Workshops on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
New York, Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street
(2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
Our Workshops on Humiliation and Violent Conflict are convened by the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR at CIPA), with Morton Deutsch, its Director Emeritus, as our Honorary Convener, together with the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR),
on behalf of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) as part of the
Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN) (until 2009), and Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) (since 2009)
To request disability-related accommodations and equipment, please contact OASID at oasid@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689, (212) 678-3853 TTY, (212) 678-3854 video phone
Morton Deutsch, Honorary Convenor
First HumanDHS Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner, are the main conveners of the annual workshops at Columbia University since 2004, supported by honorary convener Morton Deutsch (click on the picture to see it larger)
Tonya Hammer leads the team that organizes this workshop since 2011
Our workshops have two parts:
• Public Event - everybody is warmly invited to come and bring friends, no registration is necessary, and it is free
• Closed Workshop - upon invitation, free
• Where to stay
• For all our workshops, everybody is kindly asked to please arrange for your housing yourself. Please see here the subway map of NY.
• Please see Accommodations in and around the Columbia University neighborhood (we thank Tony Jenkins for allowing us to use his compilation!)
• A very quiet place to stay would be the Community of the Holy Spirit on West 113th Street.
• Tonya Hammer recommends Morningside Inn (very reasonable, but also very basic).
• Tomoko Ishii recommends On The Ave (more costly, but also less basic).
• The Milford Plaza Hotel is located in Broadway's Theater District (very reasonable).
• See furthermore the website for the NY City Hotel Trades Council, which will locate socially responsible hotels in the NY City area. We thank Floyd Rudmin for making us aware of this service.
• Please see also US SERVAS, hosting people for one to two nights. (This can be extended, but this is up to the host to extend, and the traveler to accept. Most NYC hosts do not host more than a week, except if the visitor is someone they really feel comfortable with and grow to like.)
• Please see also couchsurfing.com.
• Please see also craigslist.org.
• Please see furthermore Sara's New York Homestay, through which international students, visitors, interns or executives who come to New York (this service exists also in Los Angeles, Paris, and London) for a short period of time (1 to 12 months) can find a place to stay (four weeks Manhattan cost ca. 1,500 USD, one week 900 USD, the cost is less outside Manhattan; when you write to them, convey greetings from Evelin: Evelin visited their office on November 19, 2007, and presented the HumanDHS initiative to Bernard Zagdanski, Sara’s husband).
• Some of our participants have used Aparthotels, such as Chelsmore Apartments, 205 West 15th Street, New York City, Tel. +1 212-924-7991. We thank David Bargal for this link.
• Green Conference
We strive to organize our conferences as "Green Conferences". Lynn King kindly advises us.
• Please kindly note that...
• All our programs are by invitation only; however, we invite everyone to our Public Events.
• The Non-Public Parts of our programs have limited enrollment.
• We like to get to know participants prior to all of our conferences and workshops, and prior to issuing an invitation.
• During our conferences, we always ask all participants for their permission to have their pictures or videos posted on our website, however, if you change your mind later, either in total or for specific pictures/videos, please let us know! Thank you!
• Participants are kindly asked to find their own sources of funding or economic support to participate in our conferences, see, among others, www.supportcenter.org and www.foundationscenter.org.
• The Weinstein International Fellowship program, inaugurated in 2008, provides opportunities for individuals from outside the United States to visit the U.S. to learn more about dispute resolution processes and practices and to pursue a project of their own design that serves to advance the resolution of disputes in their home countries.
• Participants are kindly asked to handle all of their travel arrangements and required documentation, including requests for visas, on their side. HumanDHS does not have the staff or resources to assist with visa requests.
• What happened in our previous conferences?
Please have a look at all our previous conferences, including the outside-of-NY conferences, and at the newsletters written after these conferences
Overview
Frame
• Rationale
• How We Go About
• Frame
• List of Conveners
Program
• Public Event
• Program (Day One & Day Two)
• Round Table 1: How is humiliation relevant to destructive conflict? (Day One)
• Round Table 2: How can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning and for cultivating positive social change? (Day Two)
• Round Table 3: What works? What types of social change efforts show promise in reducing violent conflict and humiliation while upholding the dignity of all people? (Day Two)
Participants and Convening Organizations
• Participants
• Details of the Convening Organizations
Papers
• List of all Publications
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2010 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2011 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
Pictures
• Pictures of our 2004 NY workshop
• Pictures 2004 with Morton Deutsch
• Pictures of our 2005 NY workshop (from Evelin's camera)
• Pictures of our 2006 NY workshop (from Evelin's and Brian Lynch's cameras)
• Pictures of our 2007 NY workshop (from Evelin's and Brian Lynch's cameras)
• Pictures of our 2008 NY workshop (from Evelin's and Camilla Hsiung's cameras)
• Pictures of our 2009 NY workshop (from Evelin's and Camilla Hsiung's cameras)
• Pictures of our 2010 NY workshop (from Evelin's and Van Billings Harris's cameras)
• Pictures of our 2011 NY workshop (from Evelin's and Dee Sloan's cameras)
Newsletters
• Newsletter 3, written as report subsequent to our 2004 NY workshop
• Newsletter 4, written in summer 2005
• Newsletter 5, written as report subsequent to our 2005 Berlin conference
• Newsletter 6, written as report subsequent to our 2005 NY workshop
• Newsletter 7, written as report subsequent to our 2006 Costa Rica conference
• Newsletter 8, written as report subsequent to our 2006 NY workshop
• Newsletter 9, written as report subsequent to our 2007 China conference
• Newsletter 10, written as report subsequent to our 2007 NY workshop
• Newsletter 11, written as report subsequent to our 2008 Norway conference
• Newsletter 12, written as report subsequent to our 2008 NY workshop
• Newsletter 13, written as report subsequent to our 2009 Hawai'i conference
• Newsletter 14, written as report subsequent to our 2009 NY workshop
• Newsletter 16, written as report subsequent to our 2010 NY workshop
• Newsletter 18, written as report subsequent to our 2010 NY workshop
Workshop Notes & Documentation
• the Conference Notes of the 2005 Workshop, Day One (thanks to Tonya et al.!)
• the Conference Notes of the 2005 Workshop, Day Two (thanks to Tonya et al.!)
• the Workshop Notes of the 2006 Workshop (thanks to Jessica et al.!):
• Round Table 1 - 12.14.06
• Round Table 2 - 12.15.06
• Round Table 3 - 12.15.06
• Public Event - 12.14.06
• What Now - 12.14.06
• What Now - 12.15.06
• 2007 video-taped (we need help with editing and making these videos available to our network!)
• 2008 video-taped (we need help with editing and making these videos available to our network!)
• 2009 video-taped (we need help with editing and making these videos available to our network!)
• 2010 video-taped (we need help with editing and making these videos available to our network!)
• 2011 video-taped (we need help with editing and making these videos available to our network!)
Rationale, Methodology, and Frame
Rationale
Given the current context of the field of international conflict, the impact of emotions on conflict has become one of the most important questions worldwide. However, there are only scattered publications in the research and applied literature that would address issues on conflict and emotion directly, as well as their relations and their impact on public policy.
The first two-day workshop was held at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2004, hosted by the Columbia University's Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN, since 2009, AC4 stepped into the place of CU-CRN), with special help from SIPA – Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR).
