual re-presentations) is a methodological tool as well as a process for exploring lived experience, displacement, exile, belonging and humiliation.
Research funding has been received from the AHRB; Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Home Office; Leicester Local Authority and Local Education Authority, East Midland Arts, Nottingham Trent and Staffordshire Universities. Books include:
• Adorno, Culture and Feminism (Sage);
• Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling (Polity);
• Prostitution: A Reader (Ashgate) with Roger Matthews;
• Gender and the Public Sector (Routledge) with Jim Barry and Mike Dent;
• Sex Work Now (Willen) with Rosie Campbell.
See also:
• Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis, note presented at the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 6th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 15-16, 2005;
• together with Ramaswami Harindranath, Theorising Narratives of Exile and Belonging: The Importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in “Understanding” Asylum, in Qualitative Sociology Review, II (1, April 2006), pp. 39-52.
• Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR), abstract presented at the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.
• Re-Imagining Diaspora through Ethno-Mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging (2007). In: Reimagining Diasporas: Transnational Lives and the Media, edited by Olga Guedes-Bailey (Liverpool John-Moores University), Myria Georgiou (University of Leeds), and Ramaswami Harindranath (University of Melbourne). Published by Palgrave Publishers, UK.
• Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex(see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk), abstract presented at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
• "Making Connections: Ethno-mimesis, Migration and Diaspora," in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 14, 289-302, September 2009, doi:10.1057/pcs.2009.5.
• Humiliation, Social Justice and Recognitive Communities: Thinking about the Asylum-Migration-Community Nexus in the Context of HDHS, abstract presented at the 2012 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 6-7, 2012.

PAUL A. STOKES
Paul A. Stokes is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. He is part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team.
Paul A. Stokes is a College Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Dublin, since 1996 and a member of the Faculty of Human Sciences in UCD. During the academic year 2000-2001 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). Dr. Stokes also acts as Consultant to Edelman Ireland PR in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He is furthermore a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society of Great Britain and a member of the Metaphorm on the Cybernetics of Governance based at the University of Sunderland. He is also a Board Member of the Collegium Humanun based in Zurich. For a number of years, Paul Stokes (together with colleagues - sociologists, psychoanalysts and group analytic therapists), has been investigating relations between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland with a view to deepening our understanding of the sources of the conflict in Northern Ireland. The particular focus was the state of social bonds between these groups and the role of shame and humiliation in this conflict.

ALICIA CABEZUDO
Alicia Cabezudo is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team.
Alicia is a Professor and Peace / Human Rights Educator and Consultant. Until recently, she was the Director of Educating Cities Latin America (International Relations Bureau, Municipality of Rosario, Argentina). The issue of humiliation is of deep concern to her because of the sufferings in the Latin-American region through dictatorship and torture. Her goal is to work on humiliation by trying to build a strong democratic consciousness – after the traumatic experiences of the region – from the individual and social point of view, and how to strengthen both individuals and societies in this direction. Her work as Director of Educating Cities – a strong international association developing educative programmes in cities – has given her the chance to work in Latin American Town Halls in order to approach this goal.

HOWARD ZEHR
Howard Zehr is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
He is Professor of Sociology and Restorative Justice and an internationally-known practitioner, writer, lecturer and teacher in the field of criminal justice. He is considered one of the founders of the contemporary restorative justice movement and his ground-breaking book, Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice, is widely regarded as a standard in the field. The author was one of the early pioneers in victim-offender mediation and continues to be involved in this and related work. One of his primary areas of concern is the role of victims in justice and especially in restorative justice programs. He and a colleague were appointed by the federal court in the Timothy McVeigh Oklahoma City bombing trial to assist attorneys in working with victims. Out of this developed a program of exchange visits of survivors from the U.S. embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Another outcome is an ongoing initiative to sensitize defense attorneys to victims' perspectives and to incorporate survivors' voices in death penalty cases.
Professor Zehr has lectured, consulted and trained in several dozen countries throughout the world. He has worked with community groups, police and correctional agencies in countries such as Northern Ireland, England, Russia, Jamaica, Bosnia, New Zealand and South Africa. He is also an accomplished documentary and journalistic photographer. He has worked professionally as a photojournalist, photographing in some 20 countries, and has conducted numerous photo-interview projects. After serving 19 years as director of the national criminal justice office of Mennonite Central Committee, an international humanitarian organization, in 1996, Howard Zehr joined the faculty of EMU's Conflict Transformation Program.
Apart from Changing Lenses, Professor Zehr has published widely, see, for example, Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences (Good Books, 1998); Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims - Portraits and Interviews (Good Books, 2001); and The Little Book of Restorative Justice (Good Books, 2002).

