2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
representing the
Eighth Annual HumanDHS Conference
New York, Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street (subway 1, exit 116th Street)
December 14-15, 2006
(continuation of the 2004 and 2005 Workshops, see a compilation of all NY workshops,
please see our Newsletter Nr. 8, compiled subsequent to this meeting,
and the Workshop Notes (thanks to Jessica et al.!):
• Round Table 1 - 12.14.06
• Round Table 2 - 12.15.06
• Round Table 3 - 12.15.06
• Public Event - 12.14.06
• What Now - 12.14.06
• What Now - 12.15.06)
• Thursday, December 14, in Milbank Chapel, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
• Public Event on Thursday evening, in Milbank Chapel, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Friday, December 15, in room 285 Grace Dodge, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Convened by SIPA - Center for International Conflict Resolution
on behalf of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) project of the
Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN)
The Research Workshop is made possible by a generous contribution of the
Slifka Foundation (please see the HumanDHS' Work: Objectives and Evidence of Success, developed in cooperation betwen HumanDHS and ABSF)
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8th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in NY in 2006, December 14-15, 2006 These pictures were taken by Brian Lynch. Please see him in the middle in the photo further down! Please see all his pictures also on http://share.shutterfly.com/, and download your preferred pictures from there. Thanks a million for all your great work, dear Brian!  Please click in the middle of the pictures to see more photos. From the left top corner: 1. Please click on the main entrance of Teachers College to see the venue of our workshop, Columbia University, Teachers College, and Milbank Chapel. 2. We greet each other and present ourselves. 3. Evelin's talk. 4. Lunch on Day One. 5. Round Table 1. 6. Group pictures. 7. Cybele sings and plays for us. 8. Our Public Event on the afternoon of Day One. 9. Round Table 2 on Day Two. 10. Round Table 3 on Day Two. 11. Get-together after our workshop. |
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Our meeting had two parts:
• Public Event - Everybody Was Warmly Invited to Come!
Thursday, December 14, 2006, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Columbia University, Teachers College, Milbank Chapel
Refreshments, a chance to mingle and meet
• Closed Workshop
Thursday and Friday, December 14-15, 2006, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027.
This part of our workshop was closed. You were warmly invited to get in touch with us, if you wished to participate.
• Where to stay!
• Everybody was kindly asked to please arrange for your housing here (we thank Tony Jenkins for allowing us to use this link!)
• Please see also US SERVAS, hosting people generally for one to two nights. Any extension beyond that is up to the host to extend, and traveler to accept. Most NYC hosts do not host more than a week, if the visitor is someone they really feel comfortable with and grow to like. Again, that is up to the individual.
• Please see furthermore Sara's New York Homestay, through which international students, visitors, interns or executives who come to New York, Los Angeles, Paris or London for a short period of time (1 to 12 months) can find a place to stay.
• Please see also Couchsurfing.com.
• What happened in our previous meetings?
Please have a look at our previous meetings and at the newsletters written after these meetings! See our newsletter Nr. 8, compiled subsequent to this meeting.
Overview
Frame
• Rationale
• How We Go About
• Frame
• List of Conveners
Program
• Public Event: Everybody was warmly invited!
• Program (Day One & Day Two)
• Round Table 1: How is humiliation relevant to destructive conflict? (Day One)
• Round Table 2: How can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning and for cultivating positive social change? (Day Two)
• Round Table 3: What works? What types of social change efforts show promise in reducing violent conflict and humiliation while upholding the dignity of all people? (Day Two)
Participants and Convening Organizations
• Participants (in all NY workshops so far, with their personal messages to the other participants)
• Details of the Convening Organizations
Papers
• Papers: Prelininary Papers & Final Papers
Pictures
• Pictures of our 2004 NY workshop
• Pictures 2004 with Morton Deutsch
• Pictures of our 2005 NY workshop (from Evelin's camera)
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop (from Evelin's camera)
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, venue of our workshop, Columbia University, Teachers College, and Milbank Chapel
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, we greet each other and present ourselves
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, Evelin's talk
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, lunch on Day One
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, Round Table 1
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, group pictures
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, Cybele sings and plays for us
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, our Public Event on the afternoon of Day One
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, Round Table 2 on Day Two
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, Round Table 3 on Day Two
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop, taken by Brian Lynch, get-together after our workshop
Newsletters
• Newsletter 3, written as report subsequent to our 2004 NY workshop
• Newsletter 4, written in summer 2005
• Newsletter 5, written as report subsequent to our 2005 Berlin meeting
• Newsletter 6, written as report subsequent to our 2005 NY workshop
• Newsletter 7, written as report subsequent to our 2006 Costa Rica meeting
• Newsletter 8, written as report subsequent to our 2006 NY workshop
• Compilation of all NY workshops
Please see the 2005 workshop notes:
• the Conference Notes of Day One (thanks to Tonya et al.!)
• the Conference Notes of Day Two (thanks to Tonya et al.!)
Please see the 2006 workshop notes (thanks to Jessica et al.!):
• Round Table 1 - 12.14.06
• Round Table 2 - 12.15.06
• Round Table 3 - 12.15.06
• Public Event - 12.14.06
• What Now - 12.14.06
• What Now - 12.15.06
Rationale, Methodology, and Frame
Rationale
Given the current context of the field of international conflict, the impact of emotions on conflict has become one of the most important questions worldwide. However, there are only scattered publications in the research and applied literature that would address issues on conflict and emotion directly, as well as their relations and their impact on public policy.
The first two-day workshop was held at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2004, hosted by the Columbia University's Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), with special help from SIPA – Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR).
Since 2004, CICR on behalf of CU-CRN and HumanDHS invites selected groups of scholars, counselors, conflict resolution practitioners, mediators, and teachers among other professions for a two-day workshop every yearto explore issues of conflict and emotions and its application to actual negotiations and diplomacy. The aim is to particularly probe the role of the notion of humiliation from the two different angles of conflict and emotion.
The workshops are envisaged as a learning community gathering, interactive and highly participatory. The purpose is to create an open space to identify and sharpen our understanding of the discourse and debate on emotion and conflict and the role that might, or might not be played by humiliation within this field. We hope to be able to continue this effort in follow-up workshops in the future.
