ARIE NADLER

Arie Nadler is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team.
Arie was born in Munich in 1947. He is Professor of Social Psychology at the Tel-Aviv University. From 1984 to 1988 he served as the Head of the Department of Psychology and, from 1993 to 1998, as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University. He was the Head of the Academic Committee of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University since its foundation in 1992 until 2002. He has also founded, and was the first Head, of the Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation at Tel Aviv University (1999-2002), which was established jointly by the Peres Centre for Peace and Tel Aviv University.
Since 2000, Professor Arie Nadler holds the Argentina Chair for Research on Social Psychology of Conflict and Cooperation (donated by the Argentinean Friends of Tel Aviv University). He has written extensively in scholarly international journals of social psychology. His major areas of scientific interest focus on cooperation between individuals and groups, inter-group relations and social conflict, social identity and prejudice, as well as massive social traumas and their impact on individuals and collectives.
Please find here some of his publications:
•   From Tel Aviv to Ulcinj - Can we learn from each other about reconciliation and peace-building? by Arie Nadler in Eurozine (2001-07-04).
•  Inter-Group Helping Relations As Power Relations: Maintaining or Challenging Social Dominance Between Groups Through Helping, in Journal of Social Issues(58, 3, March, pp. 487-502, 2002).
•  Arie Nadler (2004), together with Tamar Saguy, Reconciliation Between Nations: Overcoming Emotional Deterrents to Ending Conflicts Between Groups, in Langholtz, Harvey and Stout, Chris E. (Eds.), The Psychology of Diplomacy (New York, NY: Praeger, 2004). Arie comments this chapter as follows: The empirical paper which Tamar wrote is reported (in part) in the chapter. It is an analysis of the pitfalls in reciprocal assistance in "joint Israeli-Palestinian projects". It basically asked the question: Which projects survived and continued despite the tensions of the Intifada, and which folded? It does say a lot about equality in giving and receiving assistance (the hallmark of true cooperation). Unfortunately, it was published in an Israeli journal (in Hebrew). But the chapter may still be relevant.
•  Going beyond guilt and revenge: The effects of admitting responsibility and expressing empathy for the enemy's suffering on inter-group reconciliation, note prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.
•  Intergroup Helping as Status Relations: Effects of Status Stability, Identification, and Type of Help on Receptivity to High-Status Group’s Help, in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91 (1), pp. 97–110, together with Samer Halabi, 2006.
•  Arie explains (April 14, 2007): I am attaching (1) an empirical paper ( with Liviatan) on the effects of apology on reconciliation, and (2) a chapter (with my student and co-worker Nurit Shnabel)  that is forthcoming in a book which I co-edit and summarizes some ideas on the process of reconciliation between groups, and the Need Based Model of reconciliation. I think that the model is very relevant to our work on humiliation and conflict: 
(1)   Intergroup Reconciliation: Effects of Adversary’s Expressions of Empathy, Responsibility, and Recipients’ Trust, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32 (4, April), pp. 459-470, together with Ido Liviatan, 2006.
(1)  Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation, to appear in: A. Nadler, T. Malloy & J.D. Fisher (eds.) Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, together with Nurit Shnabel, 2006.
•  Arie explains (April 14, 2007):You already have my JPSP paper with Halabi (Intergroup Helping as Status relations). I am attaching a chapter which is less technical and much more relevant to the issue of Humiliation and Assistance and the importance of attending to this link in social-programs on the inter and intra national levels:
(1)  Inter-Group Helping as Status Organizing Processes: Implications for Inter-Group Misunderstandings, in press in: Demoulin, S., Leyens, J.P. & Dovidio, J.F. (Eds.): Intergroup Misunderstandings: Impact of Divergent Social Realities. Washington, DC: Psychology Press, April 2007, revised version, together with Samer Halabi, and Gal Harpaz-Gorodeisky.
• Arie Nadler, together with Thomas Malloy, and Jeffrey D. Fisher (Eds.) (2008). Social Psychology of Inter-Group Reconciliation: From Violent Conflict to Peaceful Co-Existence. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

MICHAEL N. NAGLER

Michael Nagler, P.h.D, is professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and taught the upper-division nonviolence course as well as meditation and other courses until June, 2007. Prof. Nagler has consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other organizations and is the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education and Educators for Nonviolence (info[at]efnv.org).
In addition to many articles on nonviolence and related subjects he is the author of America Without Violence, The Upanishads (with Sri Eknath Easwaran), The Search for a Nonviolent Future which won the 2002 American Book Award, has been translated into Italian and SerboCroatian and is being used in many courses as well as reading groups around the U.S.A, and most recently Hope or Terror: Gandhi and the Other 9/11, which has also gone into several translations. In November, 2007 he was awarded the J. Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India.
Michael is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, and resides at the Center's headquarters in Northern California , and serves as presenter for Center retreats.

ARNE NÆSS

Arne Næss, the founder of Deep Ecology and one of Norway's best known Philosophers, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo. Born in 1912 in Oslo, and graduated at the University of Oslo in 1933, he then studied in Paris and Vienna. He gained his doctorate in 1936 with a thesis that was entitled, Erkenntnis und wissenschaftliches Verhalten.
Arne Næss was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo from 1939 to 1969, then free-lance philosopher, and from 1970 onwards environmental activist. He has lectured in Bali, Beijing, Berkeley, Bucharest, Canton, Chengdu, Devon, Dubrovnik, Hangzhou, Helsinki, Hongkong, Japan, Jerusalem, London, Melbourne, Reykjavik, Santa Cruz, Taiwan, Tartu (Estonia), Tromsø, Vancouver, and Warsaw.
Næss was the Leader of UNESCO's project on the East/West Controversy (Cold War), in Paris from 1948 to 1949. He founded Inquiry, an inter-disciplinary journal of philosophy. Professor Næss participated in the peace movement, especially in the years 1940 to 1955, and "the deep ecology movement" from 1970 onwards, adamantly supporting "green" politics."
In our annual meeting in 2003, in Paris, Arne emphasized his stance that all human beings, without any exception, first and foremost are human beings. He explained how he used to invite people from prison into class, so as to demonstrate to his students that "there are no muderers" - rather, "these are human beings, who have murdered."
On 27th January 2007, Arne turned 95 years, and celebrated this with publishing a book Livsviktig (Important for Life). He furthermore was honoured by the Norwegian state ( i februar i 2006 ble han utnevnt til Kommandør med stjerne av Den Kongelige Norske St. Olavs Orden for samfunnsnyttig innsats).

HILDE EILEEN NAFSTAD

Hilde Eileen Nafstad is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her areas of interest are theoretical analyses and empirical studies of how variables and factors on societal level influence the individual's development and living situation.
Professor Nafstad’s inquiries have resulted in a truly interdisciplinary approach where theories and concepts from various walks of the social sciences are being integrated. Within an interdisciplinary system oriented framework, Nafstad has conducted a series of studies of preschools as working place and developmental environment. Moreover, she has carried out a series of studies of social mastery in various categories of children growing up under especially difficult conditions. The underlying theoretical position in these studies is that material, economic and health relief measures can improve children’s situation, but people with a severe handicap will always be in a (minority) situation that is different from that of the majority. Taking as a point of departure that welfare society is dependent on solidarity, willingness to share and help each other, Nafstad is presently analyzing people’s willingness to do do precisley that, namely share with each other.
Please see Nafstad on "Area Ethics," where she discusses the underlying ethical assumption that dominate the field of psychology and calls for the inclusion of a broader range of available concepts. She writes there, " …contemporary mainstream psychology often views its a priori taken for granted assumptions about human nature as ‘indisputable universally true facts' (Condor, 1997: 136). Identification and critical evaluation of the value implications and moral consequences of the taken for granted assumptions underlying current psychological research, is thus a task of importance today."
Please see
• The Neo-Liberal Ideology and the Self-Interest Paradigm as Resistance to Change by Hilde Eileen Nafstad, in Radical Psychology, Spring 2002,
•  Area Ethics: To Integrate Basic, Applied and Professional Ethics
in a Particular Field of Activity by Hilde Eileen Nafstad, a paper funded by University of Oslo's Ethics program and presented on the First International Conference on Teaching Applied and Professional Ethics in Higher Education, London 2-4 September 2003, arranged by Federal University of Surrey Centre for Applied and Professional Ethics,
•  Assumptions and Values in the Production of Knowledge: Towards an Area Ethics of Psychology and the Social Sciences. In Robinson, Simon and Katulushi, Clement (Eds.), Values in Higher Education, Vale of Glamorgan, Cardiff: Aureus Publishing.
•  Samfunnsideologiprosjektet, Samfunnsideologiprosjektet ved Universitetet i Oslo er et paraplyprosjekt med flere integrerte delprosjekter under ledelse av Hilde Eileen Nafstad og Rolv Mikkel Blakar.

