Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
List of Participants
(in all NY workshops so far, with their personal messages to the other participants)

•  Morton Deutsch, Director Emeritus & E.L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus, International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. Morton Deutsch has a Principle Host Place on the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
His paper for our 2004 workshop, Oppression and Conflict, was first presented at the Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice Working Conference at ICCCR, NY, February 27-29, 2004. Please see here his Foreword to Lindner's Book on Humiliation.

•  David A. Hamburg is President Emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York. David A. Hamburg is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see Learning to Live Together (2004), and the videos of his talk at the Public Event of our 2005 workshop: Education and Humiliation (2005).
David A. Hamburg kindly wrote (June 28, 2005): I appreciate very much your invitation to participate in your conference December 15-16, 2005, at Columbia University, Teachers College. I would, indeed, like to attend. I was not able to do so previously. I am not sure I can be there both days, but at least for one.
I am certainly interested in the basic question your raise as to whether humiliation is relevant to destructive conflict. By the same token, I am interested in the question whether humiliation can be useful in formulating public policy, as well as the matter of best practice models. You challenge all of us in the conflict field in a most constructive way. So, please keep me posted, and I look forward to what will undoubtedly be an important occasion. David.

•  Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland, USA. Shibley Telhami is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. Professor Telhami has written a piece on "History and Humiliation," in The Washington Post, Friday, March 28, 2003, and has written about humiliation in The Stakes: America and the Middle East (Westview Press, 2003; updated version, 2004) which was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the top five books on the Middle East in 2003.
Please see furthermore How The Fighting Stops: Achieving a Sustainable Ceasefire in Lebanon, to which Shibley Telhami explains (03/08/2006): "You may note that in my most recent comment on Lebanon at the Brookings Institution, which was televised in the US, I highlighted the issue of humiliation and suggested that the solution to the problem must be based on a balance between deterrence on the one hand and dignity on the other. The discussion could be watched on video or be read at www.brookings.edu. The transcript can be accessed directly at: http://brookings.edu/comm/events/20060731.pdf."

•  Alan B. Slifka, New York investment manager and philanthropist, founder of the Coexistence Initiative (Brandeis University). His topic for our 2005 workshop was Feeling at Home, Or Not, Depending on Humiliation (2005).

•  Arye Rattner, Professor Arye Rattner, Director of the Center for the Study of Crime Law & Society, University of Haifa.

•  Jennifer Goldman, International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. Jennifer Goldman is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and the Research Team.
Jennifer kindly wrote (June 16, 2005): I support the idea of connecting the theory with practical application, and urge us to think about how what we’re researching and writing about can be applied in real world settings. It could be helpful for us to choose one or a few real world situations that are relevant for people’s work (for example, the situation at Abu Ghraib; or on-going problems of humiliations occurring at national and international boundaries, i.e. airport and road checkpoints in all parts of the world, from the U.S., to Tibet/China, to Israel/Palestine; or workplace-based humiliation) and use the examples to ground our discussions about theory and research... It could also be useful to make distinctions between different types of humiliation, such as individual-level, collective-level, etc. or humiliation that occurs within different settings, such as workplace, international, etc., and to have break-out sessions that focus on those topics.
Structurally, it could make sense to meet all day Thurs, and a half-day on Friday, so we can end on a strong note with most people in attendance on Friday (and perhaps to add an informal dinner on Wed night to extend the social time for those who could make it).
Jennifer kindly wrote (August 29, 2005): Dear Evelin, I hope you're doing well! I've done a bit of brainstorming for topics for the conference, and thought I'd forward them to you (I mentioned these to Peter and Beth as well). Best, Jennifer
Some ideas for small groups/topics for the humiliation conference:
1.
- Does culture affect how people experience humiliating events? If so, how?
- What role do collectivistic vs. individualistic cultures play in how people experience humiliating events?
- Do people's behavioral reactions to humiliation differ depending on whether the humiliation is aimed at them individually versus collectively (i.e., an affront against one's person vs. an affront against one's group)? If so, how might their behavioral reactions differ? (e.g., would one type of humiliation lead people to be respond more aggressively than another?)
2.
- What role do social norms play in how people react, emotionally and behaviorally, to humiliating events?
- What role do social norms play in how people recall, or remember, humiliating events?
3.
- To what degree is humiliation an "identity forming" emotion?
4.
- How does the construct of humiliation differ from the constructs of shame, guilt, embarrassment and other similar emotions?
5.
Methodological considerations:
- How can effective and efficient studies of humiliation be acheived through different methodologies?
- What considerations need to be taken into account when studying humiliation in the field? In the lab? In survey studies?
- How can we simulate studies on humiliation in the lab setting? What are the IRB issues involved?
Please see:
- Peter T. Coleman and Jennifer Goldman, Conflict and Humiliation, note prepared for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
- How Humiliation Fuels Intractable Conflict: The Effects of Emotional Roles on Recall and Reactions to Conflictual Encounters by Jennifer S. Goldman and Peter T. Coleman, work in progress, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005.
- A Theoretical Understanding of How Emotions Fuel Intractable Conflict: The Case of Humiliation by Jennifer S. Goldman and Peter T. Coleman (2005), paper prepared for Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
- Humiliation and Aggression, abstract prepared by Jennifer Goldman for Round Table 2 of the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

•  Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Associate Director, International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA. Beth Fisher-Yoshida is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Beth kindly served as Moderator for our Round Table 1 "What's relevant in a destructive conflict?" in the 2004 and 2005 workshops. Beth furthermore kindly served as Moderator for our Round Table 1 "How is humiliation relevant to destructive conflict?" in our 2006 workshop.
•  Nicholas Kappelhof is an Ed.M. student at Teachers College in the department of Organization and Leadership. His concentration is in public school leadership with a specific concern for urban school reform. For the past five years he has taught English Language Arts grades 7-12 in Brooklyn and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nicholas comes to this workshop looking to explore how issues of humiliation and shame may undermine contemporary education reform efforts and how a greater sense of dignity can be cultivated in struggling urban communities through compassionate educational opportunities. Please see How Humiliation and Shame May Undermine Education Reform Efforts, note prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict.

•  Janet Gerson, Acting Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Janet Gerson is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.

•  Tony Jenkins, Peace Education Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
Tony Jenkins is an Academic Advisor on the HumanDHS Research Team, for our upcoming Terrorism and Humiliation Project and our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. He is also a Member of our Education Team.

•  Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. from N.Y.U. Judy is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. She is currently teaching in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Teachers College, and at Columbia Medical School, where she coordinates international training programs. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Judy is an NGO representative to the United Nations for two international organizations - the International Association of Applied Psychology and the World Council for Psychotherapy. She works extensively throughout the world giving workshops on healthy relationship as well as on peace, tolerance and trauma recovery, including after 9'11 in America. Honored for her work after 9'11, she was featured in the Red Cross campaign, and as a spokesperson for the American consulate abroad. She has provided mental health support after disasters worldwide, like SARS in China, an earthquake in Australia, tensions in Serbia, bombings in Jerusalem, and most recently with Dr. Anie Kalayjian and the Mental Health Outreach Program in Sri Lanka after the tsunami. They co-moderated a workshop, "Achieving Collective Security:  Partnerships to prevent fear, violence, genocide and terrorism through targeting the MDG goals" at the 58 th Annual Conference for Non-Governmental Organizations at the United Nations this past September.
In her extensive international work, Dr. Judy is also a visiting professor at Peking University Health Sciences Center in Beijing China and the Department of Psychiatry at Hong Kong University. In China many times a year, she consults for the China Center for Reproductive Health Instruction in Shanghai, and trains doctors all over China, and appears often on China 's CCTV. She gives workshops on AIDS prevention for teens, couples counseling, and plenary addresses on peace and trauma recovery, around the world from India to Dubai and recently in Tehran, Iran, and at meetings on the State of the World Forum, and has been awarded the first "International Outreach award" from the American Women in Radio and TV. Trained in Buddhist shamanism, she has developed unique therapeutic interventions integrating eastern and western traditions. Author of innumerable articles in professional journals and over 10 books on dating and relationships translated in many languages, like the "Complete Idiots Guide to A Healthy Relationships, Dr. Judy has contributed psychological chapters to "Access: Emergency Survival Handbook," and is currently working on a book about Healing between Palestinians and Israelis from a psychosocial point of view, to be published by Praeger Press. 
Also a journalist, and well-known as "Dr. Judy" to millions of fans from her nightly radio advice shows for over 22 years, she has also been a TV reporter on CBS-TV, hosted a show "Money and Emotions" on CNBC TV, and been a guest on innumerable news and talk shows from Oprah to Larry King, Court TV, and CNN. In print she has been a columnist for the Chicago Trubune Womens News, the Los Angeles Times syndicate, Advertising Age and Boardroom Reports, and currently writes advice columns for the New York Daily News, the Singapore Straits Times and China 's Trends Health Magazine. She has been featured in publications from People Magazine to Cosmopolitan and the New York Times.
Please see the note Judy prepared for Round Table 2 of our 2005 workshop: Psychosocial Aspects of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict. Please see also the abstract Judy prepared for Round Table 2 of our 2006 workshop: Transforming Conflict and Humiliation to Heal Hearts in the Holy Land: People-to-People Projects to Build Peace, Coexistence and Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis.

