11th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS)
in Norway, June 2008
as part of the Wergeland Year for Human Dignity
- dedicated to the memory of Don Klein -
Taken from cruisenorway.com/ (please click on the picture to see it larger)
• 23rd June 2008: Midsummer Eve Party
• 24th June 2008: 'Wergeland's Heritage', Organised by the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo
• 25th June: Public Event, HumanDHS in Cooperation with the Holocaust Centre
• 26th + 27th June: HumanDHS Conference in Oslo (with Open Space and a Special Session on Environmental Psychology)
• 28th-29th June: HumanDHS Conference in Bergen (Norway in the Nutshell)
• 29th June - 1st July: HumanDHS Conference on Northbound Hurtigruten (Coastal Steamer) from Bergen to Trondheim
Please read Newsletter 11, written subsequent to our conference!
Hosts
• Professor Odd-Bjørn Fure, Director of the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway
Please see here Professor Fure's Curriculum Vitae• Kjell Skyllstad, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Musicology (Institutt for musikkvitenskap) at the University in Oslo, Norway
• The Vision of Our Conference
• Frame
• List of Conveners
• Programme
• List of Participants
• Papers
• Practical Details
• Announcements
• Newsletters
The Vision of Our Conference
Henrik Arnold Wergeland (17th June 1808–12nd July 1845) was a renowned Norwegian poet and prose writer who worked against discrimination (Litt om Wergeland). The Minister of Culture in Norway has announced 2008 as the Year of Diversity in Norway. The celebrations of the Wergeland Year will take place between 17th May and Wergeland's 200th birthday on 17th June 2008.
Dignity goes a step further than tolerance for diversity. It is in its essence a qualitative term calling for cooperation and dialogue. In the European Union, 2008 is the Year of Intercultural Dialogue. So we hope to focus on all these three life supporting principles as we in 2008 envision and support new and dynamic modes of human interaction in our societies, in Europe and the world at large.
One of the ideas for the Wergeland Year is to follow in his footsteps and continue the work for reform of our constitution (and take this as an example for the wider world). We would like to invite you to study our vision and join in for the future. What kind of world would we like to live in with our future families? What is needed as a legal system to ensure inclusive democratic institutions in the spirit of Wergeland, for a tomorrow built on the principles of sustainable development?
A number of possible themes comes to mind to connect the Wergeland Year with the HumanDHS message of equality in dignity (which includes transcending humiliation), in line with the Holocaust Centre's work on religious minorities, for example, 'The Interfaith Dialogue', as envisioned in Wergeland's poem The Three.
Please see
Kjell Skyllstad's contribution to HumanDHS's 2008 Oslo meeting, A Voice from Grotten, an article on the present tenant of Grotten, the composer Arne Nordheim. Every 17th of May, he gathers his friends in his historic home to honour his great inspirator Henrik Wergeland. Kjell writes on 16th June 2006: 'This month Arne is 75 and this is my hommage to a close friend'.
This vision is relevant for a number of cooperation partners in Norway, such as the Oslo University International Summer School, the Nobel Institute, the Peace Research Institute of Norway (PRIO), and the Oslo University-affiliated Rosendal Academy on the West coast, the Nansen Academy in Lillehammer.
Frame
by Linda Hartling, 2004, Ph.D., Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA
In our conferences we aim at creating a humiliation-free, collaborative learning environment characterised 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 conferences, 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 emphasise 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. Perhaps, this could be conceptualised as 'waging good conflict' (Jean Baker Miller), 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 drain 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:
• Appreciative Leadership in Our HumanDHS Network: The Tree - Job Descriptions!
kindly written by Michael Britton, 2008
• An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005
• Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, kindly written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the moderators of our workshop
• Buddhist Teachings on Right Speech, which relate to our quest for appreciative inquiry, caring and being
List of Conveners
Odd-Bjørn Fure, Professor and Director
Professor Odd-Bjørn Fure is the Director of the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Norway.
Please see here Professor Fure's Curriculum Vitae.
The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities has two main fields of interest: the Holocaust on the one hand and religious minorities on the other. Within these two fields of interest the Center will contribute with new research, education and information activities, exhibitions and conferences. Moreover, it is the explicit aim to be a meeting-place for people who want to participate in the enduring controversy concerning all kinds of religious, racist and ethnic motivated repression. At the end of January 2005 we moved to Villa Grande, Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling's residence during World War II.
Please read here a biographical overview written by Professor Fure (in Norwegian):
Dr.philos. 1984 på arbeidet Mellom reformisme og bolsjevisme. Norsk arbeiderbevegelse 1918-1920.
I årene 1979-2002 var jeg knyttet til Historisk institutt, UiB som NAVF-stipendiat, universitetsstipendiat, førsteamanuensis, førsteamanuensis II og fra 1998 som professor. I årene 1991-1995 var jeg knyttet til prosjektet Norsk utenrikspolitikks historie som forsker-NFR.
I 1982 hadde jeg ett års forskningsopphold ved Institut für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Zürich, i 1985-1987 tilbrakte jeg to år ved Ècole des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris og i 2001 ett år i Berlin.
Leder av internasjonalt utvalg ved Historisk institutt, UiB i fem år, prosjektleder for det tverrfaglige prosjekt Europa fram mot år 2000 i fem år, i 1998 ble jeg utnevnt av rektor, UiB, til leder av arrangementskomiteen for den 7. kongressen til International Society for the Study of European Ideas. I 2000 ble jeg oppnevnt av EU-kommisjonen som 'independent expert' for å vurdere søknader til EUs kulturhistoriske og kulturpolitiske program. Fra januar 2002 er jeg hovedredaktør for Historisk Tidsskrift. Gjesteforelesninger over mange år på de historiske institutter ved alle norske universiteter og høyskoler, i København, Berlin, Bonn, Strasbourg og Paris og på en rekke institutter i Norge som representerer tilstøtende disipliner.
Forskningsfelt er arbeiderbevegelsens historie, norsk utenrikspolitikk, internasjonale relasjoner og det internasjonale statssystem, andre verdenskrig, nasjonalsosialismen / Holocaust, sivilisasjonshistorie, mentalitetshistorie og vitenskapshistorie.