Since 2004, CICR on behalf of CU-CRN and later AC4, together with HumanDHS invites selected groups of scholars, counselors, conflict resolution practitioners, mediators, and teachers among other professions for a two-day workshop every year to explore issues of conflict and emotions and its application to actual negotiations and diplomacy. The aim is to particularly probe the role of the notion of humiliation from the two different angles of conflict and emotion.
The workshops are envisaged as a learning community gathering, interactive and highly participatory. The purpose is to create an open space to identify and sharpen our understanding of the discourse and debate on emotion and conflict and the role that might, or might not be played by humiliation within this field. We hope to be able to continue this effort in follow-up workshops in the future.
We see humiliation as entry point into broader analysis and not as "single interest scholarship." We are aware that most participants focus on other aspects than humiliation in their work and have not thought about humiliation much, or even at all. We do not expect anybody to do so beforehand. We encourage that everybody comes with his/her background, his/her theoretical concepts and tools, and that we, during the conference, reflect together. We invite everybody to use their focus and give a thought to whether the notion of humiliation could be enriching, or not, and if yes, in what way. We warmly invite diverging and dissenting views.
How We Go About
In our conferences, we choose a dialogical methodology that stresses interaction and participation, because we wish to create an atmosphere of openness and respectful inquiry through Round Tables and, when appropriate, the use of Open Space Technology. We believe that notions such as dignity and respect for equal dignity are important not only for conflict resolution, but also for conferences such as our workshops. The name Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies attempts to express this. We wish to strive for consistency between what we think are important values for conflict resolution, and the way we conduct our work and our conferences.
We believe in "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to divide, create hostility, and foster hatred and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter and foster an atmosphere of common ground and mutually caring connections as a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest questions of humiliation, trauma, and injustice.
Every Round Table is being opened by brief remarks by each participant to present their entry points into the inquiry. In order to facilitate feedback, we wish to make available a brief synopsis of 1 to 4 pages, preferably with references, from each participant, prior to the workshop through this site so that all participants can meet virtually before meeting in person. Longer papers are welcome as well both prior and subsequent to our workshops, not least for the envisaged publications of the results of our conferences. Please notify us, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as a journal article in our Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
All participants are warmly invited to send in their papers as soon as they can.
We would be grateful if you could help us by formatting your contribution as follows:
1. Title: bold and in a large font.
2. The author's name under the title, proceded by a copyright sign (©).
3. In case the text is longer than one page: A footer for the name of the author, and a header for the title and the page number (in Word, you can use View > Header and Footer > Page Setup > Different first page, etc.).
4. Spacing: Single-spacing.
5.
For non-natural English speakers who need support to make a text readable, please let us know and we try to find help.
5. The final Word document needs to be transformed into a Pdf file (use, for example, convert.neevia.com), and given a name. Please use your family name, and then identify the conference, in case of the 2008 NY workshop, this would read as follows: "FamilynameNY08meeting."
6. Please send us both you Word and Pdf files. Thank you!
Frame
by Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (until 2008 Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at Wellesley College in Boston, USA)
In our conferences we aim at creating a humiliation-free, collaborative learning environment characterized by mutual respect, mutual empathy, and openness to difference. The perspective of "appreciative enquiry" is a useful frame of our work. Our HumanDHS efforts are not just about the work we do together, but also about HOW WE WORK TOGETHER. At appropriate points during our conferences, for example at the end of each day, we take a moment to reflect on the practices observed that contributed to an appreciative/humiliation-free learning experience.
It is important to emphasize that an appreciative approach is not about expecting people to agree. In fact, differences of opinion enrich the conversation and deepen people's understanding of ideas. This could be conceptualized as "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller), which means practicing radical respect for differences and being open to a variety of perspectives and engaging others without contempt or rankism. As we have seen in many fields, contempt and rankism drain energy away from the important work that needs to be done. Most people only know "conflict" as a form of war within a win/lose frame. "Waging good conflict," on the other side, is about being empathic and respectful, making room for authenticity, creating clarity, and growth.
Please see also:
- A Summary of our Round Table Discussion Format for you to download
- An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, written by Linda in 2005
- Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, written by Judith Thompson in February 2006 to support the moderators of our workshops
- Buddhist Teachings on Right Speech, which relate to our quest for appreciative enquiry, caring and being
List of Conveners
Honoray Convener: Morton Deutsch, E. L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, and Director Emeritus of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR), Teachers College, Columbia University
Morton Deutsch is one of the world's most respected scholars and the founder of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR). Professor Deutsch has been widely honored for his scientific contributions involving research on cooperation and competition, social justice, group dynamics, and conflict resolution. He has published extensively and is well known for his pioneering studies in intergroup relations, social conformity, and the social psychology of justice. His books include: Interracial Housing (1951); Theories in Social Psychology (1965); The Resolution of Conflict (1973); Distributive Justice (1985); and The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (2000, 2nd edition 2006). Morton Deutsch is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, successor of Aldo Civico, Ph.D., and Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno has taken over from Aldo Civico and Andrea Bartoli as Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), and as Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN) in 2010. In 2009, the CU-CRN was superseded by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4). Andrea Bartoli is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (Dr. med.), Ph.D. (Dr. psychol.)
Evelin Gerda Lindner is the Founding President of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network and initiator of the World Dignity University initiative. She is a transdisciplinary social scientist and humanist who holds two Ph.D.s, one in medicine and one in psychology. In 1996, she designed a research project on the concept of humiliation and its role in genocide and war. German history served as starting point. She is the recipient of the 2006 SBAP Award and 2009 "Prisoner’s Testament" Peace Award. She is affiliated with the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), which was superseded, in 2009, by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) at Columbia University, New York. She is also affiliated with the University of Oslo, Norway, with its Centre for Gender Research, and with its Department of Psychology (folk.uio.no/evelinl/), furthermore, with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. Lindner is teaching globally, including in South East Asia, the Middle East, Australia, Africa, and other places globally. [read more]
Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D.
Dr. Linda M. Hartling is the Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS). She is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, HumanDHS Global Core Team, HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, HumanDHS Research Team, and HumanDHS Education Team. She is the Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Linda is affiliated with the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Until November 2008, she was its Associate Director. Linda is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, which is a new model of psychological development. In addition, Linda coordinates and contributes to training programs, publications, and special projects for the JBMTI. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical/community psychology and has published papers on resilience, substance abuse prevention, shame and humiliation, relational practice in the workplace, and Relational-Cultural Theory. [read more]
Please see:
• Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence, the draft of Linda's paper for Round Table 2 of our 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York.
• Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, first published in The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278, co-authored with T. Luchetta, 1999.
• Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation, the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMIT), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College No. 88, Wellesley, MA 02481, co-authored with Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, Judith V. Jordan, 2000.
• Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared for the 5th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies 'Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People', in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.
Tonya R. Hammer, Ph.D.
Tonya R. Hammer is also a Member of the Global Coordinating Team, and the HumanDHS Research Team.
In August 2008, Tonya took up the position of Assistant Professor with the University of Houston-Clear Lake, in Texas, U.S.A. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at the Counselor Education and Supervision department at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. Her Masters degree in Psychology and Counseling is from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas and her bachelor's degree is in English from the University of Texas, Arlington. [read more]
Program
Day One
9.15 am Registration starts
10.00 am Welcome to all participants
The participants of the 2010 workshop were welcomed to Teachers College by Claudia E. Cohen, Ph.D., Associate Director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) , at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, NY. She greeted everybody also in the name of Peter T. Coleman, Director of ICCCR, and Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Aldo Civico, and Andrea Bartoli, current and former Directors of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), and part of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), which was superseded, in 2009, by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4).
