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EDNA ADAN ISMAIL

Edna Adan Ismail is the former Foreign Minister of the (unrecognized) Republic of Somaliland (North-Western Somalia) in the Horn of Africa. She held this office from 2003 until 2006. She had previously served as Somaliland's Minister of Family Welfare and Social Development.
She is the director and founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland. She is an activist and pioneer in the struggle for the abolition of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and is President of the Organization for Victims of Torture, Somaliland.
Edna started building a hospital in Mogadishu in the mid 1980s, however, before it was completed, the Somali Civil War began, and she was forced to leave the country. She was World Health Organization Regional Nursing Adviser during 1986. From 1987 to 1991, she was Regional Technical Officer for Mother and Child Health, with responsibility for issues relating to Harmful Traditional Practices which affect the health of women and children (FGM), and for training of Midwives and Traditional Birth Attendants in the 22 countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of W.H.O. She was the Representative of W.H.O. in Djibouti between 1991 and 1997.
Prior to serving in the Somaliland government she built from scratch a maternity hospital, which she continues to run. The Edna Adan Maternity Hospital opened on March 9, 2002 on land donated to her by the Somaliland government - at a site formerly used as a garbage dump and then as a killing field during the civil war. The region lacked trained nurses to staff the hospital - as most had either fled the country or been killed during the civil war - and so Edna recruited more than 30 candidates and began training them in 2000 while the hospital was still under construction. The hospital now has two operating theatres, laboratory, library, computer centre and a complete wing dedicated to training nurses and midwives. The mission of the Edna Adan Hospital is to help to improve the health of Somalilanders which is among the worst in Africa, with a very high rate of maternal and infant mortality. The facility is a non-profit making charity and a midwifery teaching hospital that is also undertaking the training of student nurses and Assistant Laboratory Technicians.
Edna Adan Ismail was the only woman minister in the Somaliland government until July 2006 when she was replaced as Foreign Minister by former Minister of Information and National Guidance Abdillahi Mohamed Dualeh.
In recognition of her lifelong contribution to Humanitarian work, the name of Edna Adan Ismail was added to the Medical Mission Hall of Fame, University of Toledo, Ohio, in March 2007, making her the first African whose name is added to this prestigious list. She has an Honorary Doctoral Degree from Clark University in Massachusetts and was made Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University School of Nursing in Wales on July 8, 2008.

HOWARD ADELMAN

Howard Adelman was a Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto from 1966 to 2003, where he was the founding Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies and Editor of Refuge until the end of 1993. Currently (2003-2004) he is a Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Among his 21 authored or co-edited books, and well over 100 chapters in books and articles in refereed journals are a number on or related to genocide, with a special focus on Rwanda, theories of explanation and the role of bystanders regarding prevention and intervention. He has furthermore written extensively on the Middle East, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, refugee policy and refugee resettlement.
Major publications include: The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire and Early Warning, and Conflict Management: The Genocide in Rwanda (with Astri Suhrke, Transaction Books, 1999). Professor Adelman’s most recent co-edited books are: Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared (University of Melbourne Press and University of Toronto Press, 1994) and African Refugees (Westview Press, 1994).
Please find here Rule-Based Reconciliation by Howard Adelman (Chapter 14 in Elin Skaar, Siri Gloppen and Astri Suhrke (Eds.), Roads to Reconciliation. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group - Lexington Books, pp. 287-307, 2005).
Furthermore, see here Theories of Genocide: The Case of Rwanda by Howard Adelman (forthcoming in a proposed volume for the McGill-Queen's University Press series, Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, 2005).

ADA AHARONI

Dr. Ada Aharoni, writer, poet, playwright and lecturer, was born in Cairo, Egypt, and now lives in Haifa, Israel. She has published 25 books to date, that have won her international acclaim. She writes in English and Hebrew, and her works have been translated into several languages. Believing in the power of the word, she is confident that literature and culture can help to heal the urgent ailments of Israel and our global village, such as war, terror and conflict. The themes of love, reconciliation, coexistence and peace, as well as equality of women, are major ones throughout her various works. She has also extensively researched and written books on the Jews of Egypt in the 20th Century, and their forced exile from Egypt (1948-1967).
Ada Aharoni received her Bachelor Degree (B.A) in Literature and Sociology, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1965), her Master of Philosophy Degree (M.Phil.), at London University (1967), on the "Father of the Novel" Henry Fielding, and she was awarded her Doctorate Degree in Literature (Ph.D), on the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature - Saul Bellow, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1975). She lectured in the Department of English Literature at Haifa University, and taught Sociology (Conflict Resolution), in the department of Humanities, at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), in Haifa.
She has been widely invited as Keynote Presenter and Visiting Professor at many universities and other forums around the world, where she lectures on her research and on her various books, and about the possibilities of "Conflict Resolution Through Literature and Culture." Her latest presentation on this subject was at the 36 th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (July 7-11, 2004, Beijing, China). She has widely researched this subject, and has been interviewed on it as well as on her books, in the media and on major Television and Radio Programs, in several countries, including: Israel, America, England, France, Australia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, China, Finland, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico and South Africa.
Among her major works are: the historical novel, The Second Exodus (1983), that describes in literary form the forced exile of the Jews from Egypt in the twentieth century, which she and her family were part of. Her second book: Memoirs from Alexandria, (1985), relates the story of the Jewish Hospital in Alexandria, and the heroic deeds of its Head Nurse, Thea Wolf, who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazi Holocaust, through the Hospital, together with the help of Egyptian officials. Aharoni's acclaimed historical novel From the Nile to the Jordan, was first published in 1994; it was translated into several languages, and was awarded the " Haifa and Bremen Award" and the "Merit Prize" in New York. In 1996 she published The Peace Flower, a moving quest for hope and world peace, for young and old. Her latest books: Not In Vain: An Extraordinary Life (Ladybug Press, CA.. 1999), a larger edition of Memoirs from Alexandria, and her important and timely Women Creating A World Beyond War and Violence (2002), contain both prose and poetry. Four of her books have been recently published as E-Books as well as CD's (Rowe Publishing, England). Her poetry collection: "A Green Week" has been put to music, and is sung by major Israeli and American singers, it has been released as a CD, which together with Aharoni's books, can be ordered through the following website: www.iflac.com/ada in conjunction with amazon.com.
Her latest project is the founding and organizing of the FIRST WORLD CONGRESS OF JEWS FROM EGYPT, together with a group of researchers and writers on the Jews from Egypt in the twentieth century. The Congress will take place in Haifa, from May 9 to 12, 2006.
Aharoni has been awarded several international prizes and awards, among them are: The British Council Award, the Keren Amos President Award, the Haifa and Bremen Prize, The World Academy of Arts and Culture Award, the Korean Gold Crown of World Poets Award, the Rachel Prize, and the Merit Award of the HSJE : The Historical Society of the Jews from Egypt, for her "devoted and unmatched efforts in researching the history and culture of the Jews from Egypt, and to promote visionary literature and poetry proclaiming peace in the world." In 1998, she was elected one of the hundred "World Heroines," in Rochester, New York, for her "outstanding literary works for the promotion of women and peace."
Ada Aharoni lives on beautiful Mount Carmel in Haifa, where she has dedicated her life to the creation of a peaceful Israel and Middle East and a better world beyond war, through her writings and her wide activities, and the promotion of bridges of multi-culture, peace and understanding.
Plesae see links to Ada's work, and some of her touching poems, on World Literature for Equal Dignity. Her poems are also posted here.

ALI JIMALE AHMED

Ali Jimale Ahmed is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. His poetry and short stories have been translated into several languages, including Japanese and the languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia. A former chair of Comparative Literature at Queens College, Professor Ahmed is a widely published poet and literary critic who is recognized worldwide for his contributions to Somali literature. His publications include Daybreak Is Near: Literature, Clans, and the Nation-State in Somalia (1996) and Fear Is a Cow (2002). In his edited book The Invention of Somalia, he has tried to bring to the open the constant humiliation certain groups - the Jareer Bantu, for example - in Somalia faced and still face.
Creative teaching is, for Professor Ahmed, one of the corner stones of academic learning. It incorporates Socratic methods of questioning, while at the same time emphasizing the importance of education as a two-way traffic. Through college education, students endeavor to form their own "internally persuasive discourse" (Bakhtin). In relation to this, Professor Ahmed is a firm believer in the de-compartamentalization of disciplines, for no discipline is by itself capable of capturing the inner pulse of a nation. The suggestion implied here is best described by the African parable of the elephant and the three blind men. Neither the tusk, nor the rough skin, nor the soft ears of an elephant would individually give a holistic picture of what an elephant really is.

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DEAN AJDUKOVIC

Dean Ajdukovic is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Postgraduate Psychology Program at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. He is also President of the Society for Psychological Assistance (SPA), a regional mental health non-governmental organization based in Zagreb, Croatia. He has extensive experience in working with refugees and victims of organized violence, as well as social reconstruction and mental health interventions in communities affected by violence and social transition. His books and papers were published in Croatian, English, Macedonian, Russian and Albanian and he has lectured in a number of Centers of Excellence in the US and Europe. He serves as consultant and trainer in a number of countries on psychosocial program development and evaluation, refugee issues, children and youth violence, NGO strengthening, and crisis interventions in the region of former Yugoslavia.
He has often been invited to work in countries affected by upheaval, such as Albania, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, or Ingushetia. He is a member of the Council of the International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR) and President of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS, 2003-2005).

MARA ALAGIC

Dr. Mara Alagic is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the Wichita State University. Her interest in developing intercultural communication and global learning competence has arisen from having taught internationally and in culturally diverse environments. As co-leader of an early global learning project on mathematics and science education, she was a recipient of the Global Learning Course Redevelopment Team Excellence Award in 2002. In addition to integrating global learning into her own classes, she mentors other faculty and K-12 teachers to infuse Cage Painting and global learning into the curriculum. Dr. Alagic has led efforts to incorporate cage painting simulations and scenario authoring into graduate classes at Wichita State University. She has given invited and keynote presentations on these topics at international conferences. Dr. Alagic has published extensively in this area as well as in mathematics and mathematics education. Her research activities have attracted numerous external grants. She received the College of Education Research Award in 2004-2005. Dr. Alagic received her PhD in mathematics from the University of Belgrade. She studied and/or thought in the Mathematics Departments at the University of Belgrade, the University of Sarajevo, University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Wichita State University. Along with Dr. Glyn Rimington, she is the co-author of the book Third Place Learning: Reflective Inquiry Into Intercultural & Global Cage Painting, published in the book series Teaching <~> Learning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights (Editor: Tonya Huber-Warring) by Information Age Publishing Inc.
Mara continues to facilitate collaborative development of the Third Place Learning phenomenon and related development of knowledge bases at the professional network. Please browse, join if interested, and/or email to mara.alagic[@]wichita.edu.”
Please see here some of Mara Alagic's publications:
• Improving Intercultural Communication Competence: Fostering Bodymindful Cage Painting, co-authored by Mara Alagic, Adair Linn Nagata, and Glyn M. Rimmington, in Journal of Intercultural Communication, SIETAR Japan, 12, pp. 39-55, 2009.

ROSITA ALBERT

Rosita Albert is an Associate Professor in the pioneering program in Intercultural Communication at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, and has recently been a Visiting Scholar in the Social Psychology area of the Psychology Department at Harvard. Her research focuses on Intercultural Relations and Intercultural Conflicts. She is a Founding Fellow and a member of the Governing Board of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. She is originally from Brazil, and her mother and grandparents left Germany to escape from Hitler. It is because of this background that she works to create respectful relations among groups from different backgrounds.
As to her educational background and her positions, Rosita Albert earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has taught in Psychology, Education and Communication at a number of Universities.
Rosita Albert has conducted research in a variety of topics, including research on a) the development and evaluation of the Intercultural Sensitizer, an instrument designed to foster intercultural sensitization; b) interactions between Latin Americans/Latinos and North or Anglo-Americans; c) the experiences and difficulties of Asian employees in American companies; d) conflicts and mutual misperceptions between African-Americans and Koreans in the U.S.; e) cultural differences in perceptions of negotiation; f) the effect of intercultural courses on intercultural development; and f) the effect of online interactions on perceptions of the other.
With respect to teaching, training and consulting, Rosita Albert has taught courses in social psychology, intercultural communication, negotiation, and diversity. These courses have included students from many fields, countries all over the world, and a very wide range of cultures. She has conducted intercultural and diversity training, given presentations, and consulted for a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the 3-M company, Booz Allen Hamilton, the National Association of Transplant Coordinators, the University of São Paulo, the University of Minnesota and a number of other institutions.
As to languages and international/intercultural experience, Rosita Albert speaks Portuguese, French, Spanish and English, and has had extensive experience with cultures from many parts of the world.
Please see Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization, the abstract she presented at the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.

HIZKIAS ASSEFA

Hizkias Assefa is an active international peacebuilding practitioner involved in mediation and facilitation of reconciliation processes in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is Professor of Conflict Studies at the Conflict Transformation Graduate Program at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and was formerly Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the founder and co-ordinator of the Africa Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Resources in Nairobi, Kenya, which is the base for his peacebuilding practice. He is also currently a Senior Special Fellow at the United Nations Institute of Training and Research.
Dr. Assefa has been involved in second-track diplomacy work in Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique. He has also been involved as facilitator in grass-roots peacebuilding and reconciliation initiatives in the above countries as well as in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Colombia and Guatemala. He has served as consultant to the United Nations, European Union, and many international and national NGOs and conducted conflict resolution and peacebuilding training seminars and workshops in many parts of the world.
He has written numerous journal articles as well as books including Mediation of Civil Wars, Approaches and Strategies: The Sudan Conflict (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1987), Extremist Groups and Conflict Resolution (New York: Praeger, 1990), Peace and Reconciliation as a Paradigm: A Philosophy of Peace and Its Implications on Conflict, Governance and Economic Growth in Africa (Nairobi: Majestic Press, 1993); Peacemaking and Democratization in Africa: Church Initiatives and Experiences, editor (Nairobi: East Africa Publishers, 1996); and Process of Expanding and Deepening Engagement: Methodology for Reconciliation Work in Large Scale Social Conflicts (forthcoming).
Prior to his career as a mediator, Professor Assefa worked as an attorney in government and private practice both in Ethiopia and the United States, and has taught in a number of universities in Africa, Europe, North America, and Latin America.