Artikler og bøker i utvalg: Problemer, metode og teori i Jens Arup Seips teoretiske produksjon (1983); Jens Arup Seips Utsikt over Norges historie (1984); Hverdagshistorie i tysk historieforskning. Problemer, perspektiver - potensiale (1984); Problemsystematikk eller kaos? Tysk hverdagshistorie (1986); Den kritiske empirisme. Historie- og vitenskapsbegrep i Ottar Dahls Grunntrekk i historieforskningens metodelære (1992); Mellomkrigstid. Norsk utenrikspolitikks historie bd. 3 (1996); Kampen mot glemselen. Kunnskapsvakuum i mediesamfunnet (1997); Norsk okkupasjonshistorie. Konsensus, berøringsangst og tabuisering (1999); Nationale Habitusentwicklungen in Deutschland und Norwegen im Vergleich (2001); Irving-prosessen: historie, juss og erindring (2002); Tilintetgjørelsen av de europeiske jødene (2002).
Maria Rosvoll
Historian, and Consultant at the
Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL-Senteret, Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteter). (maria.rosvoll[@]hlsenteret.no)
Kjell Skyllstad, Professor Emeritus
Kjell Skyllstad is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Musicology (Institutt for musikkvitenskap) at of the University of Oslo in Norway. He is Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI).
Kjell Skyllstad has done research on the history of racism in a cultural perspective and on the effect of a multicultural school music program on the prevention of racial conflict.
Kjell Skylstad is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and has participated in the 8th Annual HumanDHS Meeting, 2006 Annual Round Table Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict in New York.
On 16th June 2006, Kjell Skyllstad kindly sent us A Voice from Grotten, his contribution to this meeting, an article on the present tenant of Grotten, the composer Arne Nordheim. Every 17th of May, he gathers his friends in his historic home to honor his great inspirator Henrik Wergeland. Kjell writes: 'This month Arne is 75 and this is my hommage to a close friend'.
Please see furthermore Creating a Culture of Peace - The Performing Arts in Interethnic Negotiations, in: Intercultural Communication, November, issue 4, 2000, see also From Humiliation to Empowerment: Creative Conflict Management in the Multi-ethnic School, Kjell's paper prepared for Round Table 1 of our 2005 New York Workshop, and From Humiliation to Empowerment: The Arts in Retributive and Restorative Justice, his paper prepared for Round Table 3 of the same workshop.
Einar Strumse, Dr. philos., Associate Professor
Einar Strumse (Cand. Psychol. and PhD in psychology) is associate professor of psychology and head of the psychology programme at the Lillehammer University College (LUC). He is also adjunct associate professor of environmental psychology at the University of Bergen. Since 1990 his research in the field of environmental psychology has focused upon landscape preference/landscape aesthetics, environmental attitudes and predictors of environmental behaviors.
Salman Türken
Salman Türken 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 increasingly 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'.
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.
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. She is furthermore a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
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 Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.
Ashraf Salama, Professor (unfortunately, he was hindered to join us)
Dr. Ashraf Salama is the Director and Coordinator of the HumanDHS World Architecture for Equal Dignity.
He 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. Please see here his new website that he recently developed to include his work and his wife's work http://www.arti-arch.org.
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.
Programme
Sunday, 22nd June 2008: Preparatory Meeting
Finn Tschudi and Åse Nilssen kindly hosted Kjell Skyllstad and Evelin Lindner for a preparatory meeting at their home in Oslo.
Monday, 23rd June 2008: Midsummer Eve Party
We began our conference with a welcoming Midsummer Eve Party. In this way participants had a chance of getting settled and meet each other for the first time in a relaxed atmosphere!
We gathered for a Norwegian Midsummer Night celebration at the Folk Museum on Bygdøy at 17.00 (5 p.m) (To get there: Bus no. 30 leaves from the city center of Oslo, and ferry boat no. 91 leaves from the Town Hall Pier).
We experienced a traditional symbolic children's wedding with horse carriages and fiddlers, music and dancing and people bringing food baskets for an evening of barbecue. At night we had to remember to gather seven herbs or five flowers to put under our pillow to dream about your love!
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 23rd June from Evelin's camera
Tuesday, 24th June 2008: Day One, Welcoming Day, and Celebrating 'Wergeland's Heritage' Day, Organised by Odd-Bjørn Fure and Maria Rosvoll, Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo
Organisers: Odd-Bjørn Fure and Maria Rosvoll
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 24th June from Evelin's camera
In the morning we met at the Holocaust Centre (HL Centre, see a map showing the location, postal address is HL-senteret/Holocaust Centre, Postboks 1168 Blindern, N- 0318 Oslo, Telefon: +47 22 84 21 00, Fax: + 47 22 84 21 01, visiting address is Villa Grande, Huk Aveny 56, Oslo-Bygdøy).
Bus no. 30 goes to the Holocaust Centre - information about public transportation in the Oslo area can be found at Trafikanten, just outside Oslo Central Station; bus no. 30 has temporarily a new route near Oslo Central Station, due to building works.
At check-in participants could pick up information about the HL Centre and useful material on Oslo sights.
There is a restaurant with in- and outside garden facilities right at the HL Centre for lunch and intermission snacks. Technical facilities were available for speakers as well as internet facilities for the use of participants.
09.00 -10.00: Meeting and welcoming each other
Kjell Skyllstad, Evelin, and Abou Bakar Bakundukize. Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 24th June from Evelin's cameraModerator/host: Peder Nustad, Head of Educaton, HL-Senteret
11.00 - 12.00: Anton Weiss-Wendt presented Comparative Genocide Studies: Failures and Achievements
Anton Weiss-Wendt is the Head of Research at the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL Centre)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00: Claudia Lenz presented “German Maids”. The Silenced Memories of the Sexualized Other in Postwar-Norway
Claudia Lenz is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL Centre)
Group picture after Claudia Lenz's talk. Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 24th June from Evelin's camera14.00: Sightseeing tour of Bygdøy, with the Vikingship and Kontiki museums for those interested
Vikingship (taken from http://www.visitoslo.com/).
Please click on the picture to see it largerFor a romantic evening dinner at Bygdøy, no. 30 bus could bring our participants to a first class restaurant at Hukodden beach (the former bathhouse of Quisling) (reservation Tel. 22 43 74 62).
Or, there was the possibility of experiencing a children's opera performance at our new Opera at 18.00 or 19.30 hours (Peter Maxwell Davies: The Great Bank Robbery). The performers were all children from schools of music in the Oslo area.