We see humiliation as entry point into broader analysis and not as "single interest scholarship." We are aware that most participants focus on other aspects than humiliation in their work and have not thought about humiliation much, or even at all. We do not expect anybody to do so beforehand. We encourage that everybody comes with his/her background, his/her theoretical concepts and tools, and that we, during the conference, reflect together. We invite everybody to use their focus and give a thought to whether the notion of humiliation could be enriching, or not, and if yes, in what way. We warmly invite diverging and dissenting views.
How We Go About
In our meetings, we choose a dialogical methodology that stresses interaction and participation, because we wish to create an atmosphere of openness and respectful inquiry through Round Tables and, when appropirate, the use of Open Space Technology. We believe that notions such as dignity and respect for equal dignity are important not only for conflict resolution, but also for meetings such as our workshops. The name Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies attempts to express this. We wish to strive for consistency between what we think are important values for conflict resolution, and the way we conduct our work and our meetings.
We believe in "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to divide, create hostility, and foster hatred and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter and foster an atmosphere of common ground and mutual caring connection as a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest questions of humiliation, trauma, and injustice.
Every Round Table is being opened by brief remarks by each participant to present their entry points into the inquiry. In order to facilitate feedback, we are asking that papers/notes are sent in to us in advance. We wish to make available your brief synopsis of 1 to 4 pages, with references, prior to the workshop through this site so that all participants can meet virtually before meeting in person. Longer papers are welcome as well both prior and subsequent to our workshops, not least for the envisaged publications of the results of our meetings. Please notify us, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as a journal article in our Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies.
All participants are warmly invited to send in their papers as soon as they can.
Frame
by Linda Hartling, 2004, Ph.D., Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA
In our meetings we aim at creating a humiliation-free, collaborative learning environment characterized by mutual respect, mutual empathy, and openness to difference. The perspective of "appreciative enquiry" is a useful frame of our work. Our HumanDHS efforts are not just about the work we do together, but also about HOW WE WORK TOGETHER. At appropriate points during our meetings, for example at the end of each day, we take a moment to reflect on the practices observed that contributed to an appreciative/humiliation-free learning experience.
It is important to emphasize that an appreciative approach is not about expecting people to agree. In fact, differences of opinion enrich the conversation and deepen people's understanding of ideas. This could be conceptualized as "waging good conflict," which means practicing radical respect for differences and being open to a variety of perspectives and engaging others without contempt or rankism. As we have seen in many fields, contempt and rankism drains energy away from the important work that needs to be done. Most people only know "conflict" as a form of war within a win/lose frame. "Waging good conflict," on the other side, is about being empathic and respectful, making room for authenticity, creating clarity, and growth.
Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.
Please see also Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, kindly written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the moderators of our workshops.
List of Conveners
Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR); Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN). Andrea Bartoli has a Principle Host Place on the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (Dr. med.), Ph.D. (Dr. psychol.)
Social Scientist, Founding Director and President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), recipient of the 2006 SBAP Award, anchored at the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, New York, furthermore affiliated to the University of Oslo, Department of Psychology (see http://folk.uio.no/evelinl/), Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Department of Psychology (see http://psyweb.svt.ntnu.no/ansatte/), and affiliated to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, teaching, furthermore, in South East Asia, the Middle East, and other places globally.
Linda Hartling, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA. Linda Hartling is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, Global Core Team, and Education Team.
Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA. Linda Hartling is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, Global Core Team, and Education Team.
Please see the preliminary draft of Linda's paper for Round Table 2 of our 2005 NY Workshop Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence.
Please see furthermore Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, first published by: The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278, co-authored with T. Luchetta, 1999,
and please see also:
Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation, the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMIT), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College No. 88, Wellesley, MA 02481, co-authored with Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, Judith V. Jordan, 2000.
See also:
Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared for "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.
Program
Day One, Thursday, December, 14, 2006
9.15 am Registration Started
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10.00 am Welcoming All ParticipantsDonald Klein and Linda Hartling set the frame of our meetings within "Appreciative Enquiry" and we create a list of agreed upon norms having to do with the nature and tone of our dialogue. Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.
Linda always keeps our workshop together with her continuous caring interventions, while Don's caring wisdom always saves our meetings in crucial moments!
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It is important to note that our appreciative frame is a HumanDHS-defined version of AI. We believe in "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to humiliate, divide, create hostility, foster hatred, and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter, and instead open up a space of common ground and mutually caring connections, a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest issues of humiliation, trauma, and injustice.
10.15 am Participants Presented Themselves
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11.00 am - 12.30 pm Introductory Presentation: Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?
Evelin Lindner, Founder of HumanDHS
This talk highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso and micro levels, and in all fields of public policy.
Please see the full paper here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742)
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12.30 pm - 1.15 pm Catered Lunch & Announcements
Please click in the middle of the pictures to see more photos.Linda Hartling announced:
• We have two yearly meetings, the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict in December at Columbia University in NY, and an outside-of-the-US meeting. This year this meeting took place in Costa Rica.
• We would be very happy if more people were to volunteer to help our rapporteurs!
• See here a “wish list” over ways to contribute to our work.
• On the “wish list” you see, for example, you see that we would like to carry out a Literature Review of Survey Instruments Relevant to Human Dignity and Humiliation.
• We would like to collect stories/cases/witness accounts of dignity and humiliation.
• We would like to seed our Call to Creativity with actual examples to encourage people to submit their own achievements and ideas.
• See also a list over our achievements.
Christopher Santee announced:
• Christopher announced our new Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
Philip Brown announced:
• Phil announced that we are invited to create "Humiliation in the Academic Setting," A Special Symposium Issue of Experiments in Education, published by the S.I.T.U. Council of Educational Research, India.
Evelin Lindner announced:
• Morton Deutsch's Second Edition of his Handbook of Conflict Resolution is out!
• Evelin accepted the 2006 SBAP prize in Zurich on behalf of the entire Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network!
• We need a helper, somebody who would love to commit for a longer time period, who would have ample time (like half a day per day), who would know how to write appreciative emails, and how to maintain a website!
• We look for directors/coordinators for our Intervention projects. See for example our World Clothes for Equal Dignity project. Companies who are already in the fashion business, might be interested? See also our World Art for Equal Dignity project, where Peter Max offers us to paint portraits and give the 20,000 - 30,000 USD remuneration to us! Please find able people who wish to have a portrait by Peter Max!
• "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives," A Special Issue of Social Alternatives (Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, 2006), with Guest Editor Bertram Wyatt-Brown. To obtain a copy, please make a cheque to Social Alternatives for $20 ($10 for the journal and the extra $10 to cover postage) and sending it to Ralph Summy, Co-Editor Social Alternatives, Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia 4072.