KOICHI NAGASHIMA

Koichi Nagashima is an architect, urban designer and planner – a graduate of Waseda University, School of Architecture, Tokyo (B.A. Architecture), Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (M.A. Architecture) and the Athens Center of Ekistics, Graduate School of Ekistics, Athens, Greece. He has been Principal Partner, AUR (Architecture-Urban Design & Research) Consultants, Tokyo, and Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture, Yokohama University and School of Architecture, Waseda University. He is nationally and internationally known for the large number of architectural, landscaping and planning projects he has undertaken – for which he has received high order prizes and other distinctions; his numerous publications; and teaching activities at universities in Japan, Australia and the UK. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics and Japan Correspondent of Ekistics. He has been the Director of the UIA Work Programme, Architecture of the Future.
Please see "From Decocity Towards Ecocity," in Ekistics, 376, pp. 70-79, 1996, and Glocal Approach Toward Architecture of the Future, 1999 (this article was written in 1995 for the UIA Work programme "Architecture of the Future," but published in June 1999 for presentation at the XX UIA Beijing Congress, as a joint publication by Union Internationale des Architectes and the Japan Institute of Architects).

ADAIR LINN NAGATA

Adair Linn Nagata is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. She also teaches at the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University and has taught at International Christian University (Tokyo), Tsuda College (Tokyo), and the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (Portland, OR). After careers in international education and corporate training, communication, and organizational development in a global financial services company, she earned her Ph.D. in Human Development from the Fielding Graduate Institute (Santa Barbara, CA).
Adair Linn Nagata is one of the past presidents of SIETAR Japan (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research). SIETAR serves in the field of intercultural communication in Japan with a large international membership of professionals in education, training, and research, including both academics and practitioners.
In her work on intercultural communication, she focuses on self-reflexivity and coined the term "bodymindfulness," which emerged while doing her dissertation, which was a Mindful Inquiry (Bentz & Shapiro, 1998) about emotional resonance and presence utilizing phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical social theory, and the Buddhist notion of mindfulness. Both her personal and professional activities give her many opportunities to practice her motto, "Peace begins within."
Please see here some of Adair Linn Nagata's publications:
• Being Global: Life at the Interface, in Human Resource Development International, 1 (2), pp. 143-145, 1998
• Mindful Inquiry: A Learner-Centered Approach to Qualitative Research, in Journal of Intercultural Communication, 6, pp. 23-36, 2000
• Cultivating Confidence in Public Communication: Teaching Bodymindfulness and Sensitivity to Energetic Presence, in Journal of Intercultural Communication, 7, pp. 177-197, 2004
• Promoting Self-Reflexivity in Intercultural Education, in Journal of Intercultural Communication, 8, pp. 139-167, 2005
• Communicating across differences: A domestic case, in Rikkyo Intercultural Communication Review, (3) 41-52, 2005
• Transformative Learning in Intercultural Education, in Rikkyo Intercultural Communication Review, 4, 39-60, 2006
• Cultivating Researcher Self-Reflexivity and Voice Using Mindful Inquiry in Intercultural Education, in Journal of Intercultural Communication, 9, 135-154, 2006.
• Bodymindfulness for Skillful Communication , in Rikkyo Intercultural Communication Review, 5, pp. 61-76, 2007.

EMMANUEL NDAHIMANA

Emmanuel Ndahimana was born in 1943 in the southern town of Butare Rwanda. Emmanuel Ndahimana studied Economic and Social Sciences at the National University of Rwanda, Economic and received his Bachelor of Arts in Economic Sciences in 1969. In 1972 he received his Licence in Economics in Fribourg in Switzerland. Later he was trained in various fields including diplomacy, project management, development banking.
Emmanuel Ndahimana served as a civil servant in Rwanda, starting in the Ministry of Economic Planning, then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Appointed Member of the Rwandan team that took part in the Lomé Convention negotiations, and was also appointed first Counsellor of the Rwandan Embassy in Belgium. In 1977, he was promoted Ambassador of Rwanda to Canada and in 1980 to Dar-es-salaam in Tanzania also covering Mozambique and Zambia. In 1983, he was elected Executive Director of the African Development Bank (ADB) with residence in Abidjan where he represented six East African countries including Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Seychelles. In I987, he was appointed Managing Director of one of Rwanda's major financial institutions (BRD) that provides long term financing to private investors.
In 1990, with the beginning of the political turmoil in Rwanda, Emmanuel Ndahimana was forced to exile in Ivory Coast (ABIDJAN) until 1994. With the end of genocide in Rwanda, he came back to his country to contribute to rebuilding the Rwandan society after the atrocious genocide. In 1997, he began serving in the Government of Rwanda as a Minister of State for Finance and Economic Planning. In 2000, he resigned from the public administration and entered in private sector, establishing his own Consulting Firm in Management of which he is also the President, specializing in project management, financial and economic analysis. In 2003, the Rwanda Liberal Party elected him as one of their Vice Presidents and in that capacity, he was elected Member of the Parliament until March 2005. He is now Vice Chairman of the Liberal Party (however, his contributions to HumanDHS do not reflect the position of the Government of Rwanda, only his own). Emmanuel Ndahimana is also member of the National Nepad Commission.
Please see his paper prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005, Ignorance and Humiliation. See a response by Laurien Ntezimana, Pour Eradiquer l'Humiliation.

METTE NEWTH

Mette Newth was born in Oslo in 1942 and received her education from the National College of Art and Design in Oslo and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. She is an author, illustrator, translator. Her first book was published in 1969 and since then she has published twenty novels and picture books (some in co-operation with her husband Philip Newth) for young adults and children. Her books have been translated into 17 languages. She received numerous prizes and honours, among them 17 Norwegian, Nordic and International prizes for best book, illustrations or translation. She participated in single and collective exhibitions in galleries in Bologna/ Italy, Tokyo/ Japan, San Diego, USA, as well as in the main Nordic cities.
Mette Newth also writes non-fiction and, since 1976, has published ca. 50 essays and articles on issues of art and society in Nordic papers and magazines. Since 1979, she has been guest lecturer on literature and art related subjects at colleges and universities in Norway, the Nordic countries and internationally.
Since 1976, Mette Newth has been the Chair of the Norwegian Society for Writers of Literature for Children and Juveniles, furthermore Administrator and thereafter Chair of the Norwegian Council of Artists, as well as Chair of the Norwegian National Council of Reading and Writing, and Leader of the Norwegian Artists Organisations’ negotiations with the Norwegian Ministry of Culture on remuneration for copy rights and lending rights.
Newth has furthermore served as the Principal of the National College of Art and Design in Bergen (1989 - 1993), as the Administrator of the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression (1995-1998) and as the Principal of the Oslo National College of Art (1999-2002).
Currently she holds several honorary positions, such as Member of the Advisory Council to the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and Board Member of The Human Rights House Foundation. She is the Project Leader and Chair of the International Steering Committee for the Beacon for Freedom of Expression, an international bibliographic data base on censorship and freedom of expression through the ages - a gift from Norway to the new library of Alexandria. She is furthermore Co-Project Leader of Virvel vår verden - an interactive, mutlicultural art&learning website aimed at children and adults of all ethnic origin in Norway.

TIMOTHEE NGAKOUTOU

Timothée Ngakoutou is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.
He was born in Sibut (Central-africa Republic) and is a national of Chad. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Sorbonne in Paris, and another Ph.D. in "D'Etat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines" also from Sorbonne. He has been a Professor at the University of Chad, and the Director of the National Human Sciences Institute in Chad.
Furthermore, Timothée Ngakoutou has been the Director General of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports in Chad, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Chad. He has also been the Secretary General of the African Association of Psychology, as well as the Regional Adviser for Social and Human Sciences in Africa, and Head of the Regional Office of Unesco in Africa, in Dakar. He has also been Head of the Democracy and Governance Section at Unesco in Paris, and the Director of the Division of Social Sciences, Research and Policy at Unesco in Paris.

RAGNHILD S. NILSEN

Ragnhild S. Nilsen holds a M.A. in Communication Arts and Movement Therapy and an M.A in Music and Education. Ragnhild is partner in CoachTeam as. She is reckoned as one of Scandinavia's most skilled course holders and lecturers and is a sought-after coach and communication artist. Furthermore, Ragnhild S. Nilsen is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction, that are sold worldwide. As a writer, she works within the genre of "faction" and intertwines academic knowledge with poetic and practical approaches, within psychology, presentation skills, negotiation and topics related to quality of life.
Ragnhild S. Nilsen has served on the Board of the Norwegian Strømme Foundation, and has developed humanitarian projects worldwide, from East-Timor to Africa and South-America. She is founder of Global Fair Trade and member on the board.

JAN ØBERG

Jan Øberg is born in 1951, Danish, has a Ph.D. in sociology, and is a peace and future researcher. He is the former director of the Lund University Peace Research Institute (LUPRI), the former Secretary General of the Danish Peace Foundation, and a former member of the Danish government's Committee on security and disarmament. He is a Visiting professor at ICU and Chuo Universities in Japan and Visiting Professor for three months at Nagoya University in 2004.
Øberg is a member of the Scientific Committee of International University for Peoples' Initiatives for Peace, IUPIP, in Italy. He is Co-initiator of the Danish Highschool for Peace and the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution. He is Member of the Advisory Board of the Toda Institute, Hawaii, and of the Tibetan Centre for Conflict Resolution in Dharamsala, India. He is furthermore editorial advisor to the Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. Likewise he is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the President of which is David Krieger, and of the Center for Global Nonviolence in Hawaii. Oberg is listed in Marquis Who's Who? In 2005 he became a member of the Japanese Study Group on PeaceBuilding and the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence at James Madison University in the United States.
His main books are Myth About Our Security, To Develop Security and Secure Development, Winning Peace (co-author), and in 2004, he published Predictable Fiasco. The Conflict with Iraq and Denmark as an Occupying Power. In 2005 he contributes a Danish textbook on psychology with a chapter on peace and conflict psychology.
His work includes some 3600 pages published in academic works, including ten books written, co-authored or edited. He publishes 300-500 pages per year, much of it on his website. He was awarded a Honorary Doctoral Degree from the Buddhist Soka University, Tokyo. He is a columnist in Nordic newspapers and regular contributor to the cultural page of Helsingborg Dagblad in Sweden.
In 2003, TFF and he was awarded the Peace Prize of the Castel Nuovo municipality in Italy that is given with reference to Dante Alighieri and rewards peace-making efforts. In 2004, he received the North-South Cultural Communication Prize from the Research Fund for the Study of the Future of North-South Cultural Communication in Rabat, Morocco. He also received the Swedish Peace Council's 2005 Small Peace Prize in April 2005.
Jan Øberg is the Co-founder of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF), together with his wife, Dr. Christina Spännar. He was the Chairman of the Board 1997-2003 and is the Director of the TFF and Head of its Conflict-Mitigation teams to ex-Yugoslavia, Georgia, Burundi and Iraq.