Linda M. Hartling usually sets the frame of our workshops and conferences within "Appreciative Enquiry" that takes the best from the concept of debate, and dignifies it by placing relationships first. We create a list of agreed upon norms having to do with the nature and tone of our dialogue. Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005. Donald Klein used to support Linda in her efforts. To our immense sadness, our beloved Don passed away in June 2007. We are still heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. Linda continues to keep our workshop together with her untiring caring interventions, while we remember Don's caring wisdom that always used to save our conferences in crucial moments!
Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.
Linda always keeps our workshop together with her continuous caring interventions, while Don's caring wisdom always saved our conferences in crucial moments!
We would also like to thank Becca for untiringly taking the notes of our 2004 and 2005 conferences, and Tonya Hammer for editing the notes of our 2005 NY workshop! Jessica Cichalski and her helpers did a awesome job with the 2006 NY workshop notes! Thanks most warmly! In 2007 and 2008, we video-taped the workshop! Thanks to you, dear Hua-Chu Yen!
It is important to note that our appreciative frame is a HumanDHS-defined version of AI. We emphasize "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to humiliate, divide, create hostility, foster hatred, and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter, and instead open a space of common ground and mutually caring connections, a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest issues of humiliation, trauma, and injustice to be aired safely.
10.15 am Participants present themselves
11.00 am - 12.30 pm Introductory Presentation
Evelin Lindner, Founding President of HumanDHS
This talk has two parts, related to Evelin's two roles. Her first role is to be the principal convener, together with Linda M. Hartling, of this workshop and our overall HumanDHS network. Her second role is to be one HumanDHS researcher among many. Respectively, the first part of her talk always addresses the overall aim of our HumanDHS work (see here a transcription), while the second part gives a very brief introduction to her theory of humiliation. She uses a particularly broad lens, both with respect to the length of history she includes (entire human history), as well as with respect to its transcultural and transdisciplinary approach. Her theory highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics (among others, the emerging significance of the phenomenon of humiliation) that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso, and micro levels, and in all fields of of inquiry and implementation into public policy.
Please see early versions of the second part, Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force? here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742); see for a more recent version the first issue of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007.
Lunch
Round Table 1: How Is Humiliation Relevant to Destructive Conflict?
Two Moderators
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As (1) Discussant, (2) Moderator, (3) Supporter, and (4) Observer
How we go about: Everyone has ca. 7-10 minutes to introduce everybody to their entry point into the discussion, then we have an open discussion. We have 2 empty chairs in the circle that can be taken by participants from the audience who wish to introduce a question or comment. We have two moderators for each Round Table. In that way, the Moderators are not prevented from also being Discussants. While one Moderator makes a contribution as a Discussant, the other takes over as Moderator, and vice versa. With only one Moderator, this kind of flexibility would be lacking. We kindly invite the Moderators to summarize the discussion immediately following the Round Table discussion, and identify three "Key Learning Points" from the discussion."
Round Table Moderators introduce round table contributors (including the moderators) Manage the time in a supportive and friendly manner Facilitate discussion after presentations Summarize highlights
Round Table Discussants present their contribution within the alloted time frame Nurture a lively discussion Round Table
Supporters and Observers offer questions specific to the focus of the round table Encourage dialogue during the open discussion.
Please see:
- See here a Summary of our Round Table Discussion Format for you to download
- Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, kindly written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the Moderators of our workshops.
Round Table 1, 2011
Moderators: Michael Britton & Evelin Lindner
The participants and their contributions were:
• Claudia E. Cohen
- Claudia Cohen's Welcome Words (2011)
- Emotional Awareness: Can it Mitigate Against the Experience of Humiliation and Promote Constructive Conflict Resolution? (2009)
• Robert L. Carneiro
- Circumscription Theory and Humiliation (2010)
(See, for example, Carneiro, Robert Leonard (2000). The Transition From Quantity to Quality: A Neglected Causal Mechanism in Accounting for Social Evolution. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97 (23), pp. 12926-12931)
• David Bargal
- Ideological/Religious Beliefs and Humiliation (2011)
Please see also:
- "An Introduction to the Project: Rationale and Development," together with Charles Garvin, in Small Group Research, 39 (1), pp. 3-16, 2008.
- "Group Processes to Reduce Intergroup Conflict: An Additional Example of a Workshop for Arab and Jewish Youth," in Small Group Research, 39 (1), pp. 42-59, 2008.
• Grace Feuerverger
- Teaching and Writing Vulnerably: An Auto-Ethnography about Schools as Places of Hope (2009)
• Miriam Marton
- Humiliation and Asylum Seekers (2011)
- The Dual Humiliation of Female Refugees by Sexually Violent, Gender-based Acts (2005)
Round Table 1, 2010
Moderators: Michael Britton & Ariel Lublin
The participants and their contributions were:
• Adenrele Awotona
- Children and Young People in Haiti’s Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Plan (2010)
- Climate change, Destructive conflicts and Humiliation: matters arising (2009)
- Integrating Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies into graduate programs: A case study of UMass-Boston (2008)
• Tonya Hammer and Selma Yznaga
- Shunned by Difference: The Intersection of Humiliation and Discrimination (2010)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Myths, Stereotypes, and Controlling Images in Film (2008)
- The Global Impact of Humiliation on Relationships and World Peace, presentation proposal together with Dana Comstock to the Third International Women's Peace Conference, Dallas, Texas U.S.A., July 10-15, 2007.
• George Woods
- From the Plantations/Asylums to the Prisons: The Relationship between Humiliation, Stigma, Economics and Correctional Care for the Mentally Ill (2010)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Developing a New Non-Western Psychology (2008)
• Clark McCauley
- Author of Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us (Oxford University Press, 2011, together with Sophia Moskalenko)
- Humilation in Asymmetric Conflict (2008)
- Author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press, 2006, together with Daniel Chirot)
• Hroar Klempe
Palestine Dignity by Empowering through Music (2010)
• Samir Sanad Basta
Cycles of Humiliation in Immigrant Families (2010)
• James E. Jones was represented by his assistant Adrian Kirk
- Overcoming the Valence of Victimhood; Reconstructing an Authentic African Diaspora Identity in the 21st Century (2010)
- The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation (2006)
- The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Pandora Hopkins
The Courage to Combat Humiliation (2010)
• Dennis Rivers
- The Trouble With Torture... A brief introduction to psychological and political arguments against extreme interrogation and indefinite preventive detention 2009.