• Evelin's new book is out: Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict
• See also Evelin's chapters in edited books on her publications page. See, among others, "Humiliation or Dignity in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," by Evelin G. Lindner, Neil Ryan Walsh & Judy Kuriansky, in Judy Kuriansky (Ed.), Terror in the Holy Land, Inside the Anguish of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
1.15 pm - 3.00 pm Round Table 1: How Is Humiliation Relevant to Destructive Conflict?
Moderators: Donald Klein & Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Seating Manager: Rick Slaven
Notetakers/Rapporteurs Doris Brosnan, Tonya Hammer, Jessica Cichalski, Melissa Gage, Allison Nicole Buehler
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There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a note taker/rapporteur, and a supporter.We liked the Round Table discussion format we first used in our 2004 NY meeting. Everyone has ca. 10 minutes to present their entry point into the discussion, then we have an open discussion. We have 2 empty chairs in the circle that can be taken by participants from the audience who wish to introduce a question or comment.
We also liked the experience with two moderators for each Round Table. In that way, the moderators are not prevented from also being participants. While one moderator makes a contribution as a participant, the other takes over, and vice versa. With only one moderator, s/he would not be so flexible.
Please see also Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, kindly written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the moderators of our workshops.Participants:
• Morton Deutsch +
Destructive Conflict and Oppression (2004)
• Shibley Telhami (unfortunately, Shibley Telhami could not join us)
History and Humiliation (2003)
• Clark McCauley +
Author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press, 2006, together with Daniel Chirot)
Understanding Humiliation As Suppressed Anger (2006)
• Arye Rattner +
Surveying Humiliation (2006)
• Michael Kimmel (unfortunately, Michael could not join us)
Men, Masculinity, and the Role of Humiliation
Supporter: Nick Martin
Exploring Possibilities for UPEACE in China: Peace Education, Project Development Report (2006)
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown +
The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman” (2006)
• Anne Wyatt-Brown +
Humiliation in My Brother’s Image (2006)Supporters (supporters participate by using the two empty chairs in each Round Table):
• Thomas Scheff can unfortunately not be with us in person, but he kindly wishes to particpates in our workshop with two papers:
- Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System (2006)
- Silence and Mobilization: Emotional/Relational Dynamics (2006)• Monty Marshall +
Third World War: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation (2006)• Pamela H. Creed +
The Dominant American Narrative between 9/11/01 and the Invasion of Iraq (2006)• Michael Perlin +
"Friend to the Martyr, a Friend to the Woman of Shame": Thinking About The Law and Humiliation (2006)• Michael Britton +
Connecting the Deep Personal Experiences of Being in Historical Contexts with Reaching Outward Around the Globe (2006)• Christopher Santee +
American Diversity and the Role of Humiliation (2006)• Dana L. Comstock +
• Dennis Rivers (due to illness, Dennis had to cancel in the last minute)
Citizens' Coalition to Reaffirm and Extend the Geneva Conventions (2006)• Kathleen Freis +
Tolerance Education (2006)• Jinan Nakshabandi +
Womens Empowerment (2006)• Brian Lynch +
Silvan Tomkins' Conceptualization of Humiliation (2006)• Alyi Patrick Lalur (unfortunately, Patrick could not join us; he had an accident)
Childsoldiers' Humiliating Plight in Uganda (2006)• Tony Castleman +
The Role of Human Recognition in Economic Development: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence (2006)• Sibyl Ann Schwarzenbach +
Humiliation, Dignity and Friendship (2006)• Noel Mordana +
Humiliation Politics (2004)• Melissa Gage +
Different Types of Humiliation Elicit Different Emotional, Cognitive And Behavioral Reactions (2006)• Rosita Albert +
Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization (2006)• Jessica Cichalski +
The Role of Dignity versus Humiliation for Public Policy (2006)• Grace Feuerverger +
The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village (2005)• Julie Strentzsch +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in Community Counseling (2006)• Manal Radwan +
Jihadist Narratives: Humiliation and the Politics of the Other (2006)• Doris Brosnan +
(2006)• Allison Nicole Buehler +
Initial Perceptions of Labels to Initial Perceptions of Common Humanity: A Paradigm Shift in the Disability Field (2004)• Olga Botcharova +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Conflict Management and Cross-Cultural Communications (2006)• Nicholas Diehl +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Organizational Context (2006)• Alison Anthoine +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Delivery of Healthcare Services (2006)• Nick Kappelhof +
How Humiliation and Shame May Undermine Education Reform Efforts (2006)• Ariel Lublin +
Fostering Connection and Positive Outcomes through Appreciation and Optimism (2006)Round Table 1, 2005
Round Table 1 in 2005 was entitled What's Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were Beth Fisher-Yoshida & Miriam Marton
Please see the participants and their contributions here.Round Table 1, 2004
Round Table 1 in 2004 was entitled What's Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderator was Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Please see the participants here.
3.15 pm - 5.00 pm What Now?
Moderators: Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner
Invitees: Arye Rattner, Floyd Webster Rudmin, Brian Lynch
Notetakers/Rapporteurs Doris Brosnan, Tonya Hammer, Jessica Cichalski, Melissa Gage, Allison Nicole Buehler
Arye Rattner. Please click in the middle of the picture to see it larger.We discussed possible and necessary routes of action.
Ideas for next year: We would like to use the time at the end of each day to do two things:
1. It would be great if every Round Table could make a summary of their proceedings, which we then could post on our website.
2. It would be great if we could engage in collective planning about how to cooperate during the year, until we meet again in 2008. We could develop timelines with goals for accomplishing specific projects, projects we came up with in our Round Tables, for example. Among others, this would enable us to assess our progress along the way. Please see, for example, the HumanDHS' Work: Objectives and Evidence of Success, developed in cooperation betwen HumanDHS and ABSF.
Suggestions for public policy making (see also our Public Policy for Equal Dignity project):
Many suggested at our 2005 meeting that we need to find a way to measure humiliation in societies so that we can show to policy makers that humiliation is relevant and needs to be included into public policy making. Ultimately, all institutions (from marriage to the United Nations) need scrutiny and restructuring so as to prevent that they have humiliating effects. Linda suggests that we have a look at Surveymonkey.com, a company that facilitates the design, collection, and analysis of survey data over the Internet. We could, for example, start with making open-ended questions about the experience of humiliation to post on this site, and then develop a questionnaire?
