2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
representing the
Twelfth Annual HumanDHS Conference
and the Fifth Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
New York, Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street, Milbank Chapel
(subway 1, exit 116th Street)
December 11-12, 2008
(continuation of the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Workshops, see a compilation of all NY workshops)
• Thursday, December 11, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
• Public Event on Thursday evening, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Friday, December 12, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
A short version of the program for print-out
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 between HumanDHS and ABSF in 2006)
Our Conference Has Two Parts:
• Public Event - Everybody Is Always Warmly Invited to Attend!
Thursday, December 11, 2008, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, Milbank Chapel (subway 1, exit 116th Street)
Refreshments, a chance to mingle and meet
• Closed Workshop
Thursday and Friday, December 11-12, 2008, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Columbia University, Teachers College, Milbank Chapel
This part of our workshop is closed. You are warmly invited to get in touch with us, if you wish to participate.
• Where to stay!
• Everybody is kindly asked to please arrange for your housing yourself. (Please see here the subway map of NY.) Please see Accommodations in and around the Columbia University neighborhood (we thank Tony Jenkins for allowing us to use his compilation!)
• 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 also Couchsurfing.com.
• Please see furthermore Sara's New York Homestay, through which international students, visitors, interns or executives who come to New York (also Los Angeles, Paris or London) for a short period of time (1 to 12 months) can find a place to stay (four weeks Manhattan 1500 USD, one week 900 USD, less outside Manhattan; when you write to them, convey greetings from Evelin: I visited their office on November 19, 2007, and presented our HumanDHS group to Bernard Zagdanski, Sara’s husband).
• Green Conference
Lynn King kindly shares with us advice as to how to organise a "Green Conference"!
• What Happened in Our Previous Conferences?
Please have a look at all our previous conferences and at the newsletters written after these conferences! See newsletter Nr. 10, compiled subsequent to the 2007 workshop.
Overview
Frame
• Rationale
• How We Go About
• Frame
• List of Conveners
Program
• Public Event: Everybody is always 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
• Pictures
• Newsletters
• Compilation of all NY workshops
•
Workshop Notes & Documentation
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 conferences, 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 appropriate, 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 conferences 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 conferences.
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 conferences. 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 Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
All participants are warmly invited to send in their papers as soon as they can.
We would be grateful if you could help us by formatting your contribution as follows:
1. Title: bold and in a large font.
2. The author's name under the title, proceded by a copyright sign (©).
3. In case the text is longer than one page: A footer for the name of the author, and a header for the title and the page number (in Word, you can use View > Header and Footer > Page Setup > Different first page, etc.).
4. Spacing: Single-spacing.
5.
For non-natural English speakers who need support to make a text readable, please let us know and we try to find help.
5. The final Word document needs to be transformed into a Pdf file (use, for example, http://convert.neevia.com/), and given a name. Please use your family name, and then identify the conference, in case of the 2008 NY workshop, this would read as follows: "FamilynameNY08meeting."
6. Please send us both you Word and Pdf files. Thank you!
Frame
by Linda Hartling, 2004, Ph.D., Director, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
In our conferences 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 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 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" (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 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.
Please see furthermore Buddhist Teachings on Right Speech, which relate to our quest for appreciative enquiry, caring and being.
List of Conveners
Aldo Civico, Ph.D., and Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D.
Aldo Civico has taken over from Andrea Bartoli as Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), and as Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN) in 2007. Andrea Bartoli is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (Dr. med.), Ph.D. (Dr. psychol.)
Social Scientist, Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), recipient of the 2006 SBAP Award, affiliated, among others, with the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, New York, furthermore with the the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway, and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; teaching in South East Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and other places globally.
Linda Hartling, Ph.D.
Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), formerly Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA. Linda Hartling is also 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.
Program
Day One, Thursday, December, 13, 2007
9.15 am Registration Starts
10.00 am Welcoming All Participants
Aldo Civico, Ph.D., and Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D., current and former Directors of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and Chairmen of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), and Peter T. Coleman, Director of the International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University, welcome the participants.
Donald 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.