ØYVIND ØSTERUD

Øyvind Østerud earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the London School of Economics in 1974. Since 1980, he is Professor in International Conflict Studies at the Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo. From 1993 to 1996, he was Head of Department.
Øyvind Østerud is member of the Norwegian Academy of Science, and furthermore official advisor to the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1983. He is member of the board of numerous research institutes and associations and of several scientific journals (Cooperation and Conflict; Journal of Peace Research; Nordiques, etc.).
Østerud has been a visiting professor at LSE, London, in 1983, at the Australian National University, Canberra from 1987 to1988, and at the Université d´Aix-en-Provence in 1997. Oesterud is the convenor of international research sessions at the International Political Science Association, International Studies Association, etc.
Professor Østerud is engaged in the research program on Advanced Research of the Europeanization of the Nation-State (Norwegian Research Council). He is also engaged in a comparative Scandinavian project on Nordic democracy in historical perspective as well as in several international projects on globalization and comparative studies.
Østerud is furthermore Director and Research Leader of the Norwegian government-initiated Power Project (1998-2003), an investigation of the power structure of Norway in relation to internal and external changes and challenges (the mandate of the project was decided by the Norwegian parliament).
Østerud has published more than a hundred scientific articles and twenty books and monographs, among them: Studies of War and Peace (edited in1986) and Power and Democracy (co-editor and co-author, Ashgate, 2004).

PATRICIA O'HAGAN

Patricia O'Hagan, Ph.D., is a Consultant to DESA, UN.
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 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.

REIDAR OMMUNDSEN

Reidar Ommundsen is Associate Professor in Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Oslo in Norway. In his work, he focuses on basic and applied social psychology, including fields such as social influence, social perception, stereotypes, attribution, attitudes, prejudice, attitude measurement, social identity, cross-cultural psychology, and social psychology in its relation to health.
Professor Ommundsen has developed a number of research projects on various topics, among them on the development of attitude measures, on majority opinion and attitudes toward ethnic minorities, on social identity and prejudice, as well as on the social representation of psychological problems.

MAGGIE O'NEILL

Maggie O'Neill is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, the HumanDHS Education Team, and HumanDHS Research Team, as part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team, particularly to our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. She is furthermore a Member of the Academic Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS).
Maggie O'Neill is based in Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University. Prior to this she worked for eleven years in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University and before that was ten years in the Department of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. She co-edited Sociology (with Tony Spybey): the journal of the British Sociological Association from 1999-2002; she is a member of various professional associations including the National Network of Sex Work Projects and the British Sociological Association and British Criminology Association. She acts as a research consultant on community cohesion issues and has had commissions from the Home Office, and regional Local Authorities. Maggie researches the issue of prostitution, women's experiences, routes in to prostitution, and communities affected (since 1990) and forced migration (since 1998).
An expert in participatory action research (working with people, groups, communities to create change) Maggie has a reputation for developing innovative culture work to imagine new ways of understanding and articulating the experiences of crime and victimization, that breach disciplinary boundaries and expand and enliven the methodological horizons of cultural criminology. Her theoretical concept of ethno-mimesis (the inter-connection of sensitive ethnographic work and visual re-presentations) is a methodological tool as well as a process for exploring lived experience, displacement, exile, belonging and humiliation.
Research funding has been received from the AHRB; Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Home Office; Leicester Local Authority and Local Education Authority, East Midland Arts, Nottingham Trent and Staffordshire Universities.
Books include:
• Adorno, Culture and Feminism (Sage);
• Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling (Polity);
• Prostitution: A Reader (Ashgate) with Roger Matthews;
• Gender and the Public Sector (Routledge) with Jim Barry and Mike Dent;
• Sex Work Now (Willen) with Rosie Campbell.
See also:
• Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis, note prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 6th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 15-16, 2005;
• together with Ramaswami Harindranath, Theorising Narratives of Exile and Belonging: The Importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in “Understanding” Asylum, in Qualitative Sociology Review, II (1, April 2006), pp. 39-52.
• Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR), abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 8th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 14-15, 2006.
• Re-Imagining Diaspora through Ethno-Mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging (2007). In: Reimagining Diasporas: Transnational Lives and the Media, edited by Olga Guedes-Bailey (Liverpool John-Moores University), Myria Georgiou (University of Leeds), and Ramaswami Harindranath (University of Melbourne). Published by Palgrave Publishers, UK.
• Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (see www.safetysoapbox.co.uk), abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.

COLIN ONG

Colin Ong TS is the Managing Director of MR=MC Consulting and Founder of Mentors4Startups, which provides a global platform to introduce newly-launched companies with a professional mentoring environment. Colin is an active Social Entrepreneur and is the Singapore/Indonesia Chapter Representative of World Future Society and Chinese Representative of World Future Society. By training, he is an Economist, having graduated from the University of Western Australia.

SIDNEY J. PARNES

Dr. Sidney J. Parnes, is a Professor Emeritus from Buffalo State College and the Founding Director of the International Center for Studies in Creativity (ICSC). As the first and oldest degree granting program in creativity in the world, the foundation of ICSC dates back to Alex Osborn's seminal work in creativity education in the 1940s and 1950s. Osborn, the developer of brainstorming and the originator of the Creative Problem Solving process, saw the need for a more creative trend in American education and business. It was this vision and dream that eventually led to the establishment of the Center for Studies in Creativity in 1967. An experimental study carried out on the courses offered in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showed that those courses significantly enhanced undergraduate students' creative abilities, as well as improved their academic and nonacademic performance. Osborn's dream was fully realized when Dr. Sidney Parnes and Dr. Ruth Noller established a permanent academic home for the Creative Studies Program at Buffalo State. Sid Parnes provides an invaluable foundation for identifying challenges, generating ideas, and implementing innovative solutions.

W. BARNETT PEARCE

Barnett Pearce is a teacher, facilitator, and theorist. He has consulted with communities and organizations, facilitated public and private meetings, and trained professionals in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. He is a Professor in the School of Human and Organization Development, Fielding Graduate Institute, a member of the Public Dialogue Consortium, and Co-Principal of Pearce Associates, Inc.
Known for his work in developing communication theory, he has written seven books and over one hundred scholarly articles and chapters. He was a Senior Visiting Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University, in 1989, and a Fulbright Fellow in Argentina in 1997. Before joining the Fielding Institute, he was a member of the faculty at the University of North Dakota, University of Kentucky, University of Massachusetts, and Loyola University Chicago, serving as Department Chair at Massachusetts and Loyola. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1969 by the College of Communication at Ohio University.
Among his publications are:
•  Kimberly A. Pearce and W. Barnett Pearce (2001) "The Public Dialogue Consortium's school-wide dialogue process: A communication approach to develop citizenship skills and enhance school climate" in Communication Theory, 11, 105-123
•  Kimberly A. Pearce and W. Barnett Pearce (2001) "The Public Dialogue Consortium's school-wide dialogue process: A communication approach to develop citizenship skills and enhance school climate" in Communication Theory, 11, 105-123
•  W. Barnett Pearce (1998), "On Putting Social Justice in the Discipline of Communication and Putting Enriched Concepts of Communication in Social Justice Research and Practice," in Journal of Applied Communication Research, 26: 272-278
•  W. Barnett Pearce and Kimberly A. Pearce (2004), "Taking a communication approach to dialogue," in Anderson, R., Baxter, L. & Cissna, K. (Eds.) Dialogue: Theorizing Difference in Communication, pp. 39-56. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage;
•  W. Barnett Pearce (2003), "Civic Maturity: Musings about a Metaphor," in Peter Park & Robert Silverman (Eds.), Fielding Graduate Institute Action Research Symposium: Alexandria, Virginia July 23-24, 2001
•  W. Barnett Pearce (2001), "Toward a National Conversation about Public Issues," in William F. Eadie and Paul E. Nelson (Eds.),The Changing Conversation in America: Lectures from the Smithsonian, pp. 13-38. Sage
•  W. Barnett Pearce and Stephen Littlejohn, Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide, Sage, 1997
•  W. Barnett Pearce, Interpersonal Communication: Making Social Worlds, HarperCollins, 1994
•  Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce, Eds., Reagan and Public Discourse in America, University of Alabama Press, 1991
•  Uma Narula and W. Barnett Pearce, Eds., Cultures, Politics and Research Methods: An International Assessment of Field Research Methods, Erlbaum, 1990
•  W. Barnett Pearce, Communication and the Human Condition, Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.
Please see also Toward Communicative Virtuosity: A Meditation on Modernity and Other Forms of Communication (Santa Barbara, CA: School of Human and Organization Development, Fielding Graduate University. Paper presented to the seminar "Modernity as a Communication Process (Is Modernity "on time?")," April 15, 2005, Department of Communications and Social and Political Theories, Russian State University for Humanities Moscow, Russia 103012).