- Torture, Technological Humiliation and the Relevance of The Geneva Conventions in Today's World (2008)
• Alisa Klein
- De-valorizing Victimhood: Transforming the Dominant Narratives of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (2010)
- Reconfiguring Our Response: How Restoring Dignity and Eliminating Shame Can Heal and Prevent the Wounds of Sexual Violence (2008)
Round Table 1, 2009
Moderators: Michael Britton & Grace Feuerverger
The participants and their contributions were:
• Claudia E. Cohen
Emotional Awareness: Can it Mitigate Against the Experience of Humiliation and Promote Constructive Conflict Resolution? (2009)
• Reinaldo Rivera
Humility and Humiliation As Distinctly Divergent and Compelling Concepts (2009)
• Jacqueline Howell Wasilewski
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in Indigenous Cultures and Its Usefulness to Global Dialogue (2009)
• James E. Jones
The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation (2006)
The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Michael L. Perlin
- A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Inquiry Into the Roles of Dignity and Humiliation in the Law (2009)
- International Human Rights Law, Persons with Mental Disabilities, and the Humiliation Factor (2008)
• Ya'ir Ronen
- Non Violent Opposition to a Violence Ridden Status Quo and Responsiveness to the Child (2009)
- On Dignity, Humiliation, Non-violent Struggle and Israeli Jewish Identity (2008)
• James W. Jones
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Psychology of Religion (2008)
Please see furthermore:
- Why Does Religion Turn Violent? A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Religious Terrorism, in The Psychoanalytic Review, 93 (2, April) 2006.
- Blog on Humiliation as a Precursor to Religious Violence, Ocober 1, 2008, Dr. Jones's other blogs on terrorism and counter-terrorism are at http://www.bloodthatcriesout.com/blog.html.
• Adenrele Awotona
- Climate change, Destructive conflicts and Humiliation: matters arising (2009)
- Integrating Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies into graduate programs: A case study of UMass-Boston (2008)
Round Table 1, 2008
Moderators: Michael Britton & Beth Fisher-Yoshida
The participants and their contributions were:
• Adenrele Awotona
Integrating Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies into graduate programs: A case study of UMass-Boston (2008)
• Clark McCauley
- Humilation in Asymmetric Conflict (2008)
- Author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press, 2006, together with Daniel Chirot)
• James E. Jones
The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation (2006)
The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Kenneth Parsons
Testimonies of Violence (2008)
• Alisa Klein
Reconfiguring Our Response: How Restoring Dignity and Eliminating Shame Can Heal and Prevent the Wounds of Sexual Violence (2008)
Round Table 1, 2007
Round Table 1 in 2007 was entitled How Is Humiliation Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
Moderators: Michael Britton & Beth Fisher-Yoshida
The participants and their contributions were:
• Morton Deutsch (unfortunately hindered to join us in person, Morton was with us in spirit): Destructive Conflict and Oppression (2004)
• Aaron Lazare: Humiliation and Apology (2007)
• Andrea Bartoli (Andrea kindly joined us in the beginning and at the end of Day One): Deconstructing International Deadly Conflicts (2004)
• Shibley Telhami (unfortunately snowstorm hindered Shibley Telhami to join us):
History and Humiliation (2003)
• Adenrele Awotona: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (2007)
• Arie Nadler: Intergroup Reconciliation: Effects of Adversary’s Expressions of Empathy, Responsibility, and Recipients’ Trust, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006, 32 (4, April), pp. 459-470, together with Ido Liviatan; Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation, to appear in: A. Nadler, T. Malloy & J.D. Fisher (eds.) Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, together with Nurit Shnabel, 2006; Inter-Group Helping as Status Organizing Processes: Implications for Inter-Group Misunderstandings, in press in: Demoulin, S., Leyens, J.P. & Dovidio, J.F. (Eds.): Intergroup Misunderstandings: Impact of Divergent Social Realities. Washington, DC: Psychology Press, April 2007, revised version, together with Samer Halabi, and Gal Harpaz-Gorodeisky.
• James E. Jones (unfortunately hindered to join us): The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation (2006); The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Michael L. Perlin: Humiliation and the Criminal Justice System: How Our Desire to Humiliate Contributes to Recidivism and, Ultimately, Injures Victims (2007)
• Carlos E. Sluzki: Analysis of an Extraordinary Political Discourse (2007); Humiliation and the Moral Authority to Exert Violence upon Others (2007); Elements of Humiliation-Shame Dynamics for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Real-Life Scenarios (2004); The Story of the Crying Composer told at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York (2004); Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation, 2004)
• Clark McCauley: Author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press, 2006, together with Daniel Chirot)
Understanding Humiliation As Suppressed Anger (2006)
• Florina Benoit & Ashok Gladston Xavier: The Life of Sri Lankan Refugees A Paradigm Shift (2007)
• Stein Villumstad: Religions for Peace-International (2007)
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida: Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Michael Britton: Connecting the Deep Personal Experiences of Being in Historical Contexts with Reaching Outward Around the Globe (2006)
Round Table 1, 2006
Round Table 1 in 2006 was entitled How Is Humiliation Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were Donald Klein & Beth Fisher-Yoshida
The participants and their contributions were:
• Morton Deutsch: Destructive Conflict and Oppression (2004)
• Shibley Telhami (unfortunately, Shibley Telhami could not join us): History and Humiliation (2003)
• Clark McCauley: Author of Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press, 2006, together with Daniel Chirot); Understanding Humiliation As Suppressed Anger (2006)
• Arye Rattner: Surveying Humiliation (2006)
• Michael Kimmel (unfortunately, Michael could not join us): Men, Masculinity, and the Role of Humiliation. Supporter: Nick Martin
Exploring Possibilities for UPEACE in China: Peace Education, Project Development Report (2006)
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown: The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman” (2006)
• Anne Wyatt-Brown: Humiliation in My Brother’s Image (2006)
Round Table 1, 2005
The title of Round Table 1 in 2005 was What's Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were Beth Fisher-Yoshida & Miriam Marton
The participants and their contributions were:
• Morton Deutsch: Destructive Conflict and Oppression (2004)
• David Hamburg: Education and Humiliation (2005)
• Shibley Telhami: History and Humiliation (2003) Please see also How The Fighting Stops: Achieving a Sustainable Ceasefire in Lebanon (2006)
• Andrea Bartoli: Deconstructing International Deadly Conflicts (2004)
• Maria Volpe: The Simplicities of Reversing Destructive Conflict (2005)
• Kjell Skyllstad: From Humiliation to Empowerment: Creative Conflict Management in the Multi-ethnic School (2005)
• Sara Cobb: "Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development (2004)
. Carlos Sluzki:
- Elements of Humiliation-Shame Dynamics for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Real-Life Scenarios (2004)
- The Story of the Crying Composer told at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict , Columbia University, New York, 2004.
- Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation, 2004)
. Anie Kalayjian: Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)
• Annette A. Engler: Displaced Identity and Humiliation in Children of Vietnam Veterans (2005)
• James Edward Jones: The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Moira Rogers: Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations (2005)
• Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera: Humiliation and Honor (2005)
• Ana Ljubinkovic: From Violent to Subtle Humiliation: Case of Somali Victims of UNOSOM Living in the Refugee Camps in Kenya (2005); Is Hope the Last to Die? (2005); Report on Field Research Conducted in Dadaab Refugee Camps (16.05.05 - 01.06.05) (2005)
Round Table 1, 2004
The title of Round Table 1 in 2004 was What's Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderator was Beth Fisher-Yoshida
The participants were:
Morton Deutsch, Andrea Bartoli, Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Heidi and Guy Burgess, Philip Brown, Lourdes Quisumbing, Hroar Klempe, James E. Jones, Roberta L. Kosberg, Joshua Weiss, Susan L. Podziba
Moving into Action
In 2011, this session focused on the World Dignity University initiative.