KEVIN AVRUCH

Kevin Avruch is presently Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology in the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), and Faculty and Senior Fellow in the Peace Operations Policy Program (School of Public Policy), at George Mason University. He received his A.B. from the University of Chicago and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. He has taught at UCSD, the University of Illinois at Chicago and, since 1980, at GMU, where he served as Coordinator of the Anthropology Program in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology from 1990-1996.
Professor Avruch is author or editor of five books, most recently Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion, and Government (1997), Culture and Conflict Resolution (1998) and Information Campaigns for Peace Operations (2000). His other writings include numerous articles and essays on culture theory and conflict analysis and resolution, nationalist and ethnoreligious social movements, human rights, politics and society in contemporary Israel, and international migration. Professor Avruch has been book review editor of the journal Anthropological Quarterly, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Social Justice, and the University of Pennsylvania Press monograph series The Ethnography of Political Violence. Professor Avruch has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, and his work has been recognized by the International Association of Conflict Management and the United States Institute of Peace, where he spent the 1996-1997 academic year as senior fellow in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace.
Professor Avruch is currently working on projects investigating sources of political violence in protracted conflicts, the role of human rights and truth and reconciliation commissions in postconflict peacebuilding, and cultural aspects of complex humanitarian and peacekeeping operations.
Please find here Kevin Avruch and Beatriz Vejarano, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A Review Essay and Annotated Bibliography. This article originally appeared in Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace, and Human Rights, 2 (1-2): 47-108, 2001. See also OJPCR: The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution, 4.2: 37-76, 2002, www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/4_2recon.pdf. Please see also Toward an Expanded “Canon” of Negotiation Theory: Identity, Ideological, and Values-based Conflict and the Need for a New Heuristic; a version of this essay was presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Conflict Management, June 6–9, 2004, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

ADENRELE AWOTONA

Adenrele Awotona is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a former Dean of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Before then, he was at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he served as the Dean of the School of Architecture and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom where he was director of graduate studies in architecture and urban design as well as director of the Center for Architectural Research and Development Overseas.
He earned his Doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He also earned a certificate from Harvard University's Institute of Management and Leadership in Education; two certificates from Cornell University, one in Managing performance in higher education and another from the Administrative Management Institute; as well as two certificates from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), one in Financial Planning in an Institutional Setting and another from the Executive Leadership Institute. Furthermore, he is a graduate of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' Millennium Leadership Initiative Institute.
Professor Adenrele Awotona is a Certified Federal Grants Administrator. He was a peer reviewer for the Office of University Partnerships in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as a member of the National Council of University Research Administrators.
He has been a principal investigator (or co-PI/researcher) on major projects funded by various agencies. These include the Boston Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Education, the British Government Department for International Development, the United Nations Center for Human Settlements, the United Nations Development Program, and, the European Union. A stream of publications has, therefore, emanated from his work. Similarly, through research, consultancy and teaching, he has professional experience in many countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean. Furthermore, Adenrele Awotona has been an external reviewer/examiner of over 200 masters' theses and doctoral dissertations internationally.
In public and community service, Professor Awotona was a former member of the Design and Planning Selection Board of the City-Parish of East Baton Rouge. He was also an Educator/Coordinator of Seminars (on community development, etc.) at the annual American Institute of Architects National Conventions for several years. Similarly, he has been a member of the U.S. National Architectural Accrediting Board's program review team internationally. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Academic Leader, the national newsletter for academic deans. At the global level, he is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. He was a Director of Studies for British Council International Seminars (Reconstruction after disasters) in the United Kingdom, a technical consultant to the British Council Committee for International Cooperation in Higher Education, and, an Associate Adviser to the British Council on various aspects of the built environment.
Please see furthermore:
• The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters, presentation held at the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.
• The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters, presentation held at the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008.
• Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters: A Global Survey, edited by Adenrele Awotona, proceedings of the International Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and Their Families after Disasters, convened by Adenrele Awotona at the College of Public and Community Service University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA, November 16-19, 2008, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle), and as e-book by MyILibrary (LaVergne, TN), 2010.
• Climate change, Destructive conflicts and Humiliation: matters arising, presentation held at the 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 10-11, 2009.

MAURICE AYMARD

Maurice Aymard is a Historian. As Secretary-General of the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences (ICPHS) and Head of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (until recently), he is actively involved in the development of international cooperation in the social and human sciences. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and has written many books on the economic history of the world in the modern era, some of which in collaboration with historian Fernand Braudel.
Among Maurice Aymard's publications are Dutch Capitalism and world capitalism [Capitalisme hollandais et capitalisme mondial] (editor, Cambridge/Paris, 1979); The capitalist world-economy: Essays (Immanuel Wallerstein.1979, Maurice Aymard and Jacques Revel, Cambridge University Press, 1979); French Studies in History, Volume.1: The Inheritance and Volume 2: New departures (edited together with Harbans Mukhia, New-Delhi, Orient Longman, 1988/89).

REIMON BACHIKA

Reimon Bachika is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, at Bukkyo University in Kyoto, Japan, since thirty years. His areas of interest are Symbolism and Values, and Japanese culture.
Please see:
• Human Dignity as a Universal Value: The Future of Multicultural Discourse, abstract presented at the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.

JEAN BAKER MILLER
(September 29, 1927 - July 29, 2006, but always with us in our hearts!)

Jean Baker Miller, M.D., was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center. She served as the Stone Center's first Director from 1998 to 1984.
A practicing Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst for over 40 years, she is the author of Toward a New Psychology of Women (Boston, Beacon Press, 1976), a book which has become a classic in its field and about which a Boston Globe review said: "This small book may do more to suggest the range and scope of female possibilities than anything since Women's Suffrage." The book has been translated into twenty languages and was reissued in a second edition in 1987. A new book, The Healing Connection (Boston, Beacon Press, 1997) co-authored with Irene Stiver, Ph.D., continues and expands this work. Jean Baker Miller also co-author of Women's Growth in Connection (Guildford Press, 1991) and editor of Psychoanalysis and Women (New York, Brunner-Mazel and Penguin Books, 1973) and of numerous papers in professional journals on the psychology of women, depression and studies of dreams. Jean Baker Miller has also been a consultant, leader, and member of several women's groups.
Jean Baker Miller received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1948, her M.D. from Columbia University in 1952 and her certification in Psychoanalysis from New York Medical College in 1959. She also holds honorary degrees of Doctor of Human Letters from Brandeis University (1987) and Doctor Honoris Causa from Regis College (1995). She received her psychiatry training at Bellevue Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in New York City and at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse.
Jean Baker Miller is a member of numerous professional societies, including the American College Psychiatrists, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
Since 1981, she has been Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is also on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Associate Psychiatrist at Beth Israel Hospital. Prior to these positions, she was a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. In 1972-73, she was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics, and at the Tavistock Institute and Clinic in London.
Please see here a summary of Jean's life and work.
Please see here a list of her publications:
• Miller, J. B. (2006). Forced choices, false choices. Research & Action Report: Wellesley Centers for Women 27(2), 16-17.
• Hartling, L. M., & Miller, J. B. (2005, June). Moving beyond humiliation: A relational reconceptualization of human rights. Paper presented at the Summer Advanced Training Institute: Encouraging an Era of Connection, Wellesley, MA.
• Eldridge, N. S., Surrey, J. L., Rosen, W., & Miller, J. B. (2003). What changes in therapy? Who changes? Work in Progress, No. 99. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (2003). Growth through relationships. In R. Ortiz & I. Rodriguez (Eds.), Perspectives in social psychology, (pp. 221-231). Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.
• Miller, J. B. (2003). Telling the truth about power. Work in Progress, No. 100. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (2002). How change happens: Controlling images, mutuality and power, Work in Progress, No. 96. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Fletcher, J. K., Jordan, J. V., & Miller, J. B. (2000). Women and the workplace. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 60(3), 243-261.
• Miller, J. B., Jordan, J. V., Stiver, I. P., Walker, M., Surrey, J. L., & Eldridge, N. S. (1999). Therapists' authenticity. Work in Progress, No. 82. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B., & Stiver, I. P. (1997). The healing connection: How women form relationships in therapy and in life. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Miller, J. B., & Stiver, I. (1995). Relational images and their meanings in psychotherapy. Work in Progress, No. 74. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (1994). Movement in therapy: Honoring the "strategies of disconnection." Work in Progress, No. 65. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Jordan, J. V., Kaplan, A. G., Miller, J. B., Stiver, I. P., & Surrey, J. L. (1991). Women's growth in connection: Writings from the Stone Center. New York: Guilford Press.
• Miller, J. B., & Surrey, J. (1990). Revisioning women's anger: The personal and the global. Work in Progress, No. 43. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (1988). Connections, disconnections and violations.Work in Progress, No. 33. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (1986). What do we mean by relationships? Work in Progress, No. 22. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (1985). The construction of anger in women and men. Work in Progress, No. 4. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (1984). The development of women's sense of self. Work in Progress, No. 12. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (1983). The necessity of conflict. Women & Therapy, 2, 2, 3-9.
• Miller, J. B. (1982). Women and power. Work in Progress, No. 1. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center Working Paper Series.
• Miller, J. B. (1976/1986). Toward a new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon Press.

Please see here the Press Release of August 3, 2006, for Jean Baker Miller, noted feminist, psychoanalyst, social activist; 1927-2006
Jean Baker Miller, noted feminist, psychoanalyst, social activist; 1927-2006
BROOKLINE, MA - Jean Baker Miller, MD, noted feminist, psychoanalyst, and social activist died at her Brookline, Massachusetts home July 29, 2006 after a 13-year struggle with emphysema and post-polio effects. Her 1976 groundbreaking book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, traced the connection between women's mental health and sociopolitical forces. Dr. Miller maintained that women's desire to connect with others and their emotional accessibility were essential strengths, not weaknesses as they were traditionally regarded.
She was born September 29, 1927 in The Bronx, New York to Irene and Henry Baker. She contracted polio at l0 months of age and until the age of 10 underwent several operations that left her with an atrophied leg and limp. Her family was of very modest means and she attended New York City schools. She won a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College where near graduation she switched from a history to a pre-med major. She then had a scholarship at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, one of ten women in a class of l00, graduating in 1952. She was an intern and a first-year resident in internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Switching to psychiatry, she was a resident at Bellevue Hospital, Jacobi Hospital, and the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. She held faculty positions at Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; the American College of Psychiatrists; the American Orthopsychiatric Association; and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
Toward a New Psychology of Women, a bestseller and classic in the fields of psychology and women's studies, was translated in over 20 languages and distributed around the world. Dr. Miller also co-authored The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life and Women's Growth in Connection; she edited Psychoanalysis and Women, and authored and contributed to numerous articles on depression, dreams, and the psychology of women.
"Toward a New Psychology of Women maps the interplay between empathy and politics masterfully and for the first time," says Christina Robb, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the new book, This Changes Everything: The Relational Revolution in Psychology. "In it, Dr. Miller created the first democratic psychology - that is, the first psychology of people who at last can realistically hope and learn to work with and love their political equals all their lives."
Dr. Miller's writings and work led to her appointment as the first director of the Stone Center for Developmental Studies at Wellesley College in 1981 where she spearheaded collaborative work among scholars, researchers, and clinicians on the treatment and prevention of mental health problems in women.
Work at the Stone Center led to the subsequent establishment of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in 1995. Dr. Miller served as director of the Institute until late 2005, where Relational-Cultural Theory - a new model of psychological development - was further elaborated and taught to practitioners, lay persons, and most recently, business professionals.
While most of the Institute's seminars have been geared to training mental health professionals, the underlying message of Dr. Miller's work calls for a basic shift in the way human relationships are organized. From emphasizing separateness, accruing power over others, and social stratification, nations and individuals need to emphasize mutual respect and the building of community. Her greatest hope was to effect change that would bring about real social justice.
Judith Jordan, director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, reflects, "Alongside Jean, we worked to educate people that human development is about movement toward increasing mutuality and better connection, rather than growth toward separateness and independence. Her vision has altered our core understanding of both men and women; we all need connection. Building growth-fostering relationships leads not only to personal wellbeing but to social justice."
Dr. Miller traveled the world educating people about this new paradigm. "Everywhere we went," Dr. Jordan notes, "women would come to Jean after her conference and say these identical words, 'Your book changed my life! Thank you!' Jean, with characteristic humility, was always surprised."
In addition to conducting seminars and workshops, the scholars at the Institute have continued to expand applications of Dr. Miller's work and Relational-Cultural Theory to address a broad-range of psychological, social, and organizational issues through working papers. Recent publications co-authored by Dr. Miller include: Telling the Truth about Power (2003); How Change Happens: Controlling Images, Mutuality and Power (2002); and Racial Images and Relational Possibilities (2001).
"Jean Baker Miller was a cherished friend and colleague whose brilliance, gentle determination, and wide influence brought great honor to Wellesley College," says Diana Chapman Walsh, president of Wellesley College. "It was fitting that the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute took root on the campus of a college dedicated to educating women to make a difference in the world. Jean's groundbreaking work has made an enduring difference to generations of women and men, enabling us to understand power in connection with compassion and love."
Susan McGee Bailey, executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, notes, "Jean's feminism was strong, compassionate, and unwavering, never militant but radical in its implications. Her work and her theory are not just for psychologists nor just for women, but for all people everywhere. The strength and clarity of her vision will continue to inspire our work here at the Centers as well as that of so many around the world who were touched by her life, her perspectives, and her practice."
In her last public presentation at the Institute in a 2004 program called "Encouraging an Era of Connection," Dr. Miller's work focused on creating communities of courage and hope. "I think that the source of hope lies in believing that one has or can move toward a sense of connection," she shared.
Throughout her life, Dr. Miller was known for her humility. Resisting the notion of individual recognition, she recognized that her work grew in collaboration with others. Dr. Miller was the reluctant recipient of numerous awards and honors including, Woman of the Year in Health and Medicine from the National Organization of Women Massachusetts Chapter, 1982, and Massachusetts Psychological Association Allied Professional Award for Outstanding Contributions of the Advances of Psychology, 1982. She received honorary degrees from Brandeis University and Regis College. She was featured in Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating American's Women Physicians, a traveling exhibit organized by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, 2003-2007.
Dr. Miller is survived by her husband of more than 50 years, S.M. (Mike) Miller of Brookline, two sons, Jonathan F. Miller of Sleepy Hollow, New York and Edward D. Miller of New York City and a grandson, Jacob (Jake) Miller.
A memorial service will be held in the fall at Wellesley College. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that contributions be made to the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute in Dr. Miller's memory, and sent to: Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481. Gifts may also be made online.
Judith Jordan was interviewed about the life and work of Jean Baker Miller on August 7, 2006, which was broadcast on NPR's radio program, "Here & Now."
Please see here the invitation to the memorial service honoring Jean Baker Miller.