LAURIE ANNE PEARLMAN

Laurie Anne Pearlman received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1987. She co-founded the Traumatic Stress Institute in 1986 and the Trauma Research, Education, and Training Institute (TREATI) in 1996. She is currently an independent trauma consultant based in Massachusetts. Dr. Pearlman co-chairs the complex trauma task force of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, directs the clinical associates program for the Headington Institute, and serves as president of TREATI.
Dr. Pearlman has devoted her professional life to promoting the understanding of traumatic stress, its amelioration, and its impact on survivors and those who work with survivors. She has pursued these goals through research, psychotherapy, theory-building, professional training and consultations (including clinical and research supervision and organizational consultations), court evaluations, and community and crisis intervention work, at the national and international levels.
Dr. Pearlman has received awards for her clinical and scientific contributions and for her work in media and trauma from the Connecticut Psychological Association and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). She has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on psychological trauma and on the deleterious impact of working with survivors known as vicarious traumatization, a term coined in the 1990 article she co-authored on the topic.
In recent years, Dr. Pearlman's goal has been to apply the clinical and scientific knowledge now available about traumatic stress to large groups of people. Her work with Professor Ervin Staub in Rwanda since 1999, as well as the publication in 2000 of the trauma training curriculum, Risking Connection, represent efforts to make sophisticated information about traumatic stress available to people without the on-going assistance of highly trained professionals. She is co-principal investigator on a grant entitled "Advancing healing and reconciliation, preventing retraumatization: A program for survivors of torture in Rwanda."

MICHAEL L. PERLIN

Michael L. Perlin is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.
Michael L. Perlin is a Professor of Law, the Director of the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project at the Justice Action Center, and Director of the Online Mental Disability Law Program at the New York Law School in New York. He is at New York Law School since 1984.
An internationally-recognized expert on mental disability law, Michael L. Perlin has devoted his career to championing legal rights for people with mental disabilities. A prolific author of fifteen books and well over 175 scholarly articles on all aspects of mental disability law, Professor Perlin says that his ninth book, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (2000), “represents my lifetime work.” The book is an attempt to educate society about how the fear of persons with mental illness creates a hidden bias against them that prevents equal justice, a form of discrimination he calls “sanism.” In his book and his other work, he speaks out against “sanism,” which he defines as “the irrational prejudice that causes, and is reflected in, prevailing social attitudes toward persons with mental disabilities.”
Michael Perlin is an award-winning author on mental disability law and insanity defense. He serves on the Board of Directors of International Academy of Law and Mental Health and lectures frequently in Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere on international human rights and mental disability law. He testifies in trials as expert witness on questions of effectiveness of counsel in cases involving mentally disabled criminal defendants.
His courses address Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure: The Mentally Disabled Defendant, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication Mental Disability Litigation Seminar & Workshop, Mental Health Law, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence.
His educational background is as follows: Rutgers, A.B. 1966, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia, J.D. 1969, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (Kent Commentaries, Managing Editor), Law Clerk, Hon. Sidney Goldmann, Appellate Division, Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Clerk, Hon. Ralph L. Fusco, Law Division, Superior Court of New Jersey.
A teacher-lawyer-advocate who advises mental health professionals, hospitals, advocates, activists, lawyers, and governments, Professor Perlin has worked directly on mental disability cases as a deputy public defender and as director of the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate. He has witnessed the complexities and frustrations facing both judges and attorneys with such cases.
Professor Perlin travels around the globe to speak out about the legal rights of people with mental disabilities. In conjunction with Mental Disability Rights International, a U.S.-based human rights advocacy organization, he has presented mental disability training workshops in Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria, and Uruguay. As part of his work with the Justice Action Center, he has traveled twice to Taiwan in an effort to help create a pan-Asian mental disability advocacy network.
In 2002, he helped organize a symposium at New York Law School on “International Human Rights Law and the Institutional Treatment of Persons with Mental Disabilities: The Case of Hungary.” It was the first such U.S. gathering, bringing together prominent activists, advocates, and attorneys to look at the application of international human rights law to improve the treatment of people with mental disabilities.
His multivolume treatise, Mental Disability Law: Civil and Criminal (Lexis Law Publishing, 1998–2003), which was first published in 1989 by Michie, won the 1990 Walter Jeffords Writing Prize; the five-volume second edition of that treatise won the Otto Walter Writing Award in 2003 and is the indispensable authority for legal practitioners. Another book, The Jurisprudence of the Insanity Defense (Carolina Academic Press, 1994), won the Manfred Guttmacher Award of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law as the best book of the year in law and forensic psychiatry in 1994–95. He was given the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law's Amicus Award in 1998.
Since he joined the faculty in 1984, Professor Perlin has helped build the course offering in his legal specialty at New York Law School to such an extent that it now leads the nation in mental disability law curricula. He created and teaches the first online courses on mental disability law, offered to students here, at other U.S.-based law schools, as well as in Japan and in Nicaragua. There are currently four courses in the online program, and more will be added in the immediate future.
Professor Perlin has many other passions outside the law, including the clarinet, fishing, and the music of Bob Dylan.
Please see:
• "Friend to the Martyr, a Friend to the Woman of Shame": Thinking About The Law and Humiliation, his presentation prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.
Please see here a collection of the following papers:
• An Internet-based Mental Disability Law Program: Implications for Social Change in Nations with Developing Economies, 30 Fordham Int'l L.J. 435 (2007)
• "And My Best Friend, My Doctor/ Won't Even Say What It Is I've Got : The Role and Significance of Counsel in Right to Refuse Treatment Cases, 42 San Diego L. Rev. 735 (2005)
• "Everything's a Little Upside Down, As a Matter of Fact the Wheels Have Stopped": The Fraudulence of the Incompetency Evaluation Process , 4 Houston J. Health L. & Pol'y 239 (2004)
• "She Breaks Just Like a Little Girl: Neonaticide, The Insanity Defense, and the Irrelevance of Ordinary Common Sense, 10 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 1 (2003)"Life Is In Mirrors, Death Disappears": Giving Life to Atkins, 33 N. Mex. L. Rev. 315 (2003)
• "You Have Discussed Lepers and Crooks": Sanism in Clinical Teaching, 9 Clinical L. Rev. 683 (2003)
• "Things Have Changed": Looking at Non-institutional Mental Disability Law Through the Sanism Filter, 46 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 535 (2002-03)
• "Chimes of Freedom": International Human Rights and Institutional Mental Disability Law, 21 N.Y.L. Sch. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 423 (2002)
• "What's Good Is Bad, What's Bad Is Good, You'll Find out When You Reach the Top, You're on the Bottom": Are the Americans with Disabilities Act (and Olmstead v. L.C.) Anything More than "Idiot Wind"?, 35 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. 235 (2001-02)
• Stepping Outside the Box: Viewing Your Client in a Whole New Light, 37 Cal. West. L. Rev. 65 (2000).
• A Law of Healing, 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 407 (2000).
• Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Mentally Disabled Persons: Hopeless Oxymoron or Path to Redemption? 1 Psychology, Pub. Pol'y & L. 80 (1995) (with Prof. Keri K. Gould and Deborah A. Dorfman, Esq.)
• On Sanism, 46 SMU L. Rev. 373 (1992)
• Competency, Deinstitutionalization, and Homelessness: A Story of Marginalization, 28 Hous. L. Rev. 63 (1991).
• International Human Rights and Comparative Mental Disability Law: The
Role of Institutional Psychiatry in the Suppression of Political Dissent, in Israel Law Review, 39, pp. 69-97, 2006.
• Humiliation and the Criminal Justice System: How Our Desire to Humiliate Contributes to Recidivism and, Ultimately, Injures Victims, presentation prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007.