•  Maria Volpe, Professor and Director, CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, USA. Maria is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Maria kindly wrote (June 11, 2005): Dear Evelin....Great hearing from you. I have marked my calendar so I can participate in the Workshop this year. I am looking forward to it and seeing you again. Did you want the workshop posted on the NYC-DR listserv? Not sure if this is an event by invitation or if it is open to those who are interested. Let me know....With warmest regards, maria.
Maria gave the following presentation at our 2005 workshop: Conflict and Humiliation: The Simplicities of Reversing Destructive Conflict. The Association for Conflict Resolution Crisis Intervention online newsletter featured this presentation in its 2006 February issue.

•  Donald Klein, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Donald Klein was a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team. He has furthermore been the Director of our Education Team since 2001.
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.
- Please see here Community MetaFunctions and the Humiliation Dynamic, a paper that Don presented at ou 2nd Annual Meeting on Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Paris, France, September 16-18, 2004.
Please see also Appreciative Psychology: An Antidote to Humiliation, a final paper Don prepared for our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. Please see here also The Humiliation Dynamic: Looking to the Past and Future, the paper that Don presents at the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. Please see also his New Years Greetings: 2006!
Don kindly wrote (July 4, 2005): Hello, Evelin -- I agree that the roundtable approach worked very well and should prove to be equally profitable at the December 2005 meeting. The Open Space approach is not something, however, that will work well if "tucked in" between scheduled sessions that have been preplanned. To be successful, Open Space requires a general over-all topic that is of interest and importance to all participants. It needs at least a full day, during which there can be three or four rounds of discussion groups on aspects of the general topic that are proposed by participants themselves. If we were to use Open Space, an overall topic that would be of great interest to me has to do with developing effective approaches to dealing with those groups and nations that inflict humiliation on other groups or nations. I'm thinking, for example, of humiliation experienced by Palestinians at Israeli hands, of Irish Catholics' experience of humiliation at Proestant Catholic hands, and of Muslim experience of humiliation at the hands of Christian nations.
I realize that the same overall topic would lend itself to a series of Round Tables similar to the approach we used last year. The Round Table approach has the advantage of making it possible to ask one or more people to develop in advance brief papers that would stimulate subsequent discussion. If one goal is to publish a book of papers and discussions froom the annual conferences, then the Round Table approach seems preferable.
Another topic that would lend itself to Round Table discussions has to do with educational approaches to reducing or eliminating humiliation and promiting human dignity, including, for example, Round Tables on creating humiliation free environments for the education of children, use of media for public education on promoting human dignity, and inter-group methods for dealing with humiliating intercommunal conflicts.
I also want to add the following possible option, suggested by Alan. If we decide to organize the conference around an Open Space Design, it would still be possible to encourage people (perhaps to get specific commitments from certain ones) to prepare working papers in advance of the conference. These papers might be circulated in advance via internet and also be available at the conference as hard copies. In this way, participants would have the chance to be informed on certain topics, which later individuals might select for the spontaneous discussion groups that are so important to the Open Space design. With love, Don.

•  Rebecca Klein, A graduate of Hampshire College, USA. Rebecca Klein is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Becca is Don's daughter and very kindly maintains our internal database. She has, furthemore, with breathtaking efficiency, prepared the notes for all our past meetings. Unfortunately, she could not be with us in Costa Rica and in our 2006 workshop!

•  Alan Klein, Ellicott City, MD, USA.
Alan Klein supports HumanDHS's work. He is Don's son and Becca's father and has kindly facilitated the "Open Space" Session in our 2004 workshop and our Costa Rica meeting.

• Linda Hartling, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA. Linda Hartling is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, Global Core Team, and Education Team.
Please see here:
- Hartling, Linda M., Luchetta, T. (1999), Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, First Published by: The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278.
- Hartling, Linda M., Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, Judith V. Jordan (2000), Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation, The Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMIT), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College No. 88, Wellesley, MA 02481.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2005), An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, introductory text prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2005), Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2005), Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence, preliminary draft of a paper prepared for Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
- Jordan, Judith, and Hartling, Linda M. (2006), Relationship Tips, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute.
- Hartling, Linda M. (2006), From Humiliation to Appreciation: Walking Toward Our Talk, abstract prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

•  Richard Slaven, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA. Richard Slaven is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and a Member of the HumanDHS Planning Committee. Rick most kindly supports all our meetings. We cannot imagine having a meeting without his help!

•  Hilary Silver, Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Hilary Silver is Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, where she has taught since receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia. Professor Silver has published widely on the topic of "social exclusion," especially for international organizations such as the International Labour Office, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and currently, the Wolfensohn Center at the Brookings Institution. Her empirical research on social exclusion has been conducted at the grassroots neighborhood level in such cities as Paris, Berlin, and of course, Providence, Rhode Island. Her talk today is entitled "Social Exclusion, Humiliation, and Shame."
Please see also: Hilary Silver & S.M. Miller (2003), Social Exclusion: The European Approach to Social Disadvantage, Indicators, 2 (2, Spring), pp. 1-17.

•  Victoria C. Fontan, is the Director of Academic Development, and Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. As a Fellow to the Iraq Project at the CICR in Columbia University, Victoria is in charge of developing a permanent Conflict Resolution curriculum in northern Iraqi universities.
Victoria Fontan is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the Research Team.
Victoria has kindly taken upon her the task to be the editor of our new journal, and to develop edited books with your contributions.
Victoria is also a researcher in our upcoming Terrorism and Humiliation Project. The title of her HumanDHS research project is Humiliation, Conflict Escalation and Terrorism in Post-Saddam Iraq: A Case Study of the Baghdad University Fallujah Refugee Camp.
Please see furthermore The Dialectics of Humiliation: Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq, unpublished draft (not to be cited without author's authorization).

•  Bertram Wyatt-Brown and
•  Anne Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida, now Baltimore, USA. Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Anne Wyatt-Brown are both Members of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Bert kindly wrote (May 27, 2005): My wife and I are both looking forward to coming 15-16 December. Anne Wyatt-Brown is a specialist on the Holocaust and also on aging studies and is now the editor of a new publication in that field. 
Please see here Honor, Shame, and Iraq in American Foreign Policy, note prepared by Bert for our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict. Please see also Bert's abstract The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman”, prepared for the 23rd International Literature and Psychology Conference 2006, by the Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA), University of Florida and the Department of Education, University of Helsinki, and our 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict.
Anne M. Wyatt-Brown kindly wrote (2 November, 2005): Dear Evelin, [...] I plan to talk about the book you mentioned in connection with your parents, A woman in Berlin.  I think it raises issues that need to be addressed about the relativity of humiliation experiences.  Moreover, I wonder if the behavior of her fianc is entirely caused by the loss of honor or fear of her resourcefulness.  Kenneth Kenniston talked about the difficulty American couples had post WWII when husbands returned to households which their wives had run successfully during the war.  These are issues that can be talked about and have application to other situations. Best, Anne.
Please see Anne's abstract prepared for Round Table 2 of our 2005 workshop: A Woman in Berlin: The Complexity of Humiliation at the End of World War II. Please see also her abstract prepared for our 2006 Workshop: Humiliation In My Brother’s Image.
Anne M. Wyatt-Brown kindly wrote (2 May, 2007): Dear Evelin, We would like to be discussants. Bert will talk about T. E. Lawrence, honor and humiliation in the Middle East. I will talk about old age and the necessity of changing medical education so that doctors can help their dying patients more effectively. My talk will be: A Challenge to Medical Hierarchies. It is based on some interesting work by doctors who have written to challenge hierarchies in order to meet the emotional needs of patients. Anne

•  Sara Cobb, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at GMU, Washington, USA. Sara Cobb is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here "Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development, paper prepared for our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
• Manal Radwan, Saudi Embassy, will accompany Sara. She wants to conduct her dissertation on humiliation.

