Video-taped Dialogues on Dignity or Dignilogues


The term dignilogue has been coined by Francisco Gomes de Matos, a peace linguist and Co-founder of the World Dignity University initiative on 6th May 2012. He created the rhymed reflections that you see further down.* The word DIAlogue has a long history; MULTIlogue was coined by linguist David Crystal in 1995 (Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language).

We would like to invite everybody who shares our values to envision contributing the World Dignity University initiative with video-taped dignilogues.

When you think about dignity in connection with your work and your interests, would you feel moved to offer a topic, or a theme?

The World Dignity University site www.worlddignityuniversity.org will grow and evolve from now on, thanks to Linda Hartling and Ulrich Spalthoff donating their full time. Many more are contributing. For example,many of the videos you see further down have already been copied to two Chinese sites, video.sina.com.cn and, later, also on weebly.com!

Perhaps you would enjoy creating short video dialogues (5-10 minutes), where you first present yourself, then your reflections on dignity, and, third, with which themes you would like to contribute? Please inspire also your friends and colleagues who share our values!

The general process is explained here. For practical guidelines, see here. See also two examples of mutual interviewing, first and second. Building a library of ideas is our first step. Our World Dignity University initiative shall grow like a tree. See further down what we have so far.

We launched our World Dignity University initiative at the University of Oslo in Norway on 24th June 2011, with ca. 50 people in the room, ca. 40 people from all around the world in our online chat, and many people watching the streaming. See more information here. The Vice-Rector of the university, Inga Bostad, was our host. (We are still deeply shocked about the violent attacks in Norway, less than a month later, attacks that threw into stark light how much we need to build a culture of dignity rather than hatred.)
- Part of this launch was Federico Mayor Zaragoza, who headed UNESCO for 12 years. See his important greetings.
• Also the then Norwegian Minister of the Environment and Minister of Development Cooperation, Erik Solheim, very kindly prepared a video greeting for this launch.
• See Evelin's video invitation to the World Dignity University initiative.
• When you look at the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and the Core, Research and Education teams, you see a "global faculty" of people who advocate equality in dignity as guiding values, not only in theory, but by walking their talk in practice.

Practical guidelines for making a video:
The general process is explained here. See two examples of mutual interviewing, first and second. Please see selected web video rules which Uli Spalthoff made us aware of.

See Uli's practical guidelines (8th January 2012):
• Don't start thinking about technology. There will always be a solution, given the many gadgets one has in these days.
•  Rather start with some basic thoughts: How long will the video be? What do you want the audience to take with them after watching it? What do you need to prepare?
•  Consider to have more than just a statement read in front of a camera. Maybe a question and answer format might be fine?
•  You find a lot of practical advice on the Internet, for example, a nice example created by a young person (added by Linda Hartling)
•  If you have a built-in webcam in your laptop, just use it. Depending on the computer, you will find some help pages somewhere explaining how to switch it on and how to record videos.
•  If you have a separate webcam, the necessary software and explanations are usually coming with it.
•  If you have a smartphone or digital photocamera, there is a good chance that you can use it for recording videos. Just consult the manual. If you own a digital camcorder, you probably do not need my advice at all, as you might have more experience than I have. A camcorder normally will give better results than photocameras, mobile phones or webcams.
•  With any device it is important to choose good lighting conditions and a quiet place. Any sound from the environment will be much louder in the recording than you expect. For the lighting, you have to check. Daylight is usually better than lamps. Important is not to record "against" the lightsource.
•  In most cases, the files created from the webcam or camcorder will be very large, not suited for attaching to emails. With mobile phones you may have a chance to get smaller files directly, as they compress the files to manageable size. With other devices, you probably have to convert (on your computer, after the recording) to a file format which compresses the video to smaller file sizes. This leads to reduced image quality, but when you want to show the video over the Internet, this is unavoidable. If you don't want to do the file conversion by yourself, you can upload it to our HumanDHS server and I will take care of the conversion. I can send a description how to upload, when needed. There are some more options, but I don't want to confuse you ...