5.00 pm End of the Closed Part of Day One of Our Workshop
5.00 pm - 8.00 pm Public Reception at Milbank Chapel with Eminent Scholars and Leading Thinkers. Everybody Was Invited!
• 5.00-5.30 pm Reception
We Had Refreshments! We Mingled and Met!
• Please see here 2005's Public Event Program
• Please see here 2004's Public Event Program
• 5.30-5.45 pm World Religions and Equal Dignity: An Homage with Voice
Cybele focused our minds and prepared us for the following talks.
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• 5.45-6.00 pm Linda Hartling Welcomed Everybody
6.00 pm - 6.30 pm Honored Presentation History and Humiliation
Shibley Telhami (unfortunately, Shibley Telhami could not join us)
History and Humiliation (2003)
Please see furthermore How The Fighting Stops: Achieving a Sustainable Ceasefire in Lebanon, to which Shibley Telhami explains (August 3, 2006): "You may note that in my most recent comment on Lebanon at the Brookings Institution, which was televised in the US, I highlighted the issue of humiliation and suggested that the solution to the problem must be based on a balance between deterrence on the one hand and dignity on the other. The discussion could be watched on video or be read at www.brookings.edu. The transcript can be accessed directly at: http://brookings.edu/comm/events/20060731.pdf."
• 6.30-8.00 pm Panel & Discussion
15 minute presentations by panelists followed by an open discussion with all of the evening speakers
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• Social Exclusion, Humiliation, and ShameHilary Silver, Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Hilary Silver is Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, where she has taught since receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia. Professor Silver has published widely on the topic of "social exclusion," especially for international organizations such as the International Labour Office, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and currently, the Wolfensohn Center at the Brookings Institution. Her empirical research on social exclusion has been conducted at the grassroots neighborhood level in such cities as Paris, Berlin, and of course, Providence, Rhode Island. Her talk today is entitled "Social Exclusion, Humiliation, and Shame."
Please see also:
Hilary Silver & S.M. Miller (2003)
Social Exclusion: The European Approach to Social Disadvantage
Indicators, 2 (2, Spring), pp. 1-17• The Humiliation Dynamic: Looking Back... Looking Forward
Donald Klein, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Donald Klein is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team.
• Humiliation-Shame Dynamics
Carlos Sluzki, Professor at the College of Health and Human Services and at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University; Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical School.
• Men, Masculinity, and the Role of Humiliation
(unfortunately, Michael could not join us)
Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology at State University of New York, Stony Brook. Michael Kimmel is a sociologist who studies gender and masculinity. For the past three years, under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment, he has been studying the extreme right in the U.S and Scandinavia, and comparing them to the terrorists of Al Qaeda. He has found similar sorts of complaints and similar backgrounds, and similar claims about the restoration of manhood -- a theme missing from much of the discussion of humiliation -- that it is a decidedly gendered phenomenon.
• Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?
Evelin Lindner, Founding Director and President of HumanDHS
This talk highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso and micro levels, and in all fields of public policy.
Please see the full paper here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742)
• 8.00 pm End of our Public Event!
Day Two, Friday, December 15, 2006
10.00 am Welcoming All Participants
Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D., Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN) welcomed the participants.
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10.30 am - 11.15 am The Humiliation Dynamic: Looking Back... Looking Forward
Donald Klein, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Donald Klein is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team.
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11.15 pm - 1.15 pm Round Table 2: How Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning and for Cultivating Positive Social Change?
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a note taker/rapporteur, and a supporter.
Moderators: Maggie O'Neill & Philip Brown
Seating Managers: Rick Slaven & Miriam Marton
Notetakers/Rapporteurs Doris Brosnan, Tonya Hammer, Jessica Cichalski, Melissa Gage, Allison Nicole Buehler
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Participants:• Beth Fisher-Yoshida +
Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Maria Volpe +
The Association for Conflict Resolution Crisis Intervention online newsletter featured this presentation in its 2006 February issue.
• Arie Nadler +
Intergroup Helping as Status Relations: Effects of Status Stability, Identification, and Type of Help on Receptivity to High-Status Group’s Help (2006)
• Robert Kolodny +
A Gestalt Perspective on Shame and Humiliation (2006)
• Gay Rosenblum-Kumar +
Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy (2004)
Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public Policy for Disaffection or Cohesion? (2005)
• Jennifer Goldman (unfortunately, Jennifer could not join us)
Humiliation and Aggression (2006)
A Theoretical Understanding of How Emotions Fuel Intractable Conflict: The Case of Humiliation (2005, together with Peter T. Coleman)
• Charles Knight +
Security in the Great Transition (2006)
Role of Humiliation in Enforcing Conventional Masculinity Learning and Behavior (2006)
• Judy Kuriansky +
Transforming Conflict and Humiliation to Heal Hearts in the Holy Land: People-to-People Projects to Build Peace, Coexistence and Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis (2006)
• Andrea Bartoli
Deconstructing International Deadly Conflicts (2004)
Supporters (supporters participate by using the two empty chairs in each Round Table):
• Thomas Scheff can unfortunately not be with us in person, but he kindly wishes to particpates in our workshop with two papers:
- Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System (2006)
- Silence and Mobilization: Emotional/Relational Dynamics (2006)• Arye Rattner +
• Pamela H. Creed +
The Dominant American Narrative between 9/11/01 and the Invasion of Iraq (2006)• Nora Femenia
Emotional Actor: Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War
• Christopher Santee +
American Diversity and the Role of Humiliation (2006)• Anie Kalayjian +
Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)• Michael Britton +
Connecting the Deep Personal Experiences of Being in Historical Contexts with Reaching Outward Around the Globe (2006)• Dana L. Comstock +
• Dennis Rivers (due to illness, Dennis had to cancel in the last minute)
Citizens' Coalition to Reaffirm and Extend the Geneva Conventions (2006)• Kathleen Freis +
Tolerance Education (2006)• Jinan Nakshabandi +
Womens Empowerment (2006)• Brian Lynch +
Silvan Tomkins' Conceptualization of Humiliation (2006)• Alyi Patrick Lalur (unfortunately, Patrick could not join us; he had an accident)
Childsoldiers' Humiliating Plight in Uganda (2006)• Tony Castleman (unfortunately, Tony had to cancel in the last minute for Day Two)
The Role of Human Recognition in Economic Development: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence (2006)• Sibyl Ann Schwarzenbach +
Humiliation, Dignity and Friendship (2006)• Noel Mordana +
Humiliation Politics (2004)• Melissa Gage +
Different Types of Humiliation Elicit Different Emotional, Cognitive And Behavioral Reactions (2006)• Rosita Albert +
Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization (2006)• Jessica Cichalski +
The Role of Dignity versus Humiliation for Public Policy (2006)• Grace Feuerverger +
The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village (2005)• Miriam Marton
The Dual Humiliation of Female Refugees by Sexually Violent, Gender-based Acts (2005)• Julie Strentzsch +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in Community Counseling (2006)• Manal Radwan +
Jihadist Narratives: Humiliation and the Politics of the Other (2006)• Doris Brosnan +
(2006)• Allison Nicole Buehler +
Initial Perceptions of Labels to Initial Perceptions of Common Humanity: A Paradigm Shift in the Disability Field (2004)• Olga Botcharova +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Conflict Management and Cross-Cultural Communications (2006)• Nicholas Diehl +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Organizational Context (2006)• Alison Anthoine +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Delivery of Healthcare Services (2006)• Nick Kappelhof +
How Humiliation and Shame May Undermine Education Reform Efforts (2006)• Ariel Lublin +
Fostering Connection and Positive Outcomes through Appreciation and Optimism (2006)Round Table 2, 2005
The title of Round Table 2 in 2005 was Is Humiliation Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were Judith Thompson & Manas Ghanem
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound Table 2, 2004
The title of Round Table 2 in 2004 was Is Humiliation Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were: Carlos Sluzki & Donald C. Klein
Please see the participants and their contributions here
1.15 pm - 2.00 pm Catered Lunch & Announcements
2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Round Table 3: What works? What types of social change efforts show promise in reducing violent conflict and humiliation while upholding the dignity of all people?