Wednesday, 25th June 2008: Day Two, Public HumanDHS Day in Cooperation with the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities
We had a joint HumanDHS and HL Centre programme open to the public, including lectures on the main themes of the conference.
09.00 -10.00: Meeting and welcoming each other
Our musical artists throughout our entire conference:
• Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman (Members of the Trio Mediaeval)
• Dagne Groven Myhren, professor of literature at the University in Oslo (UiO), and a Wergeland researcher and excellent interpreter of the songs of Wergeland, kindly presents a hommage to Wergeland
• Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer (unfortunately, she could not join us)
• Lasanthi Manaranjanie from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (on Hurtigruten)
10.00 - 10.15: Inga Bostad, Viserektor (Vice Rector), welcomed all participants to the University of Oslo
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's camera
10.15 - 10.30: Einar Solbu, Prosjektleder for 'Wergeland 2008', welcomed all participants to the Wergeland Year
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's camera
10.30 - 11.00: Odd-Bjørn Fure, Director of the Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, welcomed all participants
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's camera
11.00 - 11.15: Trio Mediaeval members Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman sang for us
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's camera11.15 - 12.00: Guided Tour through the Permanent Exhibition at the Holocaust Centre
12.00 - 13.00: Evelin Lindner, Founding Director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network, welcomed all participants with her Introductory Presentation What the World’s Cultures Can Contribute to Creating a Sustainable Future for Humankind.
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's cameraEvelin received her Dr. psychol. at the Department of Psychology, University in Oslo, in 2001. The work on humiliation, the HumanDHS network, and this meeting (Kjell Skyllstad had the idea for this meeting and is a core convener) would not be possible without broad support from and within Norway. This support began in 1994, when Evelin prepared her doctoral dissertation on humiliation. Significant help came from of the Department of Psychology and its wonderful people, from Jan Smedslund, to Reidar Ommundsen, Astri Heen Wold, Hilde Nafstad, Fanny Duckert, Finn Tschudi, Egil Telle Jørgensen, Dag Erik Eilertsen, and Lasse Moer, and many others, and the support of the Faculty Members of other Departments, from Arne Næss, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Henrik Syse, Thomas Hylland Eriksson, to Bernt Hagtvet, Øyvind Østerud, Ragnvald Kalleberg, Sigmund Karterud, Heidi von Weltzien Høivik, Birgit Brock-Utne, Jakob Lothe, Malvern Lumsden, and Øystein Gullvåg Holter, and not only in Oslo, but all over Norway, from Ole Danbolt Mjøs, to Hroar Klempe, Asbjørn Eide, Sigurd Støren, and Vidar Vambheim, in addition to the support of important players in Norwegian public life, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Erik Solheim, Åge Bernhard Grutle, to the Nobel Institute, the Peace Research Institute of Norway (PRIO), Stein Tønnesson, to Thore Hem, and Elin Toft, and important Norwegian NGOs, for example, Mette Newth, Fredrik S. Heffermehl, significant players in Norwegan corporate life, Ragnhild S. Nilsen and Anne-Katrine Hagelund, Norwegian media, with Gerd Inger Polden, and Norwegian members in international organisations, such as, for example, Ingeborg Breines.
Please see a full list of persons who supported Evelin's doctoral research in the 'acknowledgements' in Evelin's doctoral dissertation.
Please join in and let us thank all supporters for their invaluable help!
This year, Evelin thanks particularly the Norsk faglitterær forfatter- og oversetterforening (NFF) [The Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association] for their 2008 scholarship that enables Evelin to write her third book Gender and Humiliation: Power and Dignity in Love, Sex, and Parenthood.
And please see the pictures when Evelin defended her dissertation!
Evelin's talk highlights how globalisation 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 early versions of another introductory talk/paper here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742); see a more recent version in the first issue of the Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies, March 200713.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 14.15: Kjell Skyllstad, welcomed all participants to Norway with an Introduction to Henrik Wergeland - 1808-2008 (unfortunately, due to health reasons, Kjell was hindered to be with us that day)
Please see Kjell Skyllstad's contribution to HumanDHS's 2008 Oslo meeting, A Voice from Grotten, an article on the present tenant of Grotten, the composer Arne Nordheim. Every 17th of May, he gathers his friends in his historic home to honour his great inspirator Henrik Wergeland. Kjell writes on 16th June 2006: 'This month Arne is 75 and this is my hommage to a close friend'.
14.00 - 14.30: Jack Goldstone introduced himself and his work
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's cameraJack Goldstone
Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Professor at George Mason University School of Public Policy, Eminent Scholar, and a Mercatus Center Fellow.14.30 - 15.00: Participants presented each other briefly
15.00 - 15.30: Birgit Brock-Utne introduced the participants to a larger conceptual space with their talk 'Connecting the Dots': Ubuntu, Wergeland, and Equal Worth and Dignity
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's camera
15.30 - 17.00: All participants were invited to discuss the role and significance of Dignity and Humiliation with:
Jack Goldstone, Hroar Klempe, Birgit Brock-Utne, Finn Tschudi, Evelin Lindner
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 25th June from Evelin's camera
Odd-Bjørn Fure, David Held, Bernt Hagtvet, Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen, and Kjell Skyllstad were unfortunately hindered to be with us, due to health and other reasons17.00 - 17.30: Wrapping up Day Two
18.00: Dinner at the Holocaust Centre
18.45 Special Meeting of our Dignity and Humiliation Mapping and Assessment Team with Jack Goldstone, Hroar Klempe, Finn Tschudi, Vegar Jordanger, Linda Hartling, Rick Slaven, Evelin Lindner
Please see:
• The Humiliation, Dignity, and Political Ideologies Questionnaire
by Vegar Jordanger, 2007 – first pilot study conducted in Norway October 2007 (Goals of the Study and Working Research Hypotheses - some preliminary thoughts)
• The Reliability and Validity of a Measurement Instrument of Culture Defined As Symbol Exchange by Hroar Klempe & Torbjørn Rundmo (Department of Psychology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norwaym 2007 (contribution expanded from the paper first prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007, as Power Point presentation and as Pdf file).
