Workshops on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
New York, Columbia University, Teachers College, 525 West 120th Street
(2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Convened by SIPA - Center for International Conflict Resolution
on behalf of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) project of the
Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN)
The Research Workshops are made possible by generous contributions of the
Slifka Foundation (please see the HumanDHS' Work: Objectives and Evidence of Success, developed in cooperation betwen HumanDHS and ABSF)
Our workshops have two parts:
• Public Event - Everybody Is Always Warmly Invited to Come!
• Closed Workshop
• Where to stay!
• Everybody is kindly asked to please arrange for your housing yourself. (Please see here the subway map of NY.) Please see Accommodations in and around the Columbia University neighborhood (we thank Tony Jenkins for allowing us to use his compilation!)
• Please see also US SERVAS, hosting people generally for one to two nights. Any extension beyond that is up to the host to extend, and traveler to accept. Most NYC hosts do not host more than a week, if the visitor is someone they really feel comfortable with and grow to like. Again, that is up to the individual.
• Please see also Couchsurfing.com.
• Please see furthermore Sara's New York Homestay, through which international students, visitors, interns or executives who come to New York (also Los Angeles, Paris or London) for a short period of time (1 to 12 months) can find a place to stay (four weeks Manhattan 1500 USD, one week 900 USD, less outside Manhattan; when you write to them, convey greetings from Evelin: I visited their office on November 19, 2007, and presented our HumanDHS group to Bernard Zagdanski, Sara’s husband).
• What Happened in Our Previous Conferences?
Please have a look at all our previous conferences and at the newsletters written after these conferences!
Overview
Frame
• Rationale
• How We Go About
• Frame
• List of Conveners
Program
• Public Event: Everybody is always warmly invited!
• Program (Day One & Day Two)
• Round Table 1: How is humiliation relevant to destructive conflict? (Day One)
• Round Table 2: How can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning and for cultivating positive social change? (Day Two)
• Round Table 3: What works? What types of social change efforts show promise in reducing violent conflict and humiliation while upholding the dignity of all people? (Day Two)
Participants and Convening Organizations
• Participants (with their personal messages to the other 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
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)
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
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
Rationale, Methodology, and Frame
Rationale
Given the current context of the field of international conflict, the impact of emotions on conflict has become one of the most important questions worldwide. However, there are only scattered publications in the research and applied literature that would address issues on conflict and emotion directly, as well as their relations and their impact on public policy.
The first two-day workshop was held at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2004, hosted by the Columbia University's Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), with special help from SIPA – Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR).
Since 2004, CICR on behalf of CU-CRN and HumanDHS invites selected groups of scholars, counselors, conflict resolution practitioners, mediators, and teachers among other professions for a two-day workshop every yearto explore issues of conflict and emotions and its application to actual negotiations and diplomacy. The aim is to particularly probe the role of the notion of humiliation from the two different angles of conflict and emotion.
The workshops are envisaged as a learning community gathering, interactive and highly participatory. The purpose is to create an open space to identify and sharpen our understanding of the discourse and debate on emotion and conflict and the role that might, or might not be played by humiliation within this field. We hope to be able to continue this effort in follow-up workshops in the future.
We see humiliation as entry point into broader analysis and not as "single interest scholarship." We are aware that most participants focus on other aspects than humiliation in their work and have not thought about humiliation much, or even at all. We do not expect anybody to do so beforehand. We encourage that everybody comes with his/her background, his/her theoretical concepts and tools, and that we, during the conference, reflect together. We invite everybody to use their focus and give a thought to whether the notion of humiliation could be enriching, or not, and if yes, in what way. We warmly invite diverging and dissenting views.
How We Go About
In our conferences, we choose a dialogical methodology that stresses interaction and participation, because we wish to create an atmosphere of openness and respectful inquiry through Round Tables and, when appropirate, the use of Open Space Technology. We believe that notions such as dignity and respect for equal dignity are important not only for conflict resolution, but also for conferences such as our workshops. The name Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies attempts to express this. We wish to strive for consistency between what we think are important values for conflict resolution, and the way we conduct our work and our conferences.
We believe in "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to divide, create hostility, and foster hatred and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter and foster an atmosphere of common ground and mutual caring connection as a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest questions of humiliation, trauma, and injustice.
Every Round Table is being opened by brief remarks by each participant to present their entry points into the inquiry. In order to facilitate feedback, we are asking that papers/notes are sent in to us in advance. We wish to make available your brief synopsis of 1 to 4 pages, with references, prior to the workshop through this site so that all participants can meet virtually before meeting in person. Longer papers are welcome as well both prior and subsequent to our workshops, not least for the envisaged publications of the results of our conferences. Please notify us, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as a journal article in our Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies.
All participants are warmly invited to send in their papers as soon as they can.
Frame
by Linda Hartling, 2004, Ph.D., Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA
In our conferences we aim at creating a humiliation-free, collaborative learning environment characterized by mutual respect, mutual empathy, and openness to difference. The perspective of "appreciative enquiry" is a useful frame of our work. Our HumanDHS efforts are not just about the work we do together, but also about HOW WE WORK TOGETHER. At appropriate points during our conferences, for example at the end of each day, we take a moment to reflect on the practices observed that contributed to an appreciative/humiliation-free learning experience.