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a note taker/rapporteur, and a supporter.
Moderators: Nora Femenia & Kathleen Freis
Seating Managers: Rick Slaven & Miriam Marton
Notetakers/Rapporteurs Doris Brosnan, Tonya Hammer, Jessica Cichalski, Melissa Gage, Allison Nicole Buehler
Please click in the middle of the picture to see more photos.
Participants:
• Carlos E. Sluzki +
- Elements of Humiliation-Shame Dynamics for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Real-Life Scenarios (2004)
- The Story of the Crying Composer told at the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY (2004)
- Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation, 2004)
• Sara Cobb +
"Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development (2004)
• Floyd Webster Rudmin +
Preventing Inadvertent Humiliation (2006)
Six Research Designs on Humiliation (2005)
• James E. Jones +
The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation (2006)
The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Florina Benoit & Gladston Xavier (Ashok) (unfortunately, Florina and her husband could not join us)
Sri Lankan Refugees: Types of Social Change Efforts That Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation (2006)
• Barry Hart +
Peacebuilding for Traumatized Societies - With an Emphasis on the Role of Large-Scale Humiliation and How to Deal With It through Trauma Recovery and Peacebuilding Processes (2006)
• Maggie O'Neill +
Re-Imagining Diaspora through Ethno-Mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging (2006)
Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR) (2006)
What About Me - The Needs of Refugee/Asylum Mothers and their Children (2006)
and
Theorising Narratives of Exile and Belonging: The Importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in "Understanding" Asylum (2006)
• Sarah Sayeed (representing also Virginia Swain) (unfortunately, Virginia and Sarah could not join us)
A Leadership and Practice to Reconcile Challenges in a Post-September 11th World, Virginia Swain and Sarah Sayeed 2006
Reconciliation as Policy: A Capacity-Building Proposal for Renewing Leadership and Development, Virginia Swain and Sarah Sayeed 2005
• Anie Kalayjian +
Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)
Supporters (supporters participate by using the two empty chairs in each Round Table):
• Thomas Scheff can unfortunately not be with us in person, but he kindly wishes to particpates in our workshop with two papers:
- Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System (2006)
- Silence and Mobilization: Emotional/Relational Dynamics (2006)• Arye Rattner +
• Pamela H. Creed +
The Dominant American Narrative between 9/11/01 and the Invasion of Iraq (2006)• Christopher Santee +
American Diversity and the Role of Humiliation (2006)• Michael Britton +
Connecting the Deep Personal Experiences of Being in Historical Contexts with Reaching Outward Around the Globe (2006)• Grace Feuerverger +
The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village (2005)• Dana L. Comstock +
• Dennis Rivers (due to illness, Dennis had to cancel in the last minute)
Citizens' Coalition to Reaffirm and Extend the Geneva Conventions (2006)• Kathleen Freis +
Tolerance Education (2006)• Jinan Nakshabandi +
Womens Empowerment (2006)• Brian Lynch +
Silvan Tomkins' Conceptualization of Humiliation (2006)• Alyi Patrick Lalur (unfortunately, Patrick could not join us; he had an accident)
Childsoldiers' Humiliating Plight in Uganda (2006)• Tony Castleman (unfortunately, Tony had to cancel in the last minute for Day Two)
The Role of Human Recognition in Economic Development: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence (2006)• Noel Mordana +
Humiliation Politics (2004)• Melissa Gage +
Different Types of Humiliation Elicit Different Emotional, Cognitive And Behavioral Reactions (2006)• Rosita Albert +
Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization (2006)• Jessica Cichalski +
The Role of Dignity versus Humiliation for Public Policy (2006)• Miriam Marton
The Dual Humiliation of Female Refugees by Sexually Violent, Gender-based Acts (2005)• Julie Strentzsch +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in Community Counseling (2006)• Manal Radwan +
Jihadist Narratives: Humiliation and the Politics of the Other (2006)• Doris Brosnan +
(2006)• Allison Nicole Buehler +
Initial Perceptions of Labels to Initial Perceptions of Common Humanity: A Paradigm Shift in the Disability Field (2004)• Olga Botcharova +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Conflict Management and Cross-Cultural Communications (2006)• Nicholas Diehl +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Organizational Context (2006)• Alison Anthoine +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Delivery of Healthcare Services (2006)• Nick Kappelhof +
How Humiliation and Shame May Undermine Education Reform Efforts (2006)• Ariel Lublin +
Fostering Connection and Positive Outcomes through Appreciation and Optimism (2006)Round Table 3, 2005
The title of Round Table 3 in 2005 was Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning? What Can We Envisage As Best Practice Models?