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 honor 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.
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 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 Present Themselves
11.30 am - 12.30 pm Introductory Presentation
Evelin Lindner, Founding President of HumanDHS
This talk has two parts, related to Evelin's two roles. Her first role is to be the principal convener of this workshop and our overall HumanDHS network, together with Linda. Her second role is to be one HumanDHS researcher among many. Respectively, the first part of her talk addresses the overall aim of our HumanDHS work (see here a transcription), while the second part gives a very brief introduction to her theory of humiliation. She uses a particularly broad lens, both with respect to the length of history (entire history of Homo sapiens) she includes, as well as with respect to its transcultural approach. Her theory highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics (unprecedented significance of the phenomenon of humiliation) 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 the second part, Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force? 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 Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007
Please see also a new paper, prepared for this workshop: The Need for a New World
12.30 pm - 1.15 pm Catered Lunch & Art Show & Announcements
Catering Coordinator: Tonya Hammer
Linda Hartling announces:
• May we share the great news with you that we now have non-for profit status! (So far not yet globally - as we would wish for - but, to start with, in NY state.) Please see our Contributions page! We all thank Nitza, Linda and Rick for their incredible work to make this happen!
• 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.
Philip Brown announces:
• 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 announces:
• Please welcome and celebrate Linda Hartling’s leadership! She is our new HumanDHS Director! (Evelin remains the HumanDHS Founding President). A big welcome to you, dearest Linda!
• Please welcome and celebrate Michael Britton’s leadership of the Global Coordinating Team, especially his compassionate approach walking the talk of human dignity. Michael is the HumanDHS Director of "Global Appreciative Culturing." A big welcome to Michael!
• We have two yearly conferences, the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict in December at Columbia University in NY, and an outside-of-the-US conference. This year this conference took place in Norway , in April 2007. Our next conference will be in Hawaii in August 2009!
• Good news for our work to promote equal dignity for all and transcend humiliation! We can be particularly proud that the journal Choice characterized the book Humiliation and International Conflict as a path-breaking book, and that it was chosen as one of the "Outstanding Academic Titles" in 2007! It is the first book on humiliation and conflict. Thanks to YOUR inspiration and support, this has been possible!
• Global Coordinating Team: We need more helpers, people 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!
• Good news for our Office Cockpit Project! We have a Director and Coordinator! Please welcome Sigurd Støre!
• 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 (we no longer take notes but do video taping)!
• We need NY homestays for our participants!
1.15 pm - 3.00 pm Round Table 1: How is Humiliation Relevant to Destructive Conflict?
Moderators: Michael Britton & Beth Fisher-Yoshida (Moderators are invited to temporarily switch into the role of discussants if they wish)
Seating Manager: Rick Slaven
Helpers: Michael Britton, Jennifer Kirby, Robert English, Antoinette Errante, Doris Brosnan, Tony Gaskew, Hua-Chu Ye
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a supporter, and an observer.
We liked the Round Table discussion format we first used in our 2004 NY conference. 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.
We kindly invite the moderators to summarize the discussion immediately following the Round Table discussion, and to identify
1. three "Key Learning Points" from the discussion,
2. one question/consideration for continued inquiry,
3. one idea for action.Participants:
• Adrienne Asch
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Bioethics (2008)• Aldo Civico and Andrea Bartoli
Deconstructing International Deadly Conflicts (2004)• Peter T. Coleman
Conflict and Humiliation (2004, together with Jennifer Goldman)• Shibley Telhami
History and Humiliation (2003)• Adenrele Awotona
Integrating Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies into graduate programs: A case study of UMass-Boston (2008)• 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)
Humilation in Asymmetric Conflict (2008)• 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)• Virgina Swain and Michiko Kuroda (Joseph Baratta is unfortunately hindered)
A Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service (2008)• Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)• Michael Britton
Connecting the Deep Personal Experiences of Being in Historical Contexts with Reaching Outward Around the Globe (2006)• Jack Goldstone (unfortunately hindered to join us)
Conflict Among Civilizations 500 BC - 2030 AD (2008)Please see here the supporters of all three Round Tables
Round Table 1, 2007
Round Table 1 in 2007 was entitled How is Humiliation Relevant to Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were Michael Britton & Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound Table 1, 2006
Round Table 1 in 2006 was entitled How is Humiliation Relevant to Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were Donald Klein & Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound 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.