• Dear Williman McConochie kindly wrote (18th June 2008):
Dear Evelin, Emanuela, Michael and Linda:
I am happy to report that the Brief Humiliation study (BHS) is now ready on my web site, Politicalpsychologyresearch.com. Go to the site, log in, go to the Help Do Research page and follow the instructions to the study. It takes about 40 minutes to complete. Let me know your thoughts. I hope you will find it interesting.
You can tell any professor or other leader that they can contact Marc Baber, the site manager, to get a group name for their group members to use. Then the professor/leader can ask for a download of the data specifically for his or her group...
Hope you all have a wonderful time in Norway.
If we get a good sample of data, e.g. 400 or so, in the next couple of months, I might be able to join you all in NYC for your December meeting.
Best regards, Bill
Thursday, 26th June 2008: Day Three, HumanDHS Conference with Participants Who Had Signed Up
10.00 - 11.00: Linda Hartling welcomed all participants and sets the frame of our conference of 'waging good conflict' (Jean Baker Miller's coinage), which is the HumanDHS-defined version of 'Appreciative Enquiry'
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraDonald Klein and Linda Hartling usually set the frame of our conferences within 'Appreciative Enquiry', and we create a list of agreed upon norms having to do with the nature and tone of our dialogue. Linda always keeps our workshop together with her continuous caring interventions, while Don's caring wisdom always saved our conferences in crucial moments.
It is important to note that our appreciative frame is a HumanDHS-defined version of AE. 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.To our immense sadness, our beloved Don Klein passed away in June 2007. We are heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. He spoke to us about Awe and Wonderment. About our human ability to live in awe and wonderment, not just when we see a beautiful sun set or the majesty of the ocean, but always. That we can live in a state of awe and wonderment. And we do that, says Don, by leaving behind the psychology of projection. The psychology of projection is like a scrim, a transparent stage curtain, where you believe that what you see is reality only as long as the light shines on it in a certain way. However, it is not reality. It is a projection. And in order to live in awe and wonderment, we have to look through this scrim and let go of all the details that appear on it, in which we are so caught up. When we do that, we can see the beautiful sun set, the majestic ocean, always, in everything. We will continue our work while keeping Don's words at the center of our work and in our hearts.
We keep a moment of 'awe and wonderment' in honour of our beloved Don!
Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.11.00 - 12.30: Jack Goldstone presented Conflict Among Civilizations 500 BC - 2030 AD
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraJack Goldstone
Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Professor at George Mason University School of Public Policy, Eminent Scholar, and a Mercatus Center Fellow.12.35 - 13.00: Finn Tschudi welcomed all participants to Norway with his talk Our Common Future: A Tribute to Henrik Wergeland - with a Bridge to Ubuntu
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraFinn Tschudi has spent most of his professional life - 37 years - at the Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. He has broad interests in psychology and has been teaching and publishing in cognitive, social, personality and clinical psychology.
Kjell Skyllstad supported Finn's talk with the following comments (5th April 2007):
How can we link the EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the Norwegian Year of Diversity, the implementation of the Kyoto agreement, and the HumanDHS conference at the Holocaust Center to our 200 year celebration for Henrik Wergeland? What are the challenges confronting us in 2008?
This is the main question that lies behind the choice of topic for my presentation 'Our Common Future: A Tribute to Henrik Wergeland'. At the age of eighty, this I hope will also in a way reflect the conclusion of my lifelong thinking.
I will also make a bridge to Ubuntu, but I feel that Finn will do this marvellously.13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Dagne Groven Myhren introduced all participants to the work of Henrik Wergeland with her talk The Power of Poetry: Henrik Wergeland, His Times and Works
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraDagne Groven Myhren is professor of literature at the University in Oslo (UiO), and a Wergeland researcher and excellent interpreter of the songs of Wergeland. See Myhren's Introduction to The Army of Truth: Selected Poems by Henrik Wergeland - In the Historic Fight to Obtain Equal Rights for Jews in 19th-Century Norway. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
14.30 - 17.00: Open Space
The Open Space began on Day One of our HumanDHS Conference, and continues on Day Two. The programme for the Open Space on Day Two emerged during Day One. Please read a more in-depth explanation of the Open Space and what it entails.
• Abou Bakar Bakundukize and Jean-Damascène Gasanabo
Witnessing Survival
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's camera• Brian Lynch
Humiliation in the Media (2008)
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's camera• Stephanie Heuer
Education & Dignity (2008)
Stephanie presents DignityRocks!™ - From Ideas to Action, an organisation offering seminars and educational support services for the promotion, preservation, and protection of human dignity, whose idea was born in the 3rd Annual HumanDHS Conference in Paris, France, in 2004. Please read her letter to Evelin and the participants of the conference.