VERNON JANTZI
Vernon Jantzi, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA.
Dr. Jantzi is an international development specialist with extensive experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America, working at the interface of peacebuilding and development. He has worked for multi-lateral, bi-lateral and NGO organizations. His current research interest is in the evaluation of peacebuilding, development and humanitarian assitance programs and practices, particularly efforts that purport to foster broad participation of displaced and dispossessed persons in providing for or managing their own welfare. He is also keenly interested in post-conflict humanitarian response and social reconstruction. Dr. Jantzi frequently serves as a consultant to development, peacebuilding and humanitarian assistance programs. He is one of the founders and a past director of the graduate program in Conflict Transformation at Eastern Mennonite University. He holds a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Development from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

ABELARDO BRENES
Abelardo Brenes, Ph.D., is the Director of the M.A. Programme in Peace Education at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San José, Costa Rica. He has been a Professor at the Department of Education for Peace (2003-2004), a Senior Advisor at the Department of Education for Peace (2001-2002), Deputy to the Vicerrector (2000), General Director and National Director (Costa Rica) of the Central-American Programme for a Culture of Peace and Democracy (1999-2001), Academic Coordinator of the 2nd Phase of the Central-American Programme for a Culture of Peace and Democracy (1996-1999), General Director of the 1st Phase of the Central-American Programme for a Culture of Peace and Democracy (1994-1996), Director, Central American Programme for the Promotion of Human Rights and Peace Education (sponsored by the European Union, 1992-1993), and Director, Seeking the True Meaning of Peace Conference (volunteer, 1987-1989).
His most recent activities at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace are the design, planning, and recruitment of professors, the selection of students, and the direction of the Masters Programme in Peace Education.
Abelardo Brenes earned his Ph.D. (Psychology, 1977) from the University of Birmingham, England, a B.A. (Psychology) from Universidad de Costa Rica (Honours, 1971), a B.A. (Sociology) from Universidad de Costa Rica, (Honours, 1971).
His main publications in peace and education related areas are as follows:
•  Brenes, A., Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Costa Rica ", in Homann, R., Huhn, H. P. & Sinton, J. (eds.), The Future of Higher Education, Frankfurt / New York: Campus Verlag, 1987, pp. 101-112.
•  Brenes, A. (Editor), The Comparative Psychology of Natural Resource Management, Advances in Comparative Psychology, Vol. 1, Nápoles, Italy: International Society for Comparative Psychology, 1989.
•  Brenes, A., "Educating for Universal Responsibility", Peace Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1990, pp. 33-36.
•  Brenes, A & Gang, P., "Toward a Global Curriculum for Peace and Sustainable Development. An Interview with Abelardo Brenes by Phil Gang", Holistic Education Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 1990, pp. 57-60.
•  Brenes, A. (Editor), Seeking the True Meaning of Peace, University for Peace Press, Costa Rica, 1991.
•  Brenes, A. "Conference on Peace Education Develops Programs for Central America ". Psychology International, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1992.
•  Brenes, A. "Educacao Ambiental", en Ciencia, Educacao e Ecología, Asociacio Educacional e Cultura Holistica, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 1992.
•  Brenes, A. "Educating for Universal Responsibility", en Holistic Science and Human Values 1992, Adyar, Madras, India. Theosophy Science Centre, 1992, pp. 67-74.
•  Brenes, A., Takehito Ito & The Project "Preparedness for Peace", Peace Education: Perspectives from Costa Rica and Japan, Peace Education Miniprints, No. 62, April 1994, Malmo, Sweden.
•  Brenes, A., Co-editor, with Michael Wessels, of a Special Issue of Peace and Conflict. Journal of Peace Psychology, on the theme "Psychological Contributions to Building Cultures of Peace" (Volume 7, Number 2, 2001). Author of the following papers in this issue:
•  Abelardo Brenes & Michael Wessels, "Introduction: Psychological Contributions to Building Cultures of Peace"
•  Abelardo Brenes and Deborah Du Nann Winter, "Earthly Dimensions of Peace: The Earth Charter".
•  Brenes, A., "An Integral Approach to Education for Peace", en UNESCO Chairs on Human Rights, Democracy, Peace and Tolerance, Bulletin 3, December 2001, Stadtschlaining, Austria, 162-166.
•  Brenes, A. and Rojas, A., co-authors of the Serie Didáctica "Construyendo la Cultura de Paz en nuestra comunidad", Programa Cultura de Paz y Democracia en América Central, edited and produced by CIIP/UPEACE, Uruguay, 2002.
•  Brenes, A.,"The Earth Charter Principles: Source for an Ethics of Universal Responsibility", en P. Miller & L. Westra (eds.), Just Ecological Integrity, The Ethics of Maintaining Planetary Life, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.
•  Brenes, A. "Il programma di cultura di pace e di democrazia in Centro America ", en G. Ambrosi, M.de Rose & F.Pinto Minerva (eds.), I Percosi dell'integrazione. L'educazione per la pace: tra informazione e formazione, Italia: Tecnodid Editrice, 2002.
•  Brenes, A., Navarro, P. & Román, Sergio, "Elementos de la Buena Noticia, para apoyar la posibilidad de elaborar información positiva", Working Paper, University para la Paz, 2002.
•  Brenes, A., "University for Peace/UNITWIN Chair in Education for Peace", en UNESCO Chairs in Human Rights, Democracy, Peace and Tolerance, Bulletin, 4, November 2002, Stadtschlaining, Austria.
•  Brenes, A. "University for Peace", in Guide to United Nations Resources and Activities for the Prevention of Interpersonal Violence, published by Injuries and Violence Prevention Department, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2002, pp. 31-32.
•  Brenes, A. "Promoting Education for Peace Worldwide: the University for Peace", in Sang Saeng, Magazine of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding, No. 7, June, 2003, Seoul, Korea, pp. 5-11.
•  Brenes, A., "Education for Peace in the Costa Rican Context: A Model of Peaceful Personhood", Bulletin of UNESCO Chairs in Human Rights, Democracy, Peace and Tolerance, No. 5, Stadtschlaining, Austria, December 2003, pp. 115-119.
•  Brenes, A., "An Integral Model of Peace Education", in A.L. Wenden (Ed.), Educating for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004, pp. 77-98.
•  Brenes, A., "¿Qué está detrás de la violencia juvenil?", in R. Pérez-Sánchez (Ed.), Psicología y comunicación de masas. Aportes para su desarrollo en Costa Rica. San José: Universidad de Costa Rica, 2004, pp. 63-77.
• Brenes, A., Universal and Differentiated Responsibility: A thematic essay on responsibility to the whole Earth community and to promote the common good,
in Peter Blaze Corcoran, Mirian Vilela, and Alide Roerink (Eds.), The Earth Charter in Action, pp. 35-37. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, in cooperation with the Earth Charter Initiative, San Jose, Costa Rica.