JeanBakerMiller Training Institute wrote (September 19, 2006):
Dear Friends,
Thank you for the cards and email messages in response to the recent death of Jean Baker Miller, M.D., founding director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. Her clear, courageous thinking, which grew to influence countless fields of study and practice, will continue to inspire us all.
Please join us for a service celebrating Jean’s life and work on Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 1:00 PM at the Houghton Memorial Chapel on the Wellesley College Campus, Wellesley, MA.
Jean emphasized the importance of mutually-empathic, mutually-empowering, growth-fostering connections throughout people's lives and worked relentlessly for social justice. The Institute—with the help of people like you—will carry this revolutionary work forward.
A reception will follow at the new Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center.
Please feel free to forward this message to friends and colleagues. We hope to see you soon.
Warmest wishes to all,
Linda

BØRGE BAKKEN

Børge Bakken is a Fellow at the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. Among his books is The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000). His edited book, Crime, Policing and Punishment in China will be published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2004.
Børge Bakken is currently working on crime, violence and punishment in China on an Australian Research Council grant. He has noted that phenomena like honour, notions of purity, and feelings of humiliation are correlated with levels of violence, and in some instances with homicide.

SUSAN BANDES

Susan Bandes is widely known as a scholar in the areas of federal jurisdiction, criminal procedure and civil rights, and more recently, as a pioneer in the emerging study of the role of emotion in law. Her legal career began in 1976 at the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender. In 1980, she became staff counsel for the Illinois A.C.L.U., where she litigated a broad spectrum of civil rights cases, and helped draft and secure passage of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. She joined the DePaul faculty in 1984, and was named Distinguished Research Professor in 2003. She has received numerous awards from both the law school and the university for her teaching, scholarship and service. Her articles appear in, among others, the Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Michigan and Southern California law reviews, as well as peer-reviewed journals including Law and Social Inquiry, Constitutional Commentary, and the Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities. Her book on the role of emotion in law, entitled The Passions of Law, was published by NYU Press in January 2000, and released in paperback in 2001. Bandes presents her work frequently at academic symposia and workshops, as well as to non-academic legal groups such as the American Constitution Society. Her recent pro bono activities include acting as co-reporter for the Constitution Projects bipartisan Death Penalty Initiative, which produced the report Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty, and serving on the advisory board to the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justices study of the criminal justice system in Cook County, IL.

DAVID PHILIP BARASH

David P. Barash, born in 1946, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, and is notable for several books on human aggression, peace studies, and sexual behavior of animals and people. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton, and a Ph.D. in zoology from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He taught at the State University of New York at Oneonta, and then accepted a permanent position at the University of Washington.
His most recent book is Natural Selections, based on articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and published in 2007 by Bellevue Literary Press. He has also written over 230 scholarly articles and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, along with many other honors.
Forthcoming, in 2008, is a 2nd edition of Peace and Conflict Studies, a textbook co-authored with Charles P. Webel (Sage Publications), and How Women Got Their Breasts and Other Just-So Stories, co-authored with Judith Eve Lipton and scheduled for publication by Columbia University Press.

DAVID BARGAL

David Bargal was Gordon Brown professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is now retired. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Social Psychology from the Hebrew University. Dr. Bargal served as a visiting professor at several leading American Universities. He published extensively (over 80 articles in books and professional journals; two authored books and seven edited books and journals).
Professor David Bargal’s areas of research include group and intergroup relations, organizational behavior in human services, and occupational social work. His recent book, Living with conflict: Encounters between Jewish and Palestinian Youth (1995) (with H. Bar) was published by the Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel.
In 1999 David Bargal founded the graduate program on conflict management at the Hebrew University.He designed,evaluated and accompanied conflict management workshops for Jewish and Plestinian youth in Israel.This kind of work has been transferred to to Michigan,U.S. and is being carried out in several high schools there.The project is described and evaluated in a special issue of Small Group Research, 2008,39 (1), edited by Garvin and Bargal.

DAN BAR-ON
(1938 - 4th September 2008, but always with us in our hearts!)

Daniel Bar-On was born in 1938 in Haifa to parents of German descent. He was a member of Kibbutz Revivim for 25 years where he served as a farmer, educator and Secretary of the Kibbutz. After completing his M.A. in psychology in 1975, he worked in the Kibbutz Clinic, specializing in therapy and research with families of Holocaust survivors. In 1981 he received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 1985, Dan Bar-On launched a pioneering field research in Germany, studying the psychological and moral after-effects of the Holocaust on the children of the perpetrators. His book Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich was published in 1989 by Harvard University Press and has since been translated and published in French, German, Japanese and Hebrew. Since then, Bar-On has brought together descendants of survivors and perpetrators for five intensive encounters (the TRT group, shown by the BBC on TimeWatch, October, 1993), as well as students from the third generation of both sides. His book Fear and Hope: Three Generations of Holocaust Survivors' Families was published in Hebrew, English, German and Chinese. His last book The Indescribable and the Undiscussable was published in 1999 by Central European University Press.
In 1998, Professor Bar-On held the Ida E. King Chair for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton College of New Jersey, from where he also received an Honorary Doctorate in 1999. He is permanently a Professor of Psychology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University, where he served as Chair of the Department from 1993 to 1995 and again from 2003 to 2005. In 1996 he was awarded the David Lopatie Chair for Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies. He is the co-director of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME) near Beit Jala, PNA, together with Professor Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University. Together they received in June 2001 the Alexander Langer Prize in Bolzano Italy for their efforts in Peace Building between Palestinians and Israelis. In 2001 he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz First Class, given by German President Dr. Johannes Rau. In 2003 he received the Eric Maria Remarque Peace Prize in Osnabrück, Germany. He is married, has four children and four grandchildren.
Please see Dan Bar-On's book Erzähl dein Leben! Meine Wege zur Dialogarbeit und politischen Verständigung (Hamburg: Edition Körberstiftung, 2004). The English translation is being published by Central European University Press in 2006 under the following title: Tell your story! The dialogue work between Germans and Jews, Palestinians and Israelis.
Annette Engler is part of Daniel Bar-On's work at the Körber Stiftung in Hamburg, Germany.

DANIEL BARON COHEN

STEVEN J. BARTLETT

Steven James Bartlett was born in Mexico City and educated in Mexico, the United States, and France. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Santa Clara and at Raymond College, an Oxford-style honors college of the University of the Pacific. He received his master's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara; his doctorate from the Université de Paris, where his research was directed by Paul Ricoeur; and has done post-doctoral study in psychology and psychotherapy. He has been the recipient of many honors, awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships. His research has been supported under contract or grant by the Alliance Française, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the Lilly Endowment, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the National Science Foundation, the Rand Corporation, and others.
Bartlett's research combines an unusual background consisting of training in pathology, psychology, and epistemology. He is the author of nine books and monographs, and many papers and research studies in the fields of psychology, epistemology, and philosophy of science. He has taught at Saint Louis University and the University of Florida, and has held research positions at the Max-Planck-Institute in Starnberg, Germany and at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. He is currently Visiting Scholar in Psychology and Philosophy at Willamette University and Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.
Bartlett is the author of the first major comprehensive study of the psychology of human evil, just published by behavioral science publisher Charles C. Thomas. The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil is the result of ten years of research into the psychology of genocide and the Holocaust, the psychology of war, of terrorism, obedience, and the many other ways in which human beings behave aggressively and often cruelly toward other people, toward other species, and often even toward themselves. The Pathology of Man is the first work to apply the science of pathology to the human species and to identify and describe the many pathologies that afflict our species, often without our awareness. Its aim is to provide a solid foundation of scholarship encompassing the work of twentieth century psychologists, psychiatrists, ethologists, psychologically focused historians, and others who have studied human aggression and destructiveness.
In addition to providing scholars with an important research tool, the book is well-suited to serve as a main text or as collateral reading for courses relating to the psychology of evil, the psychology of the Holocaust and of genocide generally, the psychology of war, obedience, and terrorism, and any courses that seek to bring students to a realistic understanding of the psychology of human aggression and destructiveness, without appealing to mythology, symbolism, or religion. The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil is a dispassionate, objective, scientific assessment of our species' follies and destructiveness.
Please see also:
Roots of Human Resistance to Animal Rights: Psychological and Conceptual Blocks, which first appeared in the Lewis and Clark law journal, Animal Rights, 2002. The paper was electronically re-published by the Michigan State University 's Detroit College of Law, Animal Law Web Center. It is also available in German: Wurzeln menschlichen Widerstands gegen Tierrechte: Psychologische und konceptuelle Blockaden at:
http://www.veganswines.de/Animal_Law/ and
http://animallaw.info/articles/arussbartlett2002.htm

ANDREA BARTOLI

Andrea Bartoli holds the Drucie French Cumbie Chair at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University in Washington, USA. He is also a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), at Columbia University in New York, the former Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), as well as the former Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), which was superseded, in 2009, by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4). He works on regional conflict resolution in Southern Africa, the role of religions in conflict resolution, and learning organization in the field of conflict resolution.
His recent publications include Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of the International Media in Wars and Humanitarian Crises (co-edited with Edward Girardet and Jeffrey Carmel).
Andrea Bartoli has a B.A. from the University of Rome, Italy and a Ph.D. from the University of Milan, Italy. Trained as an anthropologist, Bartoli has been actively involved in conflict resolution since the early 1980s, particularly in Mozambique, the Sudan, Burundi, and Angola. [read more]

HAROLD W. BECKER

Harold W. Becker has dedicated his life to living and sharing the practical application of unconditional love. Since 1990, his consulting company, Internal Insights, has had its focus to "empower people through self awareness and unconditional love." In 2000 he founded The Love Foundation, Inc., a globally recognized non-religious and non-political non-profit organization with the mission to "inspire people to love unconditionally." He blends insight and intuition with humor, compassion and kindness for a strong motivational vision in all of his endeavors which include business, writing, speaking and personal guidance.
Harold's success and powerful understanding about life is evident in his collective published work including, Internal Power: Seven Doorways To Self Discovery, (New World Library 1993), Unconditional Love - An Unlimited Way of Being (White Fire 2007), Unconditional Love Is... (White Fire 2007) and a national PBS special entitled Unconditional Love -A Guide to Personal Freedom (1997) along with other articles and short stories.
In his desire to touch the world with a message of unconditional love, he founded Global Love Day, an annual international celebration of humanity held each May 1st. This yearly event has brought the recognition of universal understandings and the transcendent power of unconditional love to a global audience including individuals, groups, organizations and political leaders.
Harold has devoted much of his spare time to assisting others work through their emotional traumas in search of understanding and release. This focus on the power of thoughts and feelings began in 1985 when his mother was diagnosed with cancer. His work with cancer patients and their families ignited a desire to know more about the meanings and understandings of life. (Harold's mother continues to be a cancer survivor, having combined his techniques and traditional treatment.)
Harold held management positions including banking, finance and retail and earned his MBA by age 25. He left a management position in the banking industry to pursue a life of service, personal growth, and unconditional love. From his inspirational and educational workshops, TV and radio interviews, numerous public appearances, post prison/ addiction outreach program, and community leadership roles, Harold's forthright approach conveys his message directly with the confidence and power of one who knows love. .

RAMAZAN BAŞ

Ramazan Baş, President of the Spinal Cord Paralytics Society of Turkey (SCPST), an NGO whose work is related to the wellness and empowerment of the disabled.

SAMIR SANAD BASTA

Samir Sanad Basta is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.
Samir Sanad Basta was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1943. After graduating from Victoria College, he obtained a B.Sc Hon. Degree from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom and in 1974 a Doctor of Science degree in Nutritional Biochemistry and Physiology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States of America.
After joining the Institute of Nutrition in Mexico where he specialised in Growth, Development and Mental Status of malnourished children, he became team leader and chief researcher in Indonesia of a large World Bank study looking into the connections between Human Productivity, Nutrition and Health Status. He was then accepted into the Young Professional Program of the World Bank and in 1973 appointed Nutrition Expert where he had large supervisory responsibilities for multi-sectorial Food, Nutrition and Public Health programs of the World Bank.
In 1982, he joined UNICEF and was appointed Representative to the Sudan, where he supervised multi-disciplinary staff engaged in Health, Water, Education, Women's Development, Child Rights, and War and Famine Relief work. He was also the co-inventor of a a children's food supplement, (UNIMIX) now in world wide use. In 1986 he became Director of UNICEF's Evaluation Office where he perfected Rapid Assessment Techniques and became a visiting and occasional lecturer at various US Universities and Public Health Schools.
In 1989 he helped create the World Summit for Children at UN headquarters in New York and in 1990 became Director of UNICEF's European Office in Geneva, where he was active in Fund Raising, Management of various Advocacy Programs and in trying to create Peace and Tolerance programs in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the war in these countries. He also created, with the help of others, an emergency sea evacuation of children from the bombed city of Dubrovnik Later he was invited to visit the newly independent Baltic States to examine the situation of children there and was asked to join various research and lecture programs at the University of Geneva. During his tenure in Geneva he helped initiate the process for a world wide ban on the manufacture of land-mines and met with various Heads of State and Governments to ask them to help the cause of children in difficult situations.
In 1996, he accepted a Visiting Scholarship at the Dept. of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University where he carried out research for a book he wrote, entitled "Culture, Conflict and Children". In 1998, he took early retirement from the United Nations to settle in Southern France where he now lives carrying out occasional consultancies and lectures.
Dr. Basta has worked in over thirty countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe and is fluent in Spanish, French, English and Arabic. He has been the author or co-author of around two dozen scientific and development orientated papers.
Please see Assistance, Dignity and Humiliation, Paper presented at "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.