with Erin Hilgart, Maline Cecilia Westerberg, and Verena Bentzen
DignityRocks T-Shirts
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's camera• Jean-Damascène Gasanabo
Understanding Genocides (2008)
with Jack Goldstone, Anne & Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and Brian Lynch• Svanibor Pettan
Music, Humiliation & Dignity (2008)
with Lasanthi Manaranjanie, Gro Hermstad, Hildegunn Nordtug, Lizzie Riiber, Abou Bakar Bakundukize• Continuation of our Special Meeting of our Dignity and Humiliation Mapping and Assessment Team with Jack Goldstone, Hroar Klempe, Finn Tschudi, Vegar Jordanger, Linda Hartling, Rick Slaven, Evelin Lindner
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraEarlier suggested topics:
• Joy Haslam Calico
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the European Reception and Performance History of Schoenberg's 'Survivor from Warsaw' in the 1950s (2008)• Tanga Kabore
Charte de KOUROU KAN FOUGA comme première declaration universelle des droits de l'Homme (2008)• Rosita Albert
Ameliorating and Preventing Ethnic Conflict (2008)• Chipamong Chowdhury
Feminine Spirituality and Its Dignity: History of Buddhist Feminine Philosophy (2008)
• Elin Toft and Arnhild Midgaard
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Saving Children Around the World (2008)
• Vidar Vambheim
Deadlock and Dialogue (2008)
• Patty and Paul Richards
Dignifying Gender Relations in our World (2008)
• Abou Bakar Bakundukize
A Tradegy of Failures and False Expectations (2008)
Three months sit-in and forced removal of Sudanese refugees in Cairo September-December 2005• Michael L. Perlin
International Human Rights Law, Persons with Mental Disabilities, and the Humiliation Factor (2008) (Michael will be with us particularly on Friday)• Nimrod Sheinman
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation from the Mind-Body Psychotherapy Perspective (2008)• Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera
The Role of Humiliation in Responses to Group Devaluation among Ethnic and Religious Minorities (2008)• Berit Schei
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Handling Rape Victims (2008)
The following themes were selected and discussed at the HumanDHS annual conference in Costa Rica in 2006:
• Religious Fundamentalism, Dignity, and Discussion (convener: Pandora Hopkins, please see here Pandora's Summary)
• Dignity and Humiliation While Managing NGOs (convener: Marta Carlson)
• Humour and Humiliation - Or, When Humiliation Is Amusing (convener: Myra Mendible)
• Shame and Humiliation (convener: Amy Hudnall)
• Dignity and Friendship in Politics (convener: Sibyl Ann Schwarzenbach)
• Ethical Commerce - What Can We Do to Contribute? (conveners: Ragnhild Nilsen Grødal & Anne Katrine Hagelund)
• HumanDHS's Education Programme Development / Dignity Education (conveners: Don Klein, Stephanie Heuer, please read here Ideas for Integrating Dignity into Education by Nick Martin)
• How to 'Organize' the Network to Serve its Purpose (convener: Philip Brown. Please see more details further down under Future Work on Day Three)
Examples of more themes (list to be continued) suggested by HumanDHS members:
• 'Literature (Fiction) as Stimulant for Thought and Reflection' (Zuzana Luckay)
• 'The Dignity of Literature As an Art Created by Hu-man, about Hu-man for Hu-man' (Zuzana Luckay)
• 'Theory, Method, and Practice of Humiliation Research' (Dharm P. S. Bhawuk)
• 'Assistance and Humiliation' (Ana Ljubinkovic)
• 'Humiliation/Dignity in the Workplace' (Varda Mühlbauer)
• 'Humiliation/Dignity in the Family' (Varda Mühlbauer)
• 'Humiliation and Child Sexual Abuse' (Zahid Shahab Ahmed)
• 'Terrorism and Humiliation' (Victoria C. Fontan)
• 'Armed Conflict, Escalation and Humiliation' (Victoria C. Fontan)
• 'Consequences of Humiliation' (Miriam Marton)
• 'How to Prepare 'Non-Psychologists' (Human Rights Defenders, Peace Keepers, etc.) for Dealing with the Trauma of Humiliation in Victims' (Jörg Calliess)
• 'Ignorance and Humiliation' (Emmanuel Ndahimana)
• 'Justice and Humiliation' (Arie Nadler)
• 'Interlinking Peace Education and Humiliation Studies: A Bridge for Crossing Borders' (Alicia Cabezudo)Erga Netz & Izzy Abrahami unfortunately had to leave early and could not present their documentary How to: Be or not to Be?
Abrahami-Netz’ documentaries are broadcast all over the world, in countries such as the USA, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel and Japan. A number of their documentaries have also won awards in festivals in the USA, Spain, Monaco, Italy and Bulgaria.
17.00 - 17.30: Wrapping up Day Three
18.00: Free
Friday, 27th June 2008: Day Four, HumanDHS Conference with Participants Who Have Signed Up
9.00 - 9.30: Welcoming all participants
9.30-13.00: Special Session on the role played by Human Dignity and Humiliation for Environmental Psychology, organised by Einar Strumse (with the support of Ashraf Salama)
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraThe sessions was designed to result in a manifesto or memorandum or a set of recommendations that address architects, designs and those who make decisions about the future built environment.
Environmental Psychology Session Part 1:
9.30 - 11.00: Einar Strumse gave an introduction to Environmental Psychology - themes included are Environmental Psychology as international academic discipline, it’s status in Norway and selected applied areas
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraEinar Strumse (Cand. Psychol. and PhD in psychology) is Associate Professor of psychology and head of the psychology programme at the Lillehammer University College (LUC). He is also adjunct associate professor of environmental psychology at the University of Bergen. Since 1990 his research in the field of environmental psychology has focused upon landscape preference/landscape aesthetics, environmental attitudes and predictors of environmental behaviors.
Dialogue focused upon the following themes:
• How can the field of environmental psychology contribute to the promotion of human dignity?
• What should be included in a list of recommendations to designers and decision makers ? (see also below)Environmental Psychology Session Part 2:
11.00 - 11.30: Einar Strumse spoke about Houselessness, Homelessness, Humiliation and Dignity
11.30 - 12.00: Åshild Lappegard Hauge spoke about The Meaning of Architectural Quality in Housing for the Social Identity of Formerly Homelessut (pictures taken by Bård Helland)
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraÅshild Lappegard Hauge os a Research fellow (Ph.D. position) at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science, Trondheim
The tentative programme that was proposed by Ashraf Salama earlier, on 9th November 2006:
Session 1:
Environmental Psychology in Norway as a discipline and as a profession. How other disciplines are benefiting from the work of environmental psychologists, and how it helped in bridging the gaps that exist between different disciplines. How it can advance future endeavors of those disciplines in shaping the environment. This session could be moderated and its lectures/presentations delivered by colleagues from Norway.
Session 2: Environment-Behavior Studies - A Direct Application of Environmental Psychology
How it is viewed and utilized by architects and designers. Historical Account of Environment-Behavior Research, Issues addressed by Architects and Designers: Environmental Aesthetics, Environmental Cognition, Personal Space, Territorial Behavior, Ecological Psychology, Applications in Workplaces, Learning Environments, Housing and Residential Environments....Cross Cultural Examples.
The Two Sessions may result in a manifesto or memorandum or a set of recommendations that address architects, designs and those who make decisions about the future built environment.
Henrik Wergeland skrev i Fælles boliger for Arbeiderklassen (20. desember 1844):
'De store Arbeidsherrers Ligegyldighed for hvorledes deres Arbeidsfolk har det i det Hjemlige er i Almindelighed utilgivelig stor...Intet bidrager mere til Elendigheden og Fordærvelsen end den slette og overordentlige kostbade Maade hvorpaa nu den Fattige boe...Dersom du disse fæle hytter oppkøjbtes og nye brakkelignende anlagdes paa deres Tomter, hvori Familiene kunde faae hver sin bekvemmelighed for en rimelig Penge, og hvor Reenlighed og Orden blev tilseet af Visse, som dermed havde Opsyn paa Ejernes Vegne - hvilke ubeskrivelige følger for Sædeligheden og Velvre vilde derav ikke flyde?'