RAÏS NEZA BONEZA
Raïs Neza Boneza (Norway/ Democratic Republic of Congo [Ex-Zaire]), BA in Social Sciences, MA of Humanities, Author and Poet. He currently lives in Norway where he works as a peace researcher and practitioner. Raïs is also a poet who besides writing his own poetry works to promote artistic expressions as a means to deal with conflicts and maintaining mental well-being and spiritual growth after surviving war. Although Boneza may - sometimes at least - have wished to forget his experiences of war in the conflict ridden Great Lake region, he has never forgotten about both the richness and misery of Africa. He has lived in the east and in the west of the D. R. Congo, in Rwanda, in Burundi, and Uganda. He has learned seven African languages as well as the European imperialistic languages and has got first-hand knowledge of the cultures of various tribes and the main ethnic groups in the region. This background, combined with his sensitive artistic mind and his scholarly background including his collaboration with one of the founders of peace research Johan Galtung, has equipped his analytical faculties with unique instruments to extend the project that Galtung has developed since the mid 90', to the African continent. He leads www.transcendafrica.org, Buildingpeaces.org/African Co-ordinator, he is the Director of the T:AP Refugees Project, he is furthermore a representative of IDEAL International and works as an Advisor for the Human Rights House/Advisor Group in Trondheim. Please see here:
•  Peace by African’s Peaceful Means: Obstacles and Resources to Peace, rapport of the Projects Initiated in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Uganda-Burundi-D.R.Congo, 2005-2006.
•  Toward the Ubuntu-ization of the World: A Khemetic/African Perspective on the Middle East Crisis/Crime
Gitega (Burundi/East-Africa)

G. GLADSTON XAVIER
Gladston Xavier (India) is a Fulbright Fellow who studied conflict transformation. He presently lectures in Loyola College affiliated to the University of Madras. He works among the refugees, people living with HIV/AIDS and the dalits in India. He has been trained in Street theater, Playback theater and theater of the oppressed. He also gives theater workshop for different groups. He is presently pursuing his Ph.D. I Social Work on the peace process in Sri Lanka. The title of his project is A Qualitative Study on the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Living in Camps in Tamil Nadu on the Humiliation that they Face.
Please see also:
Florina Benoit & Joseph Xavier (2006),The Life of Sri Lankan Refugees A Paradigm Shift, abstract presented at the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.