JESSICA BENJAMIN

Jessica Benjamin is on the faculty of the New School for Social Research's Program in Psychoanalytic Studies. She practices psychoanalysis in New York City. She is the author of The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination (1988), Like Subjects and Love Objects: Essays on Recognition, Identification and Sexual Difference (1995), and Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis (1998, Routledge). Jessica is a founder of International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and currently organizing The Acknowledgment Project, a projected series of workshops for mutual recognition between Israelis and Palestinians.

DHARM P.S. BHAWUK

Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk is also a Member in the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and a Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Films for Equal Dignity Project.
Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, a Citizen of Nepal, is Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, Honolulu. He received his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Bhawuk’s research interests include cross-cultural training, intercultural sensitivity, diversity in the global workplace, individualism and collectivism, culture and creativity, culture and entrepreneurship, indigenous psychology and management, and political behavior in the workplace. He has published more than 30 articles and book chapters and is a co-editor of the book Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology (1996), Sage Publishers. His work has appeared in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Applied Psychology: An International Review, International Journal of Psychology, Cross-cultural Research, Indian Psychological Review, Delhi Business Review, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Policy, and Journal of Management.
Professor Bhawuk is a Founding Fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, and the recipient of Distinguished Scholar Award, Management Department, College of Business Administration (2000), the Best Paper Award from the International Division of the Academy of Management (1996), the Distinguished Service Award from the East West Center (1989), and the Lum Yip Kee Outstanding MBA Student Award from the College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii (1990).
Please see here:
• “From Social Engineering to Community Transformation: Amul, Grameen Bank, and Mondragon as Exemplar Cooperatives” by Bhawuk, Mrazek, & Munusamy, 2009, which received the Rupe Chilsom Practical Theory Paper Award from the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management, 2009.
• Humiliation and Human Rights in Diverse Societies: Forgiveness & Other Solutions from Cross-Cultural Research, paper first presented at the Third Annual Meeting on Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, September 16-18, 2004, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, developed in 2009.

BRYNJAR BJERKEM

Brynjar Bjerkem is a cultural anthropologist (hovedfag, University of Oslo 1991) based in Oslo. Since 1992 he has been involved in different initiatives in the presentation and exchange of international art and culture. He is the Head of Programming at Du store verden! (DSV), a cultural exchange network. Brynjar Bjerkem is furthermore Member in the Programme Committee of the Oslo Films from the South festival featuring a special on Asian cinema. He is also Co-founder and Member of the Board of the Films from the South festival and Member of the Board of the Cosmopolite Concert Hall in Oslo.

MICHAEL HARRIS BOND

Michael Harris Bond is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Michael Harris Bond is Professor of Psychology and teaches at the Department of Psychology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are social perception, the social psychology of language use, impression management, values, cross- cultural social psychology, and cross-cultural interaction.
Professor Bond has written numerous articles, book chapters and books on these topics, see, for example,
• Social Psychology Across Cultures: Analysis and Perspectives (1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, together with Peter B. Smith).
• The Handbook of Chinese Psychology that Bond edited in 1996, or "Individual perceptions of organizational cultures: A Methodological Treatise on Levels of Analysis" co-authored with Geert H. Hofstede in Organization Studies (1993).
Please see information about The Handbook of Chinese Psychology, about Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures, and about the Social Axioms Project.
Please find furthermore:
• Unity in Diversity: Orientations and Strategies for Building a Harmonious Multicultural Society by Michael Harris Bond, prepared as a keynote address for the conference, "Multiculturalism: Diversity in Action" held at the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia, May 6, 1998.
• Linking Societal and Psychological Factors to Homicide Rates across Nations, co-authored with Flora Lim and Mieko Kuchar Bond, in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36, pp. 515-536, available at http://jcc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/5/515, 2005.
• Extreme Mass Homicide: From Military Massacre to Genocide, co-authored with Donald G. Dutton, and Ehor O. Boyanowsky, in Aggression and Violent Behavior, 10, pp. 437-473, 2005.
• Culture and Collective Violence: Mobilizing Savagery Against the Other, Abstract of Keynote at the Seventh European Regional Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology by the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), San Sebastian, Spain, July 11-15, 2005.
• Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Living and Working With Others in a Changing World (Contents List), co-authored with Peter Bevington Smith, and Ciðdem Kaðitçibasi, London: Sage, forthcoming, 2005.
• The Role of Emotions and Behavioral Responses in Mediating the Impact of Face Loss on Relationship Deterioration: Are Chinese more Face-Sensitive than Americans?, co-authored by Chester Chun-Seng Kam, submitted for publication, 2006. See the abstract here. Please contact the authors for more information.
• The Dynamics of Face Loss Following Harm in Two Cultural Groups, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 27, 2006, co-authored with Yuan Liao.

INGA BOSTAD

Inga Bostad is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway. She was appointed by Rector Geir Ellingsrud to serve as Pro-Rector (Vice-Chancellor) of the University of Oslo from 2006 until 2013. In November 2009, she was elected Member of the Steering Committee of UNICA (2009-2011), the network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (her election speech was on sustainable universities, women in science and gender policies, as well as peace and conflict studies).
Inga Bostad is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway. In 2005, she earned her Dr. philos. at the University of Oslo with her thesis Belief or Doubt — A Reconstruction of Philosophical Skepticism. Her thesis for the Magister artium in Philosophy, also at the University of Oslo, was entitled Language, Knowledge, and Doubt —An Analysis of Wittgenstein's Über Gewissheit, 1989.
Earlier, Inga Bostad was the Academic Coordinator for the Examen Philosophicum (Ex. Phil., 2005–2006), and had the academic responsibility for Continuing and Distance Education in Philosophy (2005–2006). She was furthermore head of the evaluation of the new syllabus and teaching methods for the Examen Philosophicum and co-editor for new Ex. Phil. textbooks (2004). She was Teaching Director in 2005, and Lecturer from 1990 to 2005.
Inga was member of the Faculty for General Teacher Education for the 10-year Compulsory School at the Oslo University College, and Lecturer in Philosophy (2000-2004). She furthermore served as Editor for Norwegian, and translated fiction in the J.W. Cappelens Forlag, AS (1992–1995). She was Editor of Kritikkjournalen (1987–1992), as well as Director of the Aventura Forlag (1995).
Inga Bostad is the Director of NORLA (academic council for non-fiction), and a Board Member of the Oslo Poesifestival.
Please see also:
• Greeting Address, held at the 11th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Norway, 23rd June -1st July 2008.
• What Are the Values that Will Guide the Development of Children and Young People in Our Schools? Lecture held for the Conference of European Ministers of Education at Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway, 5th June 2008.

DAN BRAHA

Dan Braha received the Ph.D. degree from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is an Affiliate of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), and a Senior Engineering Faculty Member at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Innovation in Product Development (CIPD), and a Research Associate in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, at Boston University, MA. One of his primary areas of research is understanding and improving the design, implementation, and dynamics of Complex Socio-Engineered Systems (CES) as well as exploring the interplay between natural and large-scale human-made systems. He has developed a mathematical theory-the Formal Design Theory (FDT). He has published extensively, including a book on the foundations of engineering design with Kluwer Academic Publishers and an edited book on data mining in design and manufacturing, also with Kluwer. He serves on the editorial board of AI EDAM (Cambridge University Press) and was the editor of several special journal issues. Dr. Braha has also served on executive committees and as chair in several international conferences.

JOHN BRAITHWAITE

John Braithwaite is a Professor in the Law Program, Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University (ANU), and a member of ANU's Centre for Restorative Justice. John Braithwaite's special interest is business regulation and white-collar crime. His focus for twenty years has been on restorative and responsive regulatory ideas. As an author, coauthor or editor of numerous books and articles, he has contributed significant research to the application of restorative justice principles to business crime as well as to more traditional forms of juvenile and adult crime. John's 1989 book, Crime, Shame and Reintegration, has been highly influential in demonstrating that current criminal justice practice creates shame that is stigmatizing. Restorative justice, on the other hand, seeks to reintegrate the offender by acknowledging the shame of wrongdoing but then offering ways to expiate that shame.
In the 1980's and early 1990's, John Braithwaite worked on formulating restorative approaches to coal mine safety regulation. Then, in conjunction with Toni Makkai, Valerie Braithwaite, Diane Gibson and others, he helped develop restorative strategies in nursing home regulation, including the institution of exit conferences after regulatory inspections.
In addition, John has been an active member in a wide variety of NGOs. He served as a part-time commissioner in Australia 's Trade Practices Commission from 1985 to 1995 and on the Economic Planning Advisory Council, Chaired by the Prime Minister, from 1983-87. In 2000, he participated in an important conference in Northern Ireland that examined the possibilities for using restorative justice ideas and practices to further the peace process there.
For his extensive work on crime issues, John Braithwaite has won numerous international prizes from the American Society of Criminology, the British Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Institute for Financial Crime Prevention.
Leading Edge. John is currently working on the jurisprudence of restorative justice. He asks two questions:
(1) what are restorative justice values? and,
(2) how should they inform its procedural ideas?
Restorative justice is informed by values such as mercy and forgiveness that may be limited by the retributive (just deserts) quest for proportional punishment. At the same time, mercy and forgiveness cannot be forced. Maximizing the restorative values of empowerment and respectful communication provide an open space to deal with the harm of the crime, build respect, and allow for healing. This process allows victims to make forgiveness or mercy their gift.

INGEBORG BREINES

Born in 1945, Ingeborg Breines holds an M.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of Nantes (France) and a degree in French Literature from the University of Sorbonne (France), as well as a M. A. degree in French Literature, History of Ideas and Arts, and a postgraduate certificate in Education from the University of Oslo (Norway). She joined UNESCO Headquarters in 1993 as Special Adviser to the Director General, heading the Consultative Committee on Women (D-1). She was appointed to the post of Director of the Women and the Culture of Peace programme in July 1996.
Ingeborg Breines has until recently been Director (D-1) of the UNESCO Office in Islamabad and also served as the UNESCO focal point for UN system activities relating to Afghanistan until the opening of UNESCO’s Office in Kabul. For more information see the UNESCO page. She was later based at the UNESCO Liaison Office in Geneva.
Ingeborg is now Vice President of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) in Geneva, Switzerland, and since 2009 also head of the Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap in Melbu, Vesterålen, North Norway.
Please see Kurs i konfliktløsning, fredskultur og flerkulturell forståelse, 5.- 8. juli 2010, Nordland Akademi for Kunst og Vitenskap.

MICHAEL BRITTON

Michael Britton is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team , as well as Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project. He is the HumanDHS Director of "Global Appreciative Culturing."
Concerned with integrative thinking across neuroscience, in-depth psychotherapies and historical/cultural living, Michael's work looks at how participation in the historical life of our times and interior life are deeply intertwined. His earlier research looked into experience by US military in planning and commanding nuclear weapons in the Cold War; kinds of parenting that help children grow to do well in love as adults; kinds of parenting that make it harder for battered women to take action on their own behalf; and psychological attitudes towards existing and hoped for worlds reflected in traditional, modern and postmodern architecture. Michael provides workshops for therapists to think about mature love and how patients are helped to get there within themselves, within relationships, and in their co-responsibility for sustaining love in the larger world. He is very concerned with supporting a culture of appreciation for what we can learn from each other, i.e. open societies rather than totalitarian, as the basis for global life. He is currently focused on the demands for psychological adaptation posed by global life and is working on two writing projects that invite taking up those challenges. The first is on weapons of mass destruction and the psychological challenges involved in creating global safety. The second is on understanding what global life requires of us as illuminated by understanding the human brain's place in evolution, its multi-layered inclinations for rendering history in the present, and the choices among those inclinations that we face as we go about the business of everyday work as adults in the institutions of our societies.
Please see here:
• Appreciative Leadership in Our HumanDHS Network: The Tree - Job Descriptions!
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• Conversation Between Harsh Agarwal and Michael Britton on Ragging, 2007.
• Finding the ‘Right’ Moral Tone Regarding Climate Change And Travel, 2007.
• Weapons of Mass Destruction, in Christie, Winter, Wagner (Ed.) Peace Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Transforming Myths of War to Create a Legacy of Peace, in V. K. Kool (Ed.) Non-Violence: Social and Psychological Issues. Lanham, MD: University of Press of America.
• Adults' Perceptions of Childhood Experiences of Parental Love As Predictive of Stability and Levels of Enjoyment in Adult Relationships. Doctoral Dissertation. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International (Order Number 9004433), 1989.

INGEBORG BREINES

Born in 1945, Ingeborg Breines holds an M.A. degree in Philosophy from the University of Nantes (France) and a degree in French Literature from the

BIRGIT BROCK-UTNE

Birgit Brock-Utne is a Professor in International Education at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway, where she is Director of the Master of Philosophy in Comparative and International Education programme. She received her doctorate in the field of peace studies. She has been a Researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) and was for four years (1987 -1992) a Professor of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She was a Visiting Professor, teaching peace studies and African studies at the University of Antioch, Ohio, in spring 1992. She has served as a member of the Board of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), and the Board of the Nordic Association for the Study of Education in Developing Countries (NASEDEC), and the Board of the UNESCO Institute of Education in Hamburg, Germany.
Since Birgit Brock-Utne came back from Africa, she has continued working extensively in Africa, from her home-base at the University of Oslo, for NORAD and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as for DSE (the German Development agency) at the historically black universities in South Africa. She heads four research projects, three of them in Africa. In 2002, during her sabbatical year, she spent two months at the Nordic Institute of African Studies in Uppsala, a month on her research project in Tanzania and South Africa, two months at the Université Nanterre, Paris, and in the fall 2002 she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hiroshima, Japan. During the last six years, she has taught a course on Peace Education and the Media at the European University of Peace in Stadschlaining in Austria every year. She has also taught a course on Peace and Gender in the Master of Peace Studies program at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Professor Brock-Utne has done research and written extensively within the areas of peace education, gender socialization, multicultural and development education. Among her last books are: Educating for Peace (New York: Pergamon, 1985, translated into Korean, Norwegian and Italian), Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Peace Education (New York: Pergamon, 1989). Whose Education for All? Recolonizing the African Mind? (New York: Falmer Press, 2000), as well the co-edited book (with Zubeida Desai and Martha Qorro) Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa (Dar es Salaam: E & D Publishers, 2003). Her list of publications includes eleven books of which she is the sole author (seven), coauthor (one), editor (one) and co-editor (two). She has written chapters in seventy-one books, written eighty three stencils, monographs and institute publications and hundred and twenty six articles in professional journals. She frequently serves as keynote lecturer at international research conferences. Professor Brock-Utne has done consultancy work for the UN, for UNESCO, UNICEF, OECD, Council of Europe, DSE, the Namibia Association of Norway, Ministry of Education, Namibia the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, NORAD, DANIDA, SIDA, and the Swedish Ambassador for Disarmament.
Please see Whose Education for All? published by the Namibian Institute for Educational Development, Reform Forum Number 12, and Language, Democracy and Education in Africa, published by The Nordic Africa Institute, Discussion Papers Number 15, July 2002.