5.00 pm End of the Closed Part of Day One of Our Workshop
5.30 pm - 8.00 pm Public Reception with Eminent Scholars and Leading Thinkers. Everybody is invited! Bring your friends! No registration needed! This event is free!
• 5.30-6.00 pm Reception
We mingle and meet!
• Linda Hartling always welcomes everybody
Please see here 2004's Public Event Program
Please see here 2005's Public Event Program
Please see here 2006's Public Event Program
Please see here 2007's Public Event Program
Please see here 2008's Public Event Program
Please see here 2009's Public Event Program and Flyer
Please see here 2010's Public Event Program and Flyer
Please see here 2011's Public Event Program and Flyer
• 8.00 pm End of Our Public Event
Day Two
10:00 am Welcome
10.30 am - 11.15 am Michael Britton always holds our Don Klein Memorial Lecture in place for the lecture that Don usually presented: The Humiliation Dynamic: Looking Back... Looking Forward
Donald Klein, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Donald Klein is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team.
To our immense sadness, our beloved Don Klein passed away in June 2007. We are heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. He spoke to us about Awe and Wonderment. About our human ability to live in awe and wonderment, not just when we see a beautiful sun set or the majesty of the ocean, but always. That we can live in a state of awe and wonderment. And we do that, says Don, by leaving behind the psychology of projection. The psychology of projection is like a scrim, a transparent stage curtain, where you believe that what you see is reality only as long as the light shines on it in a certain way. However, it is not reality. It is a projection. And in order to live in awe and wonderment, we have to look through this scrim and let go of all the details that appear on it, in which we are so caught up. When we do that, we can see the beautiful sun set, the majestic ocean, always, in everything. We will continue our work while keeping Don’s words at the center of our work and in our hearts.
Round Table 2: How Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning and for Cultivating Positive Social Change?
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a supporter, and an observer: See here a Summary of our Round Table Discussion Format for you to download
Round Table 2, 2011
The moderators were Beth Fisher-Yoshida & Rita Anita Linger
The participants and their contributions were:
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida (Moderator and Discussant)
- Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Rita Anita Linger (Moderator and Discussant)
• Ya'ir Ronen
- Children Exposed to Humiliation: From Self-Destructiveness to Healing and Hope (2011)
- Non Violent Opposition to a Violence Ridden Status Quo and Responsiveness to the Child (2009)
• Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite and MacLeans Geo-JaJa
- Language As a Right in Education: A Case Study of Zanzibar Curriculum Reform (2011)
• Claudia Maffettone
- Exchange 2.0. (2011)
• Cheryl Duckworth
• Tugba Sari
- Conflict Resolution with Positive Pscyhotherapy (2011)
• Jacqueline Howell Wasilewski
- Transforming Humiliation: Spiritual and Dialogic Aspects (2011)
- Message from Jackie, November 18, 2011: "News from the Ainu community in Japan: they will be starting their own national political group this coming January 2012. Maybe the World Dignity University could send them supportive greetings since Evelin participated in the dialogues that also included some of the Ainu who organized both the 2008 International Indigenous Peoples Summit in Hokkaido just before the G8 Meeting in Hokkaido that year which resulted in the Japanese government finally recognizing the Ainu as Indigenous People in Japan and this new political group (I'm not sure they are calling it a "party," but it is to make sure that Ainu have a voice at all levels of Japanese politics)."
- Supporting Human Dignity Through the 4 Rs and the 3 Cs (2010)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in Indigenous Cultures and Its Usefulness to Global Dialogue (2009)
• Hagitte Gal-Ed (Mohammed Eid Mousa Abuayash could unfortunately not join her)
- Garden Of Peace in the Middle East - Stage I - ARTiculating Human Dignity with Palestinian Children. In collaboration with Mohammed Eid Mousa Abuayash (2011)
- ARTiculating(c) Human Dignity (2010)
Round Table 2, 2010
The moderators were Beth Fisher-Yoshida & Emanuela C. Del Re
The participants and their contributions were:
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida (Moderator and Discussant)
Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Emanuela C. Del Re (Moderator and Discussant), supported by Padraig O'Malley
- The Subtle Connection Between Counter-terrorism Strategies and Humiliation (2009)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security (2007)
• Claudia E. Cohen
Emotional Awareness: Can it Mitigate Against the Experience of Humiliation and Promote Constructive Conflict Resolution? (2009)
• Judy Kuriansky
- Models of Developing Field Projects and Engaging Multi-Stakeholders in Mental Health and Psychosocial Support to Solve Global Health Problems and Achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (2010)
- Transforming Conflict and Humiliation to Heal Hearts in the Holy Land: People-to-People Projects to Build Peace, Coexistence and Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis (2006)
• James T. Shanahan supported by Mark Turner
- Dignity in Ethics, Communication and Tactical Training (2010)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Current Advances in Police Training (2009)
- Tactical Communication to Promote Professional Public Interaction (2008)
• Annette Anderson-Engler
- Humiliation Through Silent Grief in Women: When Words Are Not Enough (2010)
- Shared Narratives: The “Voice” of Personal and Social Identity – Are we Listening? (2009)
- Constructing and Reconstructing Narratives – A Passageway to Personal Meaning and Social Change (2007)
- Displaced Identity and Humiliation in Children of Vietnam Veterans (2005)
• Floyd Webster Rudmin
- The Apologies Project: Small Wins Ways to Reduce Militarizing Memories (2010)
- The Apologies Project: The Responsible Side of Patriotism (2010)
• Antoinette Errante
Of Broken Hearts and Tangled Fury: Institutionalized Shame and Humiliation in the Education Sector (2008)
• Virginia Swain supported by Michele Walsh-MacDonald
How to Dignify the World with Reconciliation Leaders and a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service: Applications in the Sudan and Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women and Peace and Security (2010)
Round Table 2, 2009
The moderators were Beth Fisher-Yoshida & Miriam Marton
The participants and their contributions were:
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida (Moderator and Discussant)
Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Anne Wyatt-Brown
- The Burden of Palestinian Education: Undoing Humiliation (2009)
- A Holocaust Narrative of Humiliation and Resilience (2008)
- A Challenge to Medical Hierarchies (2007)
- Humiliation in My Brother’s Image (2006)
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- George Orwell, 1984, Humiliation in Life and Fiction (2009)
- Trials of Humiliation and Depression in George Orwell's Life and Novel 1984 (2008)
- T. E. Lawrence, Honor and Humiliation in the Middle East (2007)
- The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman” (2006)
• David Leverenz
- The Civil Rights Movement: How National Shaming Trumped Local Shamings (2009)
- The Gates Arrest: How Obama Moved the Participants -- Including Himself -- Beyond Anger and Humiliation (2009)
• Moira Rogers
Islamophobia in Spain: New Shapes of Old Fears? (2009)
See also: Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations
• Robert Neer
The Role of Humiliation and Dignity for the History of the Use of Napalm in War (2009)
• Tony Gaskew
The Role of Humiliation and Dignity for Structural, and Political Violence (2009)
• Gabriela Saab
The Recruitment of Child Soldiers: Humiliation Compromising Childhood (2009)
• Chipamong Chowdhury (family name), or Bhante Revata (monk's name, as known in the monastic communities)
- Practicing Non-violent and Working on Peace (2009)
- Inner Peace and Outer Peace: A Buddhist Contemplative Perspective (2008)
Round Table 2, 2008
The moderators were Antoinette Errante & Philip Brown
The participants and their contributions were:
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida
Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Michael L. Perlin
International Human Rights Law, Persons with Mental Disabilities, and the Humiliation Factor (2008)
• Ya'ir Ronen
On Dignity, Humiliation, Non-violent Struggle and Israeli Jewish Identity (2008)
• James W. Jones
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Psychology of Religion (2008)
Please see furthermore: Why Does Religion Turn Violent? A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Religious Terrorism, in The Psychoanalytic Review, 93 (2, April) 2006.