WAEL MOHAMED
Wael Mohamed is a Clinical Pharmacologist, Neuroscientist and Psychiatrist. He dedicates his career to neurological research and medical teaching. His research focuses on advancing knowledge and understanding of neurological diseases through unconventional thinking. Therefore his basic and translational research targets the investigation and development of novel treatment for resistant diseases. During his graduate studies he learned how important cutting edge research and state of the art techniques for the advancement of medical therapies are. After finishing his training in a neurosurgery department during his house officer period, he started his career as a clinical pharmacologist with psychopharmacology as subspecialty.
His research focus is nutri-brain studies, especially early iron deficiency anemia, which is a global health issue. It is the most prevalent single nutrient deficiency in the world today. It is also the only nutrient deficiency, which is significantly prevalent in developing as well as industrialized countries. By using translational research and applying his medical knowledge he was able to relate the effects of early iron deficiency to cognition, especially attention and memory, in children. He found striking data, namely, that a brief period of iron deficiency during lactation can permanently impair attention shift. Furthermore, this deficit can, at least partially, be overcome by treatment with methylphenidate. This finding is particularly interesting considering the fact that early iron deficiency has a major impact on the development of dopamine systems. In subsequent research, he studied the characterization of brain catecholaminergic receptors densities.
Wael's ultimate goal is to find a gene expression profile for early iron deficiency anemia and to relate this to addiction. To achieve this he will utilize cocaine self-administration and various genetic analysis tools. His work has considerable significance, since, as mentioned above, iron deficiency is the most prevalent type of malnutrition worldwide. In his home country of Egypt, this is a major problem, leading to considerable cognitive impairment. Completing this work will greatly enhance the management and treatment of some cognitive disorders like ADHD, especially among school age children.
Regarding Wael's teaching philosophy, it is summarized by the acronym "LEARNING" which includes: Leadership, Energy, Analysis, Respect, Novelty, Imagination, Neighborhood and Growth. He values these concepts and tries his best to implement them in his courses.
Please see:
• The Hubris Syndrome and Arabic Spring, abstract presented at the 21st Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies "Search for Dignity," in South Africa, 25th - 28th April 2013.

VICTOR BOUDJOU ADANGBA
Victor Boudjou Adangba (USA/Ivory Coast) is a Doctoral Student in Moral Theology and Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, USA. The title of his project is Immigrants, Refugees in West Africa and Humiliation.

JOHANNA TURNER BAKER
Johanna Turner Baker (UK) has graduated from Manchester University in 2004 with a first in Bsc in Psychology. She has some experience of research with refugees as she together with Jacquie, completed her third year research project with Dr. Ivan Leudar on the construction of identity in refugees, using a discourse analysis framework and focussing on reaction to stereotypes of refugees and also gender. The title of her project is An Existential Discourse Analysis of Humiliation as Reported by Iraqi Refugees in the UK and Denmark.
In the course of their research they had to find participants at local refugee meetings, then do in depth narrative interviews with the participants which Were then transcribed and analysed.
Jo's continuing interest in the field is shown by her visiting study groups at Manchester University, where some of the researchers present are doing research on refugees and immigrants.

FLORINA IMMACULATE MARY BENOIT
Florina Immaculate Mary Benoit (India) is completing her Ph.D. in Social Work on the quality of life of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in camps in Tamil Nadu. She has worked with the refugees for the last six years in various capacities. She does capacity building programs for different target groups. She uses theater to do most of her workshops. She has recently returned from United States after completing a Masters in Conflict Transformation with a Fulbright fellowship. The title of her project is A Qualitative Study on the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Living in Camps in Tamil Nadu on the Humiliation that they Face.
Please see also:
Florina Benoit & Joseph Xavier (2006), The Life of Sri Lankan Refugees A Paradigm Shift, abstract presented at the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.

MARI OTTERLEI BLIKOM
Mari Otterlei Blikom (Norway) has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from University of Western Australia, Perth. She has studied one semester on Bali, Indonesia, and has just finished her Master's Degree in social psychology at the University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Her field of interest is cross-cultural psychology, especially within the areas of marginalisation and social exclusion. She has got work experience with people in different life situations from jobs in the Norwegian social services. The title of her project is Understanding the Lives of Refugees Living in Exile: A Core Social Motive Approach, which she has developed into her Master Thesis (Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway). See furthermore Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People, note presented at "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. Please see also Understanding the Lives of Refugees Living in Exile: A Core Social Motive Approach, Master Thesis, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
See:
•  "Grunnleggende behov og følelsen av ydmykelse blant asylsøkere i norske asylmottak," lecture by Mari Blikom, Oslo kommune Bydel Grünerløkka Enhet for mangfold og integrering, 2. juni 2010