•  Carlos E. Sluzki, Professor at the College of Health and Human Services and at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, and Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical School. Carlos E. Sluzki is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here Elements of Humiliation-Shame Dynamics for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Real-Life Scenarios, draft of presentation at the 2004 Workshop on Humilliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
Please see also:
The Story of the Crying Composer, told at our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY, 2004,
and:
Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation), developed at our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY, 2004.

•  Howard Zehr, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA. Howard Zehr is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here Humiliation, Crime and Justice, note prepared for Round Table 3 of our 2005 Workshop.

•  Monty G. Marshall, PhD, Director, Polity IV and Armed Conflict and Intervention Projects, Research Director, Center for Global Policy, Research Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA.

•  Manas M. Ghanem, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA. Manas is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. Manas M. Ghanem is a researcher in our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. The title of her HumanDHS research project is Iraqi Refugees in Syria and Jordan & Humiliation.

•  Moira Rogers, Eastern Mennonite University, EMU, Virginia, USA. Moira Rogers is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. Moira is both an Academic Advisor for our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project, and has her own project, entitled Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations.

•  Rina Kashyap, Chairperson, Department of Journalism, LSR, Delhi University/
Fulbright Scholar, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, EMU, Virginia. Rina is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Please see Rina's abstract of a paper prepared for Round Table 3 of our 2005 Workshop: The Subversion of the Colonial System of Humiliation: A case study of the Gandhian Strategy.

•  James E. Jones, Manhattanville College, CUNY, USA. James Jones is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see:
- The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts, note prepared for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
- 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.
James kindly wrote (April 30, 2007): To: Evelin, Maggie and Linda, I look forward to attending the fourth DHS workshop at Columbia on Dec 13-14. I hope that my schedule will allow me to be present both days. I found the conference to be EXTREMELY beneficial to my work. Jimmy Jones

•  Gay Rosenblum-Kumar, Public Administration Officer in the Governance and Public Administration Branch, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, USA. Gay Rosenblum-Kumar is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here:
- Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy, note prepared for our 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. See also
- Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public Policy for Disaffection or Cohesion?, note prepared for Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.

•  Patricia O'Hagan, Consultant to DESA, UN, Executive Director - CPDES. Patricia O'Hagan is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see here Humiliation and Resiliency in the Social Integration Process: Towards a model framework and policy dialogue at the United Nations, note prepared for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Day 2, Roundtable: "Can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning?", Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.

•  Maggie O'Neill, Loughborough University, UK. Maggie O'Neill is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHs Global Core Team, the HumanDHS Research Team, the HumanDHS Education Team, where she is part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Maggie is particularly an Academic Advisor to our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. She is furthermore a Member of the Academic Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Please see:
- Re-Imagining Diaspora through Ethno-Mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging (2006). Forthcoming in: Reimagining Diasporas: Transnational Lives and the Media, edited by O. Guedes-Bailey (Liverpool John-Moores University) M. Georgiou (University of Leeds) and R. Harindranath (University of Melbourne). Published by Palgrave Publishers, UK
- Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis, note prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 6th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 15-16, 2005;
- Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR), abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 8th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 14-15, 2006.
Maggie ONeill kindly wrote (March 29, 2007): Hi Evelin and Linda [...] ps v happy to take part as discussant in roundtable 3 - I could present (briefly) on PAR/PA with women who sell sex - see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk - a web-site created by residents who took part in the research - they commissioned research because they were angry and v emotional about sex work on their streets and this is what they created after the research was submitted to Public Health dept....amazing shifts in consciousness and understanding for women selling sex [...].
Please see Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (2007, see www.safetysoapbox.com), Maggie's abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.

•  Floyd Webster Rudmin, University of Tromsø, Norway. Floyd Rudmin is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team.
Floyd kindly wrote (May 30, 2005): It will be a pleasure for me to participate.
Floyd kindly works on three projects:
- World Gender Relations for Equal Dignity
- World Apology for Equal Dignity
and
- Stop Hazing and Bullying.
Please see also:
- the abstract that Floyd prepared for our 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Six Research Designs on Humiliation.
- the abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Preventing Inadvertent Humiliation.

•  Grace Feuerverger, University of Toronto, Canada. Grace Feuerverger is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, of the HumanDHS Research Team, and HumanDHS Education Team.
Please see The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village, paper prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. Grace also presents her second book Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (2007).

•  Sharon Burde, creating and implementing international projects in conflict resolution (in Israel, Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam, Kosovo), teaching at several universities, New York.
Sharon kindly wrote (August 25, 2006): Dear Evelin and Linda, I plan to attend the meeting in NYC Dec. 14-15 and would like to moderate a Roundtable. Since I just started reading your book, I've been thinking of you especially at this moment in time. Sharon
Please see Sharon's contribution to the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, The Role of Women in Addressing the Impact of Humiliation and Changing Course.

•  Myra Mendible, PhD, American Studies
Please see Mediated Humiliations: Spectacles of Power in Postmodern Culture, abstract prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.

•  Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, Ph.D., Researcher, Brunel University, UK. Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera is a Member of the HumanDHS Core Team and Research Team.
Please see Humiliation and Honor, Patricia's note for the Round Table 1 of the 2005 workshop.

•  Neil Altman, New York University, NY, USA. Neil Altman is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Please see his paper for our 2004 workshop Humiliation, Retaliation, and Violence, in Tikkun Magazine, January/February 2004. Neil can be with us only on Friday.

•  Miriam Marton, Lawyer, New York, (formerly Detroit), USA. Miriam Marton is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and the Research Team. She is part of the upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. The title of her HumanDHS research project is The Dual Humiliation of Female Refugees by Sexually Violent, Gender-based Acts.

•  Joseph P. Baratta, Center for Global Community and World Law, Worcester, MA, USA.
Please see:
Joseph P. Baratta (2004)
The Politics of World Federation
Vol.1: The United Nations, U.N. Reform, Atomic Control.
Vol. 2: From World Federalism to Global Governance
Westport, CT: Praeger
Please see here the Introduction to both volumes.
Please see here an editorial on the work of Joseph Baratta and Virginia Swain .

•  Virginia Swain, The Center for Global Community and World Law, Worcester, MA, USA, and Director of The Institute for Global Leadership. Virginia Swain is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. Pleaase see A Proposed Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service (2005), paper originally presented at the 1999 Hague Appeal for Peace on the Panel, Building an Effective World Security System to Enhance the Capacity of the United Nations to Prevent and Resolve Armed Conflict. The Panel was in the Transforming Violent Conflict Strand of the Netherlands conference 100 years after governments met for the same purpose. Please see:
- Virginia Swain and Sarah Sayeed (2005), Reconciliation as Policy: Moving Beyond the Victim-Perpetrator Lens in the United Nations Secretariat and Member States, draft for a chapter for Victoria Fontan's planned book on Humiliation, prepared for Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
- Virginia Swain and Sarah Sayeed (2005/6), Reconciliation as Policy: A Capacity-Building Proposal for Renewing Leadership and Development, update of the draft for a chapter for Victoria Fontan's planned book on Humiliation, prepared for Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
- Virginia Swain and Sarah Sayeed (2006), A Leadership and Practice to Reconcile Challenges in a Post-September 11th World, draft for a paper for the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

•  Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D., Women in Islam, Inc. and The Institute for Global Leadership, with Virginia Swain.

•  Michiko Kuroda, Management Analyst at the UN and former Chief of Staff in the Timor Leste UN Mission, with Virginia Swain.

•  Jean Berchmans Ndayizigiye, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. Jean Berchmans Ndayizigiye is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. He is a researcher in our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. The title of his project is Refugees from the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa & Humiliation.
Jean B. Ndayizigiye kindly wrote (June 8, 2005): I plan to attend the December workshop on Humiliation and violent conflict at Columbia University in New York. All the round tables seem very interesting, I will participate in the RT#2. Avec mon meilleur souvenir, enjoy your Summer. Thanks, Jean B. Ndayizigiye.
Please see his paper written for Round Table 1 of our workshop Humiliation and Violent Conflicts in Burundi.