Rækken af smukt malede Huse med klare Vinduer og reenlige Beboere vilde da vise seg og ligemeget vinde jets som Følelsenes behag.13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's camera14.00 - 14.15: Lasse Moer presented Men, hva er et menneske? [But, What Is a Human Being?]
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's cameraLasse Moer, Chief Engineer, audiovisual technology, University in Oslo, the Faculty of Social Sciences, gave us a brief presentation of his poetic-metaphysical film project about the great mystery; the human being. Lasse's intention of the project is to make it clearer that this old question is one of the most important guestions given individually and collectively to humankind. This question unites all the worlds human beings, indepentent of religion and ethnic background. Lasse described some of his thoughts on this, and showed the opening sequence of the film.
Lasse Moer made the first short welcoming video clip for our website in 2007, and in 1999, he was the technical director of the film Humiliation, Genocide, Dictatorship and the International Community: Somalia As a Case Study by Evelin Lindner.14.00 - 17.00: Open Space (continued from Day One)
Please click on the pictures or here to see more photos of the 26th June from Evelin's camera• Jean-Damascène Gasanabo's session Understanding Genocides continued with Nora Sveaass
• Svanibor Pettan's session Music, Humiliation & Dignity continued with with Lasanthi Manaranjanie, Gro Hermstad, Lizzie Riiber, Abou Bakar Bakundukize
• Our Special Meeting of our Dignity and Humiliation Mapping and Assessment Team continued with Finn Tschudi, Vegar Jordanger, Gro Hermstad, Hildegunn Nordtug, Linda Hartling, Rick Slaven, Evelin Lindner
• Einar Strumse's session on Environmental Psychology continued with Anne & Bertram Wyatt-Brown
17.00 - 17.30: Wrapping up Day Four
18.00: Free
Saturday, 28th June - Tuesday, 1st July: HumanDHS Conference in Bergen and on Board of the Coaststeamer Hurtigruten
On Saturday, 28th June, we moved our conference from Oslo to Bergen. We started in Oslo in the morning, ending that evening in the beautiful city of Bergen where we stayed overnight, experiencing the old Hansa city in the morning, before proceeding to lunch and sightseeing in Bergen.
For the transition from Oslo to Bergen we booked the Norway in a Nutshell tour. This move gave us the chance to include the experience of the Norwegian landscape as an integral part of our conference. The unique Norwegian fjord and mountain landscape has been proclaimed by Geographic Monthly to be the top destination in the world, ranking before the Chinese Wall and the Pyramids of Egypt.
Departure for the Norway in a Nutshell tour was from Oslo Central Station at 8.11 (8.11 a.m.) in the morning of 28th June, arrival in the evening.
Norway in a Nutshell - Oslo-Myrdal-Flåm-Gudvangen-Stalheim-Voss-Bergen.
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Sunday, 29th June: HumanDHS Conference in Bergen
The 29th June included visits to the Art Museum, medieval monuments like the King's ceremonial hall Håkonshallen, the famous Fish Market and the UNESCO protected Bryggen (unfortunately, strong rain prevented a visit to Edvard Grieg's home Trollhaugen).
At 13.00 (1 p.m.) we took the funicular to reach the Fløyen restaurant overlooking Bergen for lunch (we had planned to meet with colleagues from Chr. Michelsens Institute and the Department of Psychology at the University of Bergen, but vacations had just started).
In the evening after our lunch at Fløyen restaurant, we embarked on 'MS Finnmarken', the northbound coaststeamer Hurtigruten taking a magnificent two day fjord and mountain tour, landing on Tuesday 1st July in Trondheim. On board, we continued our conference in the vessel's conference hall. (Please see Hurtigruten, or Norwegian Coastal Voyage websites.)
Boarding began at 15.00 (3 p.m.), departure was scheduled at 20.00 (8.00 p.m.).
1. Bergen Kunstmuseum:
• first right: Kinetic Art by Argentine Julio Le Parc - 'Multiple' (1968, a motor propels polished metal bands, which reflect and rotate the painted background strips, thus creating novel perspectives - this could be a suitable metaphor for our HumanDHS work: taking core ideas and creating something new);
• middle: Arne Ekeland - 'Sisters of Liberty' (1938);
• right: two pictures of humiliation - Reidar Aulie 'The Brothel' (1933), and Christian Krohg • 'The Fight for Survival' (1890).
2. Fløyen, and
3. Bryggen.
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Sunday, 29th June - Tuesday, 1st July: HumanDHS Conference on Board of the Coaststeamer Hurtigruta
Our on-Board Programme (in our sessions, we continue with Open Space)
• 29th June
20.15: Dinner
21.00 - 22.00: First Session, in the Midnight Sun
• 30th June
8.00: Breakfast
9.00: Second Session
11.00: Coffee Pause
11.15 - 13.00: Third Session (small group discussions in the conference center or on deck as we pass into the Geiranger Fjord)
13.00: Lunch
13.30: Enjoying the cruise on the Geiranger fiord, the most spectacular scenery of Norway
20.15: Dinner
21.00 - 23.00 Fourth Session, in the Midnight Sun
Monday, 30th June 2008, on Hurtigruten, MS Finnmarken - celebrating one birthday and two wedding anniversaries.
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Kjell Skyllstad's special guests Svanibor Pettan from the University of Ljubljana, and Lasanthi Manaranjanie from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, were kindly offering to present a programme on the arts in mediation and rehabilitation (Kosovo and Sri Lanka).
• 1st July
9.00: Breakfast
13.00: Restaurant 'Grenaderen' in Trondheim
Trondheim - Nidaros Dome and then Restaurant 'Grenaderen': Oeyvind Eikrem joined us, Vegar Jordanger, Hildegunn Nordtug, Kjell Oversand (founder of the Trondheim World Music Ensemble), Kjell's second sister came, with her niece Sissel.