The moderators were Annette Engler, Ana Ljubinkovic & Miriam Marton
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound Table 3, 2004
The title of Round Table 3 in 2004 was Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning? What Can We Envisage As Best Practice Models?
The moderators were Donald C. Klein & Linda Hartling
Please see the participants and their contributions here
4.00 pm - 5.30 pm What Now?
Moderators: Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner
Inviter: Arye Rattner
Notetakers/Rapporteurs Doris Brosnan, Tonya Hammer, Jessica Cichalski, Melissa Gage, Allison Nicole Buehler
We invited interested participants to support Arye Ratner's efforts to include a measurement of humiliation into his projects.
Ideas for next year: We would like to use the time at the end of each day to do two things:
1. It would be great if every Round Table could make a summary of their proceedings, which we then could post on our website.
2. It would be great if we could engage in collective planning about how to cooperate during the year, until we meet again in 2008. We could develop timelines with goals for accomplishing specific projects, projects we came up with in our Round Tables, for example. Among others, this would enable us to assess our progress along the way. Please see, for example, the HumanDHS' Work: Objectives and Evidence of Success, developed in cooperation betwen HumanDHS and ABSF.
4.00 pm - 5.00 pm Wrapping up Day Two of Our Workshop
5.00 pm End of Day Two of our workshop
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List of Participants
(in all NY workshops so far, with their personal messages to the other participants)
• Morton Deutsch, Director Emeritus & E.L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus, International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. Morton Deutsch has a Principle Host Place on the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
His paper for our 2004 workshop, Oppression and Conflict, was first presented at the Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice Working Conference at ICCCR, NY, February 27-29, 2004.
Please see here his Foreword to Lindner's Book on Humiliation. [back to the program]
• David A. Hamburg is President Emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York. David A. Hamburg is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see Learning to Live Together (2004), and the videos of his talk at the Public Event of our 2005 workshop: Education and Humiliation (2005).
David A. Hamburg kindly wrote (June 28, 2005): I appreciate very much your invitation to participate in your conference December 15-16, 2005, at Columbia University, Teachers College. I would, indeed, like to attend. I was not able to do so previously. I am not sure I can be there both days, but at least for one.
I am certainly interested in the basic question your raise as to whether humiliation is relevant to destructive conflict. By the same token, I am interested in the question whether humiliation can be useful in formulating public policy, as well as the matter of best practice models. You challenge all of us in the conflict field in a most constructive way. So, please keep me posted, and I look forward to what will undoubtedly be an important occasion. David. [back to the program]
• Shibley Telhami,
University of Maryland, USA. Shibley Telhami is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. Professor Telhami has written a piece on "History and Humiliation," in The Washington Post, Friday, March 28, 2003, and has written about humiliation in The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003; updated version, 2004) which was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003.
Please see furthermore How The Fighting Stops: Achieving a Sustainable Ceasefire in Lebanon, to which Shibley Telhami explains (03/08/2006): "You may note that in my most recent comment on Lebanon at the Brookings Institution, which was televised in the US, I highlighted the issue of humiliation and suggested that the solution to the problem must be based on a balance between deterrence on the one hand and dignity on the other. The discussion could be watched on video or be read at www.brookings.edu. The transcript can be accessed directly at http://brookings.edu/comm/events/20060731.pdf." [back to the program]
• Alan B. Slifka, New York investment manager and philanthropist, founder of the Coexistence Initiative (Brandeis University). His topic for our 2005 workshop was Feeling at Home, Or Not, Depending on Humiliation (2005). [back to the program]
• Arye Rattner, Professor Arye Rattner,
Director of the
Center for the Study of Crime Law & Society
University of Haifa. [back to the program]
• Jennifer Goldman, International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. Jennifer Goldman is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and the Research Team.
Jennifer kindly wrote (June 16, 2005): I support the idea of connecting the theory with practical application, and urge us to think about how what we’re researching and writing about can be applied in real world settings. It could be helpful for us to choose one or a few real world situations that are relevant for people’s work (for example, the situation at Abu Ghraib; or on-going problems of humiliations occurring at national and international boundaries, i.e. airport and road checkpoints in
all parts of the world, from the U.S., to Tibet/China, to Israel/Palestine; or workplace-based humiliation) and use the examples to ground our discussions about theory and research... It could also be useful to make distinctions between different types of humiliation, such as individual-level, collective-level, etc. or humiliation that occurs within different settings, such as workplace, international, etc., and to have break-out sessions that focus on those topics.
Structurally, it could make sense to meet all day Thurs, and a half-day on Friday, so we can end on a strong note with most people in attendance on Friday (and perhaps to add an informal dinner on Wed night to extend the social time for those who could make it).
Jennifer kindly wrote (August 29, 2005): Dear Evelin, I hope you're doing well! I've done a bit of brainstorming for topics for the conference, and thought I'd forward them to you (I mentioned these to Peter and Beth as well). Best, Jennifer
Some ideas for small groups/topics for the humiliation conference:
1.
- Does culture affect how people experience humiliating events? If so, how?
- What role do collectivistic vs. individualistic cultures play in how people experience humiliating events?
- Do people's behavioral reactions to humiliation differ depending on whether the humiliation is aimed at them individually versus collectively (i.e., an affront against one's person vs. an affront against one's group)? If so, how might their behavioral reactions differ? (e.g., would one type of humiliation lead people to be respond more aggressively than another?)
2.
- What role do social norms play in how people react, emotionally and behaviorally, to humiliating events?
- What role do social norms play in how people recall, or remember, humiliating events?
3.
- To what degree is humiliation an "identity forming" emotion?
4.
- How does the construct of humiliation differ from the constructs of shame, guilt, embarrassment and other similar emotions?
5.
Methodological considerations:
- How can effective and efficient studies of humiliation be acheived through different methodologies?
- What considerations need to be taken into account when studying humiliation in the field? In the lab? In survey studies?
- How can we simulate studies on humiliation in the lab setting? What are the IRB issues involved?
Please see:
- Peter T. Coleman and Jennifer Goldman, Conflict and Humiliation, note prepared for 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 prepared for 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. [back to the program]
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Associate Director, International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. Beth Fisher-Yoshida is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Beth kindly served as Moderator for our Round Table 1 "What's relevant in a destructive conflict?" in the 2004 and 2005 workshops. Beth furthermore kindly served as Moderator for our Round Table 1 "How is humiliation relevant to destructive conflict?" in our 2006 workshop.
