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Evelin G. Lindner (Founder) | Donald C. Klein | Linda M. Hartling | Victoria Firmo-Fontan | Paul A. Stokes
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EVELIN GERDA LINDNER Evelin Gerda Lindner is a cross-cultural social psychologist and physician. She holds two Ph.D.s, one in medicine and one in psychology. In 1996, she designed a research project on the concept of humiliation and its role in genocide and war. German history served as starting point. It is often assumed that the humiliation of the Germans through the Versailles Treaties after World War I was partly responsible for the Holocaust and the Second World War. It seems therefore important to understand the nature of humiliation and how it is related to the occurrence of genocide and mass violence. From 1997-2001, Lindner began carrying out such research, interviewing over 200 people who were either implicated in or knowledgeable about the wars and genocides in Rwanda, Somalia, and Nazi Germany. Her research indicates, that, indeed, the dynamics of humiliation may be at the core not only of war and genocide, but also of current events such as the "war on terror," American questions such as to "why do they hate us," or whether combating poverty would reduce terror or not. Lindner is currently primarily concentrating on writing planned books and articles on humiliation, as well as establishing the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies as an international platform for further work on humiliation , with the particular aim of linking research and practice. |
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DONALD C. KLEIN Donald C. Klein is a psychologist and behavioral scientist. After earning a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of California, Berkeley, he was CEO of an experimental community mental health center, directed a multi-disciplinary graduate center at Boston University, served as NTL Program Director for Community Affairs, and helped to develop and became coordinator of the Applied Behavioral Science graduate program at The Johns Hopkins University. Today, he is full-time Core Faculty member of the Graduate College of The Union Institute & University, which offers an innovative non-residential doctoral program for working adults. Don Klein has been one of the first to explicitly examine and write on the humiliation phenomena. His first publication on humiliation goes back to 1991 (Journal of Primary Prevention on the Humiliation Dynamic, Vol 12, no. 2, Winter, 1991; Vol 12, No. 3, Spring 1992). He has written numerous books and has conducted extensive research on how families and organzations use humiliation as a tool of control and socialization. In addition to the Humiliation Dynamic, as an Applied Behavioral Scientist, he has studied and written about community change dynamics, differences and diversity, power, and large group methods for change in organizations and communities. In his training and consulting work he has used sociodrama and other performatory approaches. He is especially interested in methods that can be used to create meaningful, integrative non-humiliating connections (i.e., "social glue") between diverse groups in community settings. In recent years Don Klein has become deeply engaged with what he calls Appreciative Psychology, which has to do with the inherent level of appreciative being that connects each one of us with universal life energy. Please find here The humiliation dynamic: An overview by Donald C. Klein, in Klein, Donald C. (Ed.), The Humiliation Dynamic: Viewing the Task of Prevention From a New Perspective, Special Issue, Journal of Primary Prevention, Part I, 12, No. 2, 1991. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, as well as Creating Social Glue in the Community: A Psychologist's View by Donald C. Klein, a rRevised version of paper presented at 'Rising Tide: Community Development for a Changing World', 32 nd annual conference of the Community Development Society, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, July 26, 2000. |
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LINDA M. HARTLING Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, which is a new model of psychological development. In addition, Dr. Hartling coordinates and contributes to training programs, publications, and special projects for the JBMTI. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical/community psychology and has published papers on resilience, substance abuse prevention, shame and humiliation, relational practice in the workplace, and Relational-Cultural Theory. Dr. Hartling is coeditor of The Complexity of Connection: Writings from the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center (2004) and author of the Humiliation Inventory, a scale to assess the internal experience of derision and degradation. |
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ELISABETH E. SCHEPER Elisabeth E. Scheper has until recently been the Director of Program Development of the World Conference of Religions for Peace, based in New York. She researches and writes about innovative civil society conflict prevention approaches (as a Fellow and Associate at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, since 2000). In collaboration with the University of Amsterdam she is currently completing her PhD thesis on the role of Asian Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in preventing deadly conflict in divided societies. Ms. Scheper holds a double MA in Geography and Regional Development Planning for Developing Countries and Europe. In her spare time she advises NGOs in Burma, Cambodia and Sri Lanka with programmes in peace building, human rights, governance and security, and poverty eradication. From 1990 - 2000, Ms. Scheper was Novib's - Oxfam Netherlands - Head of the East and South East Asia Department and developed and managed its grant making programme aimed at poverty eradication, civil society building, human rights and advocacy in ten Asian countries. In addition she chaired various international boards and committees, like Sri Lanka NGO Forum, INFID (Indonesia) and Padek (Cambodia), and initiated voter education and free legal aid projects in the Mekong region and Sri Lanka. Previously, Ms. Scheper was employed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1982 and worked five years in Nepal as Deputy Resident Representative to manage the Dutch volunteers and bilateral programmes in remote areas. |