PHILIP M. BROWN

Dr. Philip M. Brown is also a Member in our HumanDHS Education Team.
Dr. Philip M. Brown currently serves as Director of the New Jersey Center for Character Education, located in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. The New Jersey Center for Character Education provides professional development and consultation to programs that serve 800,000 students each year, and conducts evaluation research on the effectiveness of social development programs in ten demonstration school district sites. He has been working on applying systems theory to the educational change process in schools for the past 30 years, focusing on the areas of drug abuse prevention, school health services, social-emotional learning programs and using core ethical values as the basis for reforming school culture. He has previously worked for the Pennsylvania State Department of Health where he established the first standards for prevention professionals and the New Jersey Department of Education, where he created a regulatory framework for school health services and the first standard certificate for school-based drug and alcohol prevention specialists. Earlier in his career he served in the Peace Corps in Southern India and coordinated cross-cultural training for Peace Corps preparation programs at the University of Kentucky.
Please see here Humiliation, Bullying and Caring in School Communities, paper presented at the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
Philip M. Brown kindly guest-edited "Humiliation in the Academic Setting," A Special Symposium Issue of Experiments in Education, published by the S.I.T.U. Council of Educational Research in 2008.

MATT BRYDEN

Matt Bryden is an analyst and writer on Somali affairs and the Horn of Africa. He is a Senior Adviser with WSP-International, Senior Analyst with the International Crisis Group (ICG) and consultant to the United Nations Monitoring Group on the Somalia Arms Embargo. Matt is Co-Founder of the Academy for Peace and Development, an organization based in Hargeysa, Somaliland, dedicated to the promotion of peace, good governance and human rights, and has assisted in the foundation of the Puntland Development Research Centre in northeast Somalia, and the Centre for Research and Dialogue in Mogadishu. He has written extensively on the dynamics of conflict in the Horn, including the politics of statelessness and state reconstruction in Somalia, and the marginalisation of the Somali and Afar communities in Ethiopia.

SHARON BURDE

Sharon Burde, a mediator for over two decades, believes that a multi-cultural society with equal access to power and equal assumption of responsibility is the only way to achieve true democracy.
Sharon Burde teaches graduate students at NYU and is a member of the Steering Committee of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium. In former Yugoslavia she has worked with women of all ethnic origins to create new multiethnic programs and models.
She furthermore worked with Neve Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam for ten years - with Palestinians and Israelis in support of models that promote peace and justice. Neve Shalom/ Wahat al-Salam means "Oasis of Peace" in Hebrew and Arabic. It is a village, where an equal number of Jewish and Palestinian families live, work and educate their children in a community of peaceful co-existence and equality. Sharon is particularly interested in the Wahat al-Salam dimensions of deeply rooted conflict.
Please find here The Enigma of the Middle East - A Measure of Success by Sharon Burde, in Newsletter of the Conflict Resolution Center International, January 1998 pp. 27-28.

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GUY BURGESS

Dr. Guy Burgess is a Founder and Co-Director (with Heidi Burgess) of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and has been working in the conflict resolution field, as a scholar and a practitioner, since 1979. His primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts, conflict framing, environmental conflict resolution, and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. He is one of the developers of the Online Training Program on Intractable Conflicts, and is the Co-Director of the CRInfo Project – the Conflict Resolution Information Source. Dr. Burgess has edited and authored a number of books and articles, the most recent being The Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution (with Heidi Burgess, ABC-Clio 1999).
Please see an Introduction to Their Work, note presented at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
See furthermore a Project Overview: Advancing the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields: A Next-generation Brainstorming Project Developing 20-year Strategies for Addressing the Hard Questions, as well as Conflict Information Systems, and Taking the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields Outside the "Box", Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project and CRInfo – The Conflict Resolution Information Source.

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HEIDI BURGESS

Dr. Heidi Burgess is a Founder and Co-Director (with Guy Burgess) of the University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium. Her primary interests involve the study and management of intractable conflicts, conflict framing, environmental conflict resolution, and the dissemination of conflict resolution knowledge over the Internet. She is one of the developers of the Online Training Program on Intractable Conflicts, and is the Co-Director of the CRInfo Project – the Conflict Resolution Information Source. Dr. Burgess has edited and authored a number of books and articles, the most recent being The Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution (with Guy Burgess, ABC-Clio 1999).
Please see an Introduction to Their Work, note presented at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
See furthermore a Project Overview: Advancing the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields: A Next-generation Brainstorming Project Developing 20-year Strategies for Addressing the Hard Questions, as well as Conflict Information Systems, and Taking the Peace and Conflict Resolution Fields Outside the "Box", Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project and CRInfo – The Conflict Resolution Information Source.

NILS A. BUTENSCHØN

Nils A. Butenschøn is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. At this university, he has been Deputy Director of the Department of Political Science (1994-1998) and Director of the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights (renamed the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights), 1998-2004. He was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) at the University of Durham UK, 1993-1994. Professor Butenschøn’s research interests focus on conflicts in deeply divided societies, applying different theoretical approaches, and with a particular empirical orientation towards the Middle East.
At the Department of Political Science, Professor Butenschøn initiated and directed the projects "The Gulf Crisis and the Restructuring of the Middle East" (1990-1993) and "Citizenship and the State in the Middle East"(1994-1997). At the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, he initiated two major cross-disciplinary research programmes, "Human Rights in Norway" and "Accommodating Difference. Human Rights, Citizenship and Identity in Diverse Societies." Butenschøn is a founding member of the executive committee of the Association of Human Rights Institutes, a member of the Middle East editorial committee, the Journal of Citizenship Studies, and member of the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
Please find here Politics of Ethnocracies - Strategies and Dilemmas of Ethnic Domination by Nils Butenschøn, an extended version of a paper presented at the National Conference of Political Science, Geilo, Norway, 11-12 January 1993.

ALICIA CABEZUDO

Alicia Cabezudo is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Alicia Cabezudo is a Professor and Peace / Human Rights Educator and Consultant. Until recently, she was the Director of Educating Cities Latin America (International Relations Bureau, Municipality of Rosario, Argentina). The issue of humiliation is of deep concern to her because of the sufferings in the Latin-American region through dictatorship and torture. Her goal is to work on humiliation by trying to build a strong democratic consciousness – after the traumatic experiences of the region – from the individual and social point of view, and how to strengthen both individuals and societies in this direction. Her work as Director of Educating Cities – a strong international association developing educative programmes in cities – has given her the chance to work in Latin American Town Halls in order to approach this goal.

WILLIAM A. CALLAHAN

William A. Callahan is Director of the "Asian Studies in Europe and China" project, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, and Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the Department of Politics at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. He has just finished a major study of East Asian IR, Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, which will be published in 2004. Contingent States uses the example of Greater China - a powerful community which does not exist as a formal legal body - to question IR theory's norms of sovereignty, democracy, and the nation-state. Using an ethnographic approach to transnational politics, it traces out how Greater China emerges via networks of relations in local, national, regional, global and transnational space.
William Callahan's current book project National Insecurities: Ethics, Identity and Chinese Politics considers how "national humiliation" is key to understanding the links between East Asian revolutionary struggles in the early 20th century, and Chinese politics and foreign policy in the early 21st century. In 2002-2003, Callahan conducted this research as a British Academy fellow at Harvard University.
William Callahan is also the Director of a EUR 300,000 European Union-funded three year cooperative research project "Asian Studies in Europe and China" which links the University of Durham with Renmin University in Beijing and the Free University of Brussels.
William Callahan's research interests entail identity and politics, Chinese foreign policy, IR theory, Thai politics, East Asian IR, and post-structuralism. His key publications are the following: "Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Diasporic Chinese and Neo-Nationalism in China and Thailand" in International Organization, 57:3 (Summer 2003), pp. 481-517; "Humiliation, Salvation and Chinese Nationalism" in a special section "National Insecurities" of two articles edited and introduced by Callahan, Alternatives, 29:1 (Jan-March 2004); Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, (University of Minnesota Press, August 2004); Editor, special issue "The Limits of Chinese Nationalism,"The Journal of Contemporary China (2004); Imagining Democracy: Reading 'The Events of May in Thailand (Singapore/London: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1998).
Please see the websites http://www.dur.ac.uk/politics.department, and http://www.dur.ac.uk/EastAsianStudies/cccs.htm, as well as http://www.dur.ac.uk/chinese.politics.
Please find here National Insecurities: Humiliation, Salvation, and Chinese Nationalism by William A. Callahan, in Alternatives 29, 2004, 199–218.

JÖRG CALLIEß

Jörg Calließ is a Historian. Subsequent to his studies of History, Sociology and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Munich, he has lectured History at different German universities. Between 1977 and 1979, he has been responsible for the international work in the field of youth and adult education at Haus Sonnenberg (St. Andreasberg).
Since 1979, Jörg Calließ is Director of Studies at the Evangelische Akademie Loccum in the field of International Relations, Peace Studies and Peace Making program and, since 1999, also honorary professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.
During all these years, he has been active in several Conflict Resolutions and Peace Research initiatives. His research interests include international relations, world-politics, global governance, role of NGOs; peaceful conflict-management, crisis-prevention and conflict-resolution, role of NGOs and civil society in conflict-management and peacebuilding-processes, subjects of international security and security policy, relations between military and civilian contributions to peacemaking, European-American relations, and transatlantic cooperation.

VIRGINIA F. CAWAGAS

Dr. Virginia Floresca Cawagas is Project Coordinator at the Multi-Faith Centre, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Education & Professional Studies, Griffith University, Queensland Australia, and at the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. From 2003-2005, she was a visiting professor and academic consultant of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a centre established by the Agreement of UNESCO and the Government of the Republic of Korea, to promote education for international understanding (EIU) towards a culture of peace in the Asia-Pacific region. She edited the first APCEIU teachers’ resource book for Asian and Pacific countries for integrating EIU toward a culture of peace in social studies. She has been editor of the International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, since 1998. Dr. Cawagas has an Ed.D. in peace and development education (meritissimus) and has extensive teaching experience in the field of global/peace education, human rights education, and multicultural education in both formal and non-formal modes. She teaches, lectures, and conducts workshops in these fields for students, teachers, academics, school administrators, community leaders, and civil servants in the Philippines, Canada, US, Korea, Australia and the South Pacific.
Please see:
• Toh, Swee-Hin and Cawagas, Virginia F. (Eds.) (2007). Proceedings of the International Symposium: Cultivating Wisdom, Harvesting Peace Education for a Culture of Peace Through Values, Virtues, and Spirituality of Diverse Cultures, Faiths, and Civilizations, 10-13 August 2005. Brisbane, Australia: The Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

STEPHEN CHAN

Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations in the University of London, and foundation Dean of Law and Social Sciences at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He previously held senior positions at the Universities of Kent and Nottingham Trent, and was on the faculty of the University of Zambia. He has held visiting positions in many universities, lecturing on five continents, and has twice been Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House in Oxford. He delivered the 2003 Maurice Webb Memorial Lectures in Natal, South Africa. His major research interests are in African politics (Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence, I.B. Tauris and University of Michigan Press, 2003), and in the composition of an ethics for international discourse that recognises the philosophical methodologies of different cultures (The Zen of International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001; Out of Evil, London: I.B. Tauris, 2004).
Professor Chan has always sought a praxis in his life. As an international civil servant, he was stationed in both London and Lusaka, and was seconded to the Commonwealth Observer Group that oversaw the independence of Zimbabwe. He has since advised and trained ministries in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Mauritius, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea and Ethiopia. He has also played a professional role, having served on the Executive Committee of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, and as Adviser in International Relations to the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission. He has also advised the Academy of Finland.
Born in 1949 to refugee parents in New Zealand, he took MA degrees from the University of Auckland and London University King's College, and later took the Ph.D. of the University of Kent. Before leaving New Zealand in 1976, he became well-known for his literary and political commitments and, in 1973, was elected President of the New Zealand University Students' Association. He has lived five years in Zambia and continues to visit Africa at least annually. He is involved in several programmes that bring the oriental martial arts to poor African urban areas. He has founded the Kwok Meil Wah Foundation as one means to support these programmes. For more on his literary and martial arts activities, please see:
Stephen Chan Literary
Stephen Chan Martial Arts
See through for a summary curriculum vitae, and for a complete bibliography of Stephen Chan's published works from 1969 to the present day.

AKIHIRO CHIBA

Professor Chiba has been Professor of International Education at the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo since 1991 and, even though now retired, he continues as a visiting professor to carry out research on education for conviviality in ICU's 21st Century Center of Excellence Program, Research and Education for Peace, Security and Conviviality. Before joining ICU, Akihiro Chiba has served UNESCO for 31 years. His most recent book is Why Literacy: The Reality of Developing Countries (second edition).
Akihiro Chiba is furthermore a Senior Advisor of the Kumon Institute of Education Co., Ltd. This institute applies a tailor-made system of self-learning, where students start with what they know, and build on it (at present 3.5 million children attend Kumon classes in 44 countries). Professor Chiba's fields of expertise are planning and training in literacy and project preparation, evaluation and monitoring in literacy. He speaks English, French, and Japanese and works internationally.

ZAHUR AHMED CHOUDHRI

Zahur Ahmed Choudhri is also a Member of the Global Core Team, and HumanDHS Global Staff.
Zahur Ahmed Choudhri, provided his services to the government of Pakistan for more than three decades. And he recently retired from his position as a Director (Research), National Centre for Rural Development & Municipal Administration, Government of Pakistan. While being working for the government of Pakistan, he acted as a team-leader for several research projects with international organizations, i.e. UNICEF, UNCRD, UNDP, LOGOTRI-UNESCAP, FAO, ILO, SAARC, IFAD, CIRDAP, APO, AARDO and IUCN.
Mr. Choudhri is also in the visiting faculty of couple of national universities in Pakistan, and sharing his life-long development sector experiences with the students of rural sociology, forestry and rural development. He has also been writing on ranges of issues and also has co-authored two books. Both books are looking at the notion of development through the lens of Islam, mainly answering the very crucial question, how various concepts and approaches of Islam teaches for development and peace from individual to a state and global level.