• Nicholas Kappelhof is an Ed.M. student at Teachers College in the department of Organization and Leadership. His concentration is in public school leadership with a specific concern for urban school reform. For the past five years he has taught English Language Arts grades 7-12 in Brooklyn and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nicholas comes to this workshop looking to explore how issues of humiliation and shame may undermine contemporary education reform efforts and how a greater sense of dignity can be cultivated in struggling urban communities through compassionate educational opportunities. Please see How Humiliation and Shame May Undermine Education Reform Efforts, note prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict. [back to the program]
• Janet Gerson, Acting Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Janet Gerson is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. [back to the program]
• Tony Jenkins, Peace Education Center,
Teachers College,
Columbia University, USA.
Tony Jenkins is an Academic Advisor on the HumanDHS Research Team, for our upcoming Terrorism and Humiliation Project and our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. He is also a Member of our Education Team. [back to the program]
• Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. from N.Y.U. Judy is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. She is currently teaching in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College, and at Columbia Medical School, where she coordinates international training programs. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Judy is an NGO representative to the United Nations for two international organizations - the International Association of Applied Psychology and the World Council for Psychotherapy. She works extensively throughout the world giving workshops on healthy relationship as well as on peace, tolerance and trauma recovery, including after 9'11 in America. Honored for her work after 9'11, she was featured in the Red Cross campaign, and as a spokesperson for the American consulate abroad. She has provided mental health support after disasters worldwide, like SARS in China, an earthquake in Australia, tensions in Serbia, bombings in Jerusalem, and most recently with Dr. Anie Kalayjian and the Mental Health Outreach Program in Sri Lanka after the tsunami. They co-moderated a workshop, "Achieving Collective Security: Partnerships to prevent fear, violence, genocide and terrorism through targeting the MDG goals" at the 58 th Annual Conference for Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations this past September.
In her extensive international work, Dr. Judy is also a visiting professor at Peking University Health Sciences Center in Beijing China and the Department of Psychiatry at Hong Kong University. In China many times a year, she consults for the China Center for Reproductive Health Instruction in Shanghai, and trains doctors all over China, and appears often on China 's CCTV. She gives workshops on AIDS prevention for teens, couples counseling, and plenary addresses on peace and trauma recovery, around the world from India to Dubai and recently in Tehran, Iran, and at meetings on the State of the World Forum, and has been awarded the first "International Outreach award" from the American Women in Radio and TV. Trained in Buddhist shamanism, she has developed unique therapeutic interventions integrating eastern and western traditions. Author of innumerable articles in professional journals and over 10 books on dating and relationships translated in many languages, like the "Complete Idiots Guide to A Healthy Relationships, Dr. Judy has contributed psychological chapters to "Access: Emergency Survival Handbook," and is currently working on a book about Healing between Palestinians and Israelis from a psychosocial point of view, to be published by Praeger Press.
Also a journalist, and well-known as "Dr. Judy" to millions of fans from her nightly radio advice shows for over 22 years, she has also been a TV reporter on CBS-TV, hosted a show "Money and Emotions" on CNBC TV, and been a guest on innumerable news and talk shows from Oprah to Larry King, Court TV, and CNN. In print she has been a columnist for the Chicago Trubune Womens News, the Los Angeles Times syndicate, Advertising Age and Boardroom Reports, and currently writes advice columns for the New York Daily News, the Singapore Straits Times and China 's Trends Health Magazine. She has been featured in publications from People Magazine to Cosmopolitan and the New York Times.
Please see the note Judy prepared for Round Table 2 of our 2005 workshop: Psychosocial Aspects of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict. Please see also the abstract Judy prepared for Round Table 2 of our 2006 workshop: Transforming Conflict and Humiliation to Heal Hearts in the Holy Land: People-to-People Projects to Build Peace, Coexistence and Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis. [back to the program]
• Maria Volpe, Professor and Director, CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, USA. Maria is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Maria kindly wrote (June 11, 2005): Dear Evelin....Great hearing from you. I have marked my calendar so I can participate in the Workshop this year. I am looking forward to it and seeing you again. Did you want the workshop posted on the NYC-DR listserv? Not sure if this is an event by invitation or if it is open to those who are interested. Let me know....With warmest regards, maria.
Maria gave the following presentation at our 2005 workshop: Conflict and Humiliation: The Simplicities of Reversing Destructive Conflict. The Association for Conflict Resolution Crisis Intervention online newsletter featured this presentation in its 2006 February issue. [back to the program]
• Donald Klein, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Donald Klein is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team. He has furthermore been the Director of our Education Team since 2001.
Please see here Community MetaFunctions and the Humiliation Dynamic, a paper that Don presented at ou 2nd Annual Meeting on Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Paris, France, September 16-18, 2004.
Please see also Appreciative Psychology: An Antidote to Humiliation, a final paper Don prepared for our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. Please see here also The Humiliation Dynamic: Looking to the Past and Future, the paper that Don presents at the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. Please see also his New Years Greetings: 2006!
Don kindly wrote (July 4, 2005): Hello, Evelin -- I agree that the roundtable approach worked very well and should prove to be equally profitable at the December 2005 meeting. The Open Space approach is not something, however, that will work well if "tucked in" between scheduled sessions that have been preplanned. To be successful, Open Space requires a general over-all topic that is of interest and importance to all participants. It needs at least a full day, during which there can be three or four rounds of discussion groups on aspects of the general topic that are proposed by participants themselves. If we were to use Open Space, an overall topic that would be of great interest to me has to do with developing effective approaches to dealing with those groups and nations that inflict humiliation on other groups or nations. I'm thinking, for example, of humiliation experienced by Palestinians at Israeli hands, of Irish Catholics' experience of humiliation at Proestant Catholic hands, and of Muslim experience of humiliation at the hands of Christian nations.
I realize that the same overall topic would lend itself to a series of Round Tables similar to the approach we used last year. The Round Table approach has the advantage of making it possible to ask one or more people to develop in advance brief papers that would stimulate subsequent discussion. If one goal is to publish a book of papers and discussions froom the annual conferences, then the Round Table approach seems preferable.
Another topic that would lend itself to Round Table discussions has to do with educational approaches to reducing or eliminating humiliation and promiting human dignity, including, for example, Round Tables on creating humiliation free environments for the education of children, use of media for public education on promoting human dignity, and inter-group methods for dealing with humiliating intercommunal conflicts.