THOMAS M. (TOM) PICK

It was his experiences as a child and as a young adult which impelled Thomas M. (Tom) Pick to develop an interest in healing rifts between people on all levels, from individuals to nations. His mother was Austrian Catholic, his father Hungarian Jewish, and he survived the Holocaust by deserting from the labour battalion that was being marched to the then German border. This etched the imperative of ‘Never Again’ in his mind.
Having studied the Social Sciences and Clinical Psychology in Budapest, Hungary, then, after leaving as a political refugee, in Zurich, Switzerland, and Melbourne, Australia, and having earned the degrees of B.A.(Hons.), Academic Diploma in Psychology and Ph.D., he first worked as a Senior Tutor in the School of Psychology, University of Melbourne.
Then he was a school psychologist in the British tradition, but with emphasis on the clinical rather than on the educational aspects of adjustment. Next he was working in a Child Guidance clinic in Sydney while also being Honorary Psychologist to the major teaching hospital.
Next he was Assistant and later Associate Professor in Psychology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A., while also maintaining a private practice with a focus on psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and adults. There was a gradual shift towards him working increasingly with adults, singly and as couples, as well as doing group therapy. Subsequently he was appointed Chief Psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, again maintaining a private practice concurrently. Throughout his professional life he has been trying to avoid specialisation, to remain a generalist in orientation.
Tom has returned to his native country in 1992, working mainly in private practice, with teaching engagements at ELTE in Budapest as well as the universities of Szeged and of Debrecen and also at the Sapientia University in Tirgu Mures, Romania. The subject matter was mainly violence and terrorism. He has also conducted clinical workshops in a number of European countries, in the U.S.A., and also in Australia and in New Zealand.
In addition to clinical work and academic teaching he has also been engaged in doing psycho-social community work such as leading a team in ethnic Hungarian areas in Croatia doing community rebuilding after the civil war in the former Yugoslavia.
He offers short- and long-term psychotherapy for all problems that are psychological or have a major psychological component. His orientation is eclectic, the basic orientation being psychodynamic and social psychological. He also uses some recent techniques such as Energy Psychology.
The international professional organisations he has been most active in are the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies where he was a Board member 1995-2001, and Systems-in-Transition (the members are social scientists of various ilks, including psychiatrists and psychologists) where he was Chairman of the Board until 2007.
Some publications running the gamut of his professional interests:
• (1956) A Critique of Current Methods of Rorschach Scoring. Journal of Projective Techniques, 20, 318-325.
• (1961) Behavior Theory and Child Guidance. Journal of Child Psychology and Child Psychiatry, 2, 136-147.
• (1963) Modern Physics and Psychology. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 36, 118-125.
• (1986) A Fusion-Separation Model of Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 23, 390-394.
• (1993) Enemy Images. History and Politics: The Bratislava Symposium #3, 35-41.
• (1997) Eastern European Militant Nationalism: Some Causes and Measures to Counteract it. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 3, 383-393.
• (1999) A Note on a Relationship between Personal and Societal Problems. Psychiatry, 62, 196-208.
• (2001) The Myth of the Trauma / The Trauma of the Myth: Myths as Mediators of Some Long-term Effects of War Trauma. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 3, 201-226.

SUSAN L. PODZIBA

Susan L. Podziba is a public policy mediator and is known for designing processes to fit the unique characteristics of given conflicts and situations. Over the past twenty years, she has mediated scores of complex public policy cases in areas involving international relations, governance, environmental disputes, land use and development decisions, transportation planning, labor standards, public health, and education policy. She founded Susan Podziba & Associates in 1990, has been affiliated with the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Project of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School since 1986, where she is currently a Practitioner Associate, and is a Past President of the New England Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
Ms. Podziba was a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1996-2002, where she taught graduate courses in public policy negotiation and conflict resolution. She taught at the Program On Negotiation at Harvard Law School from 1999-2002, where her students included professionals from six continents. Examples of Ms. Podziba's past and recent projects include:
•  a negotiated rulemaking to develop national worker safety standards for construction cranes and derricks for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor;
•  a negotiated rulemaking process to develop the All Appropriate Inquiry Standard (CERCLA §101(35)(B)) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as required under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act;
•  a workshop on environmental and land use mediation for Finnish government officials and academics seeking to learn better ways to implement the Finnish Land Use and Building Act of 1999;
•  a dialogue on abortion among Massachusetts pro-life and pro-choice leaders, initiated at the request of the Governor and Archdiocese of Boston after fatal attacks at two women's health clinics; and
•  the design and implementation of a consensus process to develop a city charter for Chelsea, MA, which was under state receivership.
Ms. Podziba has written and published numerous articles on negotiation, mediation, and consensus-building, and her work has been showcased by media outlets such as The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, FastCompany, National Public Radio, and affiliates of all major television networks.Ms. Podziba received her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Please see The Human Side of Complex Public Policy Mediation, paper prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004.

MICHAEL PROSSER

Michael Prosser, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, College of Journalism and Communication at the Shanghai International Studies, has edited or authored ten books in the US, and two in China. He developed his own book series, "Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium" for Ablex/Praeger/Greenwood Publishers, which included 18 books from 1997 to 2004. William Over, author of Human Rights in the International Public Sphere in the series, is also the author in the series on books relating to peace and social justice, and is a professor at St. John's University in New York. Michael is the author of "Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Universal Values" in the forthcoming co-edited book by Steve J. Kulich and Michael H. Prosser, Cross Cultural Values Studies, and gave many speeches relating to human rights in the 1990s and more recently includes lectures on peace, human rights, and social justice in his courses on global media and culture, the United Nations Security Council, and intercultural communication.

GERD INGER POLDEN

Gerd Inger Polden looks back on many years of experience as a journalist with the Norwegian television, NRK. Gerd Inger studied languages at the University of Bergen and obtained her specialization in television work through internal courses at the NRK. Since 1974, she has produced/directed numerous TV-programs and has created documentary films for educational purposes and on general affairs.
Gerd Inger Polden’s documentaries are characterized by a critical stance towards social problems. She has particularly focused on the status of women and minorities. Her aim is to contribute to tolerance and the understanding and promotion of human rights. In recent years, she has created a number of documentaries in Africa, two of which have been awarded international prizes, from Japan (1997) and Geneva (in 2000). She is now doing prime time investigative documentaries in NRK.
Her film The Dream of Knowledge (1999, NRK) documents how the practice of female genital cutting in Senegalese villages is discontinued. Polden shows in this film how this social change is achieved not as a result of applying pressure or punishment, but voluntarily. The film accompanies an NGO team that embeds their educational work within an atmosphere of respect. Thus, the film presents a "success story" of how cycles of humiliation can be left behind; the documentary shows how the discontinuation of practices that are experienced as humiliating is achieved by methods that do not humiliate the "perpetrators." Education and discussion enables them to reach their own decision to end harmful practices.

LOURDES R. QUISUMBING

Lourdes R. Quisumbing is the President of the Asia-Pacific Network for International Education and Values Education (APNIEVE). UNESCO-APNIEVE was established in 1995 with the major objectives to promote and develop international education and values education for peace, human rights, democracy and sustainable development through inter-country co-operation among individuals and institutions working in these fields.
APNIEVE has developed two sourcebooks, Sourcebook No. 1 is entitled, Learning to Live Together in Peace and Harmony and Sourcebook No. 2 entitled Learning To Be: A Holistic and Integrated Approach to Values Education for Human Development, Core Values and the Valuing Process for Developing Innovative Practices for Values Education toward International Understanding and a Culture of Peace (2002)
Lourdes Quisumbing has combined several careers in her life, both nationally and internationally. Lourdes R. Quisumbing gained her Ph.D. while devoting herself to her family, her husband and their nine children, then served as the Secretary of Education in the Philippines during the administration of Cory Aquino, and subsequently Secretary General of the Philippine UNESCO National Commission. She was elected Philippine Representative to the UNESCO as Member of the Executive Board in Paris. She continues to be active in the educational institutions in her country heading a team of experts to evaluate graduate centers all over the Philippines and conducts training workshops for teachers in Asia-Pacific.
Please see here Citizenship Education for Better World Societies: A Holistic Approach, paper read at the 8th UNESCO APEID International Conference on Education, 29 November 2002, Bangkok, and, furthermore, Educating Young Children for a Peaceful World, Second World Forum on Early Care and Education, 16-19 May 2000, Singapore. See also Values Education for Human Solidarity.

SUZANNE M. RETZINGER

Suzanne M. Retzinger received her Ph.D at UCSB in 1988 (sociology) and she a research sociologist - publications include work on emotions, conflict and mental illness. Her books are Violent Emotions: Shame and Rage in Marital Quarrels (Sage, 1991), and Emotions and Violence: Shame and Rage in Destructive Conflict (with T.J. Scheff, Lexington, 1991). Currently, she is a psychotherapist in private practice and therapist with Hospice of Santa Barbara. Suzanne writes, "For as long as I can remember, I've been interested in human relationships. My main interests are emotions and relationships, the bonds between people, and their connects and disconnects."

HOWARD RICHARDS

Dr. Howard Richards holds the title Research Professor of Peace and Global Studies and Philosophy at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, USA, a Quaker school where he taught for thirty-five years. He was the founder of the Peace and Global Studies Program there and co-founder of the Business and Nonprofit Management program. Now he divides his time between the private practice of law and continuing his research and teaching. As a practising lawyer he is general counsel for two non-profit corporations. As a scholar he has recently published Understanding the Global Economy (Peace Education Books, 2004). Another new book, co-authored with Joanna Swanger Dilemmas of Social Democracies (Lexington Books, 2005) will be out in March.
He has worked for the Organisation of American States, Canada's International Development Research Centre, and others as an evaluator of innovative projects and programs, and is currently working on an evaluation of, among other things, alternative economic institutions (economia solidaria) in today's Argentina, on which he will make a progress report to a seminar convened by the United Nations Development Program, UNDP, in Rosario, Argentina, at the end of March. He is co-convenor of the Global Political Economy Commission of the International Peace Research Association.
Howard Richards got an advanced certificate in education from Oxford in the field of educational psychology with an honors thesis on Piaget. The second field for his doctorate in education from Toronto was applied psychology and moral education. He furthermore did the moral education summer school at Harvard with Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan.
Please see:
•  On the Genealogy of Morals, Chapter Nine of Authorities, forthcoming.