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DAN CHRISTIE

Daniel J. Christie is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Ohio State University. Dan works with colleagues on course development, field experiences, and programs on peace psychology in higher education particularly in developing parts of the world. He conducts applied research in peace psychology for a number of civil society organizations, and serves as Series Editor of the Peace Psychology Book Series (Springer) and Editor-in-Chief for the Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology (Wiley-Blackwell). He co-edited Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century (Prentice-Hall), which is available for downloading at no cost. His most recent publications on peace psychology appear in the Journal of Social Issues and American Psychologist.

KEVIN P. CLEMENTS

Kevin Paul Clements holds the Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies, and is the Director of the newly-founded National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, since January 2009. Prior to that, since September 2003, he was the Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS), after being Secretary General of International Alert, in London, England. International Alert is one of the world's biggest NGO's working on Conflict Transformation in Africa, the Caucasus, Asia and Latin America. Before that, he was the Vernon and Minnie Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution and Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia USA, and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia, as well as Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Coordinator of Peace Studies at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. In the mid 1980s he was Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, and a member of the New Zealand Delegation to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. He has been a Visiting Professor /Researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore, and the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia. He was a lecturer in Sociology at Hong Kong University in the early 1970s, and a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford University. Kevin is a Past President of the International Peace Research Association, President of the IPRA Foundation and Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association. He was a member of the NZ Government Defence Committee of Enquiry in 1985 which explored how New Zealand could defend itself without nuclear weapons. Kevin was the inaugural President of the European Peace Building Liaison Organisation in Brussels and a Board Member of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention. He edited the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology in the late 1970s and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Peace Review, Global Change, Peace and Security, and Peace and Policy. He has been an advisor on defence, security and conflict issues to a range of governmental and non-governmental organisations in Australasia, the United States and Europe and Chairman, Facilitator and keynote speaker at many international Peace and Conflict Resolution conferences over the past 20 years. He is on the International Advisory Board of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Amherst Mass USA, Global Action to Abolish War, the International Peace Research Association Foundation and (Ex Officio) on the Executive of the International Peace Research Association Council.

SARA COBB

Sara Cobb, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University. As ICAR provides graduate degrees in conflict resolution, Dr. Cobb works to support both the production of original research and the integration between theory and practice. As faculty, she teaches theory, research and practice-based courses on negotiation and the transformation of disputes. In her role as Director, she provides liaison between ICAR and other private sector agencies/corporations, at national and international levels.
Through her research, she has specialized in the analysis of conflict narratives and has contributed to the critique of "neutrality" in conflict resolution processes. Dr. Cobb as published widely in communication studies and legal studies, supported by grants from the Ford Foundation and the UN High Commission on Refugees. She has held both administrative and academic positions at a variety of research institutions including Harvard Law School, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Connecticut. She has consulted to a host of family-owned businesses in North and South America, as well as to public and private organizations, including UN High Commission on Refugees, La Caxia Bank, and Exxon. She has conducted training for the American Bar Association, Fox Learning Academy and a number of universities in Europe and Latin America. The blend of academic research, program development, and practice enables Dr. Cobb to offer both systematic critique of traditional methods for conflict intervention, as well as new methods for intervention that focus on the transformation of narratives in conflict processes.
Please see here "Humiliation" as Positions in Narratives: Implications for Policy Development, paper presented at the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.

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DAN BARON COHEN

Dan Baron Cohen is a playwright, community-theatre director, performance-based arts-educator and cultural activist, presently living and working in Brazil. He studied English Literature at Oxford University where he did doctoral research into theatre as popular education. After a decade of community theatre and mural collaborations dedicated to conflict transformation and social justice with excluded communities in Manchester (Northern England) and Derry (North of Ireland), in 1994 Dan accepted a permanent post in theatre and popular education at the University of Glamorgan, in Wales.
In 1999, following a year of collaborations in Brazil, Dan left university teaching to return to working as a freelance community-based arts educator in Brazil. His past ten years of projects with landless, indigenous, trade-union and university communities in Brazil have advanced his collective storytelling methods and cultural literacy techniques into a pedagogy of 'transformance' which he has refined in dialogue with practitioners and communities in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. More recently, Dan has used these techniques to develop community sculpture, mosaics, dance-theatre and teacher-training courses within universities and social movements throughout the world. In addition to articles and exhibitions, his publications include Theatre of Self Determination (2001), and Cultural Literacy: the intimate struggle for a new humanity (2004).
Dan is President of the International Drama-Education Association (IDEA), Chair of the World Alliance for Arts Education, and member of the International Committee of the World Social Forum.

DOV COHEN

Dov Cohen graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has taught at the University of Illinois and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His general research interests have to do with cultural continuity and change and the impact of social norms. Specific areas of research have examined violence, honor, relationship issues, and perspectives on the self, individualism and collectivism, and cultural influences on memory.
Professor Cohen has published on topics such as honor and violence, see for example, Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South (Westview Press, 1996, co-authored with Richard E. Nisbett). See furthermore, "Field Experiments Examining the Culture of Honor: The Role of Institutions in Perpetuating Norms About Violence" in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1997, together with Richard E. Nisbett, "Meanings of Violence" in Journal of Legal Studies, 1997, together with Joseph A. Vandello, as well as "The sacred and the social: Honor and violence in cultural context" in Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture, edited by Paul Gilbert and Bernice Andrews, Oxford University Press, 1998, co-authored with Joseph A. Vandello and Adrian Bantilla.

PETER T. COLEMAN

Peter T. Coleman is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Peter T. Coleman is the Director of ICCCR and Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Social / Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Iowa. He has conducted research on social entitivity processes (ingroup/outgroup formation), gender discrimination in organizations, the mediation of inter-ethnic conflict, ripeness in intractable conflict, conflict resolution & difference, and on the conditions which foster the constructive use of social power. [read more]

BEVERLY CRAWFORD

Beverly Crawford is the Associate Director and Associate Research Political Scientist at the Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley..

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MARIA DAHLE

Maria Dahle is the Executive Director of the Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF), a non-governmental organisation established in 1989 and located at the Human Rights House in Oslo, Norway and in Geneva, Switzerland, is the Secretariat of the HRH Network. The Secretariat works to protect, strengthen and support human rights organisations and unite them in an international network of Human Rights Houses by:
• Facilitating the establishment of human rights houses;
• Providing human rights organisations with information about the process of establishing a human rights house and the process of joining the Network;
• Advising organisations in the HRH Network on the development of projects and programs;
• Providing human rights organisations with information about the resources available within the HRH Network;
• Maintaining close relationships with the organisations of the HRH Network;
• Facilitating the sharing of knowledge and expertise;
• Lobbying and fundraising on behalf of the human rights houses;
• Maintaining the HRH Network's website;
• Publishing the Annual Report and other promotional material.

DENIS CUNNINGHAM

Denis Cunningham has been involved in (languages) education in a wide variety of contexts over the last twenty-five years. This has included teaching in Victoria and France, consultancy, and management within the Victorian School of Languages, where he is currently Assistant Principal.
Denis has been an active member of associations, including the MLTAV and the AFMLTA, of which he was Secretary from 1982 to 1997 and was awarded the AFMLTA Medal for Outstanding Service to Language Teaching in Australia in 1999. After being Secretary-General (1993-1997), he is now President of the world federation, FIPLV. He has been a member of numerous steering and reference committees for national projects in Australia and has presented papers and workshops in every Australian state/territory and twenty-two other countries. He was awarded the honour of Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 2001.
He has edited monographs, published (in Australia and overseas) a number of articles on a variety of educational and other topics, especially CALL and technology in open learning, continuity, language policy, language rights, profiling, Linguapax and other UNESCO activities. He has also published reviews and reports - bringing the number of publications to around 230 - and has contributed to several other monographs and reports over the last twenty years.
He was a member of the UNESCO International Linguapax Committee, organised the UNESCO International Conference on the Pacific: A Language Treasure (2001), and has represented FIPLV on the Scientific Committees of the UNESCO World Congress on Language Policies (2002), the Linguapax X World Congress (Dialogue on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace) (2004), and the Project on Languages of the World. He was also a member of the UNESCO Expert Group, which produced UNESCO's policy on languages Education in a Multilingual World, which appeared in 2003.

JEAN DELISLE

Dr. Jean Delisle, C.Tr., C. Term., is Director of the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Ottawa, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1974. He has been co-founder and President of Sopar-Limbour, a non-profit organization helping poor people in India. He has authored several books on translation teaching and the history of translation, namely L'Analyse du discours comme méthode de traduction (1980), Bridging the Language Solitudes (1984), Translation in Canada, 1534-1984 (1987), The Language Alchemists (1990), La Traduction raisonnée (1993; 2 nd ed. 2003) and L'Enseignement pratique de la traduction (2005). He edited Portraits de traducteurs (1999), Portraits de traductrices (2003) and was co-editor of Translators through History (1995), Enseignement de la traduction et traduction dans l'enseignement (1998), Translation Terminology (1999) and Traduction : La formation, les spécialisations et la profession (2004). He founded three series at the University of Ottawa Press: Cahiers de traductologie (1979), Perspectives on Translation (1993) and Didactics of Translation (1993). He also co-produced a non-commercial CD-ROM on The History of Translation. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, Galician, German, Korean, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

EMANUELA DEL RE

Emanuela Claudia Del Re (1963) is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Emanuela C. Del Re is an Italian scholar specialized in geopolitics and security issues, who has been working on "terrorism" and in particular "religious terrorism" in the last few years focusing on the issue of "terrorists' profiling." Her interest in the link between security and religious issues dates back to the 1980s when she started carrying out long field researches in the field in New Religious Movements (in Europe, South Africa and in the Balkans).
Emanuela C. Del Re is Professor of International Relations within the Master's degree course on "Immigration and Refugees issues," where she also organized a "International Crisis simulation," at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the first University of Rome "La Sapienza."
Emanuela C. Del Re is the President of the EPOS International Mediating and Negotiating Operational Agency.
She has an eclectic background, as she started as a political and cultural anthropologist, but carried out research in the field in conflict areas at a very early age (her first systematic field research was carried out in the South African black townships of Mamelodi and Soweto in 1990). She slowly developed other interests under different scientific approaches that derived from the application of the method of participant observation. She tries to apply a multifaceted perspective that in her view allows a much deeper perception of the essence of a particular issue.
Emanuela C. Del Re has organized and directs a Jean Monnet module on " European Culture(s), Citizenship(s) and Governance" in the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University "La Sapienza" of Rome. She also teaches "Religious Terrorism's issues" in the Master's Degree Course "Human Rights and Conflict Management" of the School S. Anna of Pisa (Italy).
Emanuela C. Del Re regularly lectures in various Italian and international courses organized by academic institutions as well as governmental institutions and NGOs. She is a presenter of papers and Keynote speaker on the themes of her researches in numerous conferences and seminars (European Parliament; London School of Economics; School for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, London; Universities and Research Institutes in Italy; Central European University, Prague; University of Bielefeld; University of Tirana; University of Sofia; University of Budapest et al.). As an expert in Geopolitics and Security Issues, she acts as reference and consultant for Institutions such as, amongst others, the Italian Ministry of Interiors, Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Italian Ministry of Production, Italian National Radio Network RAI and research institutes such as the Military Centre for Strategic Studies (Rome) and NOMISMA. She is a member and analyst of the European Stability Initiative (ESI). She is a member of the Network of Excellence Transfuse. She is a member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. She is a known expert in Balkan issues, having carried out long field researches in the area since 1991, focusing in particular on the Albanian question, in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia, where she has followed closely the crises and conflicts that have taken place there in the last fifteen years. She has focused on themes such as: big connection axes in Europe and beyond (Pan-European Corridors, in particular V and VIII) and on geo-strategic and geopolitical implications of oil and oil pipelines, focusing in particular on Caspian Oil (field work in Azerbaijan). In the field of security studies, she is a known expert in trans-national and international illicit trafficking, with a particular focus on the link between illicit trafficking and conflicts, migration and illicit trafficking and illegal trafficking of women aimed at prostitution networks. She has obtained grants for her researches from various institutions, amongst which: Central European University (Prague), University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Military Centre for Strategic Studies (CeMISS, Rome), Department of Infrastructure and Transport ("Province" of Milan), European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy). She has vastly published in Italy and abroad, being the author of books and essays. She is the member of the editing committee and regular contributor of the leading Italian Geopolitical Review Limes and of the Italian Review of Intelligence Gnosis, the publication of the Italian Ministry of Interiors. In her international activity, she has also acted as International Electoral Observer since 1994 for UN, EU, OSCE in Bosnia, Albania, Yemen, South Africa, Algeria, Ukraine, Serbia, Kenya. In Algeria (1997) and Yemen (1997), also drafter of the final report. She has always kept a strong interest in the support of audiovisual techniques in her researches, and in fact she has been the director and author of the text of scientific video-documentaries. She is at the moment filming a documentary on the mutual perception of Jew, Muslim and Catholic teenagers in Europe.
Emanuela C. Del Re has two children, Giulio Claudio (8) and Michele Arjuna (4), who have already followed her on field in areas such as Kosovo, Albania, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, but also to western equally interesting areas, in terms of social and political analysis, such as western Europe and the USA.
Selected publications, volumes and CD Roms: Caspian Oil. An option of exploitation for the EU, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport-ANAS, CD Rom, 2005; Il Corridoio V, Province of Milan, CD Rom, 2003; Corridor VIII. Realization, financing, works, impact, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport-ANAS, 2003; Paneuropean Corridor VIII, Geopolitical and Geostrategical aspects, Military Centre for Strategic Studies, Rome, 2002, CD Rom; Albania punto a capo, SEAM, Rome, 1997; Albania on the wave of the years, Argo, Lecce,1995; Bread Salt and Heart. The Kanun of Lek Dukaginji amongst the people of the albanian mountains, Argo, Lecce, 1993.
Articles and essays: "Adriatico: scenari futuri", in: R. Pavia (a cura di) Adriatico Risorsa d'Europa, Regione Emilia Romagna, Ed. Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2007; "Migrazioni=terrorismo", in: Limes, n.4, 2007; "Il profilo del potenziale terrorista", in Gnosis, Rivista dell'Intelligence Italiana, n. 2, 2007; "Status del Kossovo. Alla vigilia di un'epoca", Forum, in: Gnosis, Rivista dell'Intelligence Italiana, n. 4, 2007; "Terrorismi e Religiosi", in Gnosis, Rivista di Intelligence italiana, n.2, 2006, pp.34-48, 2006; "Il crimine organizzato straniero, ovvero le mafie d'importazione", in: Gnosis, n.3, 2006, pp. 4-28; "Balcani ed Europa Orientale", Cucchi,G., A. Politi (a cura di), Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2005 sulle prospettive economico-strategiche, A.G.R.A, Roma, 2006, pp.275-298; "Quanto costa lo status", in: Kosovo. Lo stato delle mafie, Limes, Quaderni speciali, n.6, 2006, pp.79-88; "Terrore e terrorismo internazionale. Breve excursus storico e tentativo di definire l'attualità", in: Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali, n. 4, Ottobre-Dicembre, 2006, pp.608-619; "Guerre sante e guerra cosmica", in: Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2006 sulle prospettive economico-strategiche, A.G.R.A., Roma, 2006, pp.253-274; "Energia geopolitica. Dall'Unione Europea all'Europa Sudorientale, passando per Russia e Turchia", in: Est-Ovest, Rivista di studi sull'Integrazione Europea, n.6, 2006, pp. 11-29; When our men arrive. Unmik's post-conflict administration of Kosovo, in: P. Siani-Davies (a cura di) Post-conflict Kosovo, Oxford University Press, Routledge, London, 2003; "I servizi segreti al G8", in Limes, n.3, 2001, pp.95-102; "Crimine e stato in Albania", in: Gli Stati mafia, LIMES, Numero speciale, n.2, 2000, pp.49-64; Albanian society in evolution. The migration factor, in: C. Lanni (ed.), Albania. A Country of Europe. The migration factor, Torino, EGA, 2000, pp. 9-43; " Albania: social, political and economic questions in the process of democratization", in: AWR Bulletin, n.1, 1999, pp.28-38; " Albania in transition: the question of identity and the customary law", in: Bianchini S., Schopflin G. (a cura di), State building in the Balkans. The dilemmas on the Eve of the XXI century, Longo, Ravenna, 1999, pp.167-194. Video-documentaries: Sangam. A River of Humanity at the Kumbh Mela, C.A.T.T.I.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1995; The mountains, the qiri, and the Blessed Virigin, C.A.T.T.I.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1993; In the light of the Elohim. The Raelian Movement: a UFO cult, C.A.T.T.I.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1992.
Please see:
- Emanuela Del Re's contribution to the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Security
- The Subtle Connection Between Counter-terrorism Strategies and Humiliation, presentation held at the 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 10-11, 2009.