Anna Strout shared a number of suggestions with us (sent on December 17, 2012):
• A quiet room with no ambient noise and no audience
• Allocate enough time for proper set up in between each dialogue
• Provide guidelines for how to structure the dialogue so viewers gain valuable information/tools from watching (ex., introductions, key topic stated, background given, best practices shared, reflection or call to action)
• 3 minutes max for each taped dialogue
• Good, even lighting a must (since 3 point lighting set up expensive)
• 2 chairs in front of a table where people are facing each other and engaging in dialogue, instead of looking at the camera. This allows for the camera person to capture arm gesticulations but avoid humiliating body positions.
• Table placed in front of clean, uninterrupted wall as background or create a relevant set/ backdrop (topical books, banners that fit within the frame) *can also use props (support materials, tools of the trade)
• It's helpful to have 2 cameras on 2 tripods: a steady camera with a well framed wide angle shot of both people; one camera to take reaction shots for each person or to zoom in for cutaways
• 2 lavalieres, one for each of the interviewees, and a set of headphones for the camera person
• If time allows, cut dialogue with photographs, graphics and images that illustrate key concepts

*The term dignilogue has been coined by Francisco Gomes de Matos, a peace linguist and Co-founder of the World Dignity University initiative. He created the following rhymed reflections (6th May 2012):

A new concept for Dignity Studies: DIGNILOGUE
Rhymed Reflections

DIGNITY calls for human character elevation
DIGNITY also requires conduct amelioration
What about the improvement of communication?

The quality of our interactions we should elevate
For communicative dignity everywhere we should educate

If our daily dialogues we want to dignify
Our communicative intentions let´s edify

If creatively DIGNITY and DIALOGUE we integrate
through DIGNILOGUE we`ll be able to communicate

Patrick Hogan, Editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences commented (14th May 2012):
"Hi! Thanks for your notes. It makes sense to combine a sense of dignity with dialogue.
Best wishes!
Yours, Patrick"



Linda Hartling and Evelin’s Joint Contributions to the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative

• 00 Introductory Videos to our Conferences created by Linda Hartling:
•  Greetings to All (short version), created on 16h April 2013 for our 2013 South Africa Conference
•  Greetings to All (long version), created on 16h April 2013 for our 2013 South Africa Conference
•  Welcome to Everybody, created on 12th August 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference
•  Our Appreciative Frame, created on 12th August 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference
•  Our Open Space Dignilogue Format, created on 12th August 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference

• 01 Imagine Worcester with Virginia Swain: Imagine Worcester #70 Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner, October 17, 2011, Portland, OR, & Worcester, MA, U.S.A
Text on the Imagine Worcester web site: "Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Evelin Lindner and Linda Hartling. Evelin was born in Germany and is now a global citizen and a scholar, author and practitioner. She holds two doctorates in medicine and psychology. Her research focuses on human dignity, and she believes that the humiliation of honor and dignity may be among the strongest obstacles on the way to a decent world community. She is the Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS, www.humiliationstudies.or), a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation.Linda Hardling, Ph.D. is the HumanDHS Director. Before joining the Human DHS organization, she was the associate director of the Jean Baker Miller Center at Wellesley College. Linda holds a doctoral degree in community/clinical psychology. Together, they hold conferences around the world to promote human dignity. They have also founded a World Dignity University."
Watch More Episodes of Imagine Worcester; download the video directly; see other available formats.
See also:
1. Imagine Worcester #67, advocating the dignifying of the world through the Human Right to Peace, thus linking the World Dignity University initiative to the Human Right to Peace.
2. Imagine Worcester #68, advocating the dignifying of the world through the Human Right to Peace, thus linking theWorld Dignity University initiative to the Human Right to Peace.

• 02 Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction: An Introduction by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner
"Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction: An Introduction by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner, for a course with the same title for Professor Adenrele Awotona's Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, as well as for the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative.
Course Description: Understanding the intersecting dynamics of human dignity, humiliation, and human rights in today’s world is crucial for those working in post-disaster reconstruction. Greater awareness of human rights ideals brings to the forefront the risk that post-disaster strategies and responses, once accepted and considered helpful, are perceived as deeply humiliating. This course will explore how globalization dramatically alters how we engage in helping relationships at all levels. It proposes that post-disaster reconstruction can be an opportunity to implement innovative and sustainable solutions that support the healing, health, and dignity of all involved in post-disaster recovery.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.