RAÏS NEZA BONEZA
Raïs Neza Boneza (Norway/ Democratic Republic of Congo [Ex-Zaire]), BA in Social Sciences, MA of Humanities, Author and Poet. The title of his project is Afro-Hitlerism: Historic of Cultural Humiliation in the Great-Lakes.
He currently lives in Norway where he works as a peace researcher and practitioner. Raïs is also a poet who besides writing his own poetry works to promote artistic expressions as a means to deal with conflicts and maintaining mental well-being and spiritual growth after surviving war. Although Boneza may - sometimes at least - have wished to forget his experiences of war in the conflict ridden Great Lake region, he has never forgotten about both the richness and misery of Africa. He has lived in the east and in the west of the D. R. Congo, in Rwanda, in Burundi, and Uganda. He has learned seven African languages as well as the European imperialistic languages and has got first-hand knowledge of the cultures of various tribes and the main ethnic groups in the region. This background, combined with his sensitive artistic mind and his scholarly background including his collaboration with one of the founders of peace research Johan Galtung, has equipped his analytical faculties with unique instruments to extend the project that Galtung has developed since the mid 90', to the African continent. He leads www.transcendafrica.org, Buildingpeaces.org/African Co-ordinator, he is the Director of the T:AP Refugees Project, he is furthermore a representative of IDEAL International and works as an Advisor for the Human Rights House/Advisor Group in Trondheim.

ALEX DAWSON
Alex Dawson (UK) graduated from Manchester University with a 2.1 in Psychology. He is currently working as a community counsellor in Manchester. The title of his project is An Existential Discourse Analysis of Humiliation as Reported by Iraqi Refugees in the UK and Denmark.
Always one to enjoy life, he has frequently been spotted at the Bar XS comedy night in Manchester, drinking beer and being occasionally pulled up on stage.
Alex has done volunteer and paid work with handicapped children for some time now, and says he enjoys the challenge and fun. He has done a wide variety of sports.

VICTORIA C. FONTAN
Victoria Christine Fontan is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, the HumanDHS Research Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore the former Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Victoria is the Director of Academic Development, and Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. As a Fellow to the Iraq Project at the CICR in Columbia University, Victoria is in charge of developing a permanent Conflict Resolution curriculum in northern Iraqi universities.
Prior to 2005, Victoria was Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace Studies at Colgate University, NY, where she lectured in conflict resolution and peace studies. Earlier, Victoria was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Sabanci University, in Turkey. She lectured in the MA Program in Conflict Resolution and Analysis and also conducts research on conflict resolution processes and the politics of communication.
Victoria holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Studies. She published various papers on multi-track diplomacy, human trafficking, the public diplomacy of armed groups and the formation of political violence in post-conflict societies. Central to her work has been a conceptualisation of post-conflict processes through the study of social, gendered, cultural, economic and political humiliation. She conducted field research in Lebanon with the Hezbollah, in Bosnia-Herzegovina on human trafficking and organised crime, and in Fallujah (post-Saddam Iraq) with emerging armed groups. She is also involved in gender training for peacekeeping operations, and has lectured to various armed forces on the subject.
Please see:
•  The Dialectics of Humiliation: Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq (2003, unpublished Draft (Not to be cited without Author's authorization).
•  co-authored with Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2005), "The Honor Factor", Op Ed in The Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2005, p. 5F. Please see here the oringal long version.
•  "Hubris, History, and Humiliation: Quest for Utopia in Post-Saddam Iraq," in Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 56-61, 2006.
The title of her research project is Humiliation and Conflict Escalation in Post-Saddam Iraq: A Case Study of the Baghdad University Fallujah Refugee Camp.
• Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny
Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger Security International.

JEAN-DAMASCÈNE GASANABO
Jean-Damascène Gasanabo (Damas) is also a Member of our HumanDHS Global Core Team and Education Team.
Jean-Damascène Gasanabo (Damas) has a PhD in Education from the University of Geneva, Switzerland (2004) and his thesis pertains to the analysis of history textbooks and the construction of exclusive identities in Rwanda from 1962 to 1994. The Government of Rwanda appointed him as Director General in charge of the Research and Documentation Centre on Genocide, starting on May 21, 2012. The Centre is within the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide.
After his studies, Damas worked with UNESCO in Paris as Consultant in Education Sector for the project Fostering Peaceful Co-Existence through Analysis and Revision of History Curricula and School Textbooks in South-Eastern Europe (2005-2006). He has also collaborated as Programme Specialist for The United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children (2006). From October 2006 to August 2008, he was Head of Support for Communication, Research and Special Projects at Geneva Call, an international humanitarian organisation. Then he went back to UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as Consultant in the Sector of Education for the projects Education for Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of school related gender-based violence in post-conflict countries: from African case studies to international cooperation as well as in the Sector of Social and Human Sciences where he was responsible for producing Policy Briefs for the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme. After Paris, he worked as Senior Consultant for Spectacle Learning Media and contributed on the project A Place to Learn: Review of International Research on Creating and Sustaining Enabling Conditions for Learning.
Damas has published various articles and contributed to a number of collective works including:
• “Two families, two destinies: A Personal Perspective on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994,” published by Professor Quintard Taylor, Faculty of History, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, August 2009. See: http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/two-families-two-destiniespersonal-perspective-rwandan-genocide-1994.
• “Rwandan Genocide: Sociological, Economic and Psychological Consequences”, In Seema Shekhawat & Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra (eds.), Afro-Asian Conflicts: Changing Contours, Costs and Consequences, 1st edition, New Delhi, New Century Publications, 2008, pp. 193-216
• « Le génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda » (co-authored with Jean-Pierre Chrétien), in Barbara Lefebvre & Sophie Ferhadjian (eds.), Comprendre les génocides du XXe siècle. Comparer – Enseigner, Paris, Bréal, 2007, pp. 130-153
• “School History and Mechanisms for the Construction of Exclusive Identities: The Case of Rwanda from 1962 to 1994”, in UNESCO-IBE, Textbooks and Quality Learning for All: Some Lessons Learned from International Experiences, Paris, UNESCO-IBE, 2006, pp. 365-404
• “The Rwandan Akazi (Forced Labour) System, History, and Humiliation”. Social Alternatives (Special Issue ‘Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives’), University of Queensland, Australia, Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, 2006, pp. 50-55.