• Blog on Humiliation as a Precursor to Religious Violence, Ocober 1, 2008, Dr. Jones's other blogs on terrorism and counter-terrorism are at http://www.bloodthatcriesout.com/blog.html.
• Anie Kalayjian
Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)
• Tonya Hammer
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Myths, Stereotypes, and Controlling Images in Film (2008)
- The Global Impact of Humiliation on Relationships and World Peace, presentation proposal together with Dana Comstock to the Third International Women's Peace Conference, Dallas, Texas U.S.A., July 10-15, 2007.
• Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Viewing Kashmir Conflict through the Prism of Dignity and Humiliation, co-authored with Seema Shekhawat (2008)
• Jill Strauss
Validating Humiliation through Art and Storytelling (2008)
Round Table 2, 2007
The moderators were Maggie O'Neill & Philip Brown
The participants and their contributions were:
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida: Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Anie Kalayjian: Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown: T. E. Lawrence, honor and humiliation in the Middle East (2007); The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman” (2006)
• Anne Wyatt-Brown: A Challenge to Medical Hierarchies (2007); Humiliation in My Brother’s Image (2006)
• Sharon Burde: The Role of Women in Addressing the Impact of Humiliation and Changing Course (2007)
• Roger Bromley: Dignity and Hope Versus Humiliation and Despair (2007, please see here a longer draft for a full paper and a summary)
• Jennifer Goldman: Humiliation and Aggression (2006); A Theoretical Understanding of How Emotions Fuel Intractable Conflict: The Case of Humiliation (2005, together with Peter T. Coleman)
• Vinod (VK) Kool: Humiliating Perpetrator, Victim and Observer: Lessons from the Oldest Democracy Located in the Himalayas (2007)
• Maria Volpe (unfortunately hindered to join us): The Association for Conflict Resolution Crisis Intervention online newsletter featured this presentation in its 2006 February issue.
• Edward Emery (unfortunately hindered to join us): Malignant Shame and the Role of Psychic Deadness in Its Genesis in Relationship to the Thinning of Attachment Bonds (2007)
• Philip Brown: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Character Education (2007)
• Maggie O'Neill: Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (2007, see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk)
Round Table 2, 2006
The moderators were Maggie O'Neill & Philip Brown
The participants and their contributions were:
• Beth Fisher-Yoshida: Reframing Conflict: Intercultural Conflict as Potential Transformation (2005)
• Maria Volpe: The Association for Conflict Resolution Crisis Intervention online newsletter featured this presentation in its 2006 February issue.
• Arie Nadler: Intergroup Helping as Status Relations: Effects of Status Stability, Identification, and Type of Help on Receptivity to High-Status Group’s Help (2006)
• Robert Kolodny: A Gestalt Perspective on Shame and Humiliation (2006)
• Gay Rosenblum-Kumar: Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy (2004)
Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public Policy for Disaffection or Cohesion? (2005)
• Jennifer Goldman (unfortunately, Jennifer could not join us): Humiliation and Aggression (2006); A Theoretical Understanding of How Emotions Fuel Intractable Conflict: The Case of Humiliation (2005, together with Peter T. Coleman)
• Charles Knight: Security in the Great Transition (2006)
Role of Humiliation in Enforcing Conventional Masculinity Learning and Behavior (2006)
• Judy Kuriansky: Transforming Conflict and Humiliation to Heal Hearts in the Holy Land: People-to-People Projects to Build Peace, Coexistence and Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis (2006)
• Andrea Bartoli: Deconstructing International Deadly Conflicts (2004)
Round Table 2, 2005
Round Table 2 in 2005 was entitled Is Humiliation Relevant in Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were Judith Thompson & Manas Ghanem
The participants were:
• Jennifer Goldman: How Humiliation Fuels Intractable Conflict: The Effects of Emotional Roles on Recall and Reactions to Conflictual Encounters (2005, together with Peter T. Coleman)
• Linda Hartling: Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence (2005)
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown: Honor, Shame, and Iraq in American Foreign Policy (2004)
• Maggie O’Neill: Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis
• Zahid Shahab Ahmed: Refugees in South Asia and Humiliation (2005)
• Victoria C. Fontan: The Dialectics of Humiliation: Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq (2003)
• Jean Berchmans Ndayizigiye: Humiliation and Violent Conflicts in Burundi (2005)
• Anne Wyatt-Brown, A Woman in Berlin: The Complexity of Humiliation at the End of World War II (2005)
• Floyd Webster Rudmin: Six Research Designs on Humiliation (2005)
• Anthony Abiodun Olowoyeye: Africa, a Trigger in the Explosion of International Terrorism: A Critical Analysis of The "Apparatus" of Terrorism and its Causes (2005, unfortunately, Anthony could not come)
• Imelda Deinla: The Effects of Humiliation on the Economic, Socio-cultural Rights and Access to Justice of Muslim Women in Mindanao (2005, unfortunately, Imelda could not come)
• Miriam Marton: The Dual Humiliation of Female Refugees by Sexually Violent, Gender-based Acts (2005)
• Sophie Schaarschmidt: Cognitive and Emotional Ingroup-identification of Youth in Israel and Palestine (2005)
• Judy Kuriansky: Psychosocial Aspects of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict (2005)
Round Table 2, 2004
Round Table 2 in 2004 was entitled Is Humiliation Relevant in a Destructive Conflict?
The moderators were: Carlos Sluzki & Donald C. Klein
The participants were:
Carlos Sluzki, Donald Klein, Linda Hartling, Paul A. Stokes, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Peter T. Coleman, Jennifer Goldman, Gay Rosenblum-Kumar, Aurora Deuss, Evelin Lindner, Victoria Firmo-Fontan
Catered Lunch
Round Table 3: What Works? What Types of Social Change Efforts Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation While Upholding the Dignity of All People?
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a supporter, and an observer: See here a Summary of our Round Table Discussion Format for you to download
Round Table 3, 2011
The moderators were Grace Feuerverger and Roberta Kosberg
The participants and their contributions were:
• Grace Feuerverger (Moderator, Discussant in Round Table 1)
- Teaching and Writing Vulnerably: An Auto-Ethnography about Schools as Places of Hope (2009)
• Roberta Kosberg (Moderator)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Communication (2010)
• Michael L. Perlin
- Understanding the Intersection Between International Human Rights and Mental Disability Law: The Role of Dignity
- A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Inquiry Into the Roles of Dignity and Humiliation in the Law (2009)
- International Human Rights Law, Persons with Mental Disabilities, and the Humiliation Factor (2008)
• David C. Yamada
- Intellectual Activism: Using Blogs and Social Media to Advance a Human Dignity Agenda (2011)
- The Dignifying Effects of Workplace Bullying Legislation (2009)
• Carol Smaldino
- What's So Funny? (2011)
- If We Meet the Shadow: One Family’s Interruption of Bullying and Blame (2010)
• Mara Alagic
- Science and Art of ThirdPlaceLearning (2011)
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Third Place Learning (2009)
• Yaqub Emmanuel Faraz
- Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict (2011)
• Ani Kalayjian and Georgiana Sofletea
- ATOP Meaningfulworld Humanitarian Outreach Project to Romania: Ancestral Healing, Forgiveness, and Meaning-Making (2011)
Ani has recently edited two books:
- Mass Trauma and Emotional Healing Around the World: Rituals and Practices for Resilience, 2 vols, edited by Ani Kalayjian and Dominique Eugene, Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger Security International, 2009.
- Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, edited by Ani Kalayjian and Raymond F. Paloutzian, New York, Springer, 2009.
- Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)
• Neil Ryan Walsh
Round Table 3, 2010
The moderators were Philip Brown and Stephanie Heuer
The participants and their contributions were:
• Philip Brown (Moderator and Discussant)
- Prosocial Education (2010)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Character Education (2007)
• Stephanie Heuer (Moderator and Discussant)
"BE the Arrow!" DignityRocks - Human Services with a Focus on Counseling, Diversity, and Working with the Poor (2010)
• Anne Wyatt-Brown supported by Susan Hall
- From Auschwitz to the International Court of Justice in the Hague (2010)
- The Burden of Palestinian Education: Undoing Humiliation (2009)
- A Holocaust Narrative of Humiliation and Resilience (2008)
- A Challenge to Medical Hierarchies (2007)
- Humiliation in My Brother’s Image (2006)
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown supported by Susan Hall
- American Death Row Inmates: A Study of Imposed Humiliation and Deprivation (2010)
- George Orwell, 1984, Humiliation in Life and Fiction (2009)
- Trials of Humiliation and Depression in George Orwell's Life and Novel 1984 (2008)
- T. E. Lawrence, Honor and Humiliation in the Middle East (2007)
- The Psychology of Humiliation: Mann’s “Mario and the Magician” and Hawthorne’s “Major Molineux, My Kinsman” (2006)
• Mark Porter Webb supported by Tim Shenk and Angel Pichardo
Strategies for Social Change: Overcoming Violence and Humiliation, Transforming Cultural Rules (2010)
• Ani Kalayjian, supported by Jennifer De Mucci
Ani has recently edited two books:
- Mass Trauma and Emotional Healing Around the World: Rituals and Practices for Resilience, 2 vols, edited by Ani Kalayjian and Dominique Eugene, Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger Security International, 2009.
- Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, edited by Ani Kalayjian and Raymond F. Paloutzian, New York, Springer, 2009.
- Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)
• Hagitte Gal-Ed, supported by Drew Cavanaugh, Yael Petretti and Dan Booth Cohen (who is unfortunately not able to join us)
ARTiculating(c) Human Dignity (2010)
• Tony Gaskew
- Released: Searching for Dignity and Respect Through Prison Re-entry Initiatives (2010)
- The Role of Humiliation and Dignity for Structural, and Political Violence (2009)
• Carol Smaldino, supported by Lino Smaldino
If We Meet the Shadow: One Family’s Interruption of Bullying and Blame
Round Table 3, 2009
The moderators were Emanuela C. Del Re & Sondra Perl
The participants and their contributions were:
• Sondra Perl (Moderator and Discussant)
Where Is Dignity after the Humiliation of the Holocaust? (2009)
See also www.holocausteducators.org.
• Emanuela C. Del Re (Moderator and Discussant)
- The Subtle Connection Between Counter-terrorism Strategies and Humiliation (2009)
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security (2007)
• Jean H. Quataert
Human Rights, Social Change, and History (2009)
• Antony Adolf
Overcoming Humiliation, Enhancing Dignity: How Peace History Can Continually Improve Peace Prospects (2009)
• James T. Shanahan
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Current Advances in Police Training (2009)
- Tactical Communication to Promote Professional Public Interaction (2008)
• David C. Yamada
The Dignifying Effects of Workplace Bullying Legislation (2009)
• Brian Trautman
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace Education (2008/2009)
Round Table 3, 2008
The moderators were Emanuela C. Del Re & Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera
The participants and their contributions were:
• Judy Kuriansky
Transforming Conflict and Humiliation to Heal Hearts in the Holy Land: People-to-People Projects to Build Peace, Coexistence and Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis (2006)
• Kenneth Suslak
Psychological and Research Perspectives on Reconciliation Models: Dealing with the Impact of War and Political Oppression on Children (2008)
• Garry Davis
- Garry can be watched under the story tab at www.onefilms.com
- Garry Davis’s Speech at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict (2007)
• Michael Greene
- Walking the Talk (2008)
- The Role of Humiliation for the Generation of Violence (2007)
• James T. Shanahan
Tactical Communication to Promote Professional Public Interaction (2008)
• Michiko Kuroda (for Virgina Swain and Joseph Baratta)
A Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service (2008)
• Sarwar Alam
The Genesis of Islamic Extremism in Bangladesh (2008)
• Emanuela C. Del Re
The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security (2007)
• Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera
Humiliation and Honor, note presented at Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
Round Table 3, 2007
The moderators were Emanuela C. Del Re & Carlos E. Sluzki
The participants and their contributions were:
• Maggie O'Neill: Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (2007, see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk)
• Gay Rosenblum-Kumar: Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy (2004); Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public Policy for Disaffection or Cohesion? (2005)
• Grace Feuerverger: The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village (2005); Grace also presents her second book Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (2007)
• Lone Alice Johansen: African Solutions to African Intergroup Conflicts: Ubuntu and Humiliation - A Study of Ubuntu and Its Effect on Perceived Humiliation in a Interactive Track Two Dialogue Seminar (2007)
• Lynn King: Founder of SageVISION, dedicated to "growing green leaders who support innovation for the greater good."