Linda Hartling’s Contributions to the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative


• 01 Linda Hartling: A Portrait
In this video Linda Hartling presents herself. She is being introduced by Evelin Lindner. The video was recorded on October 28, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Annette Engler, for the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 02 Relational-Cultural Theory
"Relational-Cultural Theory" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Evelin Lindner, for the World Dignity University initiative.
In this brief video presentation, Linda Hartling shares her work with Jean Baker Miller. Until November 3, 2008, Linda was 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.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 03 Appreciative Enquiry
"Appreciative Enquiry" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Evelin Lindner, for the World Dignity University initiative.
In this brief video presentation, Linda Hartling shares her adaptation of the appreciative inquiry (sic) approach as it was originally developed by David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve University. She writes August 2004 (see more on the Appreciative Enquiry or "Waging good Conflict" page on this website):
"For me our approach means daring to "move toward mutuality" in all of our efforts. I conceptualize "movement toward mutuality" as an powerful act of resistance to organizational practices that implicitly or explicitly propagate exploitation. In "Relational-Cultural-Organizational Theory" (my variation on RCT), exploitation might be called "relational-organizational malpractice" (a variation of Joyce Fletcher's term). Far too many for-profit and nonprofit organizations depend on countless forms of relational-organizational malpractice, including shameless exploitation. Whether this occurs in an organization that is working for good or not, it is still malpractice." See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 04 Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction: An Introduction by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner
"Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction: An Introduction by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner, for a course with the same title for Professor Adenrele Awotona's Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, as well as for the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative.
Course Description: Understanding the intersecting dynamics of human dignity, humiliation, and human rights in today’s world is crucial for those working in post-disaster reconstruction. Greater awareness of human rights ideals brings to the forefront the risk that post-disaster strategies and responses, once accepted and considered helpful, are perceived as deeply humiliating. This course will explore how globalization dramatically alters how we engage in helping relationships at all levels. It proposes that post-disaster reconstruction can be an opportunity to implement innovative and sustainable solutions that support the healing, health, and dignity of all involved in post-disaster recovery.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 05 Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Evelin Lindner's Contribution
"Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Evelin Lindner's Contribution " is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner, for a course with the same title for Professor Adenrele Awotona's Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, as well as for the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative.
Course Description: Understanding the intersecting dynamics of human dignity, humiliation, and human rights in today’s world is crucial for those working in post-disaster reconstruction. Greater awareness of human rights ideals brings to the forefront the risk that post-disaster strategies and responses, once accepted and considered helpful, are perceived as deeply humiliating. This course will explore how globalization dramatically alters how we engage in helping relationships at all levels. It proposes that post-disaster reconstruction can be an opportunity to implement innovative and sustainable solutions that support the healing, health, and dignity of all involved in post-disaster recovery.
See the chapter by Evelin Lindner "Disasters As a Chance to Implement Novel Solutions that Highlight Attention to Human Dignity," in Awotona, Adenrele (Ed.), Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters: A Global Survey, chapter 21, pp. 335-358, Proceedings of the International Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and Their Families after Disasters, convened by Adenrele Awotona at the College of Public and Community Service University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA, November 16-19, 2008, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle upon Tyne), and as e-book by MyILibrary (LaVergne, TN), 2010.

• 06 Linda Hartling: Greetings! An Introduction to Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Linda Hartling gives an introduction to Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. See also its World Dignity University initiative. This video was uploaded onto YouTube on July 12, 2012, in preparation of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, 27th-30th August 2012, in Oslo, Norway. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 07 Linda Hartling: Presenting the Frame of Appreciative Enquiry
Appreciative Enquiry is an approach to global collaboration developed by and for the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network and the World Dignity University. This video was uploaded onto YouTube on August 11, 2012, in preparation of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, 27th-30th August 2012, in Oslo, Norway. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 08 Linda Hartling: Introducing the Open Space Format to the HumanDHS Network
This is a brief introduction to the Open Space format. This video was uploaded onto YouTube on August 15, 2012, in preparation of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, 27th-30th August 2012, in Oslo, Norway.



Evelin Lindner’s Contributions to the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative

• Introductory Lectures: Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad (2 hours)
These lectures were held at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo (Harald Schjelderups hus, Forskningsveien 3, as part of PSYC3203 - Anvendt sosialpsykologi). See the video site of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Oslo.
- 23rd January 2013: Dignity and Humiliation: Norway and the concept of "likeverd"
- 25th January 2012: Humiliation and Terrorism
- 12th January 2011: Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad
- 14th January 2009: Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad
Please see a background paper for this lecture in the first issue of the Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007. For an earlier version for the introductory paper, see here or http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742).
For more recent papers see, among others, The Need for a New World, What the World’s Cultures Can Contribute to Creating a Sustainable Future for Humankind, or Terror in Norway.