3.00 pm - 3.15 pm The Moderators Summarize the Round Table Discussion and Identify
1. three "Key Learning Points" from the discussion,
2. one question/consideration for continued inquiry,
3. one idea for action.
3.15 pm - 3.30 pm Small Break
3.30 pm - 4.30 pm Moving into Action!
We Make the Next Step in Our Global Dignity & Humiliation Assessment Initiative
We discuss our Global Dignity & Humiliation Assessment Initiative. Our aim with this session is to pool the efforts of all participants and make a plan for the next steps that we need to take during the coming year.
See here a Background Document. Many suggested at our 2005, 2006 and 2007 conferences that we need to find a way to measure dignity and humiliation in societies so that we can show to policy makers that humiliation is relevant and needs to be included into public policy making (see also our Public Policy for Equal Dignity project). Ultimately, all institutions (from marriage to the United Nations) need scrutiny and restructuring so as to prevent that they have humiliating effects.• Linda Hartling
- Humiliation: Assessing the Specter of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, Doctoral dissertation, Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1996.
- Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, first published by: The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1999, 19(4): 259-278.• Emanuela C. Del Re
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security (2007)• Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, with her measuring-related expertise in factor analysis.
• Jennifer S. Goldman
The Differential Effects of Collective-level vs. Personal-level Humiliating Experiences (2007)
Doctoral dissertation in Social-Organizational Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, focusing on the role that humiliation plays in exacerbating violent social conflict.• Floyd Webster Rudmin
Preventing Inadvertent Humiliation (2006)
Six Research Designs on Humiliation (2005)• Lee Beaumont
Metrics - A Practical Example, and Thoughts on a Measurements Plan (2007)
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.• Michael Sayler
Tracking Humiliation with CMM (2007)
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.• Sabina Alkire and Emma Samman (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
Shortlisted Indicators on Humiliation, and a Note Explaining Research Interests and Progress to Date at OPHI (2007)
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007 (see also a Paper on Shame and Humiliation (2007) by Diego Zavaleta Reyles).• Hroar Klempe & Torbjørn Rundmo (Department of Psychology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
The Reliability and Validity of a Measurement Instrument of Culture Defined As Symbol Exchange (2007)
Contribution 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.• Sophie Schaarschmidt
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.• Maggie O'Neill
Maggie's theoretical concept of ethno-mimesis (the inter-connection of sensitive ethnographic work and visual re-presentations) is a methodological tool as well as a process for exploring lived experience, displacement, exile, belonging and humiliation.
• Lone Alice Johansen
African Solutions to African Intergroup Conflicts: Ubuntu and Humiliation - A Study of Ubuntu and Its Effect on Perceived Humiliation in a Interactive Track Two Dialogue Seminar (2007)• Williman McConochie
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...
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
4.30 pm - 5.00 pm Wrapping Up Day One
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 Is Invited!
• 5.00-5.30 pm Reception
We have refreshments!
We mingle and meet!
Please Welcome Our Participating Visual Artists
• 5.30-5.45 pm Musical Introduction with Narimono Music by Mariko Watabe (stage name Katada Kimisen)
• 5.45-6.00 pm Linda Hartling Welcomes Everybody
6.00 - 6.30 pm Honored Presentation History and Humiliation
Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident Senior Fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution
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."
• 6.30-7.30 pm Panel & Discussion
Brief presentations by panelists followed by an open discussion with all of the evening's speakers
• Appreciative Enquiry and Humiliation
by Linda Hartling, 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 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 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.
Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.• The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Intergroup Reconciliation
by Arie Nadler, Professor of Social Psychology, Dean, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Please see:
- Intergroup Reconciliation: Effects of Adversary’s Expressions of Empathy, Responsibility, and Recipients’ Trust, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006, 32 (4, April), pp. 459-470, together with Ido Liviatan.
- Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation, to appear in: A. Nadler, T. Malloy & J.D. Fisher (eds.) Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, together with Nurit Shnabel, 2006.
- Inter-Group Helping as Status Organizing Processes: Implications for Inter-Group Misunderstandings, in press in: Demoulin, S., Leyens, J.P. & Dovidio, J.F. (Eds.): Intergroup Misunderstandings: Impact of Divergent Social Realities. Washington, DC: Psychology Press, April 2007, revised version, together with Samer Halabi, and Gal Harpaz-Gorodeisky.• The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security
by Emanuela C. Del Re, Professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the first University of Rome, “La Sapienza,” Italian scholar specialized in geopolitics and security issues, who has been working on religious terrorism in the last few years. She is a member of the European Stability Initiative (ESI).
• Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?
Evelin Lindner, Founding Director and President of HumanDHS
If you wish to learn more about the overall aim of the HumanDHS work, please read a transcription of Evelin's explanations that were part of her introductory presentation this morning. If you wish to see a brief introduction to her theory of humiliation, please see the first issue of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007.
• 7.30-8.00 pm Farewell lead by Linda Hartling, with Gabrielle Roth, the dancer/author/teacher/ and creator of the 5 Rhythms practice
On gabrielleroth.com, we read: Gabrielle Roth has turned thousands of people across the globe on to the inner, healing rhythms of their dancing souls, the creative brilliance of their innate originality and the unexpected daring to express themselves in theater, dance and poetry. Through her movement philosophy, the 5Rhythms®, Gabrielle and her certified teachers world-wide have helped people of all ages discover that when you put the psyche in motion, it heals itself. Based in New York City, Gabrielle has written three books, produced three DVDs and 20 albums. Through her ongoing interactive-live theater, catalytic classes and workshops around the world, Gabrielle continues to inspire and guide people on the path of shaping life itself into a work of art. She has been featured in Bazaar, Donna Karan's Woman to Woman, Utne Reader, Self, Elle, Mademoiselle, New Age Journal, Body Mind Spirit, Shape and many other national publications.
5Rhythms communities are flourishing from Croatia to Korea, from Maui to Manhattan, from Toronto to Tel Aviv.
• 8.00 pm End of Our Public Event!
Day Two, Friday, December 14, 2006
10.00 am Welcoming All Participants
10.30 am - 11.15 am Michael Britton kindly accepted our invitation to hold our Don Klein Memorial Lecture for Don's originally planned lecture 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.
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.
11.15 pm - 1.00 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 supporter, and an observer.
Moderators: Antoinette Errante & Philip Brown (Moderators are invited to temporarily switch into the role of discussants if they wish)
Seating Manager: Rick Slaven
Helpers: Michael Britton, Jennifer Kirby, Robert English, Antoinette Errante, Doris Brosnan, Tony Gaskew, Hua-Chu Yen
Participants:
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)• Michael L. Perlin
International Human Rights Law, Persons with Mental Disabilities, and the Humiliation Factor (2008)• Ya'ir Ronen
On Dignity, Humiliation, Non-violent Struggle and Israeli Jewish Identity (2008)• James W. Jones
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Psychology of Religion (2008)• Anie Kalayjian
Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)• Tonya Hammer
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Myths, Stereotypes, and Controlling Images in Film (2008)
- The Global Impact of Humiliation on Relationships and World Peace, presentation proposal together with Dana Comstock to the Third International Women's Peace Conference, Dallas, Texas U.S.A., July 10-15, 2007.• Seema Shekhawat and/or Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Viewing Kashmir Conflict through the Prism of Dignity and Humiliation (2008)• Antoinette Errante
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Educational Policy & Leadership (2008)• Philip Brown
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Character Education (2007)• Helen Benedict
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Women's Issues, Race, and Literature (2008)• Ginger Lerner-Wren
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Mental Health Courts (2008)
• Alice Nduwimana
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Peace Process in the Great Lakes (2008)• Patty and Paul Richards
Dignifying Gender Relations in our World (2008)• Jennifer Goldman
