If You Wish to Help with a Donation!
Dear visitor of this page!
Thanks for visiting!
As you see on our Who We Are page, there are many ways in which you can contribute to our work. This page enables you to contribute with a donation if you feel for it.
The primary aim of our network is to work on issues of human dignity and humiliation. This field is very new and our members come from diverse backgrounds and employ diverse methods to work on understanding and ameliorating issues surrounding humiliation with the aim to create a more dignified world.
While the network receives some funds, mostly from private individual sources, most of our core members extend great personal expense and sacrifice to help build our network. Our plan is to sustain this network and its members for years to come, however we do not want to create "products" or make the network a "job program." Yet, we have some programs which are currently underway which are in need of funding, such as Refugees and Humiliation, and Terrorism and Humiliation. And we are working on plans to create a scholarship program for students from developing countries interested in HumanDHS, preferably with the help of projects such as our World Clothes for Equal Dignity.
If you look at the publications section of our website, you see that all of the papers are available for free. It is our intention to keep it this way, so people, especially those with economic disadvantages and from developing countries can have open access to this information. Any amount you can give to help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to read this page.
Please read here our announcement of our non-for-profit status (September 2007)!
If you would like to make a contribution to support the work of HumanDHS,
please click here:
Or, you can also click on this link.
In the US, all contributions to Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies are tax deductible as allowable by law. The tax-free number for our "DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION" is "02-076-0075."
You may also send contributions to our office (checks can be made out to "HumanDHS"):
HumanDHS
Attn: Dr. Richard Slaven (HumanDHS Business Manager)
5 Rock Street
Framingham, MA 01702
USA
Checks can be made out to "HumanDHS"
The tax-free number for our "DOMESTIC NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION" is "02-076-0075"
Please see also Stephanie Heuer's offer to donate 100 % of the profit of her book!
Please see more about our vision and goals here: Introduction, History, Mission Statement, Short Definition of Humiliation, Eliminating Humiliation, Larger Sociological Context, Possible Futures, Methods, Appreciative Enquiry, Intervention Rationale)
We are seeking funding to support our work in the following ways:
• Scholarships for Doctoral Research
• Participation in Meetings
• Administration
Providing scholarships
We envisage building a scholarship program for doctoral researchers from less privileged parts of the world, who wish to work on topics related to dignity / humiliation. At the moment, we need to create funding for two current projects: Terrorism & Humiliation, and Refugees & Humiliation.
Human Dignity and Human Studies Don Klein Award
We would like to honor our beloved Don with awarding a prize to those of our members who distringuish themselves in the spirit of Don. The details of this prize will have to be designed in the future. Anybody who wishes to support this idea, please come forward!
Providing the means for securing additional funding
We wish to establish a funded position for a network administrator who could assist in the development within the Network of transdisciplinary programs and generate the materials needed to secure external funding for such projects.
Supporting participation in Network meetings
Many Network members and others interested in participating have been unable to do so because of travel and other costs. This is especially true for people from certain developing countries. We wish to build up funds for our meetings, so that people can attend who otherwise do not have the means to do so.
Public Policy
In his book The Decent Society (1996, Cambridge , MA: Harvard University Press), Avishai Margalit calls for societies to build institutions which no longer humiliate citizens. In order to define how public policy has to be adapted to reach this goal, data have to be collected on the ground. In cooperation with others, we currently plan to develop a questionnaire that can be used in surveys so that we can measure the degree to which people regard their situation as humiliating, including institutional aspects, and which steps could be taken for reform. To develop data collection tools, methodology and research need to work in synergy and funds are needed to carry our surveys and interviews.
Please see two projects that aim at mapping the experience of humiliation in specific contexts:
1. Refugees and Humiliation
2. Terrorism and Humiliation
Furthermore, we plan to develop a third project, namely Minorities and Humiliation, with a focus on public policy planning for minorities. We envisage studying minorities such as the Arab Israelis in Israel; the Tamils in Sri Lanka; the minorities in China, Burma and Thailand; minority tribes in Sudan, Kenya, Congo, Zimbabwe, etc., or Indians and Mestizos in Latin America; the Afro-Americans in the US; the Aborigines in Australia; the Maoris in New Zealand; the Muslims in Russia, the Philippines or in Africa; the Catholic in Northern Ireland; the Algerians in France; the slum dwellers in a number of countries, or women living alone, including single mothers, and so forth.
However, we also envisage a more global approach, addressing global institutions and their impact on the world population and their chances to live dignified lives. Please see, for example, our Decent Global Society (DGS) project.
Most thankfully,
Evelin Lindner
• Our website is accessible around the world and we continuously receive reactions from all over the world
• A daily increasing number of papers is being posted on the publications page of our website discussing aspects of humiliation
• We have an ever increasing Global Board of Advisors, and our Global Core Team, Research Team, and Education Team are ever expanding
• We have a Research Initiative, with large global research projects
• We have an Education Initiative
• We have a Business Initiative
• We have a Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (first issue March 2007)
• We have two major meetings each year
• A substantial number of papers has been presented at the NY 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 meetings
• A substantial number of of papers has been presented in Paris 03, Paris 04, Berlin 05, Costa Rica 06
• See Lindner's book Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict
• We have a Special Issue of Social Alternatives "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"
• The 2006 SBAP Award for Applied Psychology was awarded to HumanDHS and its founder
• We are the only international, collaborative organization dedicated to examining the experience of humiliation
• The number of people who are on our email list and the number of world regions is ever increasing
• The News Section displays new information almost everyday
Bernard Hoffert, distinguished scholar from Australia, kindly commented on our work, on 19th May 2006:
"Considering violence and oppression from the broader perspective of humiliation opens a paradigm through which most aspects of culture can be viewed. The range of content brings an extraordinarily diverse group of disciplines together exploring the dimensions of this paradigm. One of the strengths of the research is that it is linked by concept rather than discipline and can therefore address knowledge which intersects laterally rather than defining it within the confines of a specific disciplinary context."