• Initial Doctoral Research: Somalia - A Case-Study: Humiliation and Coping in War
The film Somalia - A Case-Study: Humiliation and Coping in War (see also a MP4 version on YouTube) is a compilation of short videos from Somaliland, cut from altogether ca. 10 hours of video material and 100 hours of audio material that Evelin Lindner collected in Somaliland in 1998 (the film was produced in 2000), in Kenya, and Rwanda/Burundi in 1999 for her doctoral thesis The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted 31st October 2000, ISBN 82-569-1817-9).
I would like to thank Lasse Moer, member of the HumanDSH Global Advisory Board, for his work in helping create this film.
This film aims at giving an impression of Evelin Lindner's field work in Somaliland with a selection of local views and descriptions of occurrences of humiliation and resilience to humiliation. For resilience to humiliation, see particularly the stories of the SORRA group, whose members spent almost a decade in solitary confinement as punishment for wanting to help the hospital in Hargeisa (sharing the fate of many intellectuals around the world who are the first victims of dicators), and the experience of former first lady Edna Adan, who is now a Member of the Global Advisory Board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network that grew out of Lindner's doctoral research. Also Hassan Keynan is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.
See here a transcription of parts of the interview with Edna Adan on 3rd December 1998:
- I think humiliation is a very difficult thing to describe. But I think humiliation is when someone tries to bring someone down to their level. They think that you are above them and they want to hurt you, humiliate you, bring you down to their level, so that you have no more self-respect, so that you lose the respect you have for yourself and others lose the respect they have for you. Once they said I was planning to escape from the country, and I spent six days in jail for that. For the first, why didn't they wait until I tried to escape, why arrest me from my house! They put me in a cell of my own, but I didn't have a toilet. And right in front of the place where they put me, there was a toilet, and it had no doors. And there was the cell next to me, it was full of men, of criminals, of thieves, I don't know, just men, men all behind the bars. And, so I called out, and I said, - you know, - 'I, - I, - I need to go and use the bathroom!' And that is after I had been the first lady of the country! And they said: 'Well, you want to use the bathroom? There is the bathroom! You use everybody's bathroom! There! You are not better than the others! There is the bathroom they use!' And I thought - how can I use the bathroom with no doors facing a cell full of men! Full of criminals and people who, - you know, - and I just came out of my cell and I just looked at those men, and I said: 'Listen. I am going to use this bathroom. And, would you be watching your mother or your sister if she was using a toilet and she had no door, - is this the kind of men you are that you would watch a woman using a bathroom?' And they said, 'No.' And the first one said 'turn around,' and they made everyone turn the other way, until I finished using the bathroom. And that was one of the most emotional moments of my time. And the police was so shocked, because they couldn't get their objective, they couldn't get me to be humiliated and using a bathroom with all these men watching and shouting at me. So, this is another form of resistance, and resisting humiliation!
- Does humiliation lead to war? I would answer that question by saying, 'Yes, it does!' You can push human beings too far, just far enough until they turn back and say 'Hei, wait a minute, enough is enough.' And then they begin to resist with violence, with strength, with force, with whatever way they know. And, I think a good example of resisting humiliation through war is what has happened to our country, the people of Somaliland.
- The former first lady of Somalia, Edna Adan, also said: ‘I hope you have strong cupboards to put your conscience into! Where are all the weapons produced which kill innocent people?’

• 00 The World Dignity University (WDU): How It Works, see Pdf files in English, Norsk, Deutsch, see also a Flyer in English)
The following videos introduce the WDU initiative:

- Evelin Lindner's Invitation to Join the World Dignity University Initiative
Evelin Lindner is being interviewed by Ragnhild Nilsen about her vision of the World Dignity University. This dialogue took place on 8th February 2011 at the University in Oslo in Norway. Lasse Moer, Chief Engineer for Audiovisual Technology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University in Oslo, was the technical director of this video-take. See it also at lasse-videos.blip.tv/file/4782737/. Ragnhild Nilsen uses the artist name Arctic Queen. See also a WDU introduction in pdf format and a flyer. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

- World Dignity University Initiative: Introduction by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner

This video was recorded on October 28, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is a dialogue between Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner. Annette Engler recorded the conversation. See also a WDU introduction in pdf format and a flyer. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

- World Dignity University Initiative: Introduction by Evelin Lindner

This video was created in Berlin, Germany by Evelin Frerk, on 5th April 2011, for the launch of the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative in June 2011. Evelin Lindner explains how the World Dignity University iniative is envisioned to unfold. See also a WDU introduction in pdf format and a flyer.