MANAS M. GHANEM
Manas M. Ghanem (Syria/USA) is a Fulbright scholar and Master’s Candidate at the Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University. Virginia, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Damascus. She has experience in working with humanitarian and development organisations and the UN. She has worked as Protection Officer Assistant at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Damascus. She also works as a lawyer in civil and human rights with a specific interest in gender issues and restorative justice.
The title of her project is Iraqi Refugees in Syria and Jordan & Humiliation.

JACQUELINE HAYES
Jacqueline Hayes (UK) has graduated from Manchester University with a first degree in Psychology. Together with Johanna Turner Baker, she conducted research on the Social Identities of refugees. The title of her project is An Existential Discourse Analysis of Humiliation as Reported by Iraqi Refugees in the UK and Denmark.
Jacquie interviewed 6 refugees using a narrative biographical interview technique and Membership Categorisation Analysis (Sacks). This was a qualitative style looking in detail at language use and the building up of accounts (i.e. what kind of self does the participant present?). Her analysis focused on issues of stereotype and stigma associated with the social category of refugee.
Jacquie used Erving Goffman's work in her analysis; he writes a lot about "face-work" in social situations - his idea of face is very related to humiliation, especially in stigmatised social groups where the risk of humiliation is greater.
At the moment, Jacquie is working within mental health, dealing again with a heavily stigmatised group and one that is subject to much humiliation in society, in terms of mental health laws, humiliating and degrading treatments, and presentation in the media. 
In her spare time she does voluntary work with refugees at a homework club for children.

ALYI PATRICK LALUR
Alyi Patrick Lalur (Uganda/UK) is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's Child Soldiers Worldwide Project.
He is currently enrolled for the Masters of Philosophy in International Peace Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace with research interest in Justice and Reconciliation during period of war. The title of his project is Resilience, Humiliation and Adulthood Sexual Abuse: Understanding the Psychology of Violence Among Sudanese Refugees living in Uganda.
Alyi Patrick Lalur is the Executive Director of a Non-Governmental Organization called Landmines Awareness and Survivors Support Network (LASS-NET) Uganda and a consulting advisor for research on the demobilization, disarmament and reintegration of girl-child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Patrick Recently completed a comparative study of resilience among formerly abducted girls and boys.
Born in 1968 in the rural town of Gulu in Northern Uganda, Patrick attended High school at the prestigious King’s College Budo Kampala before graduating with BA (Hons) Degree in Public Administration and Psychology from Makerere University Kampala Uganda. Patrick holds two Masters degrees; MA in Counseling Psychology specializing in Psychology of war and Psychosocial rehabilitation of formerly abducted children in Northern and South-Western Uganda and MA in Peace Education with specialization in Peace Community Initiatives (PCI) project development.
Please see Child Soldiers Worldwide: Uncharted Cycles of Slavery Beneath the Surface of International Shame, paper presented at the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.