It is important to emphasize that an appreciative approach is not about expecting people to agree. In fact, differences of opinion enrich the conversation and deepen people's understanding of ideas. This could be conceptualized as "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller), which means practicing radical respect for differences and being open to a variety of perspectives and engaging others without contempt or rankism. As we have seen in many fields, contempt and rankism drain energy away from the important work that needs to be done. Most people only know "conflict" as a form of war within a win/lose frame. "Waging good conflict," on the other side, is about being empathic and respectful, making room for authenticity, creating clarity, and growth.
Please read An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, that Linda has written for us in 2005.
Please see also Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, kindly written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the moderators of our workshops.
Please see furthermore Buddhist Teachings on Right Speech, which relate to our quest for appreciative enquiry, caring and being.
List of Conveners
Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D.
Former Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR); Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN). Andrea Bartoli has a Principle Host Place on the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (Dr. med.), Ph.D. (Dr. psychol.)
Social Scientist, Founding Director and President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), recipient of the 2006 SBAP Award, anchored at the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, New York, furthermore affiliated to the University of Oslo, Department of Psychology (see http://folk.uio.no/evelinl/), Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Department of Psychology (see http://psyweb.svt.ntnu.no/ansatte/), and affiliated to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, teaching, furthermore, in South East Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and other places globally.
Linda Hartling, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA. Linda Hartling is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, Global Core Team, and Education Team. She is furthermore a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Please see the preliminary draft of Linda's paper for Round Table 2 of our 2005 NY Workshop Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence.
Please see furthermore Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, first published by: The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278, co-authored with T. Luchetta, 1999,
and please see also:
Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation, the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMIT), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College No. 88, Wellesley, MA 02481, co-authored with Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, Judith V. Jordan, 2000.
See also:
Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.
Program
Day One
9.15 am Registration starts
10.00 am Welcoming all participants
Andrea Bartoli, Ph.D., former Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), and Beth Fisher Yoshida, Associate Director of the International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University, welcome the participants.
Donald Klein and Linda Hartling usually set the frame of our conferences within "Appreciative Enquiry," and we create a list of agreed upon norms having to do with the nature and tone of our dialogue. To our immense sadness, our beloved Don Klein passed away in June 2007. We are heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. He spoke to us about Awe and Wonderment. About our human ability to live in awe and wonderment, not just when we see a beautiful sun set or the majesty of the ocean, but always. That we can live in a state of awe and wonderment. And we do that, says Don, by leaving behind the psychology of projection. The psychology of projection is like a scrim, a transparent stage curtain, where you believe that what you see is reality only as long as the light shines on it in a certain way. However, it is not reality. It is a projection. And in order to live in awe and wonderment, we have to look through this scrim and let go of all the details that appear on it, in which we are so caught up. When we do that, we can see the beautiful sun set, the majestic ocean, always, in everything. We will continue our work while keeping Don's words at the center of our work and in our hearts.
We kept a moment of "awe and wonderment" in honor of our beloved Don in our 2007 workshop!
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, 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 believe in "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to humiliate, divide, create hostility, foster hatred, and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter, and instead open up a space of common ground and mutually caring connections, a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest issues of humiliation, trauma, and injustice.
In our 2007 workshop we welcomed our participating visual artists:
• Judith Peck - please read Judith's message to all participants!
• Patricia W. Hall (Risha) - please read Risha's message to all participants!
10.15 am Participants present themselves
11.00 am - 12.30 pm Introductory Presentation
Evelin Lindner, Founding Director and President of HumanDHS
This talk highlights how globalization is interlinked with new and unprecedented psychological dynamics that call for novel solutions at all levels - macro, meso and micro levels, and in all fields of public policy.
Please see early versions of Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force? here or at http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742); see a more recent version in the first issue of the Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007
Catered Lunch
Round Table 1: How Is Humiliation Relevant to Destructive Conflict?
Two Moderators
Rapporteurs: We always need more help, please come forward!
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a note taker/rapporteur, and a supporter.
We liked the Round Table discussion format we first used in our 2004 NY conference. Everyone has ca. 10 minutes to present their entry point into the discussion, then we have an open discussion. We have 2 empty chairs in the circle that can be taken by participants from the audience who wish to introduce a question or comment.
We also liked the experience with two moderators for each Round Table. In that way, the moderators are not prevented from also being participants. While one moderator makes a contribution as a participant, the other takes over, and vice versa. With only one moderator, s/he would not be so flexible.
Please see also Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Round Table Moderators, kindly written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the moderators of our workshops.
We kindly invite the moderators to summarize the discussion immediately following the Round Table discussion, and to identify
1. three "Key Learning Points" from the discussion,
2. one question/consideration for continued inquiry,
3. one idea for action.
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 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY (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 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict , NY, 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 our 2007 workshop, we discussed our Global Dignity & Humiliation Assessment Initiative. Our aim with this session was to pool the efforts of all participants and make a plan for the next steps that we need to take during the coming year.