DENNIS RIVERS

Dennis Rivers is a writer/teacher/peace activist who lives in Santa Barbara, teaches communication skills at the Santa Barbara Community Counseling & Education Center, directs the activities of the Institute for Cooperative Communication Skills, and edits several large peace and ecology web sites (including newconversations.net, nonukes.org, turntowardlife.org and earthlight.org). He received his MA in interpersonal communication and human development from the Vermont College Graduate Program, after studying sociology and religious studies at UC Santa Barbara, and theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. His books include The Geometry of Dialogue, The Seven Challenges Workbook, Prayer Evolving, and, most recently, Turning Toward Life, an exploration of reverence for life as a spiritual path. 
One of Dennis's deep concerns is how inequality creeps into educational systems through the ever-higher cost of textbooks, journals and journal articles (since the publishers are now often owned by media conglomerates with no particular commitment to social justice). This concern led to the founding of the Online Library at www.NewConversations.NET, which features books, monographs and essays available free of charge in PDF format. The Library now distributes about 8,000 documents a month about cooperative communication skills, compassionate listening, conflict resolution and non-violence to visitors from approximately 120 countries.  Scholar/practitioners working in these areas are invited to join in this cooperative effort.
Please see The Cooperative Communication Skills Conflict Emergency Kit by Dennis Rivers and Paloma Pavel (2005). Please see also An Ecology of Devotion: A Personal Exploration of Reverence for Life, in EarthLight Magazine, Issue 49, Summer 2003 (revised February, 2004). You can access this article also on Dennis' website. Please see furthermore Hope from Ashes, a text on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Hold Hope, Wage Peace, edited by David Krieger and Carah Ong. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 2005.
Dennis Rivers is the Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's Communication Skills for Equal Dignity Project.

MOIRA R. ROGERS

Moira Rogers is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team.
Moira Rogers is Associate Professor of Spanish at Eastern Mennonite University and Intercultural Consultant for a variety of organizations in Germany, Spain, and the U.S. She has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, an MA in Biblical Studies from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, IN, and a Teaching Degree in Philosophy from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Born in Argentina, Professor Rogers grew up in a multicultural and multilingual home in Buenos Aires and brings her personal and professional experiences as well as her Anabaptist faith commitments to bear on her teaching and research work. As faculty, she teaches Spanish, intercultural communication, and courses on Migrations/ Inmigration that integrate Global, National, and local issues. Her doctoral research focused on the elitism and mechanisms of exclusion of academic cultures in early eighteenth-century Germany, published as Newtonianism for the Ladies and Other Uneducated Souls: The Popularization of Science in Leipzig (2003). More recently, she has done training at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. She received an international award for her study entitled "Internationales Baucamp: Bausteine für ein gelingendes Zusammenleben im 21. Jahrhundert" (2005).
Moira currently leads a program at the University of Cadiz, Spain, and works with its newly established "Instituto de Inmigración e Interculturalidad." Her current research project is entitled "Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations," a study that tells a chapter of the story of mass migrations in the 21st century with a focus on the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco. Through this study she hopes to contribute to breaking the cycles of humiliation fueled by the displacement of many and to making our world a hospitable place for all people.

DAVID ROSEN

David Rosen - former Chief Rabbi of Ireland - is the Director of the Department for Interreligious Affairs and Director of the Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee. He is Honorary President of the International Council of Christians and Jews and International President of the World Conference of Religions for Peace.
David Rosen is the Founder and Vice-Chair of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel. He serves on the permanent bilateral commission of the State of Israel and the Holy See as well as the Chief Rabbinate of Israel's delegation for interreligious dialog with the Vatican. He is furthermore a member of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, which represents World Jewry to other world religious bodies. In Ireland, Rabbi Rosen taught at the Irish School of Ecumenics (attached to Trinity University) and was a member of its Academic Council. Since then, he has occupied a number of senior educational posts including that of Professor of Jewish Studies at the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern studies.

GAY ROSENBLUM-KUMAR

Gay Rosenblum-Kumar is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team.
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar is a Public Administration officer in the Governance and Public Administration Branch of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. She works with government officials and their civil society counterparts in developing countries to enhance national capacities for managing conflict through various activities, such as training for individual skill-building, institutional development, and strengthening development practice and democratic governance.
Gay Rosenblum-Kumar currently advises on projects that develop skills to manage and mitigate conflict including regional projects in sub-Saharan Africa as well as national projects in Ghana, Guyana, Romania, and Zimbabwe. Prior to joining the United Nations, she worked with several international NGOs on anti-apartheid and development issues.
Please see Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy, note prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. Please see furthermore Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public policy for disaffection or cohesion?, note prepared for Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.

LEE D. ROSS

Lee D. Ross has been a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University for over 30 years and is currently teaching courses in the application of social psychology, as well as in bargaining, negotiation, and conflict resolution. He is also a Principal Investigator (and Co-Founder) of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. The author or editor of four books, including Human Inference, and the Person and Situation, both co-authored by Richard Nisbett, and almost 100 papers and chapters, he was elected in 1994 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was named the American Psychological Association William James Fellow in 2003.
Ross’ research focuses on biases in human inference, judgment, and decision-making, especially on the cognitive, perceptual and motivational biases that lead people to misinterpret each other’s behavior and that create particular barriers to dispute resolution and the implementation of peace agreements. His most recent work deals with the role that "Naïve Realism" - the conviction that one sees and responds to issues in a more "objective" and less biased fashion than ones peers or adversaries - plays in exacerbating conflict and frustrating the discovery of common ground. The relevance of naïve realism to a number of discrete phenomena including false consensus, false polarization, perceptions of media and mediator bias, as well as biased judgments regarding fairness or justice (especially in the context of intergroup and interethnic conflict) has become an increasingly central concern in that work. Ross has not hesitated to apply psychological theory and research to real-world problems. He has played a role in many conflict resolution efforts, including "second-track" diplomacy and "public peace processes" in the Middle East, the Caucuses, and Northern Ireland. His work shows the potential of psychological theory and research to inform and be informed by real world application, and thus to honor the Lewinian tradition of "useful" social psychology.
Please see:
•  Lee D. Ross, Robert H. Mnookin (1995). Strategic, Psychological, and Institutional Barriers: An Introduction. In Arrow, Kenneth, Mnookin, Robert H., Ross, Lee D., Tversky, Amos, and Wilson, Robert (Eds.), Barriers to Conflict Resolution New York , NY: Norton.
•  Lee D. Ross, and Andrew Ward (1996). Naive Realism in Everyday Life: Implications for Social Conflict and Misunderstanding. In Brown, T., Reed, E., and Turiel, E. (Eds.), Values and Knowledge (pp. 103-135). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
•  Lee D. Ross, Byron Bland, and Walid Salem (2005). Creating Positive Facts on the Ground: A Viable Palestinian State. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation.
•  Lee D. Ross (2007). The Saudi Initiative: A Chance to Move Forward or Another Opportunity Likely to Be Missed. A piece originally written to be an op ed on the Saudi initiative.
•  Lee D. Ross (2007). Effects of Positive Expectations on Negotiation Outcomes and Processes. Manuscript submitted to a journal. 

FLOYD WEBSTER RUDMIN

Floyd Webster Rudmin is Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project and the HumanDHS World Gender Relations for Equal Dignity Project, as well as the HumanDHS Apology Project. He is also a member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the HumanDHS Research Team.
Floyd Webster Rudmin, Ph.D., is a Professor of Social and Community Psychology at the University of Tromsø in Norway. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy in Bowdoin College, his M.A. in Audiology in SUNY, Buffalo, his M.A. in Psychology at Queen's University, Canada, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Queen's University, Canada. His research interests include cognitive history (psychology of historical beliefs), psychology of ownership, cross-cultural psychology, statistical methods, peace research, and history of psychology.
His paper Debate in Science: The Case of Acculturation won the 2004-2005 Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award given by SPSSI (Div. 9 of the APA). Please see here the full text version.
Please see also:
•  Seventeen Early Peace Psychologists, in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 31 (2, Spring), 1991, pp. 12-43. Altaf Ullah Khan commented (23rd July 2006, in a personal message): "This reminds me of George Herbert Mead's concept of Universals. He was also in favour of developing a universal human society where interactive/rational dialogue prevails. I had never studied psychology as a discipline, but in my journey for self-discovery I have read Freud and Jung and have also gone through mythology and Sufism. I remember one Sufi saying at the very onset of a book: Sufism is to avoid preconceptions."
•  co-authored with Kristina Ostvik, Bullying and Hazing Among Norwegian Army Soldiers: Two Studies of Prevalence, Context, and Cognition, in Military Psychology, 2001, 13 (1), 17-39.
•  G. B. Grundy's 1917 Proposal for Political Psychology: "A Science Which Has Yet to Be Created", in ISPP News, 12 (2), 2005, pp. 6-7.
•  Six Research Designs on Humiliation, abstract prepared for Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005.
•  Charles Robert Richet: Pioneer of Peace Psychology, in Peace Psychology Newsletter, in press.
•  Daniel Droba Day (1898-1998): Attitudes Towards War As a Cause of War, i n Peace Psychology, in press.
•  How History Allows Insight into the Malady of American Militarism, abridged version published by CounterPunch, vol.13. no.1, January 1-15, pp.1, 4-6, posted Feb. 17, 2006 at http://www.counterpunch.org/rudmin02172006.html as
"Plan Crimson: War on Canada: Secret War Plans and the Malady of American Militarism."
•  Preventing Inadvertent Humiliation, abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.
•  Franziska Baumgarten (1883 - 1970): Early Female, Jewish, Peace Psychologist, inPeace Psychology, in press.