PETER MOSELY
Peter Mosely (UK) has graduated from Manchester University in 2004 with a 2.1 in Philosophy. His key papers included Heidegger & Anxiety, and Emotions & Responsibility: An Existential Analysis of the Euthanasia Problem; these were marked 80%. The title of his project is An Existential Discourse Analysis of Humiliation as Reported by Iraqi Refugees in the UK and Denmark.
For his dissertation, Pete did a study of action in relation to self, combining existential phenomenology and analytic philosophy. He has also been interested in Kierkegaard's concept of ontological despair.
Pete likes to read, and has an interest in alternative existential literature, including novels, poetry, psychoanalysis, critical psychiatry, psychology, and identity issues.
Pete is currently training as a person-centred counsellor; receiving counselling supervision and personal therapy. He is also currently writing a paper on African Philosophy and Frantz Fanon's existential analysis of ‘race' and colonialism in relation to person-centred counselling. Pete has experienced in Conversation Analysis from transcribing counselling sessions.
Pete is working in mental health. His job largely involves talking with people with psychiatric diagnoses (mainly the various forms of ‘schizophrenia'). One such instance is working with a man from Uganda, diagnosed chronic paranoid schizophrenic, who has recently begun to confront his racial and cultural anxieties after four months one-one with Pete as well as group therapy. He has recently considered himself to be "becoming well".
On Sunday evenings, Pete does volunteer work with young offenders. He also likes to do yoga.

JEAN BERCHMANS NDAYIZIGIYE
Jean Berchmans Ndayizigiye (USA/Africa) is a French Language Assistant at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, and has a M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University (2000). The title of his project is Refugees from the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa & Humiliation.
Jean earned a B.S. in Civil Engineer/Constructions from Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, a diploma in General Accounting and Business Management from Stratford Career Institute, Washington DC, and an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University. Jean is native of Burundi, a Central Africa French-speaking country; he also speaks Swahili and Kirundi. Jean's interest in peace and conflict studies comes from his experience of violent conflict in his home country and the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa. He occupied different senior positions in the government of Burundi, serving as Director of Public Work Laboratories and General Director of Roads in the Ministry of Public Works and as a Permanent Secretary of Adjudications in the Ministry of Finances. He has also served as the secretary of the Burundi International Peace Committee, a member of the Nairobi Peace-Net Steering Committee, the U.S. representative at the International Center for Dialogue and Reconciliation, and a volunteer for the Harrisonburg Refugee Resettlement Service. He is a charter member of the Michel Kayoya Foundation (a foundation for Peace, Justice, and reconciliation in Burundi based in the Netherlands), researching the Burundi conflict. Please see Humiliation and Violent Conflicts in Burundi, paper presented at Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.

ALPHONSE NSHIMIYIMANA
Alphonse Nshimiyimana (Rwanda/Costa Rica), United Nations-mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica. The title of his project is Humiliation and Refugees: The Legacy of Violence and Inaction in the Great Lake Region - The Uganda-Rwanda Scenario.
Nshimiyimana Alphonse was born in Gikongoro in southern Rwanda in 1967. He is now undertaking a master's degree at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace based in San José / Costa Rica in the Department of International Peace and Conflict Studies with specialization in Peace Education. Alphonse obtained his Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Science Education at the National University of Rwanda in 1999 with a thesis on The Consequences of the 1994 Genocide on Psychosocial Life of the Secondary School's Students. He has been a teacher in both primary and secondary schools and the head of department of human resources in the province of Kigali-Ngali. The horrible experience of the 1994 Rwandan genocide influenced his choice to work in the peace and conflict field. In 2001 he joined the Centre for Conflict Management (CCM) affiliated to the National University of Rwanda as a Research Assistant. Alphonse has been involved in various research/documentation activities, workshops and trainings organized by the CCM. These include the role of Gacaca Jurisdictions (traditional tribunals set up in order to deal with the large number of the suspects of the 1994 genocide) in the process of reconciliation in Rwanda, the Identity and Citizenship, Peace and Security in the Great Lakes Region, the 2003 Elections in Rwanda, the Land Conflicts in Rwanda and the analysis of International Instruments of peace. The main research findings were published in the Cahiers of the CCM. Alphonse's Master's thesis project expected to be completed in August 2005 focuses on Positive Parenting for Peace in Rwanda.

ONEN CHRISTINE HARRIET
Onen Christine Harriet (Uganda/Costa Rica) is currently a Masters' student at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica in the Department of International Peace and Conflict studies specialising in Peace Education. The title of her project is Humiliation and Refugees: The Legacy of Violence and Inaction in the Great Lake Region - The Uganda-Rwanda Scenario.
Onen Christine Harriet is a Ugandan born in 1972. She is currently a Masters' student at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica in the Department of International Peace and Conflict Studies specialising in Peace Education. Her current thesis project is on IDPs and humiliation in the northern Uganda scenario. Previously, Christine worked in Northern Uganda with the Human Rights Focus (HURIFO, an NGO working in the conflict spot of Northern Uganda with a mission to promote human rights awareness and respect, from the year 2000 to 2004) when she enrolled at UPEACE. She was in charge of monitoring and documentation of the human rights situation of the IDP camps in Uganda and co-authored a report entitled Between Two Fires on the plight of IDPs in Northern Uganda in the year 2002. The report details the human rights situation of the IDPs and the factors fuelling the constant humiliation and dehumanisation of the IDPs. She was furthermore active in the creation of human rights and responsibility awareness through mass radio sensitisation, coordination of HURIFO empowerment programmes: paralegal training, camp leaders training and local council one, two and three trainings and, women empowerment programmes. She also worked on the HURIFO's in house and mobile Information, Counselling and Legal Aid Project (ICLA) as well as the HURIFO Counselling Desk. Christine also lectured Chemistry and Biology at the Unyama National Teachers College upon attaining her degree in Education with specialisation in Biology and Chemistry from Makerere University in 1998. She was also the Deputy Headmistress of Gulu Girl's Secondary School a private initiative to promote the girl-child through education in the war rampaged north from 1998 to 2000.