MORTON DEUTSCH

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).
Please see here the Morton Deutsch Library. [read more]

BRIGID DONELAN

Brigid Donelan has served as Chief and Focal Point on Conflict Resolution and Peace-building in the UN's Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA (New York) until 2005. The Division is developing a people-centred approach to peace-building that revolves on the concept of social integration agreed at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development. The approach is participatory, knowledge-seeking and values-based. Brigid recently co-edited (with experts) the book Trauma Interventions in War and Peace: Prevention, Practice and Policy (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003). She has served on UN peacekeeping missions in Cyprus, Lebanon, Namibia and, most recently, in South Africa during its transition to democracy. Originally, from Ireland, Brigid has studied and worked in the areas of journalism, sociology and peacebuilding.
Please see here Humiliation and Resiliency in the Social Integration Process: Towards a model framework and policy dialogue at the United Nations, note prepared by Patricia O'Hagan and Brigid Donelan for the 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Day 2, Roundtable: "Can the notion of humiliation be useful for public policy planning?", Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.

FANNY DUCKERT

Fanny Duckert is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo in Norway. Since 1997, Fanny Duckert is a Visiting Professor at the University of the North in the Limpopo Province in South Africa where she is running a Linkage Programme between Norway and South Africa. This programme aims at academic capacity building at historical disadvantaged universities in South Africa.
Professor Duckert is a Clinical Specialist and a Specialist in Industrial and Organisational Psychology. Her theoretical approach can be described as cognitive behavioural. Her main research activities are focusing on the treatment of substance abuse problems. Her doctoral thesis addressed the evaluation of treatments of alcohol abuse problems. She has been writing a series of scientific articles and several books in the field of substance abuse treatment.

ASBJØRN EIDE

Asbjørn Eide is Chairman of the FAO Panel of Eminent Experts on Ethics in Food and Agriculture, and Member of the UN Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. He is Senior Fellow and former Director of the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Asbjørn Eide has published widely, see, among others, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook (edited in 2001 in Nijhoff, together with Catarina Krause and Allan Rosas), Prevention of Impunity: Special Issue (edited in 2000, in Kluwer Law International), Human Rights and Corporate Response - Country Study Design: Exploratory Study of Azerbaijan (1999 in the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, together with Pia Rudolfsson Goyer), Human Rights Education: Achievements and Challenges (edited in 1998, together with Athanasia Spiliopoulou Åkermark), and Conditions for Civilized Politics: Political Regimes and Compliance With Human Rights (1996, together with Bernt Hagtvet in Scandinavian University Press).treatment.

RIANE EISLER

Riane Eisler is an eminent social scientist, attorney, and social activist best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, hailed by Princeton anthropologist Ashley Montagu as "the most important book since Darwin's Origin of Species and by novelist Isabel Allende as "one of those magnificent key books that can transform us." This was the first book reporting the results of Eisler's study of human cultures spanning 30,000 years, and is in 22 languages, including most European languages and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, and Japanese.
Riane Eisler was born in Vienna, fled from the Nazis with her parents to Cuba, and later emigrated to the United States. She obtained degrees in sociology and law from the University of California, taught pioneering classes on women and the law at UCLA, and is a founding member of the General Evolution Research Group (GERG) and the Alliance for a Caring Economy (ACE), and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and World Business Academy. She is also co-founder of the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV). She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies, dedicated to research and education.
Dr. Eisler has received many honors, including selection as the only woman among twenty great thinkers including Hegel, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee for inclusion in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work.
Her books include the award-winning The Power of Partnership and Tomorrow's Children, as well as Sacred Pleasure, a daring reexamination of sexuality and spirituality, and Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life, which statistically documents the key role of the status of women in a nation's general quality of life. She is the author of over 200 essays and articles in publications ranging from Behavioral Science, Futures, Political Psychology, and The UNESCO Courier to Brain and Mind, Yes!, the Human Rights Quarterly, The International Journal of Women's Studies, and the World Encyclopedia of Peace.
Dr. Eisler is sought after to keynote conferences worldwide, and is a consultant to business and government on applications of the partnership model introduced in her work. International venues have included Germany at the invitation of Prof. Rita Suessmuth, President of the Bundestag (the German Parliament) and Daniel Goeudevert (Chair of Volkswagen International); Greece at the invitation of Margarita Papandreou (the First Lady); Colombia, invited by the Mayor of Bogota; and the Czech Republic, invited by Vaclav Havel (President of the Czech Republic).
Based on her work as a cultural historian and evolutionary theorist over the last twenty years, Riane Eisler introduced the partnership system and the domination system as two underlying possibilities for structuring beliefs, institutions, and relations that transcend categories such as religious vs. secular, right vs. left, and technologically developed or undeveloped. Her pioneering work in human rights expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children, and her work in economics introduces a new holistic model for government and business. Her research has impacted many fields, including history, sociology, and education; for example, it inspired the Montessori Foundation to start a Center for Partnership Education.
She is widely recognized as a visionary pragmatist, whose books, speeches, and leadership have inspired people worldwide. Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, proposes a new economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and planet.

THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN

Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has worked for years with the politics of identity, ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation from a comparative perspective, often with an ethnographic focus on Mauritius and Trinidad. He has also published popular scientific works and essays on cultural complexity in Norway, either with a focus on Norwegians or the multi-ethnic character of contemporary Norway. In recent years, he has published, inter alia, a book about Charles Darwin (in Norwegian), a co-written book about selfishness (in Norwegian), a co-written history of anthropology (English and Norwegian), a study of time and information technology (E/N), a book about the West and Islam after 11 September (N), an edited volume about globalisation and methodology (E), and a very short introduction to social anthropology (N).

GRACE FEUERVERGER

Grace Feuerverger is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, and a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team, and of the HumanDHS Education Team.
Grace is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. A child of Holocaust survivors, Professor Grace Feuerverger grew up in a multicultural and multilingual home in Montreal and brings her personal and professional experiences to bear on her teaching and research work. Grace was educated at a variety of institutions - McGill University, the Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Alberta, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Toronto.
Grace Feuerverger’s research interests focus on theoretical and practical issues of cultural and linguistic diversity, ethnic identity maintenance, and minority language learning within multicultural educational contexts, as well as on conflict resolution and peacemaking in international settings. Her courses at OISE/University of Toronto and her research projects explore the personal and professional texts of those who live within and between various cultural worlds. She continues to direct a multicultural literacy project in various schools in Toronto where she has developed an in-service teacher's guide and video programs. Grace is also Principal Investigator of a large-scale SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) research study, which focuses on the school experiences of immigrant and refugee students in Toronto and Montreal. She is also an invited member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
Professor Feuerverger’s recent award-winning book Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel (New York/London: Routledge/Falmer, 2001) is based on a nine-year study that she carried out as researcher in this extraordinary cooperative village and it is about hope in the midst of deadly conflict. It is a reflexive ethnography focusing on the two bilingual, bicultural educational institutions in this place of peaceful coexistence - an elementary school where Jewish and Arab children study together, and the "School for Peace" which is a conflict resolution outreach program for Israeli and Palestinian adolescents and their teachers.
Please see furthermore:
• The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village, paper presented at the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
• Building Bridges to Peace and Social Justice: An Emancipatory Discourse in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel, abstract presented at the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
• Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (Rotterdam: SensePublishers) explores teaching and learning in schools as a sacred life journey, a quest toward liberation (see the flyer).
• On the Child's Right to Identity, the Best Interests of the Child and Human Dignity
An Excerpt from Chapter Three of Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (2007, Rotterdam: Sense), “What I learned from my first day of Kindergarten” presented at the 13th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies "World Peace through Humiliation-Free Global Human Interactions," in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 20 to 23, 2009.
• Teaching and Writing Vulnerably: An Auto-Ethnography about Schools as Places of Hope, presentation held at the 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 10-11, 2009.

CHARLES R. FIGLEY

Charles R. Figley is a psychologist, family therapist, and Professor in the School of Social Work at the Florida State University since June 1989. He is founder and director of the FSU Traumatology Institute (formerly the Psychosocial Stress Research and Development Program). Among other achievements, the Institute initiated the Green Cross Projects, following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and played an important role in humanitarian efforts in New York City immediately following the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. He established Green Cross Foundation and the Academy of Traumatology to support the emerging field of traumatology.
Professor Figley has written more than 186 scholarly works including 16 books. His work has focused on stress, in the area of family stress, as well as on individual stress reactions, especially traumatic stress, starting with his research on Vietnam combat veterans and their families and has helped established the field of Traumatology, the study and treatment of human reactions to highly stressful situations. His most recent two books focus on the traumatic effects of the death of a loved one: Death and Trauma (Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel) with Brian Bride and Nicholas Mazza, released in 1997, and the Traumatology of Grieving (Brunner/Mazel) released in 1999. His latest books (2002) are Treating Compassion Fatigue (Brunner-Routledge) and Brief Treatments for the Traumatized (Greenwood Press).
In 2000 Dr. Figley won four significant awards recognizing his achievements and was elected to the highest level, Fellow, in six professional organizations. They include the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Psychology, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He has presented keynote addresses nationally and internationally.
Dr. Figley was elected President of the prestigious Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, and formerly Director of the Interdivisional Ph.D. Program in Marriage and Family is Founding President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies that includes the Journal of Traumatic Stress. In He is also Founder and current Editor of the refereed journal TRAUMATOLOGY. He is founding editor of both the Journal of Family Psychotherapy and the Journal of Traumatic Stress, and Editor of the Brunner/Mazel Publishing Company's Psychosocial Stress Book Series (1978-2001). In 1995 he was named editor of the St. Lucie Press Book Series, Innovations in Psychology. In 1996 he founded the Trauma & Loss Book Series with Taylor & Francis with Therese Rando as co-editor. In 2001 he was named Editor of the American Psychological Association Books' Series in Stress and Trauma.
Dr. Figley was awarded a senior Fulbright Research Fellowship to conduct research in Kuwait in 2004 and follow-up on his work that was started in 1992, shortly after the liberation from and end of the occupation by Iraq. For more information read his CV and credentials.

BETH FISHER-YOSHIDA

Beth Fisher-Yoshida is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.
Beth Fisher-Yoshida is the Associate Director of ICCCR and engaged in the participatory action research (PAR) activities of the ICCCR. She received her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems and M.A. in Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated with honors when she received her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also received both a B.A. and a B.S. from Buffalo State College. [read more]

BJØRN AKSEL FLATÅS

Bjørn Aksel Flatås is is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Bjørn Aksel Flatås is Director of Research of the Falstad Center, near Levanger in Trøndelag, the middle of Norway. Falstad is a building complex that was erected in 1921 as a special school for delinquent boys. In 1941, the building was confiscated and transformed into a prison camp by the German SS Nazi-occupiers. About 5000 people from thirteen nations were imprisoned here in the period of 1941 to 1945. Most were Norwegian political prisoners. Approximately 220 prisoners were executed in the forest nearby in the period of 1942 to 1943. After the liberation of Norway, Falstad prison camp was transformed into a forced labor camp. Over three thousand members of the Norwegian Nazi Party served their sentence here. Falstad Museum opened in 1995, celebrating the 50th anniversary of liberation. Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Center was established in 2000. Education, documentation and communication concerning the history of imprisonment during World War II and Human Rights constitute the core activities of the Center. The Falstad Archive consists of objects and documents originating from the prison camp.