Humiliation and Aggression (2006)
A Theoretical Understanding of How Emotions Fuel Intractable Conflict: The Case of Humiliation (2005, together with Peter T. Coleman)• Maria Volpe
The Association for Conflict Resolution Crisis Intervention online newsletter featured this presentation in its 2006 February issue.• Edward Emery
Malignant Shame and the Role of Psychic Deadness in Its Genesis in Relationship to the Thinning of Attachment Bonds (2007)• Elena Mustakova-Possardt
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Consciousness of Global Citizenship (2008)Unfortunately hindered to join us:
• Mitja Zagar (unfortunately hindered to join us)
Reconciliation and its Impacts on Peace in the Balkans: Success or Failure? (2008)• Bertram Wyatt-Brown (unfortunately hindered to join us)
- Trials of Humiliation and Depression in George Orwell's Life and Novel 1984 (2008)
- T. E. Lawrence, Honor and Humiliation in the Middle East (2007)
- The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman” (2006)• Anne Wyatt-Brown (unfortunately hindered to join us)
- A Holocaust Narrative of Humiliation and Resilience
- A Challenge to Medical Hierarchies (2007)
- Humiliation in My Brother’s Image (2006)
Please see here the supporters ofall three Round Tables
Round Table 2, 2007
The title of Round Table 2 in 2007 was How can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning and for cultivating positive social change?
The moderators were Maggie O'Neill & Philip Brown
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound Table 2, 2006
The title of Round Table 2 in 2006 was How can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning and for cultivating positive social change?
The moderators were Maggie O'Neill & Philip Brown
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound 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
1.00 pm - 1.15 pm The Moderators Summarize the Round Table Discussion and Identify
1. three "Key Learning Points" from the discussion,
2. one question/consideration for continued inquiry,
3. one idea for action.
1.15 pm - 2.00 pm Catered Lunch & Announcements
Catering Coordinator: Tonya Hammer
2.00 pm - 3.45 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 supporter, and an observer.
Moderators: Emanuela C. Del Re & Arie Nadler (Moderators are invited to temporarily switch into the role of discussants if they wish)
Seating Manager: Rick Slaven
Helpers: Michael Britton, Jennifer Kirby, Robert English, Antoinette Errante, Doris Brosnan, Tony Gaskew, Hua-Chu Yen
Participants:
• Kenneth Suslak
Psychological and Research Perspectives on Reconciliation Models: Dealing with the Impact of War and Political Oppression on Children (2008)• Jacqueline Howell Wasilewski
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Global Dialogue (2008)• Annette Anderson-Engler
- Constructing and Reconstructing Narratives – A Passageway to Personal Meaning and Social Change (2007)
- Displaced Identity and Humiliation in Children of Vietnam Veterans (2005)• Garry Davis
- Garry Davis’s Speech at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict (2007)• George Woods
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Developing New Non-Western Psychology (2008)• Michael Greene
How to Walk the Talk (2008)
The Role of Humiliation for the Generation of Violence (2007)• Eric Marcus
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Managing Organizations (2008)• James T. Shanahan
Tactical Communication to Promote Professional Public Interaction (2008)• Brian Trautman
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace Education (2008)• Joseph Martz
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Pro-active Conflict Intervention (2008)• Gay Rosenblum-Kumar
Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy (2004)
Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public Policy for Disaffection or Cohesion? (2005)• Grace Feuerverger
- The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village (2005)
- Grace also presents her second book Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (2007)• 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)• Victoria C. Fontan
Shame, Humiliation, and Violent Conflict (2007)• Rosita Albert
Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization (2006)• Aura Sofia Diaz
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Mind and Peace (2007)• Kathleen Freis
Sharing the Challenges of Hierarchical School Structures As they Relate to Human Dignity (2007)• Ragnvald Kalleberg
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Discourse Ethics (2008)• Arie Nadler
- Intergroup Reconciliation: Effects of Adversary’s Expressions of Empathy, Responsibility, and Recipients’ Trust, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006, 32 (4, April), pp. 459-470, together with Ido Liviatan.
- Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation, to appear in: A. Nadler, T. Malloy & J.D. Fisher (eds.) Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, together with Nurit Shnabel, 2006.
- Inter-Group Helping as Status Organizing Processes: Implications for Inter-Group Misunderstandings, in press in: Demoulin, S., Leyens, J.P. & Dovidio, J.F. (Eds.): Intergroup Misunderstandings: Impact of Divergent Social Realities. Washington, DC: Psychology Press, April 2007, revised version, together with Samer Halabi, and Gal Harpaz-Gorodeisky.• Emanuela C. Del Re
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security (2007)Unfortunately hindered to join us:
• Maggie O'Neill (unfortunately hindered to join us)
Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (2007, see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk)• Daniel L. Shapiro (unfortunately hindered to join us)
The Nature of Humiliation (2004)• Carlos E. Sluzki (unfortunately hindered to join us)
- Analysis of an Extraordinary Political Discourse (2007)
- Humiliation and the Moral Authority to Exert Violence upon Others (2007)
- 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)• Uichol Kim (unfortunately hindered to join us)
The Role of Human Dignity in Promoting Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge - Humiliation as a Basis for Dehumanization, Conflict and Destruction (2008)
Please see:
- Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Korea: Psychological, Political and Cultural Perspectives, with Henriette Sinding Aasen & Geir Helgesen, Seoul: Kyoyook Kwahaksa, 2001.
- Democracy, Human Rights, and Islam in Modern Iran: Psychological, Social and Cultural Perspectives, with Henriette Sinding Aasen & Shirin Ebadi, Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 2003.
- Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context, with Kuo-Shu Yang & Kwang-Kuo Hwang, Series Editor: Anthony Marsella, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, New York. NY: Springer Science+Business Media, 2006.• Dennis Rivers with John Calvi (unfortunately hindered to join us)
Torture, Technological Humiliation and the Relevance of The Geneva Conventions in Today's World (2008)
Please see here the supporters of all three Round Tables
Round Table 3, 2007
The title of Round Table 3 in 2007 was What Works? What Types of Social Change Efforts Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation While Upholding the Dignity of All People?
The moderators were Emanuela C. Del Re & Carlos E. Sluzki
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound Table 3, 2006
The title of Round Table 3 in 2006 was What Works? What Types of Social Change Efforts Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation While Upholding the Dignity of All People?
The moderators were Nora Femenia & Kathleen Freis
Please see the participants and their contributions hereRound 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
3.45 pm - 4.00 pm The Moderators Summarize the Round Table Discussion and Identify
1. three "Key Learning Points" from the discussion,
2. one question/consideration for continued inquiry,
3. one idea for action.
Supporters of All Three Round Tables
• Kenneth Parsons +
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Systemic and Structural Violence (2008)• Jill Strauss +
Validating Humiliation through Art and Storytelling (2008)• Cesar Gayoso
Taking Down the Tupac Amaru: A Personal Account (1997), published by the International Bulletin of Political Psychology (IBBP). The full article can be accessed at the electronic address here.• Judit Révész & Ikhlaq Hussain
• Tony Gaskew, Ph.D.
• Sarwar Alam
The Genesis of Islamic Extremism in Bangladesh (2008)• Liz Wald
• Chipamong Chowdhury (family name), or Bhante Revata (monk's name, known in the monastic communities)
Inner Peace and Outer Peace: A Buddhist Contemplative Perspective (2008)• Jennifer Kirby & Robert English
• Navaraj Pudasaini (unfortunately hindered to join us in 2007 and 2008)
Deteriorating Rights Situation in Nepal (2007)• Noella Nicimpaye, Rosetta Musimwa Lusiku, Eloi Ntunzwenayo, via Alice Nduwimana
They were unfortunately hindered to join us:
• Zuzana Luckay• Maurice Benayoun
The Dialogue House (2008)• Sharon Burde
The Role of Women in Addressing the Impact of Humiliation and Changing Course (2007)
4.00 pm - 4.15 pm Small Break
4.15 pm - 5.00 pm Wrapping up Day Two of Our Workshop
Everybody shared ONE thing that he or she took home from our workshop!