•  Robert Kolodny, Robert Kolodny & Associates, independent organization development consultant based in NYC.
Robert Kolodny kindly wrote (November 10, 2005):
I am a friend and colleague of Don Klein, who alerted me to the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies group and the December workshop. In addition to my consulting practice, I also teach in a number of professional institutes in the US and abroad and have been on the faculty at Columbia and the New School. My interest in the conference follows from work I have been doing over the past several years on the impact of shame in organizational life. There has been a rediscovery of shame as a primary regulator of the social field among psychotherapists and theorists on human behavior at the individual and family levels. However, there is precious little theory or even awareness of its potent role in groups and organizations. Indeed, the absence itself, I think, tells us something about the invisibility and "shamefulness" of shame in most of Western culture. I am doing this work with a colleague, Cathe Carlson. In June of this year we co-chaired a conference on "Shame and Power in Organizational Life" at the Gestalt International Study Center on Cape Cod. We are preparing an article for publication in 2006.
Robert Kolodny kindly wrote (September 10, 2006):
I would like to be part of a roundtable to talk about "A Gestalt Perspective on Shame and Humiliation." Most of my experience is in workplaces and organizational settings (also conflict resolution in inter-organizational settings) and so does not involve Violent Conflict, which I understand is your focus. At the same time, I have a sense that the perspective I bring would be additive to your deliberations. I did not see the way I understand the human dynamics of shame and humiliation (and the pervasiveness of their influence) reflected in the presentations at last year's conference, although it is certainly consistent with many of the approaches I heard others describe.
Please see A Gestalt Perspective on Shame and Humiliation, summary of presentation to be made at the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University.

•  Ben Alexander, Senior Partner, Alexander Consulting & Training, Inc., Norfolk, VA, Helping organizations meet the challenge of change.
Ben Alexander kindly wrote (on December 4, 2006): In the twenty-four years that I have been working as a consultant and trainer in the area of human resources management I have worked with a wide range of private, government and military organizations on issues of leadership, team building, conflict resolution and creating healthy workplaces free of discrimination, harassment and other forms of disrespectful behavior. In doing this work I have had many experiences with the dynamics of shame and humiliation as they relate to various conflicts within organizational settings. Based upon my experience with the Gestalt Systems and Levels Model, I have often been able to see the critical relationship between the anger acted out by employees who have experienced the humiliation of helplessness that results from working in oppressive systems and the shame-based arrogance of the managers and supervisors who are not able to face the truth of the disrespect that reveals what is really valued in their organizations. The result is a powerful cycle of anger, fear, recrimination, shame and guilty that impairs learning, performance and openness to change. Finding safe ways to get the "truth" on the table so that it can be used constructively to break this cycle has been one of my most difficult challenges.
It is for this reason that I am looking forward to attending the workshop. I feel that hearing these issues discussed will be helpful to me in moving along in my work. To the extent that the discussions in which I may become involved will offer opportunity for me to participate, I hope that I will be able to make a contribution from my experience. Sincerely, Ben

•  Philip Brown, Director of the New Jersey Center for Character Education in
Piscataway, NJ, USA. Philip M. Brown is also a Member in our HumanDHS Education Team.

•  Ana Ljubinkovic, University of Essex, UK. Ana Ljubinkovic is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Board, and Research Team. Please see also From Violent to Subtle Humiliation: Case of Somali Victims of UNOSOM Living in the Refugee Camps in Kenya, note prepared for Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. See furthermore Is Hope the Last to Die? Research Study On The Situational Analysis In The Dadaab Refugee Camps, 2005, and Report on Field Research Conducted in Dadaab Refugee Camps (16.05.05 - 01.06.05), 2005.

•  Ana Prieto has a degree in Social Communication and is currently specializing in Education and Media Language at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She is currently a guest at the International Center for Tolerance Education, an initiative of the Third Millennium Foundation, New York.

•  Kathleen Freis, Education Director, International Center for Tolerance Education, an initiative of the Third Millennium Foundation, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

•  Jinan Nakshabandi graduated from the Technology University in the capital of Baghdad in 1987. She is currently a guest at the International Center for Tolerance Education, an initiative of the Third Millennium Foundation, New York. Jinan stood out as an exceptional woman leader with grand vision for womens empowerment within Jordan and, hopefully, in the future, Iraq.  Please see a bit about Jinan and her organization here, written by a Fulbright student in Jordan. She is also on our website (please scroll down to her name).

•  Thomas Scheff, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Tom kindly wrote (August 25, 2006): Evelin and Linda, Good work! Can't make it to NY, but you have my support and best wishes. Tom.
Tom kindly particpates in our workshop with two papers:
- Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System
- Silence and Mobilization: Emotional/relational Dynamics.

•  Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology at State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.

•  Ada Aharoni, writer, poet, playwright and lecturer, was born in Cairo, Egypt, and now lives in Haifa, Israel. She has published 25 books to date, that have won her international acclaim, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Ada kindly wrote (August 25, 2006): Dear Evelin, Best success! I wish I could be with you. With love, Ada.

•  Lene Lafosse, working on her thesis for the Cand. Polit. degree at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Lene kindly wrote (August 25, 2006): hi Evelin and Linda! thank you so much for the invitation! my activity level this fall-winter is already too high, so i will not be able to come to NY. although i haven't taken an active part yet, the Human dhs group often comes to my mind; i find the perspective of humiliation interesting and it adds a very important dimension to the issues we have as a common interest. i feel i will come forward stronger in the Human dhs network at a later point. i wish you good luck in NY! Best regards, Lene Lafosse.

•  Dennis Rivers, writer/teacher/peace activist who lives in Santa Barbara, teaches communication skills at the Santa Barbara Community Counseling & Education Center, directs the activities of the Institute for Cooperative Communication Skills, and edits several large peace and ecology web sites, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. Due to illness, Dennis had to cancel joining our 2006 workshop in the last minute.
Dennis kindly wrote (August 25, 2006): Dear Evelin, I wish you all the best in your winter gathering. I am enclosing a link to an inspiring article about appreciative inquiry that I feature on the front page of my communication web site. I feel certain that this article has implications for our work. It would cetainly be an interesting study to go into an environment characterised by humiliation and find the few exceptional instances of dignity-granting. According to the article, those "positive deviants" would show the way that dignity-granting might be expanded in that particular environment. Hope you like the article. Many blessings, Dennis.
He kindly adds (August 26, 2006): Dear Evelin, I am delighted that you like the article about the Sternin's and would like to use it as a point of discussion in Costa Rica. What I like so much about the article is that the shift of perspective from problem-oriented to solution-oriented approaches is blazingly clear. It reminds me of the way that the historian of science, Thomas Kuhn, used the Copernican Revolution as an example of a scientific breakthrough that came not from new data but from a new way of putting the old data together. Kuhn's example was so vivid that it was, for me, unforgettable. We need those vivid examples to help us make big Gestalt shifts. I also want to say that I am not advocating appreciative inquiry as a new dogma, as easily happens in the USA with ideas about "positive thinking," especially not now when the USA is torturing and bombing people around the world. So, I want us to be able to talk about problems, but also shift to other perspectives, so that we do not become trapped in the perspectives that underlie our "problem talk." Many blessings, Dennis.
At 12:23 06/10/2006, Dennis Rivers wrote: Dennis kindly wrote (October 6, 2006)
Dear Evelin, [...] I am interested in your response to my "seeds, not diamonds" analogy, in the first paragraph of my statement, which is my way of trying to articulate a social-constructionist point of view in everyday language. I am somewhat tormented by the fact that I cannot make sense any more of concepts such as "inherent" worth, dignity or value.  I see human dignity as a glorious achievement, wherever it is bestowed by one person on another, and an inspiring possibility, worthy of our utmost devotion. But when people use the word "inherent" I am troubled and confused because human dignity has been violated so often, and so horrifically. I will certainly not argue with anybody about using the word "inherent." I just mentally translate it into "glorious achievement and inspiring possibility." Other comments to follow. Many blessings, Dennis
Linda Hartling responded (October 11, 2006):
For me, rather than thinking of human dignity as an individual, internal phenomena, I like to think of human dignity as a co-created experience. It is a experience developed through respectful connection (interpersonal, social, international, etc.) in which people feel known and valued, they feel that they matter....It is our responsibility to participate in the construction of this relational experience for all people. Many hugs! Linda
Please see also Citizens' Coalition to Reaffirm and Extend the Geneva Conventions - Initial Call
by Denis Rivers, dedicated to three of his teachers, Joanna Macy, the late Prof. Walter Capps and the Quaker peace activist, Gene Knudsen Hoffman.