Please click on the picture or here to see more photos from Evelin's cameraWe returned to Oslo by train or plane
Wednesday, 2nd July: After Our HumanDHS Conference
Linda Hartling, Rick Slaven, Finn Tschudi, Evelin Lindner in Oslo
From left:
1. Frognerseter (in front of a picture of Arne Næss, who participated in our 2nd Annual Conference in Paris, France, in 2003)
2. The Norwegian Nobel Institute (Det Norske Nobelinstitutt), with Alfred Nobel guarding the entrance
3. The Castle (Slottet)
4. Norsk Design, Juhls' Silvergallery in Kautokeino
5. City Hall (Rådhuset)
6. Meeting with Finn Tschudi
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Wednesday, 2nd July: After Our HumanDHS Conference
Linda Hartling, Rick Slaven, Finn Tschudi, Evelin Lindner in Oslo
From left:
1. University in Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo), Blindern campus, which is situated about 5 kms from downtown Oslo; here you see the University Library (also known as Georg Sverdrup's house)
2. Department of Psychology (Psykologisk institutt)
3. The Munch Museum (Munch museet), Scream (Skrik)
4. Some traditional Norwegian food: ekte geitost with flatbrød, nøkkelost, multe berries, pølse with lompe...
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Wednesday, 2nd July: After Our HumanDHS Conference
Linda Hartling, Rick Slaven, Finn Tschudi, Evelin Lindner in Oslo
From left:
1. Henie Onstad Art Centre (Sonia Henie Kunstsenter)
2. Aker Brygge, celebrating our conference
3. Aker Brygge, with Akershus Castle (Akershus Festning) in the background, with the Norwegian Resistance Museum
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List of Participants
From outside of Norway
• Donald C. Klein was with us in spirit:
To our immense sadness, our beloved Don Klein passed away in June 2007. We are heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. He spoke to us about Awe and Wonderment. About our human ability to live in awe and wonderment, not just when we see a beautiful sun set or the majesty of the ocean, but always. That we can live in a state of awe and wonderment. And we do that, says Don, by leaving behind the psychology of projection. The psychology of projection is like a scrim, a transparent stage curtain, where you believe that what you see is reality only as long as the light shines on it in a certain way. However, it is not reality. It is a projection. And in order to live in awe and wonderment, we have to look through this scrim and let go of all the details that appear on it, in which we are so caught up. When we do that, we can see the beautiful sun set, the majestic ocean, always, in everything. We will continue our work while keeping Don’s words at the center of our work and in our hearts.
• Bertram and Anne Wyatt-Brown
• Svanibor Pettan, Professor of Musicology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Lasanthi Manaranjanie from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Lizzie E. Riiber, House of Norway, San Diego, CA, USA
• Annika Helene Willoughby, Masterstudent in social work, Washington, USA
• Erin Hilgart, Deutsche Bank Singapore, and Maline Cecilia Westerberg
• Stephanie Heuer, 26th, 27th Juni
Stephanie presents DignityRocks!™ - an organization offering seminars and educational support services for the promotion, preservation, and protection of human dignity, whose idea was born in the 3rd Annual HumanDHS Conference in Paris, France, in 2004
• Abou Bakar Bakundukize, Burundian refugee in Egypt, pursuing studies in law (human rights, in combination with sociology and psychology) in Egypt
• Jean-Damascène Gasanabo, Geneva, presenting his contribution to the book Comprendre les Génocides:
• Joy Haslam Calico, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Musicology, Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
They were unfortunately bnot able to join us:
• Hans-Christoph von Sponeck, on the staff of the University of Marburg Conflict Research Centre, graduate seminar on 'The UN & Conflict Resolution - Examples from the Middle East'.
• Colleagues of Rita Giacman, Professor of Community and Public Health in the University of Birzeit, Ramallah
• Ashraf Salama (Session on Environmental Psychology, unfortunately Ashraf is hindered to join us)
• Joseph Linser, Nimrod and Anat Sheinman
• Arran Stibbe with his wife
• Dharm P. S. Bhawuk with his wife Poonam
• Nariman Abdel Kader, President and Board of Trustees Chairman of Egyptian Woman Foundation for Law and spreading Peace Culture EWFLPC, Counselor at Law Supreme Court International Arbitrator, Prof. at University, Cairo, Egypt
• Zahur Ahmed Choudhri and his son Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Pakistan
• Alexander Cheryomukhin, President, Azerbaijan Psychological Association
• Fazeela Zaib and Othman Al-Tawalbeh, Sweden
• Leo Semashko
• Jayne Sander, UNON Division of Conference Service, Nairobi, Kenya
• Alexander Patrut and his wife Iulia-Karin Patrut
• Dana Zein Dein, Strasbourg, France
• Judy Bowker, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA
• Bayezid Dawla, General Secretary, Bangladesh Dignity Forum & Executive Director Civic, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Ashok Chakravarthy, Litt.D, Vice Chairman - Global Harmony Association,Life Member - World Academy of Arts & Culture
• David Jones, CEO, Siloam International, Oregon, USA
• Patty and Paul Richards, Sente, Oregon, USA
• Kimberley Berglind, Centre for Peace Studies, School of Professional Development and Leadership, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
• Ven. Chipamong Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi Buddhist monk, holding a BA from Yangon/Rangon, Burma, and an MA from Sri Lanka, repeating another MA in the USA
• Charles Ndayizeye, Youth for Security Club, Great Lakes, Africa
• Garry Davis, Former US Presidential Candidate, and peace activist who created the first 'World Passport'
• The Association Inter-Cultures pour le Bien Etre Universel (Intercultural Association for Universal Welfare), Burkina Faso, Africa
1. Abel Ouedraogo, Secretary General
2. Tiemtoré Ablassé, Vice President
3. Yambré Harouna, Artistic and Cultural adviser
• The Burkina Faso African Union Club, Burkina Faso
1. Tanga Abdou Fulgence Kabore, President/Secrétaire Général Exécutif de la FEPAC/UA
2. William Euloge Zidouemba, Chargé de Formation et du Développement du Capital Humain
3. Issoufou Samandoulgou, Chargé De La Promotion Du Secteur Privé Et Des Pmi/Pme.Il
4. Pauline Nikiema, Chargée De La Prise En Charge Des Personnes Vivant Avec Le Vih/Sida (Pv/Vih)
Please see the