- Norwegian/Norsk: Verdensuniversitet for verdighet og likeverd: En kort innføring av Evelin Lindner
Denne videoen ble tatt opp av Evelin Lindner i New York City den 3. november 2011. Se også teksten i pdf format.
Se også Inga Bostad, prorektor av Universitetet i Oslo, og hennes personlige videohilsen som hun sendte til oss i august 2011, når vi hadde vår 17 årlige konferanse. Hun bekreftet hvor viktig det er å arbeide for en global verdighetskultur og at å utvikle Verdensuniversitetet for verdighet og likeverd må være vår høyeste prioritet. Lasse Moer lagde videoen med Inga Bostad i Oslo. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

- Norwegian/Norsk: Norge etter den 22. juli 2011: Betydningen av et Verdensuniversitet for verdighet og likeverd, av Evelin Lindner
Denne videoen ble tatt opp av Evelin Lindner i New York City den 3. november 2011. Se også teksten i pdf format.
Se også Inga Bostad, prorektor av Universitetet i Oslo, og hennes personlige videohilsen som hun sendte til oss i august 2011, når vi hadde vår 17 årlige konferanse. Hun bekreftet hvor umåtelig viktig det er å arbeide for en global verdighetskultur og at å utvikle Verdensuniversitetet for verdighet og likeverd må være vår høyeste prioritet. Lasse Moer lagde videoen med Inga Bostad i Oslo. (Nøkkelord: Anders Behring Breivik, Utøya)

- German/Deutsch: Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies & World Dignity University: Eine kurze Einführung von Evelin Lindner
Dieser Video wurde am 5. April 2011 in Berlin von Evelin Frerk aufgenommen, mit Blick auf die Lanzierung der Weltuniversität für Menschenwürde Initiative im Juni 2011. Es ist eine kurze Einführung in die Arbeit des Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) Netzwerkes und ihrer Weltuniversität für Menschenwürde/World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative. Siehe auch einen einführenden Text in Pdf Format.

- German/Deutsch: Weltuniversität für Menschenwürde Initiative: Eine kurze Einführung von Evelin Lindner

Dieser Video wurde am 5. April 2011 in Berlin von Evelin Frerk aufgenommen, mit Blick auf die Lanzierung der Weltuniversität für Menschenwürde/World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative im Juni 2011. Es ist eine kurze Einführung. Siehe auch einen einführenden Text in Pdf Format.

- French/Francais: Initiative de l'Université Dignité Mondiale: Une Introduction par Evelin Lindner
Ce vidéo a été créée à New York City par Evelin Lindner, le 4 Novembre 2011, pour l'Université Dignité Mondiale initiative. Evelin Lindner explique comment le Université Dignité Mondiale initiative est envisagé de se dérouler. Voir aussi une introduction en format pdf.


The following videos summarize Evelin Lindner's contributions as a WDU educator:

• 01 Introduction: Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad
This video was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
It invites into Evelin Lindner's introductory lecture "Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad." Please see two full lectures (two hours each) from 2009 and 2011. In these introductory lecture Evelin Lindner highlights the fact that dignity and humiliation have become more important topics for inquiry than ever before. She agrees with philosopher Avishai Margalit that the point is not justice but decency.
See also: "In Times of Globalization and Human Rights: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?" in the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2007.
Abstract: This article is about humiliation, globalization, human rights, and dignity. The central question is the following: Could it be the case in a globalizing world in which people are increasingly exposed to human rights advocacy, that acts of humiliation and feelings of humiliation emerge as the most significant phenomena to resolve? This paper suggests that this is the case. It claims that all humans share a common ground, namely a yearning for recognition and respect that connects them and draws them into relationships. The paper argues that many of the observable rifts among people may stem from the humiliation that is felt when recognition and respect are lacking. The article proposes that only if the human desire for respect is cherished, respected, and nurtured, and if people are attributed equal dignity in this process, can differences turn into valuable diversities and sources of enrichment—both globally and locally—instead of sources of disruption.