•  Alyi Patrick Lalur (Uganda/UK), currently enrolled for the Masters of Philosophy in International Peace Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace with research interest in Justice and Reconciliation during period of war, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. Alyi Patrick Lalur is Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's Child Soldiers Worldwide Project.
Patrick kindly wrote (August 26, 2006): Dear Evelin, Thank you for this mail and that of yesterday inviting me to the December NY confrence. This is a great opportunity for me and the rest of the team. Let me therefore confirm my attendance by copy of this mail. I will be sending you abstract of my work soon. I will also get back to you regularly in the course of time. Thanks, Patrick.

•  Clark McCauley, Professor of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College, a Director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-director of the National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (NC-START), and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. Author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press, 2006, together with Daniel Chirot)
Please see Understanding Humiliation As Suppressed Anger, abstract prepared for Round Table 1 of our 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

•  Kathleen Modrowski, Professor and Director of the Friends World Program at Long Island University, Southampton Campus, New York, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Kathleen kindly wrote (August 28, 2006): Dear Evelin, So good to hear from you. I am very excited to attend the meeting. I would like to participate in the Roundtable on Humiliation being relevant to destructive conflict. I think I will be a supporter. I spent time in Bosnia this summer and have had a very strong experience in this area. I would like to work it into a case study but I am not sure that I have enough substantive information just yet. The area of the legagy of humiliation in a post convflict situation is very important and I would like to conntinue to work on this. I feel that the "tools" of human rights learning and education are not adequate and need to expand my resources. Much love. Kathleen.

•  Florina Benoit, Associate Director - Praxis, Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad, India. Doctoral Student in Social Work on the quality of life of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in camps in Tamil Nadu. She is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
•  Rev. Fr. Ashok Gladston Xavier, PhD., Former Principal, Loyola College, Chennai, India. He is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Florina kindly wrote (August 29, 2006): Dear Evelin, We (Ashok my husband and myself) would like to attend the meeting on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, kindly let me know what we should do. We would like to make a presentation on the types of social change efforts that show promise in reducing violent conflict and humiliation while upholding the dignity of all people based on our experience in working with the Sri Lankan refugees.
The refugees from Sri Lanka have begun pouring in once more. It is disheartening to hear their stories. I hope this will be a good time to share our experiences with them.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Peace, Florina.
Please see:
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.

•  Øystein Gullvåg Holter, Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Øystein kindly write (August 31, 2006): Kjære Evelin, Jeg vil undersøke på NIKK om det er mulig å få støtte. Hadde vært fint å være med! Hilsen Øystein.

•  Arie Nadler, Professor of Social Psychology, Dean, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Arie Nadler is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, and Research Team. He is an Academic Advisor for our Terrorism and Humiliation Project.
see his paper from our 2004 NY meeting: How Dynamics of Humiliation Can Be Overcome by Apology. See also his talk Assistance in Intercultural Settings and its Links with Dignity and Humiliation at the Public Event of our 2005 Berlin meeting.
- Arie kindly proposes as one of the Round Table topics "Justice and Humiliation." He wrote (April 28, 2005): Dear Evelin, another topic that may be of interest is: "Justice and Humiliation." I refer to the ways in which different principles of justice (mainly retributive vs. restorative justice) are driven by the desire to impose/avoid humiliation on the wrongdoer. I am currently reading some stuff on retributive and restorative justice systems and find myself fascinated by the potential integrative power of the concept of humiliation in such discussions.
- Arie wrote (April 14, 2007): Dear Evelin, TNX. I am attaching a number of papers that are relevant to the work of the network and are also relevant for RT 1, and RT 2 & 3.
- Evelin: Regarding RT 1: I am attaching (1) an empirical paper (with Liviatan) on the effects of “apology” on reconciliation, and (2) a chapter (with my student and co-worker Nurit Shnabel) that is forthcoming in a book which I co-edit and summarizes some ideas on the process of reconciliation between groups, and the Need Based Model of reconciliation. I think that the model is very relevant to our work on humiliation and conflict.
- 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.
- Regarding RT 1 & 2 : You already have my JPSP paper with Halabi (Intergroup Helping as Status relations…). I am attaching a chapter which is less technical and much more relevant to the issue of Humiliation and Assistance and the importance of attending to this link in social-programs on the inter and intra national levels:
- 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.
... Warm regards, Yours, arie

•  Barry Hart, Ph.D., Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University

•  Nick Martin, currently a visiting fellow at the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) campus in Costa Rica. Nick Martin is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Nick kindly wrote (September 9, 2006): I would love to join you all in new york in December if its possible.

•  Victor Adangba, (USA/Ivory Coast) is a Doctoral Student in Moral Theology and Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, USA. Victor Boudjou Adangba is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team. He is a researcher in our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. The title of his project is Immigrants, Refugees in West Africa and Humiliation.
Victor kindly wrote (September 18, 2006): Dear Evelin, I would like to attend the forthcoming meeting in NY, December 14-15, 2006. I would like to look at tribal name calling in Africa and its potential for humiliation and tribal clashes. This is still a project. Please let me know if there is an opening for this conference. Victor.

•  Nora Femenia, Ph.D., Associate Faculty, Florida International University, Miami, FL, U.S.A. Please see Emotional Actor: Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War, in Patrick G. Coy, and Lynne M. Woehrle (Eds.), Social Conflicts and Collective Identities. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.
Nora kindly wrote (September 9, 2006): Dear Linda, Evelin. Many thanks for this answer, I feel that I've found finally a niche where my two fields (CR and Psychology) can coexist and produce...this connection was sorely missing when I got to Syracuse U., in 1989. Nora

•  Merle Lefkoff, faculty member of the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, and President, Ars Publica, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
Please see the note that Merle prepared for our 2005 workshop: When the Butterfly Flaps Her Wings in Gaza.
Merle kindly wrote (June 22, 2005): Thank you so much for the invitation to attend the meeting in December!

•  Dana L. Comstock, Ph.D., St. Mary’s University, Department of Counseling and Human Services, One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

•  Jasmine M. Waddell, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, Boston, USA. Please see the abstract Jasmine has prepared for the 2006 workshop: Ubuntu, Dignity and Humiliation.

•  Roberta Kosberg, Professor, Curry College, USA. Roberta Kosberg is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.

•  Brian Lynch, M.D., Chicago, USA
Brian Lynch wrote (September 26, 2006): I just finished reading "Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Fore?" My answer is yes. I would just like to wish you all well and support and introduce myself and maybe join with you in some small way. I am a physician who came across Silvan S. Tomkins' work through knowing Donald Nathanson, both of which Dr. Lindner referenced. Since then I can say 100 per cent of my efforts have revolved around promoting his ideas. I have reached out as possible through the Internet and with what little contacts I have.
For years I thought that Thomas Friedman has certainly been interesting in his repetition that "humiliation is the greatest single problem in the Middle East" and it is one of the best if not the best examples of how some of the best and crucial information languishes in our midst even while being articulated that there is.
Other than that I try daily to refine a true mind-body medicine made real through Tomkins' idea of biological affect.
My efforts to promote these ideas to the public can be see through what I have done on the web all of which can be reached through: BRIANLYNCHMD
But I would like to draw you attention to some specific sites:
TWELVE STEPS TO JUSTICE
SOME THINGS TOMKINS
TWELVE STEPS TO EMOTIONAL HEALTH
Thank you for any time and or attention you my give this it looks like we are all trying to get to the same place.
Please see Silvan Tomkins' Conceptualization of Humiliation, abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict.
Please see also Notes on a Conference, notes that he prepared after our 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict.

•  Charles Knight, co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute
Charles Knight is co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute, which he helped found in 1987 and where he serves as President. In 1989, he founded the Ground Force Alternatives Project at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, where he was a Research Fellow. The Ground Force Alternatives Project later became the Project on Defense Alternatives. He is also the director of the Progressive Strategies Studies Project. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications and made presentations on peace and security issues at governmental and non-governmental institutions. In the mid 1990s, he served as a consultant to the post-apartheid South African government on stability-oriented security options for southern Africa. Since 2004 he has been studying how conventional male gender identities function in conditions of patriarchy to support the formation of war parties in the politics of national security. Within this he is looking at the potential for change arising from the liberation of other male gender identities.
Charles wrote (October 17, 2006): Dear Evelin: [...] here is what I would like to contribute: very brief remarks in the form of a few propositions regarding the role of humiliation in enforcing conventional masculinity learning and behavior and the potential of a certain type of “men’s movement” for liberating (some portion of) men from the humiliation/violence complex and therefore contributing to a broader movement for positive social change.