ALY MAHER EL SAYED

H.E. Ambassador Aly Maher El Sayed is the Director of the Institute for Peace Studies at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina that was founded in 2006. From 2002 to 2006, Ambassador Aly Maher El Sayed was the Secretary General or the "The Arab Thought Foundation." In 2002, he served as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1993 to 2002, he was the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to France. Prior to this, from 1992 to 1993, he was the Director of Minister Mr. Amr Moussa’s Cabinet. From 1987 to 1992 Aly Maher El Sayed served as Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Tunisia. From 1981 to 1987, he was the Director of Minister Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali’s Cabinet. Prior to this, he held different diplomatic positions in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, except for 1969 to 1970, when he served as Assistant to Mr. Mohamed Hafez Ismail, director of national intelligence & national security advisor to the president.
Aly Maher El Sayed holds a Certificate of Distinction from the International Institute for Administration, Paris, furthermore a Certificate from the Institute of Diplomatic Studies, and a B.A. in Law from Cairo University.
He has participated in many international conferences, seminars and meetings, as well as in many television and radio programs. He has furthermore published articles explaining the Arab point of view on major issues in many French papers as well as the Herald Tribune.
H.E. Ambassador Aly Maher El Sayed speaks Arabic, French, and English.
The website of the new Institute for Peace Studies informs as follows: The Suzanne Mubarak Womens International Peace Movement (SMWIPM) was founded by Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak to address the challenges of a world captured by violence and where the empowerment of women generally, and the promotion of peace specifically, are urgently needed. It was the first international initiative in the Middle East that seeks to enhance the active participation of women in the decision and peace making processes. With women working alongside men, the Movement also aims to find alternative solutions to conflict and promote the Culture of Peace throughout the world.
The Movement very quickly established itself as the most effective such force in the Arab World. Within the short span of two years, it effectively organized national and regional training for young women leaders, imparting skills, raising awareness and publicizing the meaning and scope of the UNSC Resolution 1325.
The Movement then launched international conferences in Paris (at UNESCO in June 2004) and subsequently in Geneva in November 2004, in collaboration with the Swiss government. That conference created the Global Coalition for Women Defending Peace. Other actions followed, including the participation of a high level mission of women leaders to support women in the Palestinian electoral process, and give assistance to traumatized children as well as support the post-conflict situation in the Sudan. Several peace camps for young people and, other outreach programs, have started to materialize throughout Egypt. In short, the movement is now active, locally, nationally and internationally.
The first collaboration between the Movement and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) was when the BA hosted the first group of the Suzanne Mubarak Peace Fellows (fellow.htm), an outcome of the conference held at UNESCO in 2004. Subsequently, the idea of more systematically grounding the efforts of the Movement in an effective research and study institute led to the idea of the BA and the SMWIPM jointly establishing an Institute for Peace Studies, to be created in Alexandria and to be formally affiliated with the BA and benefit from its special legal and administrative structure.
Please see a cooperation with the Strategic Foresight Group (SFG): Alexandria Workshop Report: International Workshop on Global Extremism, Terror and Response Strategies, 6-7 August 2006, Alexandria, Egypt.

ASHRAF SALAMA

Professor Salama is also a Member of the HumaDHS Global Core Team, the HumanDHS Reseach Team, and the Director and Coordinator of the HumanDHS World Architecture for Equal Dignity project.
Dr. Ashraf Salama is Professor of Architecture in the Architectural Engineering Program of Qatar University in Doha. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals-KFUPM. Please see here his new website that he recently developed to include his work and his wife's work http://www.arti-arch.org. He was the Director of Research and Consulting at Adams Group Consultants in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (2001-04). He is a licensed architect in Egypt, trained at Al Azhar University and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. He is Associate Professor of Architecture, Al Azhar University, Cairo (on leave of absence), and former Chairman of the Department of Architecture, Misr International University in Cairo (1996-01). Dr. Salama has written over 50 articles and papers in local and international conferences and archival journals, and trade magazines; published three books on Architectural Education: Designing the Design Studio, Human Factors in Environmental Design, and Architectural Education Today; delivered lectures and presentations in over 25 countries; and contributed widely to international publications. He was member of the UIA/UNESCO International Committee of Architectural Education, and the Director of Architectural Education Work Program of the International Union of Architects-UIA (1995-00). He is currently co-Convener of the International Association for People-Environments Studies-IAPS Education Network.
He was the recipient of the first award of the International Architecture Design Studio, University of Montreal, Canada, 1990, and in 1998 he won the Paul Chemetove Prize for his project on Architecture and the Eradication of Poverty, a United Nations International Ideas Competition. Dr. Salama served as a consultant to the Egyptian Ministries of Tourism and Culture. He also served as member in the international jury for projects within the context of the revitalization of Sarajevo, Bosnia, and a UIA Jury member in the international competition on designing a central urban park in La Paz, Bolivia. He has been appointed a technical reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in Geneva, Award Cycle (1998-01). Salama has been involved with the Community Development Group of the College of Design, North Carolina State University (1993-95). His academic experience includes teaching courses on Programming and Space Planning, Research and Design Methods, Applications of Socio-Behavioral Studies in Design, and Interior Design, Architectural and Community Design Studios. His professional experience includes consultancy for several government and public agencies, and managing design projects from inception through programming and space planning, encountering users and environmental constraints. His recent research places emphasis on design studio teaching practices, and workplace and learning environments.
Please see some of Dr. Ashraf Salama's work here:
•  Incorporating Knowledge about Cultural Diversity into Architectural Pedagogy (1999).
•  Skill-Based / Knowledge-Based Architectural Pedagogies: An Argument for Creating Humane Environments, paper given by Ashraf Salama at the 7th International Conference on Humane Habitat-ICHH-05 – The International Association of Humane Habitat IAHH, Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India, January 29-31, 2005.
•  Shores of the Mediterranean: Architecture as a Language of Peace, co-edited by Ashraf Salama with colleagues from Napoli, Italy, Donatella Mazzoleni, Giuseppe Anzani, Marichela Sepe, and Maria Maddalena Simone, 2005. Intra Moenia, Rome and Naples, Italy: Edizioni.
•  Patterns of Change in Work Environments: A Process-Employee Centered Paradigm, introductory speech given by Ashraf Salama at the 8th International Conference of IAHH-the International Association for Humane Habitat- Sustainable and Humane Workplaces. Mumbay, India, January 27-29, 2006.
•  Architecture as Language of Peace: Democracy and Collaborative Design Processes, a short course by Dr. Ashraf Salama.
•  PLADEW: A Tool for Teachers Awareness of School Building Sustainability: The Case of Carmel School, Mathews, North Carolina, in the Global Built Environment Review-GBER, International Center for Development and Environment Studies ICDES, Vol. 5, 2005, Issue (1), Edge Hill, Lancashire, United Kingdom. ISSN 1474 6824.
•  A Process Oriented Design Pedagogy: KFUPM Sophomore Studio, in the Journal of the Center for Education in the Built Environment-CEBE Transactions, University of Cardiff, Vol. 2, 2005, Issue (2), Cardiff, United Kingdom. ISSN 1745-0322.
•  Design Studio Teaching Practices: Between Traditional, Revolutionary, and Virtual Models, with Guest Editor Ashraf Salama, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture, in Open House International (OHI) (Academic Refereed Journal), Special Issue, Volume 31, No.3, September 2006 (Contact "Carol Nicholson" Carol.Nicholson@ribaenterprises.com).
•  Symbolism and Identity in the Eyes of Arabia’s Budding Professionals, in LAYERMAG ... An Online Magazine on Architecture, Art, and Design, and Media Studies.
•  A Lifestyle Theories Approach for Affordable Housing Research in Saudi Arabia, in the Emirates Journal for Engineering Research, Vol. 11, 2006, Issue (1), United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE.
•  Learning from the Environment: Evaluation Research and Experience Based Architectural Pedagogy, in the Journal of the Center for Education in the Built Environment-CEBE Transactions, University of Cardiff, Vol. 3, 2006, Issue (1), Cardiff, United Kingdom. ISSN 1745-0322.
•  A Typological Perspective: The Impact of Cultural Paradigmatic Shifts on the Evolution of Courtyard Houses in Cairo, in the Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University. Vol. 23, 2006, Issue (1). METU-JFA, Ankara, Turkey.
•  Ashraf is the Chief-Editor of the new Journal ArchNet-IJAR, an interdisciplinary scholarly online publication of architecture, planning, and built environment studies. Please see here an outline and the submission notes to authors. The journal aims at establishing a bridge between theory and practice in the fields of architectural and design research, and urban planning and built environment studies. It reports on the latest research findings innovative approaches for creating responsive environments, with special focus on developing countries. The journal has two international boards; advisory and editorial. The range of knowledge and expertise of the boards members ensures high quality scholarly papers and allows for a comprehensive academic review of contributions that span wide spectrum of issues, methods, theoretical approach and architectural and development practices.
•  New Book! Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future, by Ashraf M. Salama and Nicholas Wilkinson (editors), Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK: The Urban International Press (2007). ISBN: 1-872811-09-04. The Urban International Press, P.O Box 74, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE9 5UZ, UK. e-mail Carol Nicholson: carol.nicholson[@]ribaenterprises.com for more information.