CAROL LEE FLINDERS

Carol Lee Flinders, Ph.D., is a graduate of Stanford University (1965) and earned her Ph.D. (1973) in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, with a concentration in medieval literature. Carol Lee Flinders has taught at U.C. Berkeley at the Dominion School of Philosophy and Graduate Theological Union as well as in the departments of Religious Studies, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature. She presently gives lectures and workshops throughout the United States and Canada.
Flinders has written several books, among others The Values of Belonging: Rediscovering Balance, Mutuality, Wholeness and Intuition in a Competitive World (2002), At the Root of this Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst (1998), and Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics (1993).
Her book Rebalancing the World: Why Women Belong and Men Compete and How to Restore the Ancient Equilibrium, (see www.harpercollins.com) is a post-feminist book that appeals to both men and women. Similar to Lindner, Flinders develops a grand vision of history and what we can learn from humankind's faring. Flinders divides value systems into those of the pre-agricultural "Belonging" world (including balance, mutuality, inwardness, self-restraint, tolerance, deliberateness, and intuitive and unitive ways of knowing), and the values of the industrial world of "Enterprise" (including individualism, competitiveness, hierarchy, materialism, exploitativeness, linearity, and either/or thinking). Flinders argues that the Belonging values have been subsumed by those of Enterprise, leaving us feeling incomplete. By arguing that our values are not determined by our genders she breaks down that simplistic male/female paradigm and, in a nuanced discussion, provides the reader with a path toward incorporating the values we are missing in our lives for the sense of wholeness we all seek.

VICTORIA C. FONTAN

Victoria Christine Fontan is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, the HumanDHS Research Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore the former Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Victoria Christine Fontan is the Director of Academic Development, and Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. As a Fellow to the Iraq Project at the CICR in Columbia University, Victoria is in charge of developing a permanent Conflict Resolution curriculum in northern Iraqi universities.
Prior to 2005, Victoria was Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq. Previously, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace Studies at Colgate University, NY, where she lectured in conflict resolution and peace studies. Earlier, Victoria was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Sabanci University, in Turkey. She lectured in the MA Program in Conflict Resolution and Analysis and also conducts research on conflict resolution processes and the politics of communication.
Victoria holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Studies. She published various papers on multi-track diplomacy, human trafficking, the public diplomacy of armed groups and the formation of political violence in post-conflict societies. Central to her work has been a conceptualisation of post-conflict processes through the study of social, gendered, cultural, economic and political humiliation. She conducted field research in Lebanon with the Hezbollah, in Bosnia-Herzegovina on human trafficking and organised crime, and in Fallujah (post-Saddam Iraq) with emerging armed groups. She is also involved in gender training for peacekeeping operations, and has lectured to various armed forces on the subject.
Please see:
• The Dialectics of Humiliation: Polarization between Occupier and Occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq (2003, unpublished Draft (Not to be cited without Author's authorization).
• co-authored with Bertram Wyatt-Brown (2005), "The Honor Factor", Op Ed in The Baltimore Sun, January 23, 2005, p. 5F. Please see here the oringal long version.
• "Hubris, History, and Humiliation: Quest for Utopia in Post-Saddam Iraq," in Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 56-61, 2006.
• Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny
Westport, CT: Greenwood/Praeger Security International..

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MICHAEL W. FOX

Michael Wilson Fox was born and educated in the UK, earning his veterinary degree from the Royal Veterinary College, London, from where he graduated in 1962. His subsequent research into animal behavior and development in the U.S. at the Jackson Memorial Research Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, and the Thudichum Psychiatric Research Institute, Galesburg IL, resulted in a dissertation entitled Integrative Development of the Brain and Behavior in the Dog, (published in 1971 by the University of Chicago Press), that earned a Ph.D. in Medicine from London University in 1967.
As Associate Professor of Psychology at Washington University, St Lois, MO, he continued behavioral and developmental studies in dogs, wolves and other related canids, for which he earned a D.Sc. in animal behavior/ethology from London University in 1976. Between 1976 and 2002 he served in various positions with the Humane Society of the United States, including Scientific Director and Vice President for Bioethics and Sustainable Agriculture.
He has authored over 40 books, writes the nationally syndicated (for over 30 years) newspaper column Animal Doctor, and is a widely recognized expert, consultant, and lecturer on animal awareness, emotions, rights, and well-being; on human- animal relationships and rights philosophy; on bioethics, biotechnology, humane, sustainable agriculture, and holistic health.
He is a member of the British Veterinary Association, the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, Founding Member of the International Society for Applied Animal Ethology, an Honor Roll member of the American Veterinary Medical Association. For more details visit his website www.twobitdog.com/DrFox/ His e-mail address is ipan@erols.com
Please see here:
• Michael Fox's Personal Manifesto
I have laboured on many fronts over the past several decades addressing some of the harmful consequences of unbridled anthropocentrism. This is a condition where self-interest precludes consideration and concern for the interests of others, human and non-human. At a talk by H.H. the Dalai Lama, he advised that if we must be selfish, then at least let us be altruistic. Altruism is the highest form of human selfishness. It is an enlightened selfishness when that altruism encompasses all living beings, even those whom we may fear and which could cause harm. This is the antidote to pathological anthropocentrism of culture and civilization, as it is the remedy for narcissism and a host of harmful consequences.
All things causing disease, disharmony, imbalance, (what the Hopis call koyaanasqatsi) are connected, the co-factors of disease being now primarily anthropogenic. Americans, for example, actually underwrite with their tax dollars the production costs and market support prices of commodity crops and animal products that are part of the industrialized food system which costs them their health and their lives. This system is a major co-factor of climate change, and cases irreparable environmental destruction and pollution, as well as animal cruelty and suffering, and species and habitat extinction.
A medicine based on the humility and respectfulness of enlightened selfishness first seeks to understand the nature of disease and the often reflective, concurrent disease in nature before deciding how best to heal and prevent dis-ease. When we harm the environment, we harm ourselves, and when we abuse animals we do no less to our own humanity. Earth-care, animal care, and human care are coins of the same ethical currency as are earth-health, animal health and human health.
Civil-ization is a biological, evolutionary process, and we hairless apes are learning that is founded and sustained not by power, control, law and order, but by mutual respect, humility and fairness, qualities and principles of being civil that we extend to all living beings because we feel for them. Animals are as much Earth-citizens as are we. So, by extension, regardless of any claim we may have over them, they all have a life of their own. Our duty to care for animals under our dominion is to insure that their basic needs are met, just as we seek for ourselves and which are the basic rights of all members of the life community.
There are many who feel no kinship with other living beings and who are uncivil toward them, showing varying degrees of biopathic behavior, much like the sociopath towards other humans. Regrettably, biopathic behavior has become the cultural norm for industrial civilizations and imperialistic corporations for which the natural world is simply a material resource, animals are mere commodities, a means to an end rather than being ends in themselves. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson’s appeal for biophilia and ‘conciliation’ with Nature not withstanding, those core values and perceptions underlying biopathic activities and policies call for the application of bioethics to evaluate and guide all human institutions, both religious and secular. Bioethical principles such as equalitarianism, respect for all life and ahimsa (avoiding harm) can make our altruism enlightened and our economies sustainable. But they are just as easily ignored behind a corporate façade of biophilia.
Those who speak the universal language of compassion act from the heart of an empathy-based ethics and a justice-based morality infused with understanding and concern. Ascent toward a more enlightened humanism out of the spreading mire of barbarism in every form, secular and otherwise, with its moral inversions, nihilism, denial and corruption of spirit and purpose, requires more than choice and chance, science and faith. It calls for courage, conviction, absolute commitment and dedication to those bioethical principles that frame our humanity and which, like reverence and loyalty, truth and honesty, are absolutes, or they are not at all.
The power of will allied with the Golden rule is greater than the will to power and rule of gold. Then the evolution of the possible human may begin. Website www.twobitdog.com/DrFox/.
See also:
• The Greening of Animal and Human Health Care: Revisioning Disease: Nature - Nurture Co-factors, www.twobitdog.com/DrFox/, 2010

ROBERT W. FULLER

Robert Fuller earned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authored the text Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. He then served as president of Oberlin College, his alma mater. For a dozen years, beginning in 1978, he worked in what came to be known as "citizen diplomacy" to improve the Cold War relationship. During the 1990s, he served as board chair of the non-profit global corporation Internews, which promotes democracy via free and independent media. With the end of the Cold war and the collapse of the USSR, Fuller looked back reflectively on his career and understood that he had been, at different junctures in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into "Nobodyland" led him to identify and probe rankism - abuse of the power inherent in rank - and ultimately to write Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (New Society Publishers, 2003). Three years later, he has published a sequel that focuses on building a "dignitarian" society titled All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006).
Please see here Democracy’s Next Step: Overcoming Rankism. Please see also Dignity - A Unifying Value for American Politics, 2006. Bob explains rankism on YouTube (2007).
In response to Fuller's work, Ann and Mary Lou Richardson founded the Dignitarian Foundation. Francisco Gomes de Matos wrote a poem in honor of Bob Fuller's work, entitled EQUALism.
Robert Fuller has four children, and lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, Claire Sheridan.

ODD-BJØRN FURE

Odd-Bjørn Fure is the Director of the The Centre for Studies ofHolocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo in Norway, since 1998. He received his Dr. Philos in history in 1984. He took lower exams in comparative politics and sociology. His fields of research are the history of the labour movement, Norwegian foreign politics, international relations and international government, World War II, Holocaust and Nazism, the history of civilization and mentality, and the history of science. Fure has vibrant network within the science-milieu especially in France, Germany and Switzerland. He lectures at all university levels, in contemporary history and modern history, with his specialities being the European catastrophes during the first years of the 20th century, with mass murders during the First World War, Holocaust and the extermination war at the eastern front. Has also lectured on the fall of communism, the breakdown of the bipolar world order, the new world order after 1990, supranational regionalization, the development of the European Union, and the breakdown of civilization on Balkan in the 1990s. He has guest-lectured at the University of Tromsø, Trondheim, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bonn and Strasbourg, in Norwegien, French, German and English.
His recent research publications and manuscripts (during the years of 1998-2000 Fure has not worked with scientific research because he was engaged in organising the ISSEI Congess in Bergen, Norway in 2000; the same applies for the period after 2002, when Fure was appointed Director at the Holocaust-Center in Norway):
• Inter-war period 1920-1940. Norwegian foreign policy’s history. Volume 3. 1997.
• Regions and regionalism in Europe. Towards a new political architecture in Europe? In Ersland, Hovland, Dyrvik, red.: Festschrift to Institute of History’s 40th anniversary in 1997. Publication 2, 1998.
• The history of Norwegian occupation. Konsens, contact-anxiety and taboo, in Stein Ugelvik Larsen, red. I krigens kjølevann. 1999.
• Nationale Habitusentwicklung in Deutschland und Norwegen im Verleich, in Heiko Uecker, re. Kontraste. Deutsch-norwegische Unterschiede im Vergleich. Bonn 2001.
• Boarders, suverenity and civilisation. Arrangement for book.
• The Irving prosess: History, law and rememberance. Samtiden, 2, 2002.
• Extermination of the European jews. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2, 2002.
• From september 2000 Fure is engaged in a production of Europes history in the 20th century in a global perspective. .

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ARUN MANILAL GANDHI

Born 1934 in Durban South Africa, Arun Gandhi spent much of his adult life in India working as a journalist and promoting social and economic changes for the poor and the oppressed classes. Along with his wife Sunanda rescued about 128 orphan children from the streets and placed them in loving homes around the world. Began a Center for Social Change, which transformed the lives of millions in villages in the western state of Maharashtra. In 1987 Sunanda and Arun came to the US and in 1991 started the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the Christian Brothers University in Memphis Tennessee. In 2008 the Institute was moved to the University of Rochester, New York. In the 17 years of the Institute’s life the Gandhi’s took the message of nonviolence and peace to hundreds of thousands of high school and University youth around the US and much of the Western World.
Arun is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. Growing up under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Africa, he was beaten by “white” South Africans for being too black and “black” South Africans for being too white; so, Arun sought eye-for-an-eye justice. However, he learned from his parents and grandparents that justice does not mean revenge, it means transforming the opponent through love and suffering.
His Grandfather taught Arun to understand nonviolence through understanding violence. “If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world,” Gandhi said. Through daily lessons, Arun says, he learned about violence and about anger.
Arun shares these lessons all around the world. For the past five years, he has participated in the Renaissance Weekend deliberations with President Clinton and other well-respected Rhodes Scholars. This year, some of his engagements included speaking at the Chicago Children’s Museum and the Women’s Justice Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He also delivered talks at the Young President’s Organization in Mexico, the Trade Union Leaders’ Meeting in Milan, Italy, as well as the Peace and Justice Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Sometimes, his journeys take him even further. Arun has spoken in Croatia, France, Ireland, Holland, Lithuania, Nicaragua, China, Scotland and Japan. Also, he is a very popular speaker on college campuses. In the past year, he spoke at, North Dakota State University, Concordia College, Baker University, Morehouse College, Marquette University, and the University of San Diego.
Arun is very involved in social programs and writing, as well. Shortly after Arun married his wife Sunanda, they were informed the South African government would not allow her to accompany him there. Sunanda and Arun decided to live in India, and Arun worked for 30 years as a journalist for The Times of India. Together, Arun and Sunanda started projects for the social and economic uplifting of the oppressed using constructive programs, the backbone of Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. The programs changed the lives of more than half a million people in over 300 villages and they still continue to grow. Sunanda died in February of 2007 and the family is working to establish a school in poorest rural India in her name.
Arun is the President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute that has embarked on an ambitious multi-pronged program to help eradicate the scourge of poverty and human degradation. Gandhi said: “Poverty is the worse form of violence,” and must be tackled on all fronts to ensure human rights and human dignity to those who are victims of societal exploitation. The priority of the Institute is to rescue children from the poorest sections of Indian society who are the first to become victims of criminal gangs; the second priority is to build an institution that serves as a shelter as well as a learning institution where the rescued children will receive basic education.
Arun is the author of several books. The first, A Patch of White (1949), is about life in prejudiced South Africa; then, he wrote two books on poverty and politics in India; followed by a compilation of M.K. Gandhi's Wit & Wisdom. He also edited a book of essays on World Without Violence: Can Gandhi’s Vision Become Reality? And, more recently, wrote The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi, jointly with his late wife Sunanda.

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