• Garry Davis: Garry Davis’s Speech at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict (2007); Press Release, 12/5/07
• Yoav Peck: Human Dignity in Israeli Elementary Schools: A Rationale for a Project in Nine Schools (2007)
• Judy Kuriansky (unfortunately hindered to join us): Transforming Conflict and Humiliation to Heal Hearts in the Holy Land: People-to-People Projects to Build Peace, Coexistence and Cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis (2006)
• Victoria C. Fontan (unfortunately hindered to join us): Shame, Humiliation, and Violent Conflict (2007)
• Rosita Albert (unfortunately hindered to join us): Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization (2006)
• Aura Sofia Diaz (unfortunately hindered to join us): The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Mind and Peace (2007)
• Annette Anderson-Engler (unfortunately hindered to join us): Constructing and Reconstructing Narratives – A Passageway to Personal Meaning and Social Change
(2007); Displaced Identity and Humiliation in Children of Vietnam Veterans (2005)
• George Woods (unfortunately hindered to join us): The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Developing New Non-Western Psychology (2007)
• Kathleen Freis (unfortunately hindered to join us): Sharing the Challenges of Hierarchical School Structures As they Relate to Human Dignity (2007)
• Jiuquan Han (unfortunately, not able to attend, due to lack of funds): "Five Penalties": A Psychological-Cultural-Social-Historical Construct (2007)
• Carlos E. Sluzki: Analysis of an Extraordinary Political Discourse (2007); Humiliation and the Moral Authority to Exert Violence upon Others (2007); Elements of Humiliation-Shame Dynamics for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Real-Life Scenarios (2004); The Story of the Crying Composer told at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York (2004); Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation, 2004)
• Emanuela C. Del Re: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security (2007)
Round Table 3, 2006
The moderators were Nora Femenia & Kathleen Freis
The participants and their contributions were:
• Carlos E. Sluzki: Elements of Humiliation-Shame Dynamics for Computational Modeling and Analysis of Real-Life Scenarios (2004); The Story of the Crying Composer told at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, 2004; Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation, 2004)
• Sara Cobb: "Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development (2004)
• Floyd Webster Rudmin: Preventing Inadvertent Humiliation (2006); Six Research Designs on Humiliation (2005)
• James E. Jones: The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation (2006); The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Florina Benoit & Gladston Xavier (Ashok) (unfortunately, Florina and her husband could not join us): Sri Lankan Refugees: Types of Social Change Efforts That Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation (2006)
• Barry Hart: Peacebuilding for Traumatized Societies - With an Emphasis on the Role of Large-Scale Humiliation and How to Deal With It through Trauma Recovery and Peacebuilding Processes (2006)
• Maggie O'Neill: Re-Imagining Diaspora through Ethno-Mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging (2006);Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR) (2006); What About Me - The Needs of Refugee/Asylum Mothers and their Children (2006); Theorising Narratives of Exile and Belonging: The Importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in "Understanding" Asylum (2006)
• Sarah Sayeed (representing also Virginia Swain) (unfortunately, Virginia and Sarah could not join us): A Leadership and Practice to Reconcile Challenges in a Post-September 11th World, Virginia Swain and Sarah Sayeed 2006; Reconciliation as Policy: A Capacity-Building Proposal for Renewing Leadership and Development, Virginia Swain and Sarah Sayeed 2005
• Anie Kalayjian: Turkish Denial of the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians: Transforming Humiliation into Understanding and Forgiveness (2005)
Round Table 3, 2005
The title of Round Table 3 in 2005 was Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning? What Can We Envisage As Best Practice Models?
The moderators were Annette Engler, Ana Ljubinkovic & Miriam Marton
The participants and their contributions were:
• Alan B. Slifka: Feeling at Home, Or Not, Depending on Humiliation (2005)
• Howard Zehr: Humiliation, Crime and Justice (2005)
• Kjell Skyllstad: From Humiliation to Empowerment: The Arts in Retributive and Restorative Justice (2005)
• Grace Feuerverger: The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village (2005)
• Gay Rosenblum-Kumar: Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy (2004), and Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public Policy for Disaffection or Cohesion? (2005)
• Mercedes Gonzales St. Elin: Dignity-Humiliation in the Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Latin America: The Examples of Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Mexico (2005)
• Judith Thompson: Compassion, Dignity and Peace Education: A Case Study from Children of War, Inc. (2005)
• Philip Brown: Humiliation, Bullying and Caring in School Communities (2004)
• Merle Lefkoff: When the Butterfly Flaps Her Wings in Gaza (2005)
• Rina Kashyap: The Subversion of the Colonial System of Humiliation: A case study of the Gandhian Strategy (2005)
• Virginia Swain, in cooperation with Sarah Sayeed (only Thursday): Reconciliation as Policy: Moving Beyond the Victim-Perpetrator Lens in the United Nations Secretariat and Member States (2005)
• Myra Mendible: Mediated Humiliations: Spectacles of Power in Postmodern Cultur (2005)
• Ariel Lublin: Addressing Humiliation through Listening with Respect (2005)
• Neil Altman: Humiliation, Retaliation, and Violence, in Tikkun Magazine, January/February 2004 (only Friday)
Round Table 3, 2004
The title of Round Table 3 in 2004 was Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning? What Can We Envisage As Best Practice Models?
The moderators were Donald C. Klein & Linda M. Hartling
The participants were:
Donald Klein, Linda Hartling, Daniel L. Shapiro, Arie Nadler, Richard Slaven, Neil Altman, Brigid Donelan, Patricia O'Hagan, Kathleen Modrowski, Shulamit Koenig, Elisabeth Scheper, Duke Duchscherer
What Now?
We would like to use the time at the end of each day of our annual workshop to do two things:
1. It would be great if every Round Table could make a summary of their proceedings, which we then could post on our website.
2. It would be great if we could engage in collective planning about how to cooperate during the year, until we meet again in 2008. We could develop timelines with goals for accomplishing specific projects, projects we came up with in our Round Tables, for example. Among others, this would enable us to assess our progress along the way. Please see, for example, the HumanDHS' Work: Objectives and Evidence of Success, developed in cooperation betwen HumanDHS and ABSF.
4.00 pm - 5.30 pm Wrapping up Day Two of Our Workshops
Everybody usually shares ONE thing that he or she took home from our workshop.
5.30 pm End of Day Two of Our Workshops
List of Participants
(with their personal messages to the other participants)
Papers
All participants are warmly invited to send in papers.
Please notify us, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as a journal article in our Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies.
We would be grateful if you could help us by formatting your contribution as follows:
1. Title: bold and in a large font.
2. The author's name under the title, proceded by a copyright sign (©).
3. In case the text is longer than one page: A footer for the name of the author, and a header for the title and the page number (in Word, you can use View > Header and Footer > Page Setup > Different first page, etc.).
4. Spacing: Single-spacing.
5.
For non-natural English speakers who need support to make a text readable, please let us know and we try to find help.
5. The final Word document needs to be transformed into a Pdf file (use, for example, http://convert.neevia.com/), and given a name. Please use your family name, and then identify the conference, in case of the 2008 NY workshop, this would read as follows: "FamilynameNY08meeting."
6. Please send us both you Word and Pdf files. Thank you!
Please see earlier submitted papers here:
• List of all Publications
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2010 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• Papers, Abstracts, and Notes for the 2011 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
Details of the Convening Organizations
The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) is part of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), which was superseded, in 2009, by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), as is the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR), and Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) that aims at contributing to the resolution of international deadly conflict through research, teaching and fieldwork.
CICR's location within the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University 's School of Public and International Affairs allows for research collaborations inside and outside of the university with academics and practitioners from governmental, non-governmental and international organizations. The CICR faculty advisory includes Professors Richard Betts, Page Fortna, Robert Jervis and Jack Snyder. Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell joined the Center as a Senior Fellow in July 2002.
The Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN) was founded in 1997 by a voluntary group of faculty members from throughout the University interested in conflict resolution. The result of their efforts was a broad-based multidisciplinary conflict resolution resource for the entire Columbia community to use to strengthen the research, teaching and training initiatives of its independent schools and departments. In 2009, CU-CRN was superseded by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4).
The International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) was founded in 1986 by Morton Deutsch. It is at present headed by Peter Coleman, with Beth Fisher-Yoshida as Associate Director. ICCCR is an innovative Center dedicated to advancing the study and practice of conflict resolution. ICCCR's mission is an educational one: to help individuals, schools, communities, businesses and governments better understand the nature of conflict and develop the skills and settings that enable them to resolve conflict constructively.
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) was founded by Evelin Lindner in 2002 as a partner institute of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), which was superseded, in 2009, by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4). HumanDHS's mission is to contribute to reducing - and ultimately eliminating - destructive disrespect and humiliation around the world. HumanDHS's efforts focus on generating research, disseminating information, applying creative educational methods, as well as devising pilot projects and policy strategies.