•  Judit Révész, Lawyer, Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and Global HumanDHS Staff. Since 2001, Judit supports our work untiringly, every day, actively, as its NY resident, and kindly taking upon herself the important role of the HumanDHS website contact person.

•  Christopher Santee, University for Peace in Costa Rica.

•  Eric C. Marcus, Ph.D., Prinicipal of The Marcus Group, Maximizing Organization, Team & Individual Development, NY, USA

•  Tony Castleman, Food and Nutrition Senior Program Officer, FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance) Project, Academy for Educational Development, Washington DC, USA, and Ph.D. student at George Washington University in development economics with a dissertation topic that is related to humiliation and human dignity. Unfortunately, Tony had to cancel in the last minute.
Please see The Role of Human Recognition in Economic Development: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence, extended abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

•  Jacque Steubbel, journalist, working on a theological advanced degree at the University of the South, Sewanee, planning to move on to a PhD in Middle Eastern history.

•  Michael L. Perlin, Professor, Director, International Mental Disability Law Reform Project
Director, Online Mental Disability Law Program, New York Law School, New York, NY. Michael is a member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and HumanDHS Education Team.
- Please see "Friend to the Martyr, a Friend to the Woman of Shame": Thinking About The Law and Humiliation, the presentation that Michael prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University.
- Please see Humiliation and the Criminal Justice System: How Our Desire to Humiliate Contributes to Recidivism and, Ultimately, Injures Victims, the presentation that Michael prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University.

• Sibyl Ann Schwarzenbach, Associate Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York (Baruch College and the Graduate Center). Sibyl is a member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.

•  Noel Mordana, New York USA. Noel participated in ORLJ 4859, Conflict Resolution & the Psychology of Humiliation Fall 2004, Nov 12-14, with Evelin Lindner.

•  Melissa Gage, New York US, bilingual high-school junior dedicated to peace. Please see Different Types of Humiliation Elicit Different Emotional, Cognitive And Behavioral Reactions, the note Melissa prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict.

•  Judith Thompson, Frontiers of Social Healing Dialogue, USA. Judith is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Judith Thompson kindly wrote (13th June, 2005): Dear Evelin: Don Klein suggested that I contact you about the conference in Berlin in September. I have recently completed my doctoral dissertation on on the question of how compassion arises in the process of social healing. Don was my reader. I was very pleased that he thought the dissertation was "exemplary" (to use his words) and that it he thought I could both gain from and contribute to the conference.
In my work I had a section on humiliation, noting that the recent interest in understanding humiliation (begun by Don and carried on so brilliantly by you!) is one of the moves toward the relational roots of conflict which constitute what I call the social healing paradigm (which stresses the holistic and systems aspects of peacebuilding work). My interest in compassion been the product of my decades of work in the field ­ mostly in peace education, cultural/community organizing, and international dialogue, and running an international non-profit for over a decade. The themes of enlarging one’s self concept and self-experience through the connection to other’s suffering has been central to that work (as well as personally enlightening and enriching). I will be sharing some of my research at a conference in Sarajevo this summer on Global Human Rights, together with Ken Suslak, who I believe has also been in contact with you. I would love to both share my own work and learn from others in Berlin, and hope to hear more from you about how that might occur. A little bit of information on what I’ve been doing can be found here: http://69.36.178.127/resources/thompson/thompson.html and
http://69.36.178.127/resources/restore_justice/carsarjianthompson.html
I look forward to hearing from you. And, thank you for the wonderful work you have been doing! Judith Thompson

•  Anie Kalayjian, American Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, logotherapeutic psychotherapist, researcher, and consultant, USA. Please meet Anie at http://www.meaningfulworld.com/bio.html. Anie is a Member of our HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Anie kindly wrote (July 13, 2005): Dear Evelin: This is a wonderful conference, and I am looking forward to do a forgiveness workshop or a panel. Kindly let me know what you need from us. I am attaching a one page short resume for your information. Much gratitude, Anie. Please see  Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness, abstract written for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 15-16, 2005. See also Israeli & Hezbollah Conflict: International Perspectives on the Future of Peace in the Middle East, a paper that Anie Kalayjian co-authored with Luke Anable in August 2006: During a layover in Frankfurt, Germany, Anie Kalayjian interviewed randomly selected individuals in an attempt to gauge the public’s emotional and psychological response to the Israeli & Hezbollah war.

•  Michael Britton, Ed.D., Psychologist, NJ, USA, Co-founder of the New Jersey Psychologists for Social Responsibility, and Associate Fellow of Rutgers University 's Center for Historical Analysis, and the Project on War, Peace and Society in Cultural and Historical Perspective. Michael is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the Global Advisory Board, and the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, HumanDHS Global Core Team, as well as Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project. He is also the HumanDHS Director of "Global Appreciative Culturing."

•  Rosita Albert, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Her sponsor at Harvard is Prof. Herbert Kelman.
Rosita kindly wrote (November 20, 2006): "I am a Visiting Scholar in Social Psychology area of the Psychology Dept at Harvard, and my research focuses on Intercultural Relations and Intercultural Conflicts. I am also an Associate Professor in the pioneering program in Intercultural Communication in Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. I am a Founding Fellow and a member of the Governing Board of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. I am originally from Brazil, and my mother and grandparents left Germany to escape from Hitler. It is because of this background that I work to create respectful relations among groups from different backgrounds."
Languages and international/intercultural experience:
Rosita speaks Portuguese, French, Spanish and English, and has had extensive experience with cultures from many parts of the world.
Education and Positions:
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has taught in Psychology, Education and Communication at a number of Universities.
Research:
Rosita has conducted research in a variety of topics, including research on a) the development and evaluation of the Intercultural Sensitizer, an instrument designed to foster intercultural sensitization; b) interactions between Latin Americans/Latinos and North or Anglo-Americans; c) the experiences and difficulties of Asian employees in American companies; d) conflicts and mutual misperceptions between African-Americans and Koreans in the U.S.; e) cultural differences in perceptions of negotiation; f) the effect of intercultural courses on intercultural development; and f) the effect of online interactions on perceptions of the other.
Teaching, training and consulting:
Rosita has taught courses in social psychology, intercultural communication, negotiation, and diversity. These courses have included students from many fields, countries all over the world, and a very wide range of cultures. She has conducted intercultural and diversity training, given presentations, and consulted for a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the 3-M company, Booz Allen Hamilton, the National Association of Transplant Coordinators, the University of São Paulo, the University of Minnesota and a number of other institutions.
Please see the abstract that Rosita prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization

•  Jessica Cichalski, Master of Public Policy and Administration, NJ, she conducted research for comparative projects on immigration, welfare state and family policies for publication.

•  Julie Strentzsch, M. A.  in Community Counseling, an LPC and is currently a doctoral student at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX, USA.

•  Rebecca Subar, working with a conflict management group in Cambridge, USA, CMPublic, currently training Palestinian political leaders among other projects. Please see her contribution to our 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University: Supporting People As They Challenge Their Own Narratives: The Necessity of, and Trouble With, Challenging Beliefs Fundamental to One's Identity, Dignity and Sense of Belonging.

•  Doris Brosnan, Columbia University, New York, USA.

•  Allison Nicole Buehler, Columbia University, New York, USA.
Allison recently worked with disability rights organizations and the UN Ad Hoc Committee in efforts to draft a UN Disability Rights Convention. Currently preparing for an internship with the International Labor Organization's Skills and Employability Department, Allison will continue to be involved in disability rights and the development of strategies to bring about the realization f the principles established by the disability rights convention. Additionally, Allison hopes to identify and develop ways for mediation and leadership programs to increase the capacity for people with disabilities act as self advocates. This will contribute to the realization of equal enjoyment of rights and dignity for all people, including those with disabilities.

•  Olga Botcharova, international expert in conflict management and cross-cultural communications, Washington, DC, USA. Olga is a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.