If we have more time in our next workshop, we wish to also collect ideas for collective planning about how to cooperate during the year, until we meet again in 2008. 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 between HumanDHS and ABSF.
5.00 pm End of Day Two of Our Workshop
List of Participants
(in all NY workshops so far, with their personal messages to the other participants)
Papers
All participants are warmly invited to send in papers.
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.
Please see earlier submitted papers here:
• List of All Publications
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
Preliminary Papers/Notes
Please see further down the papers/notes that participants send in prior to the workshop so that everybody can get acquainted with all others beforehand. (Please see last year's preliminary papers and notes)
See here the work by:
Andrea Bartoli
Linda Hartling
Donald Klein
Victoria Firmo-Fontan
Evelin LindnerSeema Shekhawat and/or Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra (2008)
Viewing Kashmir Conflict through the Prism of Dignity and Humiliation
Abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Kenneth Suslak (2008)
Psychological and Research Perspectives on Reconciliation Models: Dealing with the Impact of War and Political Oppression on Children
Abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Mitja Zagar (2008)
Reconciliation and its Impacts on Peace in the Balkans: Success or Failure?
Outline for a presentation for the conference "Reconciliation and Human Security in the Balkans" of the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) and the UN Peace University in Milocer, Montenegro, 30-31st October 2008.Chipamong Chowdhury (family name), or Bhante Revata (monk's name, known in the monastic communities) (2008)
Inner Peace and Outer Peace: A Buddhist Contemplative Perspective
Abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2008)
rials of Humiliation and Depression in George Orwell's Life and Novel 1984
Abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Anne Wyatt-Brown (2008)
A Holocaust Narrative of Humiliation and Resilience
Abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Uichol Kim (2008)
The Role of Human Dignity in Promoting Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge -
Humiliation as a Basis for Dehumanization, Conflict and Destruction
Paper prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Sarwar Alam (2008)
The Genesis of Islamic Extremism in Bangladesh
Paper prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Tonya Hammer (2008)
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Myths, Stereotypes, and Controlling Images in Film
Abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.Michael Sayler (2007)
Tracking Humiliation with CMM
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Lee Beaumont (2007)
Metrics - A Practical Example, and Thoughts on a Measurements Plan
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Sophie Schaarschmidt (2007)
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Hroar Klempe & Torbjørn Rundmo (Department of Psychology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 2007)
The Reliability and Validity of a Measurement Instrument of Culture Defined As Symbol Exchange
Contribution 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.Sabina Alkire and Emma Samman (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, 2007)
Shortlisted Indicators on Humiliation, and a Note Explaining Research Interests and Progress to Date at OPHI
Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007 (see also a Paper on Shame and Humiliation (2007) by Diego Zavaleta Reyles).Adenrele Awotona (2007)
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Presentation held at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Davis Garry (2007)
Garry Davis’s Speech at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
Speech held at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Nora Femenia (2007)
Healing Humiliation and the Need for Revenge
Paper submitted to the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Navaraj Pudasaini (2007)
Deteriorating Rights Situation in Nepal
Paper submitted to the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Roger Bromley (2007)
Dignity and Hope Versus Humiliation and Despair
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007 (please see here a longer draft for a full paper and a summary).Edward J. Emery (2007)
Musings on Shame and Idolization
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Hassan Abdi Keynan (2007)
Humiliation in the Context of Recent Events in the Horn of Africa
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Bill Leland (2007)
Dignity, Humiliation, and Mutual Empowerment for Fundamental Change
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Florina Benoit & Ashok Gladston Xavier (2006)