Charte de KOUROU KAN FOUGA (première declaration universelle des droits de l'Homme)
• L'association Femmes 2000, Burkina Faso
1- Chantal Marie Rachelle Ouedraogo, Présidente
2- Souhoudou Sorgho, Chargé Des Activités Culturelles Et Sportives
3- Abdoul Karim Sana, Chargé De La Promotion Des Jeunes
4- Loretta Raissa Alex Sissao, Chargée De La Scolarisation De La Jeune Fille
• The International Human Rights Observer(IHRO), Pakistan (Khalid Pervaiz Sulehri, Director)
1. Muhammad Waseem Abbasi
2. Ghulam Rasool
3. Mohsan Shaukat
• Youth Movement for Peace and Non Violence (YMPNV), Freetown, Sierra Leone
Alpha Amadu Jalloh, National Director
1. Idrissa Barrie, Social Worker
2. Alphajor Bah, Gender Desk Officer
3. Mohamed B. Bah, Social Worker
4. Chernor Abdul Barrie, Youth Leader
5. Alhassan Conteh
• The Founders Education Society (Regd), Pakistan
1. Attaor Rehman Choudhry, President
2. Fida Hussain Shah, Manager
3. Khalid Mehmood, Director
• Ideal Education Social Welfare Society, Pakistan
1. Malik Tariq, President
2. Sadaqat Hussain Awan, Director
3. Abid Mahmood, Manager
The Community Based Organization (CBO), Nairobi, Kenya (via Robert Mwaniki)
1. Bernard Wamenju, Social Worker
2. Hassan Rasid Bulle, Community Development Leader
3. Mohamed Yahye Hussein, Youth Leader
Koinadugu Progressive youth Organisation (KPYO), Sierra Leone
1. Mackie Jeng
2. Mory Toure, Secretary General
3. Habib Dieng, Social Organiser
• Awa Vitalys Chi, Human Rights Defence Group, Bamenda, Cameroon
• Bhanu Parajuli, Regional Monitoring Coordinator, Rural Reconstruction Nepal-RRN,
Nepalgunj, Banke
From Norway
• Simon Souyris Strumse, Development Studies at the Oslo University College
• Finn Tschudi
• Nora Sveaass, 27th June
• Verena Bentzen, Førstelektor og fagansvarlig for Tysk, Oslo University College (Høgskolen i Oslo, HiO)
• Gro Hermstad, Per Knudsen Arkitektkontor AS, Trondheim (25th, 26th June)
• Pamela Hiley
• Naomi Daliot, Senior announcer (News bulletin and music transmission) at the Israeli Radio IBA Jerusalem, retired
• Yisrael Daliot, Senior Editor at the music department, Israeli radio IBA Jerusalem; musicologist and music critic; holder of Norwegian State Scholarship (1969- 1971); having lived with the family in Norway until 1983; awarded the Norwegian St. Olavs Medal for outstanding contribution to promote Norwegian Music (Art music and Traditional music) 1994
• Olav Ofstad, Country Representative, Norwegian Red Cross, Serbia, Belgrade (27th June)
They were unfortunately hindered to participate:
• Haldis Hjort, Privatpraktiserende og seniorforsker ved Sintef, avdeling for psykisk helsearbeid
• Kjell-Magne Flekkøy, Avdeling Nevropsykologi & Rehab, Ullevål, Oslo
• Ragnvald Kalleberg (24th - 25th October)
• Lars-Erik Vaale, Historiker, cand.philol.
• Ståle Einarsen (in Bergen)
• Reidulf G. Watten, Høgskole i Lillehammer
• Oddvar Skjaeveland, arkitekturpsykologi
• Nisma Manaf, Psykologisk institutt
• Ragnhild S. Nilsen (25. + 26. June)
• Javier Fabra Mata, Research Associate, Governance and Conflict Prevention, Oslo Governance Centre, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Elin Toft og Arnhild Midgaard, Redd barna (Save the Children)
• Arne and Kit-fai Næss, in case Arne has the strength to sit with us!
Papers
All participants are warmly invited to send in abstracts and full papers to upload on this website, and
please let us know, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as full paper for submission to our new HumanDHS journal!
Please see earlier submitted papers here:
• List of All Publications
• Papers and Notes for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers and Notes for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers and Notes for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
How the Schedule and Formate of Our Conference Emerged
In October 2007, we had several meetings in Oslo in preparation for our 2008 conference. Please see some pictures here:
Left: 1st and 2nd October 2007, Evelin travelled to Oslo by ship.
Middle: 4th October 2007, part of the organisational team met at Kjell Skyllstad's place in Oslo.
Right: 5th October 2007, Kjell and Evelin met at the Holocaust Centre with Maria Rosvoll.
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View on Oslo from Holmenkollen Ski Jump (pictures taken from http://www.oslocruise.com/)
& Vikingship (taken from http://www.visitoslo.com/).
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Our outside-of-NY conferences have evolved somewhat differently as compared to our NY workshop. The NY workshops have always been more formal, while the outside-of-NY conferences are usually more open and more geared towards group building (except the one we had in China in 2007, that was even more traditional, because we were part of a larger conference). Our conference in Costa Rica in 2006 went furthest into novel directions; it was entirely based on Open Space Technology and it was great. In other words, we attempt to find new and innovative forms for conferences, more dignified forms. And we usually have no calls for papers and no traditional presentations for our outside-of-NY conferences.
Everybody is always welcome tosend in their proposed topics to be included on the Open Space Sections in our future conferences! You are also warmly invited to send in an abstract! Or, even better, a full paper ready to be submitted to our HumanDHS journal! In other words, at the end, the outcome of our outside-of-NY conferences can be similar to more traditional conferences, with publishable papers emerging from the Open Space discussions!
Welcome to the Holocaust Centre! (Please click on the pictures to see them larger! They were taken on 5th October 2007)
Bergen, picture taken from http://www.visitbergen.com/ (please click on the picture to see it larger)
On Sunday 29th June, in the evening after our working lunch at the Chr. Michelsens Institute in Bergen, we thought to embark on the northbound coaststeamer Hurtigruten taking a magnificent two day fjord and mountain tour landing on 1st July in Trondheim. On board, we would continue our conference in the vessel's conference hall. We reserved cabins on especially wonderful MS Finnmarken!
Norwegian mountains and fjords. Picture taken from http://www.cruisenorway.com/ (please click on the picture to see it larger)
One can return from Trondheim to Oslo by train or plane.
Trondheim in Nordlys/Aurora borealis. Picture taken from http://www.trondheim.com/ (please click on the picture to see it larger)
For the days in Oslo, inexpensive (and basic) accommodation needed to be found, like on the theater ship Innv