•  Nicholas B. Diehl, Associate Ombuds, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Please see The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Organizational Context, his note prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University.

•  Alison Anthoine, Attorney at Law, New York, NY.
Alison Anthoine kindly wrote (December 3, 2006): I am an attorney/mediator in NYC with a particular interest in race and class issues. I am now developing a new project focusing on the dignity (and lack thereof) accorded patients in NYC hospitals, and would very much like to attend the closed sessions of your conference.Thanks in advance for your consideration, Alison Anthoine.
Alison Anthoine kindly wrote (December 12, 2006): I am currently developing a new social enterprise, HealthcareCommons.org, based on my observation that a largely overlooked aspect of the broken US healthcare system is the increasing lack of communication and trust between patients and professionals. By providing a non-commercial, consumer/patient-oriented online information service combined with a "social network with a purpose", HealthcareCommons.org will bridge the communication gap between patients and professionals, will help patients take control of their own health and health habits, and will contribute their voices to the improvement of healthcare quality and safety.
Please see The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in the Delivery of Healthcare Services, note prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University.

•  Pamela H. Creed, Ph.D. Candidate, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Washington DC, USA. Please see The Dominant American Narrative between 9/11/01 and the Invasion of Iraq, an introduction to a potential dissertation, written for for our 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict. The dissertation aims to analyze the dominant American narrative between 9/11/01 and the invasion of Iraq through positioning theory and the literature on humiliation and conflict.

•  Stuart P.D. Gill, Ph.D., Columbia Science Fellow, Columbia University, USA.

•  Ariel Lublin, Mediation Coordinator for the Center for Court Innovation's Midtown Community Court in Manhattan, NY, USA.
Ariel Lublin has been the Mediation Coordinator for the Midtown Community Court (a restorative justice project of the Center for Court Innovation), where she directed a mediation program, led trainings in communication and conflict resolution for attorneys, school counselors, and others, and convened and facilitated dialogues for groups in conflict. These group discussions often included criminal defendants, homeless individuals, advocacy groups, nightclub and hotel owners and managers, police officers, public officials, non-profit service agencies, and neighborhood resident associations seeking shared solutions to common concerns.
As an assistant teacher at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, Ariel worked with students from over 30 countries, many involved directly in violent conflicts in their own countries. She advised and taught students in two classes - Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources, and Managing Intractable Conflict: Leadership and Multiparty Dispute Resolution. She was also involved in the first two Women Waging Peace Conferences with the Women and Public Policy Program, assisting with a manual on best practices and presenting on Sudanese Women Peace Activists. And she authored an article on ethnic conflict in Kosovo.
A counselor for many years, she previously directed a psychiatric crisis intervention team for the state of Massachusetts.
Personally, Ariel, like many people, has also learned from experiences of conflict in her own life. By heritage half German gentile and half Russian Jew, as well as a child of divorced parents, she grew up appreciating how cultural and personal habits can be interpreted as "good" or "bad" depending which home or group you are with. In addition, she has experienced being physically assaulted by a partner, and has presented on alternative personal, social, and legal responses to violence.
In addition to conflict resolution work, Ariel also supports people in designing life-affirming ceremonies, including weddings and other celebrations.
Please see the note Ariel has prepared for Round Table 3 of our workshop,
Addressing Humiliation through Listening with Respect: A Restorative Justice Model for Victims, Offenders, and Law Enforcement. Her contribution to our 2006 workshop is Fostering Connection and Positive Outcomes through Appreciation and Optimism.

•  Aaron Lazare Chancellor, Dean and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. While Chair of the Department of Psychiatry.
He kindly wrote (March 19, 2007):
Dear Evelin: ... I am thrilled at the opportunity to speak at your next workshop in New York on December 13, 2007. Let me know when you confirm the date...Keep up your pioneering work on humiliation. Aaron

•  Judith E. Glaser, author of Creating We, CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc.
She kindly wrote (March 25, 2007):
Dear Evelin: Please consider me a part of your very important event in December.....

•  Antoinette Errante, Associate Professor, Educational Policy & Leadership, The Ohio State University
Antoinette kindly wrote (April 6, 2007): Dear Evelin, Grace and all, [...] In either case, yes, I absolutely plan on being at the New York meeting!! I look forward to meeting you all there! Cheers, Antoinette.

•  Annette A. Engler, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California, USA. Annette Engler is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and Education Team.
Annette kindly wrote (May 27, 2005): I have been anxiously awaiting this email :-) I will be delighted to be there and partake in any that I can. I especially liked the discussion of round table 2 "Is humiliation relevant in a destructive conflict" I wouldn't miss this event for anything and am honored and privileged to be a part of what you are doing.
Annette kindly wrote (April 5, 2007): Dear Evelin, Thank you also for a very warm invitation. Once again I am excited to be a part of what you are doing. I would gladly be a discussant at 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) [..] I look forward to seeing you again in December! Warm hugs!!! Annette
Please see:
- the notes that Annette prepared for our workshops in NY: Humiliation and Displaced Identity (2004), and Displaced Identity and Humiliation in Children of Vietnam Veterans (2005).
- 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

•  Edward J. Emery is the Chief Representative to the United Nations for World Information Transfer, an international NGO in Genral Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council at the UN. He is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, HumanDHS Research Team and HumanDHS Education Team.
Edward kindly wrote (May 1, 2007): Dear Evelin, This December looks promising as I now have less commitment at the UN and so more predictable schedule. I would appreciate being able to participate in the roundtable, the first group focused on the nature of humiliation. 
I should like to contribute some understanding of malignant shame and the role of psychic deadness in its genesis in relationship to the thinning of attachment bonds, this giving rise to "solace" in networks of mimetic violence. I believe this will become a bit more comprehensible on elaboration. Best, Edward

•  Lone Alice Johansen is currently working on her master thesis on African conflict resolution traditions (ubuntu) effect on perceived humiliation. She is a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Lone kindly wrote (May 1, 2007): Dear Evelin, I am very interested in participating in the 10th Human DHS meeting. I am most interested in Round Table 3 (but also Round Table 1). I would like to participate in a Round Table by being a note taker. Would you like for me to present my master thesis? I need to make some changes on the project description that I have already sent you and I don't know how far I have developed the thesis in Desember, but if you want me to I can gladly present my work. Best regards, Lone

•  Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad has completed his M.A program in Peace Education from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica in 2006. He is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team.
Azad kindly wrote (April 30, 2007): My dearest Evelin, How are you ? I wish you had an excellent time and successful program in China. I am really really excited to join in the forthcoming conference at NY in USA. But I am worried how I will manage a big amount of money to fly there. I need a scholarship to join in your conference and I am positive your little effort can make a way for me to join in your conference. You know, I need to make a networking that will help me to go for Ph.D. sooner and get a job in international level. It will also help me to work for my country in the future with a great experience from an international level. I will send you my abstract as soon as possible. I would like to join in your Round Table 1 and 2 as a discussant and supporter. I know you are so busy that's why I am writing you very a short e-mail. I will be waiting for you for your kind consideration. I wish you all the best. Peace and love, Azad

•  Kathryn Crawford is currently working with the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She is a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.