See here a Background Document. Many suggested at our 2005 and 2006 conferences that we need to find a way to measure humiliation in societies so that we can show to policy makers that humiliation is relevant and needs to be included into public policy making (see also our Public Policy for Equal Dignity project). Ultimately, all institutions (from marriage to the United Nations) need scrutiny and restructuring so as to prevent that they have humiliating effects.
We would alsolike to use the time at the end of each day to do two things:
1. It would be great if every Round Table could make a summary of their proceedings, which we then could post on our website.
2. It would be great if we could engage in collective planning about how to cooperate during the year, until we meet again in 2008. We could develop timelines with goals for accomplishing specific projects, projects we came up with in our Round Tables, for example. Among others, this would enable us to assess our progress along the way. Please see, for example, the HumanDHS' Work: Objectives and Evidence of Success, developed in cooperation betwen HumanDHS and ABSF.Alternatively: Four groups on education, research, conflict management/negotiation, and arts/creativity.
5.00 pm End of the Closed Part of Day One of Our Workshop
5.30 pm - 8.00 pm Public Reception at Milbank Chapel with Eminent Scholars and Leading Thinkers. Everybody Is Invited!
• 5.30-6.00 pm Reception
We Have Refreshments! We Mingle and Meet!
• Linda Hartling Always Welcomes Everybody
Please see here 2007's Public Event Program
Please see here 2006's Public Event Program
Please see here 2005's Public Event Program
Please see here 2004's Public Event Program
• 8.00 pm End of Our Public Events!
Day Two
10:00 am Welcome
10.30 am - 11.15 am Michael Britton kindly accepted our invitation to hold our Don Klein Memorial Lecture for Don's originally planned lecture The Humiliation Dynamic: Looking Back... Looking Forward
Donald Klein, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Donald Klein is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team.
To our immense sadness, our beloved Don Klein passed away in June 2007. We are heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. He spoke to us about Awe and Wonderment. About our human ability to live in awe and wonderment, not just when we see a beautiful sun set or the majesty of the ocean, but always. That we can live in a state of awe and wonderment. And we do that, says Don, by leaving behind the psychology of projection. The psychology of projection is like a scrim, a transparent stage curtain, where you believe that what you see is reality only as long as the light shines on it in a certain way. However, it is not reality. It is a projection. And in order to live in awe and wonderment, we have to look through this scrim and let go of all the details that appear on it, in which we are so caught up. When we do that, we can see the beautiful sun set, the majestic ocean, always, in everything. We will continue our work while keeping Don’s words at the center of our work and in our hearts.
Round Table 2: How Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning and for Cultivating Positive Social Change?
There are four ways to participate in a Round Table: As a discussant, a moderator, a note taker/rapporteur, and a supporter.
Rapporteurs: We always need more help, please come forward!
Round Table 2, 2007
The title of Round Table 2 in 2007 was How Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning and for Cultivating Positive Social Change?
The moderators were Maggie O'Neill & Philip Brown
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 title of Round Table 2 in 2006 was How Can the Notion of Humiliation Be Useful for Public Policy Planning and for Cultivating Positive Social Change?
The moderators were Maggie O'Neill & Philip Brown
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 note taker/rapporteur, and a supporter.
Rapporteurs: We always need more help, please come forward!
Round Table 3, 2007
The title of Round Table 3 in 2007 was What Works? What Types of Social Change Efforts Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation While Upholding the Dignity of All People?
The moderators were Emanuela C. Del Re & Carlos E. Sluzki
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 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY (2004); Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation, 2004)
• Emanuela C. Del Re: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security (2007)
Round Table 3, 2006
The title of Round Table 3 in 2006 was What Works? What Types of Social Change Efforts Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation While Upholding the Dignity of All People?
The moderators were Nora Femenia & Kathleen Freis
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 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, NY, 2004; Humiliation Therapeutics (powerpoint presentation, 2004)
• Sara Cobb: "Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development (2004)
• Floyd Webster Rudmin: Preventing Inadvertent Humiliation (2006); Six Research Designs on Humiliation (2005)
• James E. Jones: The Post Victim Ethical Exemption Syndrome: An Outgrowth of Humiliation (2006); The Third Force: A Practical, Community-Building: Approach to Settling Destructive Conflicts (2004)
• Florina Benoit & Gladston Xavier (Ashok) (unfortunately, Florina and her husband could not join us): Sri Lankan Refugees: Types of Social Change Efforts That Show Promise in Reducing Violent Conflict and Humiliation (2006)
• Barry Hart: Peacebuilding for Traumatized Societies - With an Emphasis on the Role of Large-Scale Humiliation and How to Deal With It through Trauma Recovery and Peacebuilding Processes (2006)
• Maggie O'Neill: Re-Imagining Diaspora through Ethno-Mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging (2006);Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR) (2006); What About Me - The Needs of Refugee/Asylum Mothers and their Children (2006); 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 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 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.
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
Details of the Convening Organizations
The Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) is part of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), 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.
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. 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.