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| VICTORIA FIRMO-FONTAN Victoria Firmo-Fontan is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace Studies at Colgate University, NY. She lectures in conflict resolution and peace studies. Earlier, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Sabanci University, in Turkey. She lectured in the MA Program in Conflict Resolution and Analysis and also conducts research on conflict resolution processes and the politics of communication. She holds a PhD in Peace and Development Studies. She published various papers on multi-track diplomacy, human trafficking, the public diplomacy of armed groups and the formation of political violence in post-conflict societies. Central to her work has been a conceptualisation of post-conflict processes through the study of social, gendered, cultural, economic and political humiliation. She conducted field research in Lebanon with the Hezbollah, in Bosnia-Herzegovina on human trafficking and organised crime, and in Fallujah (post-Saddam Iraq) with emerging armed groups. She is also involved in gender training for peacekeeping operations, and has lectured to various armed forces on the subject. |
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PAUL A. STOKES Paul A. Stokes is a College Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Dublin, since 1996 and a member of the Faculty of Human Sciences in UCD. During the academic year 2000-2001 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). Dr. Stokes also acts as Consultant to Edelman Ireland PR in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He is furthermore a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society of Great Britain and a member of the Metaphorm on the Cybernetics of Governance based at the University of Sunderland. He is also a Board Member of the Collegium Humanun based in Zurich. For a number of years, Paul Stokes (together with colleagues - sociologists, psychoanalysts and group analytic therapists), has been investigating relations between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland with a view to deepening our understanding of the sources of the conflict in Northern Ireland. The particular focus was the state of social bonds between these groups and the role of shame and humiliation in this conflict. |
| NOAM EBNER Born in the US and residing in Israel, Noam is an attorney and an accomplished mediator. Directing a Jerusalem-based mediation center, he has dealt with hundreds of conflicts as a third party neutral or advisor. Settling day-to-day conflicts in a conflictual locale, Noam has dealt with issues ranging from divorce mediation and business disputes to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. He has founded Israel 's first Campus Mediation Center at Bar-Ilan University , and serves on advisory boards and panels of various community mediation centers, Bar Association committees and Israeli-Palestinian dialogue groups. Noam balances teaching with practice, and believes in a hands-on method that encourages students to begin practicing their new skills as soon as they enter the classroom. Using this approach, Noam has taught and trained in Israel's leading universities, colleges and organizations and is a faculty member of Sabanci University's Graduate Program on Conflict Analysis and Resolution in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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MICHAEL DAHAN Michael Dahan is lecturer in communication studies and political science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His main research interests include civil society organizations and ICTs; trans national civil society; new media, politics, and society; cultural aspects of ICTs; intercultural dialogue; coexistence issues and comparative politics. Much of his work focuses on the Middle East. He has published on all of these topics. |
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REBECCA ANN KLEIN Rebecca Ann Klein just completed a year of volunteer service through the Americorps* VISTA program where she spent her time coordinating a teaching garden with Oregon Food Bank serving Washington County in Hillsboro, OR, USA. A graduate of Hampshire College in 2001 with a concentration in Nutritional Anthropology, she plans to do graduate work in International Public Health and Nutrition, with an interest in creating effective, culturally sensitive nutrition programs within the field of Public Health. She has travelled extensively and is eager to do more. |
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MAURICE BENAYOUNMaurice Benayoun is a transmedia artist born in 1957. His work explores the potentiality of various media from video, to virtual reality, Web and wireless art, public space large scale art installations and interactive exhibitions. Maurice Benayoun's work has been widely exhibited all over the world and received numerous international awards and prizes. |
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| VÉRONIQUE LINGFELD Véronique Lingfeld |
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TREVOR L. BALLANCE Trevor L. Ballance is a lecturer and researcher at Josai International University, Japan, in the Department of International Exchange. He teaches courses on NGO issues and case studies on the NGO/business relationship. In addition to his teaching commitments, Trevor also works with local NGOs to provide students with work experience and is currently helping set up an NGO Support Center at the University. He was involved in setting up an NGO Certification Program at Temple University Japan as well as running courses in English for NGOs at The Asia Foundation, Nagoya NGO Center and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations. Trevor Ballance is the author of a textbook for university students on NGOs and articles on the role of NGOs, and the sustainability of development projects. He is a member of Amnesty International Japan and a Nepalese Development NGO, Asha Ko Kiran. He is currently studying for an MA in NGOs and Sustainable Development. His research interests include NGOs as learning organizations; the relationship between the Japan International Cooperation Agency and NGOs; and the development of effective indicators in the assessment of project sustainability. |
| NEIL ALTMAN Neil Altman is co-editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives and Associate Clinical Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. He is author of the The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanlaytic Lens and co-author of Relational Child Psychotherapy. He is a member of Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility. |