•  Jiuquan Han is at Hebei Agricultural University, China. We met at the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, New Campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China , 13-15th April 2007, where we had a HumanDHS panel, representing the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation.
Here is the Abstract of the presentation that Jiuquan Han gave at the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses:
Based on Bruhl's "principle de participation " in pre-logique and Strauss' multi- valued logic a cognitive analysis into the Number Complex in Chinese culture was made with Gestalt, psychoanalysis and other cognitive theories, reaching the conclusion that the schematization, humanization, legalization and aestheticalization of the Number Complex in Chinese culture is an evolutionary process, in which analogical thinking- the constructing prototype -arises from individual similarity/proximity cognition, transfers from a generation to another in the form of collective representations and comes to be dominant in Chinese national thinking.
Jiuquan Han kindly wrote (May 2, 2007): Dear Sunflower Dr. Lindner, dear friends! I am very happy to receive your warm invitation to New York and Oslo. I am keenly eager to discuss with you on the issues of Round Table 3 in, in New York at Columbia University, Teacher's College in Dec. 2007, if the conference will help me with two-way plane tickets to and fro Beijing and New York, and related accommodation fees. I will greatly appreciate your help. I am sorry for my delayed essay entitled Five Penalties": A Psychological-Cultural-Social-Historical Construct, which will be emailed to you within 24 hours. As for "A cognitive view on the Number Complex in ancient Chinese Culture", I will try may best to finish it as soon as possible and email to you. I hope both articles will create a much wide shared space between you and me. I will keep my promise! Best wishes! Jiuquan Han
Please see here three paragraphs from Jiuquan Han'spaper all of which refer to humiliation as penalty:
"The penalties in the Spring and Autumn, the Warring States Periods still centered around the traditional savage wu xing, for instance, che lie (splitting the criminal asunder by five horses' pulling in five directions). The Qin Dynasty saw transitional penalties, in which chi (whipping) and zhang (bastinado), together with tu (imprisonment), liu fang (exile), rou (corporal punishment), si (hanging and beheading), constituted the "five penalties" while ru (humiliation), jing ji (fine) and zhu lian (involving others in a criminal) were annexes
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Psychologically, the rulers generally had three chief purposes to make wide use of violence and torture and impose man's awareness of shame:1)t errorizing the criminals and others by committing killing and inflictions, life-threatening acts making criminal and potential enemies feel unsafe; 2) humiliating the criminals by belittling, degrading, shaming in public; and thus 3) solidify their sovereign. However, there is always an exception to the rules, some rulers got extreme ecstasy just like being addicted to cocaine. In the following paragraphs, awareness of shame, psychological roots of violence and torture abuse, and commiseration will be discussed one after another with rulers as their owners
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Quite different from the awareness of guilt popular in the Christian world, the awareness of shame was shaped by Confucian ideology of benevolence , r ighteousness, propriety, wisdom, trust, among which propriety was interpreted and followed as total royalty to the king or emperor, complete filial piety for the parents, and absolute fidelity to the husband. Should anyone violate it, he or she would be condemned, despised, insulated and abandoned by nearly all the other people even his or her family members. The positive effect did exist (see 3.2.2 ). However, the spurning marks on his or her face, and body were just like a blunt knife which tortured him or her in public or in privacy for the whole life so that it was almost impossible for the afflicted to renew and identify him/herself to be a 'good' member of the society and the family. In a sense, making the criminal feel belittled is something more poignant, which devours the spirit, sucking every morsel of the dignity and self-respect, often bringing an agony much worse than death penalty itself."

•  Dr. Nariman Abdel Kader, International Arbitrator and President of the Egyptian Woman Foundation for Law and Spreading PEACE Culture (EWFLPC)
Nariman Abdel Kader kindly wrote (May 7, 2007): Dear Evelin, Am pleased to receive your invitation relating to the 10th Human DHS meeting, the fourth NY Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, December 13-14, 2007, in NY at Columbia University, Teachers College).
The topic of the workshop sounds very very interesting and it deserves participation.
I hoped I could present a paper, but unfortunately I could not as the topic is totally new in our region, I even asked some colleagues about it and I notice that there is a great ignorance relating to that.
Am too much interested to take part at the 2nd and 3rd round tables if they will be held in different times, but in case they are held simultaneously I prefer to participate at the 3rd one. By the way, could you please tell me what the role of a supporter is?
Once again thank you very much for the invitation and hope to participate. It will be an opportunity for me to know more about the topic of Humiliation and Human Dignity. And it will be also an occasion to transmit what I have learnt about the topic to my colleagues, students and all interested people in my region.
Am asking if researchers from developing countries as Egypt could benefit from a financial support including the air ticket and accommodation? Best Regards, Dr. Nariman Abdel Kader

•  Roger Bromley holds the Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, and has degrees from the universities of Wales, Illinois, and Sussex. [...] He pioneered the academic study of popular fiction in the 1970s and has also published a large number of scholarly articles and book chapters, and spoken at conferences in 18 countries. As well as working on issues of migration, identity, and narrative, he has written on film from a cultural studies perspective. Roger Bromley is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Please see an abstract of his contribution to our 2007 workshop: Dignity and Hope Versus Humiliation and Despair (please see a longer draft for a full paper and a summary). His wife, Anita, who is a Prisoners' Rights lawyer, join us as an observer for one or both of the days.

•  Lynn King, founder of SageVISION, dedicated to "growing green leaders who support innovation for the greater good." 

•  Bahija Jamal, Ph.D. in International Law, Researcher, Hassan II University Faculty of Law in Casablanca, Morocco, and member of the Scientific Committee of UNESCO Chair "Migration and Human Rights."
Bahija Jamal kindly wrote (May 5, 2007): Dear Evelin Gerda Lindner, Allow me to introduce myself, Am Dr Bahija JAMAL from Hassan II University Faculty of Law in Casablanca /Morocco. Your email address has been recommended to me by my dear friend Dr Nariman Abdel Kader as you can see below. Am too much interested to participate at your 4th NY Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, December 13-14, 2007. I hope I can present a paper at the Round Table 2: How can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning and for cultivating positive social change? Am asking about the modalities of participation? the deadline of the paper abstract submission? and the possibility to benefit from a financial support including plane ticket and accomodation as am coming from a developing country? Awaiting your kind reply, I remain,dear Evelin, Yours Faithfully, Bahija JAMAL
Please see Bahija's contribution: 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. 

•  Peter Liberman, Professor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science Department, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. 

•  Zuzana Luckay, Doctoral Student and Lecturer at the P.J. Safárik University (UPJS) in Kosice, Slovakia.
Please see:
- 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
Abstract of a presentation at the Global Political and Social Order Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006.  

•  David Jones, CEO, Siloam International.
David A. Jones specializes in substance abuse counseling and public health education; he also conducts trauma healing dialogues for posttraumatic stress stemming from violent conflict. He teaches human rights internationally and has lectured at Portland State University for three years. David also works with young people, and adult’s transitioning from prison back to the community. David and his clients follow the sentient path to track problems to the core of the individuals’ process. David’s work is informed by studies in Alternative Dispute Process Handling, which he holds a Master Degree and Process Oriented Psychology and world work theories for over 10 years. This work developed by Arnold Mindell for dealing with large group conflict. David has an undergraduate degree in Cross-Cultural-Communication, and has 2 year certificate in Public Health studies in the area of Alcohol and drug counseling; he has been practicing for over 15 years internationally in numerous capacities for local nonprofits, private parties and governmental groups.
The purpose of Siloam International is to provide culturally based programs in the area of conflict resolution for domestic and international interventions that are comprehensive in scope, utilizing the most current and effective information, methodology, and practices available. His contribution to our 2007 workshop is entitled: Shock and Awe - The impact of working with highly traumatized groups while conducting field work: Utter & Complete Disaster (2007)

•  Fazeela Zaib & Othman Al-Tawalbeh, Sweden
Fazeela kindly wrote (on 15 May 2007): Dear Evelin,... I would love to attend the workshops in NY and I am available those dates... With love, Fazeela.
Her contribution for our workshop is entitled: Islam in Its Connection with Dignity and Humiliation.  

•  Hassan Abdi Keynan, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Office Dhaka, Bangladesh. He will be participating in our 2007 NY meeting in his personal capacity.
Hassan kindly wrote (on 7 May 2007): Dear Evelin, Greetings from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I would like to attend the 10th HumanDHS meeting to be held December 13-14, 2007, in NY at Columbia University, Teachers College). I am interested in Roundtable 1 as discussant, focussing humilation in the context of recent events in Somalia and in the greater the Horn of Africa. I will soon send an abstract. Best regards, Hassan Keynan, Dhaka Bangladesh.
His contribution for our 2007 workshop is entitled: Humiliation in the Context of Recent Events in the Horn of Africa.

•  Hayal Köksal, , Ph.D., is a teacher-trainer, researcher, and author. She is the Turkish Founder of the “WCTQEE-CMS-QOMER Initiative for Peace Education.”
Hayal kindly wrote (on 19 May 2007): Dearest Evelin, It would be a great honour for me to meet you in ny :))) with love, Hayal.
Her contribution for our workshop is entitled: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Education.

•  Aura Sofia Diaz, Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, "In What Way Are Emotions Important for Self-Development?" Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, currently creating a school for street children in Venezuela.
Her contribution for our workshop is entitled: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Mind and Peace.

•  Tonya R. Hammer is an Assistant Professor with the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas. She wrote her doctoral thesis at the Counselor Education and Supervision department at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. She is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the HumanDHS Research Team.
Tonya has been a huge help in our 2005 and 2006 workshops; she wo