TZVETELINA TZONEVA
Tzvetelina Tzoneva (Bulgaria/Switzerland), is currently a doctoral student, Candidate to Ph.D. in Education from University of Geneva, Switzerland, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Her doctoral thesis is entitled The Image of the "Other" in the Textbooks of National history: Compatibility and Incompatibility in Relationships between Christian and Muslims in Bulgaria (1878-1989). The title of her project is Dignity-Humiliation in the Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Latin America: The Examples of Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Mexico.
Tzvetelina Tzoneva has graduated from Sofia University in Cultural Studies. She has also specialized in political philosophy. After a first research on the question of the human condition in the work of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, she continued with the researches on the memory and the construction of identity. She has also been interested in the visual as an instrument of propaganda and as a means of manipulation. Her Master's dissertation constituted a Critical Analysis on Methods of Text Introduction in the Ethnographic Films: Cinema-vérité or the New Participatory Cinema. Between 1998 and 2001, she took courses on contemporary history, history of arts and photography and French studies in Geneva. She became passionate about the conceptual art, the documentary and ethnographic cinema. In 2003 she continued her vocational training with a Master in Educational Sciences. Her principal interests involve visual anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, history of education, the construction of the collective memory, assimilation, social inequalities, human rights and the right to education.

G. GLADSTON XAVIER
Gladston Xavier (India) is a Fulbright Fellow who studied conflict transformation. He presently lectures in Loyola College affiliated to the University of Madras. He works among the refugees, people living with HIV/AIDS and the dalits in India. He has been trained in Street theater, Playback theater and theater of the oppressed. He also gives theater workshop for different groups. He is presently pursuing his Ph.D. I Social Work on the peace process in Sri Lanka. The title of his project is A Qualitative Study on the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Living in Camps in Tamil Nadu on the Humiliation that they Face.
Please see also:
Florina Benoit & Joseph Xavier (2006),The Life of Sri Lankan Refugees A Paradigm Shift, abstract presented at the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.

OLOWOYEYE ABIODUN
Anthony Abiodun Olowoyeye (UK/Nigeria) is currently pursuing his Ph.D. research programme at the London School of Management and Technology in Stratford, UK. His area of interest is international peace and security.
In 1995, he received his B.SC degree in Political Science from Ondo State University, Nigeria, where he came out top of his class with a second class upper division.
Furthermore, he proceeded to the University of Lagos, Nigeria, where he bagged his M.SC degree in Political Science in 1999. The title of his project is Africa, a Trigger in the Explosion of International Terrorism: A Critical Analysis of The "Apparatus" of Terrorism and its Causes.
Anthony Abiodun Olowoyeye started his career with an AB organisation where he worked as a Community Development Officer for an NGO, as a Field Coordinator for the organisation. As a Community Development Officer, he raised awareness among the locals for the need to protect the environment through sustainable farming and fishing methods. Anthony successfully designed and implemented local educational systems designed especially for those in the rural areas to educate them about the ozone layer depletion. He has helped implement local AGENDA 21 in these rural areas. All these were aimed at helping reduce global warming. He also played a prominent role in conflict resolution in the rural areas especially "resource influenced" conflicts.
From there, he proceeded to work with the Quefihmad Group. He joined as a Senior Administrative Staff and as a result of his innovative business development, rose to become the group's Admin/Operations Manager. Among his many achievements were his introduction of the small scale business scheme and the development of a business early warning alarming system to guide the group's operation. This was derived from the A-WACS (Air Warning and Alarming System) defence plane. This was to serve as an early warning system and "circuit breaker" to losses on business investments.
As a researcher, his areas of interests include the African debt crisis, the environment and international peace and security. Among his past unpublished works are "The Impact of the Debt Crisis on Underdeveloped Economies: A Case Study of Nigeria," "External Debt Management and Underdeveloped Countries: An Analytical Study of Nigeria," "Debt and Military," "Debt and Democracy," "The Impact of Oil Spill on the Local Communities Living in the Niger Delta," and "Debt and Environmental Degradation." He is presently working on other papers.
He enjoys playing basketball. He is currently engaged to Tola Owoeye, a chartered accountant.