I also want to add the following possible option, suggested by Alan. If we decide to organize the conference around an Open Space Design, it would still be possible to encourage people (perhaps to get specific commitments from certain ones) to prepare working papers in advance of the conference. These papers might be circulated in advance via internet and also be available at the conference as hard copies. In this way, participants would have the chance to be informed on certain topics, which later individuals might select for the spontaneous discussion groups that are so important to the Open Space design. With love, Don. [back to the program]
• Rebecca Klein, A graduate of Hampshire College, USA. Rebecca Klein is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Becca is Don's daughter and very kindly maintains our internal database. She has, furthemore, with breathtaking efficiency, prepared the notes for all our past meetings. Unfortunately, she could not be with us in Costa Rica and in our 2006 workshop! [back to the program]
• Alan Klein,
Ellicott City, MD, USA.
Alan Klein supports HumanDHS's work. He is Don's son and Becca's father and has kindly facilitated the "Open Space" Session in our 2004 workshop and our Costa Rica meeting. [back to the program]
• Linda Hartling, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA. Linda Hartling is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, Global Core Team, and Education Team.
Please see here:
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Hartling, Linda M., Luchetta, T. (1999), Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement,
First Published by: The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278.
- Hartling, Linda M., Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, Judith V. Jordan (2000), Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation, The Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMIT), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College No. 88, Wellesley, MA 02481.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2005), An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, introductory text prepared for "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.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2005), Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story,
paper prepared for "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.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2005), Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence, preliminary draft of a paper prepared for Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
- Jordan, Judith, and Hartling, Linda M. (2006), Relationship Tips,
Jean Baker Miller Training Institute.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2006), From Humiliation to Appreciation: Walking Toward Our Talk, abstract prepared for 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 [back to the program]
• Richard Slaven, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA. Richard Slaven is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and a Member of the HumanDHS Planning Committee. Rick most kindly supports all our meetings. We cannot imagine having a meeting without his help! [back to the program]
• Hilary Silver, Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Hilary Silver is Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, where she has taught since receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia. Professor Silver has published widely on the topic of "social exclusion," especially for international organizations such as the International Labour Office, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and currently, the Wolfensohn Center at the Brookings Institution. Her empirical research on social exclusion has been conducted at the grassroots neighborhood level in such cities as Paris, Berlin, and of course, Providence, Rhode Island. Her talk today is entitled "Social Exclusion, Humiliation, and Shame."
Please see also:
Hilary Silver & S.M. Miller (2003), Social Exclusion: The European Approach to Social Disadvantage, Indicators, 2 (2, Spring), pp. 1-17. [back to the program]
• Victoria C. Fontan, 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.
Victoria Fontan is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the Research Team.
Victoria has kindly taken upon her the task to be the editor of our new journal, and to develop edited books with your contributions.
Victoria is also a researcher in our upcoming Terrorism and Humiliation Project. The title of her HumanDHS research project is Humiliation, Conflict Escalation and Terrorism in Post-Saddam Iraq: A Case Study of the Baghdad University Fallujah Refugee Camp.
Please see furthermore The Dialectics of Humiliation: Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq, unpublished draft (not to be cited without author's authorization). [back to the program]
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown and
• Anne Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida, now Baltimore, USA. Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Anne Wyatt-Brown are both Members of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, and Members of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Bert kindly wrote (May 27, 2005): My wife and I are both looking forward to coming 15-16 December. Anne Wyatt-Brown is a specialist on the Holocaust and also on aging studies and is now the editor of a new publication in that field.
Please see here Honor, Shame, and Iraq in American Foreign Policy, note prepared by Bert for our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict. Please see also Bert's abstract The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman”, prepared for the 23rd International Literature and Psychology Conference 2006, by the Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA), University of Florida and the Department of Education, University of Helsinki, and our 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict.
Anne M. Wyatt-Brown kindly wrote (2 November, 2005):
Dear Evelin, [...] I plan to talk about the book you mentioned in connection with your parents, A woman in Berlin. I think it raises issues that need to be addressed about the relativity of humiliation experiences. Moreover, I wonder if the behavior of her fianc is entirely caused by the loss of honor or fear of her resourcefulness. Kenneth Kenniston talked about the difficulty American couples had post WWII when husbands returned to households which their wives had run successfully during the war. These are issues that can be talked about and have application to other situations. Best, Anne.
Please see Anne's abstract prepared for Round Table 2 of our 2005 workshop: A Woman in Berlin: The Complexity of Humiliation at the End of World War II. Please see also her abstract prepared for our 2006 Workshop: Humiliation In My Brother’s Image.
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• Sara Cobb, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at GMU, Washington, USA. Sara Cobb is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here "Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development, paper prepared for our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. [back to the program]
• Manal Radwan, Saudi Embassy, will accompany Sara. She wants to conduct her dissertation on humiliation. [back to the program]
• Carlos E. Sluzki, Professor at the College of Health and Human Services and at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, and Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical School. Carlos E. Sluzki is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here Elements of Humiliation-Shame Dynamics for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Real-Life Scenarios, draft of presentation at the 2004 Workshop on Humilliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
Please see also:
The Story of the Crying Composer, told at our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY, 2004,
and:
Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation), developed at our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY, 2004. [back to the program]
• Howard Zehr, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA. Howard Zehr is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here Humiliation, Crime and Justice, note prepared for Round Table 3 of our 2005 Workshop. [back to the program]
• Monty G. Marshall, PhD, Director, Polity IV and Armed Conflict and Intervention Projects, Research Director, Center for Global Policy, Research Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA. [back to the program]
• Manas M. Ghanem, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA. Manas is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. Manas M. Ghanem is a researcher in our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. The title of her HumanDHS research project is Iraqi Refugees in Syria and Jordan & Humiliation. [back to the program]
• Moira Rogers, Eastern Mennonite University, EMU, Virginia, USA. Moira Rogers is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. Moira is both an Academic Advisor for our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project, and has her own project, entitled Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. [back to the program]
• Rina Kashyap, Chairperson, Department of Journalism, LSR, Delhi University/
Fulbright Scholar, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, EMU, Virginia. Rina is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Please see Rina's abstract of a paper prepared for Round Table 3 of our 2005 Workshop: The Subversion of the Colonial System of Humiliation: A case study of the Gandhian Strategy. [back to the program]
• James E. Jones, Manhattanville College, CUNY, USA. James Jones is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see:
- The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts, note prepared for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
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