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KATRINE FANGEN Katrine Fangen, Ph.D., is a sociologist, working at the Department of Sociology, University of Oslo. She has published several books and journal articles within the research-field of racism, national, political and ethnic identity, stigmatisation and youth subcultures. Her MA-thesis was a study of three political youth groups in Eastern Germany in the period before, during and after the unification of the two German states (in 1990). This study examines the adaptation strategies and identity work among east-German communist youth, anarchist youth and neo-Nazi youth from Berlin, Leipzig and Weimar. Fangen's PhD thesis (Pride and Power - a Sociological Interpretation of the Norwegian Radical Nationalist Underground Movement, Department of Sociology, University of Oslo, 1999) is a study of Norwegian neo-Nazi youths, which, similar to her MA-thesis, is based on a combination of participant observation (one year) and in depth interviews. This thesis examines identity work, ideology, style, violence, gender-differences and interpersonal interaction among the Neo-Nazis. Attention is also paid to how society can prevent these kinds of groupings, and how one can encourage young people who join these groups to leave. This study is also published in two Norwegian books: • A Book About Neo-Nazism Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2001. • Behind Neo-Nazism Oslo : Cappelen, 2002. It is as well published (among others) in the following journal articles and book-chapters: • 'Separate or Equal? The Emergence of an All-Female Group in Norway 's Rightist Underground', Terrorism & Political Violence 9:3, 1997. • 'Right-Wing Skinheads. Binary Oppositions and Working-Class Nostalgia', Young (Nordic Youth Research Journal) No. 3, 1998. • 'On the Margin of Life. Life-Stories of Far-Right Activists' Acta Sociologica, No. 4, 1999. • ”'Radical nationalism': What are the key contemporary conceptual and theoretical issues?” Sosiologisk årbok, nr. 1, årgang 5.1, 2000. • 'Living out our Ethnic Instincts. Ideological Beliefs among Right-Wing Activists in Norway ', Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo: Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture; Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1998. • 'A Death Mask of Masculinity. The Brotherhood of Norwegian Right-Wing Skinheads', Søren Ervø and Thomas Johansson (eds.) Among Men. Moulding Masculinities vol. 1 (Hants: Ashgate Publ. Ltd., 2003). • 'Eastern Germany 1990. Youthculture as adaption to a changing society' in: Manuela du Bois-Reymond, Lynne Chisholm, Sibylle Hübner-Funk, Burkhardt Sellin (eds.): Youth in the European Context. A Scientific Reader,1994. Finally, Fangen has published research reports on forced marriages and a study of living conditions and life quality among people suffering from HIV/AIDS. She has also published several research reports on racism and integration of immigrants. Apart from her PhD-thesis, her main publication so far is a lecture book in participant observation which has been published in Norwegian and Swedish: • Deltagende observasjon [Participant Observation], Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, 2004. • Deltagande observation [Participant Observation], Stockholm: Liber förlag, 2005. Katrine's present study is a five year long study of identity work, integration and mental health among Norwegian Somali immigrants. |
| PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ MOSQUERA Patricia Rogriguez Mosquera |
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SOWAN WONG M.Phil Candidate in Psychology, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Michael Harris Bond as academic advisor. |
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VIVIAN LUN Vivian Lun has recently obtained the degree of M. Phil. in Psychology from the Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Michael Harris Bond as academic advisor. In her undergraduate and postgraduate years, she worked on projects concerning individuals' responses to interpersonal harm and interpersonal relationship harmony. She is also interested in cross-cultural research, because she believes they help understand and respect the similarities and differences among people from different cultural backgrounds. |
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STEPHANIE HEUER Stephanie Heuer is currently a Technology and Computer Lab instructor for the third year at Randol Elementary School teaching grades K-5. A seasoned 10-year employee of Hewlett Packard during the 80's, Stephanie lived in Tokyo for two years implementing semiconductor software and teaching Engineering Analysis in Korea and Taiwan. She has an extensive background in software development, implementation of projects, technical writing, and project management. She lived in Norway for 11 years, and after having her two daughters, pursued a career in Middle Eastern dance instruction, which has been a interest of hers since the early 1970's. She studied dance (folkloric and Raks Sharqi) in Egypt, USA, and Norway. She has sponsored many workshops in Europe in order to educate dancers as to the historical content of dance and how that interacts with each country/culture differently. She has written several articles on dance, mostly published in the Middle Eastern Dance Journal, Habibi. Stephanie moved back to California right before the 9/11 attacks in New York. She was moved to action by a radio interview of Zainab Salbi (founder and president of Women for Women International) and flew to Washington D.C. to interview her. Her published article, Look Beyond Despair, inspired her further to involve herself with this organization which is dedicated to helping women around the would who have been displaced by war and trauma. |
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| EVELIN FRERK Evelin Frerk was born in Hamburg in North Germany. Initially, she worked as a journalist. From 1977-1989, she studied Ethnology and Journalism, and travelled the Northern Sahara. Subsequently, she left journalism and made photography her medium of expression. She documented, for example, the "Hamburger Ideenkette" that was orgnised by Evelin Lindner in 1993. Today, Evelin works in abandoned industrial buildings as much as in her own studio, in Germany as well as in other parts of the world (for example South Africa), and she is among the foremost portraitists of selected cities (for example Görlitz) as well as renowned people (for example Erika Pluhar). |