The Life of Sri Lankan Refugees A Paradigm Shift
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.David Jones (2007)
Shock and Awe - The impact of working with highly traumatized groups while conducting field work: Utter & Complete Disaster
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Bahija Jamal (2007)
Women Victims of Human Trafficking in Globalized World of Entertainment and Sex Industry: Humiliation of Women Dignity and Existence
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Zuzana Luckay
- The Role of Literature in Human Rights: Studying The Art of the Novel Through the Texts of Milan Kundera, J.M. Coetzee and Ernesto Sabato
Presentation in Durban, South Africa, July 2007
- Violence, Crime and Fear in Contemporary South-African Literature
Presentation at the Violence, Hostility and the Construction of Enemies Conference, 2nd May - 5th May 2007, Budapest, Hungary
- Restoring Social Order in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Role of Public Confession and Private Repentance in the Administration of Transitional Justice
Presentation at the Global Political and Social Order Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006.Maggie O'Neill (2007)
Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk)
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2007)
T. E. Lawrence, honor and humiliation in the Middle East
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
Anne Wyatt-Brown (2007)
A Challenge to Medical Hierarchies
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Jiuquan Han (2007)
"Five Penalties": A Psychological-Cultural-Social-Historical Construct
Paper prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.Michael L. Perlin (2007)
Humiliation and the Criminal Justice System: How Our Desire to Humiliate Contributes to Recidivism and, Ultimately, Injures Victims
Presentation prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.James Edward Jones (2006)
The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation
Note prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.Lone Alice Johansen (2007)
African Solutions to African Intergroup Conflicts: Ubuntu and Humiliation, A Study of Ubuntu and Its Effect on Perceived Humiliation in an Interactive Track Two Dialogue Seminar.Annette Anderson-Engler (2007)
Constructing and Reconstructing Narratives – A Passageway to Personal Meaning and Social Change
Abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
Final Papers
(Please see last year's papers)
Evelin Lindner (2008)
The Need for a New World
Paper prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict representing the Twelfth Annual HumanDHS Conference and the Fifth Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, New York, Columbia University, December 11-12, 2008Arie Nadler (2006), together with Ido Liviatan
Intergroup Reconciliation: Effects of Adversary’s Expressions of Empathy, Responsibility, and Recipients’ Trust
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006, 32 (4, April), pp. 459-470.Arie Nadler (2006), together with Nurit Shnabel
Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation
To appear in: A. Nadler, T. Malloy & J.D. Fisher (eds.) Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.Arie Nadler (April 2007, revised Version), together with Samer Halabi, and Gal Harpaz-Gorodeisky
Inter-Group Helping as Status Organizing Processes: Implications for Inter-Group Misunderstandings
In press in: Demoulin, S., Leyens, J.P. & Dovidio, J.F. (Eds.): Intergroup Misunderstandings: Impact of Divergent Social Realities. Washington, DC: Psychology Press.
Ideas for More Round Table Topics
Your input is very welcome!
Floyd Webster Rudmin:
"Asymmetries in self-perceptions of being the humiliatee versus the humiliator"
"Archetypal humiliation in literature: A survey of English literature teachers"
Annette Engler:
"Constructing Narratives after Violent Conflict"
Annette kindly wrote on March 31, 2006: "I would like to discuss how individuals construct their narratives after traumatic experiences or event."
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk:
"Theory, Method, and Practice of Humiliation Research"
This could also be a topic for our Open Space
Ana Ljubinkovic:
"Assistance and Humiliation"
Varda Mühlbauer:
"Humiliation/Dignity in the Workplace"
"Humiliation/Dignity in the Family"
Zahid Shahab Ahmed:
"Humiliation and Child Sexual Abuse"
Victoria C. Fontan:
"Terrorism and Humiliation" and
"Armed Conflict, Escalation and Humiliation"
Miriam Marton:
"Consequences of Humiliation"
Jörg Calliess:
"How to Prepare 'Non-Psychologists' (Human Rights Defenders, Peace Keepers, etc.) for Dealing with the Trauma of Humiliation in Victims"
Emmanuel Ndahimana:
"Ignorance and Humiliation"
Arie Nadler:
"Justice and Humiliation"
Alicia Cabezudo:
"Interlinking Peace Education and Humiliation Studies: A Bridge for Crossing Borders"