NORMAN SARTORIUS

Norman Sartorius, M.D., M.A., Ph.D., FRC. Psych., Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the University of London, UK and Visiting or Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry in several other universities in Europe, USA and China. Professor Norman Sartorius studied medicine in Zagreb (Croatia) where he obtained his M.D. He also specialized in neurology and psychiatry and acquired the title of specialist in these fields. He then studied psychology at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Zagreb and was awarded a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in Psychology (Ph.D.). He carried out clinical work and research and taught at graduate and post-graduate levels at the university of Zagreb, at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, at the University of Geneva and elsewhere.
In 1967, Dr. Sartorius was recruited as a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) to serve in South-East Asia and other regions; later he assumed charge of the programme of epidemiology in social psychiatry. He was the principal investigator of several major international studies, including the International Pilot Study on Schizophrenia, the Study of Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders, the International Study on Depression, and conducted other research projects on health service delivery in collaboration with centres in different countries. In January 1977, he was appointed Director of the Division of Mental Health of WHO, a position which he held until mid-1999. In June 1993 Dr. Sartorius was elected President of the World Psychiatric Association and served as President-elect and then President until August 1999. Subseqently, in January 1999, Dr. Sartorius was elected President of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP), a post that he held until 2001. Dr. Sartorius holds professoral appointments at the Universities of Geneva, Prague, Zagreb and at several other universities in Europe, the USA and China. He is a Senior Associate of the Faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore.
Dr. Sartorius has published more than 300 articles in scientific journals, authored or co-authored several books and edited a number of others. The main areas of his interest are psychosocial aspects of health and development, organization of mental health services, public health aspects of neurology and psychiatry, cross-cultural psychiatry, scientific methodology and science policy.
Dr. Sartorius is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, a Corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine and of the Medical Academy of Mexico, a Doctor of Medicine Honoris Causa of the Universities of Umea and of Prague, a Doctor of Science Honoris Causa of the University of Bath. He is a Distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an Honorary Member of numerous professional associations and advisory boards, both national and international.
Dr. Sartorius is a member of editorial and advisory boards of many scientific journals. He has travelled widely and lectured at numerous universities in different countries and at very many international meetings.
He speaks English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Croatian.

THOMAS J. SCHEFF

Thomas J. Scheff is Professor Emeritus at the Dept of Sociology, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA. He is the author of Being Mentally Ill, Microsociology, Emotions and Violence (with Suzanne Retzinger), Bloody Revenge, and other books and articles. He is a former Chair of the section on the Sociology of Emotions, American Sociological Association, and President of the Pacific Sociological Association. His fields of research are social psychology, emotions, mental illness, and new approaches to integrating theory and method.
Professor Scheff’s current studies concern, forgiveness, solidarity-alienation, and alternative methods of crime control. His most recent book (1997) concerns Part/Whole Analysis, a unified approach to theory and method in the human sciences. Read many of his articles on his personal webpage. Please see here Thomas Scheff's
•  Thoughts in Response to Blind Trust (2004) by V. Volkan, a Theory of Collective Violence.
•  Roots of War and Peace: Emotions and Bonds in Moral Shock, paper prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. Tom writes: "I would appreciate any comment you or your colleagues would care to make."
•  Responses to a War Memorial, 2005.
•  Awareness Structures: Conceptualizing Alienation/Solidarity, 2006.
•  Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System, paper contributed to the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.
•  Silence and Mobilization: Emotional/relational Dynamics, paper contributed to the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006.
• Treatment of Depression, drawing on his papers:
• Shame and Community: Social Components in Depression (2000)
• Four commentaries on my article published along with it in Psychiatry (2000)
• Looking Glass Selves: The Cooley/Goffman Conjecture (2003)
• Rampage Shooting: Emotions and Relationships as Causes (2007)
Please see http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/scheff.

SIBYL ANN SCHWARZENBACH

Sibyl Ann Schwarzenbach is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York (Baruch College and the Graduate Center). In addition to numerous articles in social and political philosophy, ethics, as well as feminist theory, she is editor (with Patricia Smith) of Women and the United States Constitution: History, Interpretation and Practice (Columbia University Press, 2003). Her book On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State will be forthcoming 2006.

MILTON SCHWEBEL

Milton Schwebel, Professor Emeritus, is interested in maximizing human development and learning through societal, organizational, and educational change and therapy. He recently studied well-functioning in professional psychologists and, with UNESCO, the effects of employment on prevention of conflict.
Professor Schwebel served as Dean of the Rutgers Graduate School of Education for ten years, was the founding chair of APA's Advisory Committee on Impaired Psychologists for eight years, was president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility for two years, and is founding editor of the APA divisional publication, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology for seven years. A Fellow in the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society and the American Orthopsychiatric Association, he received the 1991 Research Award from Psychologists for Social Responsibility as well as the 1995-1996 SAGE Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Milton Schwebel’s recent books include Assisting Impaired Psychologists, Personal Adjustment and Growth, Teacher's Handbook, and Promoting Cognitive Growth over the Life Span and Guide to a Happier Family. He most recent book is entitled Remaking America's Three School Systems: Now Separate and Unequal (Scarecrow Press, 2003).
Milton Schwebel’s research interests focus on clinical work and promoting psychologists' well-functioning, cognitive and social development over the life span, and peaceful methods of conflict resolution, domestically and internationally.

LEO SEMASHKO

Leo Semashko, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at the Departments of Sociology at the Universities of St. Petersburg (1994–2002, lecture courses on Sociology, History of Sociology, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Law). At present, Leo Semashko is the Director of the Public Institute of Strategic Sphere Studies (Tetrasociological Studies), in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is furthermore an IFLAC Delegate, and ISA member. From 1990 to 1993, he was the Deputy of the Urban Legislative Assembly (of Lensovet/Petrosovet), and a member of the Commission on Economic Reform, as well as member of the Commission on Family and Childhood. From 1990-1997, he was the Founder and President of the F. M. Dostoevsky Children's Foundation in St. Petersburg. Prior to that, Leo Semashko was the Chief of the Developers Collective for the "Russian Family Code" project, with the first chapter devoted to the rights of children. From 1981–1989, he was a Senior Scientific Fellow of the "Lensistematekhnika" Institute, and between 1970–1981 he served as an Assistant and A/Professor at the Philosophy Departments at the Universities of St. Petersburg (lecture courses on Philosophy; History of Philosophy; History of Sociological Doctrines). His latest book is entitled Children’s Suffrage: Democracy for the 21st Century, Priority Investment in Human Capital as a Way toward Social Harmony, St.-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, 2004. Tetrasociology: Responses to Challenges (St-Petersburg Polytechnical University, 2002) is his main book devoted to the sphere classes as the natural actors of social harmony and harmonious peace.
Professor Semashko is the Founder and Director of the website A New Culture of
Peace from Harmony, publishing the work on peace by more than forty authors from ten countries in four languages: Russian, English, Esperanto and Portuguese. The mission of A New Culture of Peace from Harmony is summarized as follows: "To build a harmonious, new culture of peace, and to strengthen its social foundation," which includes children, parents and other caregivers.

DANIEL L. SHAPIRO

Daniel L. Shapiro, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team, and Senior Advisor of the Public Policy project.
Dan is the Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School. He is on the faculty of Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry. Trained in clinical psychology, his research and teaching focus primarily on the role of emotions in negotiation and international conflict management. Currently, he is working with Professor Roger Fisher on a book on how to deal with emotions in negotiation.
Dr. Shapiro consults widely to governments, businesses, and school systems, and has developed conflict management programs both domestically and internationally. Through funding from the Soros Foundation, he developed a conflict management program that has reached nearly one million people in 22 countries across Eastern and Central Europe.
Please see The Nature of Humiliation, note prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. Please see also Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate by Daniel Shapiro and Rober Fisher, 2005. Daniel Shapiro is Senior Advisor for HumanDHS's Public Policy for Equal Dignity project.

KJELL SKYLLSTAD

Kjell Skyllstad is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Music and Theater of the University of Oslo in Norway. He is Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI).
Professor Skyllstad has been the Chair of the Norwegian Branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), as well as Chair of the Norwegian Musicological Association and Vice Chair of the Society of Socialist Culture Workers. He is still involved in the activities of these associations, as well as in the TRANSCEND Music for Peace group.
Kjell Skyllstad has done research on the history of racism in a cultural perspective and on the effect of a multicultural school music program on the prevention of racial conflict. He has been research coordinator for interuniversity development programs in the performing arts. His current research areas include aesthetics and exclusion in 20th century Europe, rituals and rehabilitation in South Asia, ecology and cultural survival in South East Asia, as well as art and inclusion in primary education. See also www.intermusiccenter.org.
Please see here Creating a Culture of Peace - The Performing Arts in Interethnic Negotiations by Kjell Skyllstad, in Intercultural Communication, 2000, November, issue 4.
Please see furthermore From Humiliation to Empowerment: Creative Conflict Management in the Multi-ethnic School, Kjell's paper prepared for Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005, and From Humiliation to Empowerment: The Arts in Retributive and Restorative Justice, his paper prepared for Round Table 3 of the same workshop. See also A Voice from Grotten, his contribution to HumanDHS's 2008 Oslo meeting, an article on the present tenant of Grotten, the composer Arne Nordheim.