• 02 Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict
This video was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
In her first book on dignity and humiliation, Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict (2006), Evelin Lindner describes how we can envision a more dignified world. The Foreword was written by Morton Deutsch. It is the first book on dignity and humiliation and how we may envisage a more dignified world, and it has been characterized as a path-breaking book and been honored as "Outstanding Academic Title" by the journal Choice for 2007 in the USA. This book discusses dignity and humiliation and how we may envisage a more dignified world. It first lays out a theory of the mental and social dynamics humiliation and proposes the need for "egalization" (the undoing of humiliation) for a healthy global society. It then presents chapters on the role of misunderstandings in fostering feelings of humiliation; the role of humiliation in international conflict; and the relationship of humiliation to terrorism and torture. It concludes with a discussion of how to defuse feelings of humiliation and create a dignified world.
In her second book, Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (2009), Lindner describes how realizing the promise of equality in dignity can help improve the human condition at all levels—from micro to meso to macro levels. This book uses a broad historical perspective that captures all of human history, from its hunter-gatherer origins to the promise of a globally united knowledge society in the future. It emphasizes the need to recognize and leave behind malign cultural, social, and psychological effects of the past. The book calls upon the world community, academics and lay people alike, to own up to the opportunities offered by increasing global interdependence.

• 03 Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security
This video was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs (2010) is Evelin Lindner's third book. Archbishop Desmond Tutu contributed with a Foreword. The book rounds off with an Afterword by Linda Hartling in honor of Jean Baker Miller and Don Klein. The book examines the social and political ramifications of human violations and world crises related to humiliation. It charts how humiliation is conditioned into individuals by large-scale, and systemic social forces. It offers ideas for counteracting the powerful psychological effects of humiliation in order to encourage constructive social, political, and cultural change. The book is being "highly recommended" by Choice (in July 2010).
In her second book, Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (2009), Lindner described how realizing the promise of equality in dignity can help improve the human condition at all levels—from micro to meso to macro levels. This book uses a broad historical perspective that captures all of human history, from its hunter-gatherer origins to the promise of a globally united knowledge society in the future. It emphasizes the need to recognize and leave behind malign cultural, social, and psychological effects of the past. The book calls upon the world community, academics and lay people alike, to own up to the opportunities offered by increasing global interdependence.

• 04 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Intercultural Communication and Global Interhuman Communication
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Intercultural Communication and Global Interhuman Communication" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
See, among others, the article "Avoiding Humiliation - From Intercultural Communication to Global Interhuman Communication," in the Journal of Intercultural Communication, SIETAR Japan, Number 10, June 2007, pp. 21-38. See a draft for this lecture, which was revised and published in the Journal of Intercultural Communication, SIETAR Japan in June 2007.
• Abstract: Intercultural communication has the potential to fertilize transformative learning due to its power to unsettle us. This article suggests that we may go beyond being unsettled ourselves and let the very field of intercultural communication be unsettled. This article puts forward the proposal to inscribe intercultural communication into global interhuman communication. We suggest founding a new field, the field of “Global Interhuman Communication.”...
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• 05 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Trauma Therapy
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Trauma Therapy" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
See, among others, the article "Humiliation - Trauma that Has Been Overlooked: An Analysis Based on Fieldwork in Germany, Rwanda / Burundi, and Somalia," in TRAUMATOLOGYe, 7 (1), 2001, Article 3 (32 pages), tmt.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/43, or www.fsu.edu/%7Etrauma/v7/Humiliation.pdf.
Abstract: What differentiates trauma from humiliation? This is one of the questions this article tries to answer. Trauma may occur without humiliation, as in the case of natural disaster, however, humiliation may be the core agent of trauma. Furthermore, this paper suggests that the role and significance of humiliation for traumatic experiences has long been overlooked by researchers and practitioners. The paper highlights the macro-historical backdrop for this neglect. It is the unfolding of human rights as opposed to more traditional honour codes at all levels of society both national and international. This change is a major force in making the category of trauma increasingly important, and in moving such practices as 'breaking the will of the child,' that were once legitimate and even prescribed, into the category of trauma. The paper also addresses the fact that social science is part of this transition and would benefit from making more visible how it is deeply interlinked with this process.
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• 06 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Terrorism
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Terrorism" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
We are still all shocked and profoundly saddened that Norway, where we had the most wonderful and peaceful launch of our World Dignity University initiative (on 24th June 2011), has been struck by such violence.
The rose-processions in July in Norway gave courage. They highlighted that the future lies in the mobilization of responsible citizens who stand together in solidarity. Today, there is no place on this earth that is not affected by what happens in the rest of the world, be it that people are opening up or closing themselves off to this larger world.
Inga Bostad, Vice-Rector of the University of Oslo, greeted the conference participants of the 17th Annual Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. Lasse Moer video-taped Inga Bostad's personal message to the conference participants on 26th August 2011. In the light of the terrible 22/7 terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya, Inga Bostad encourages and urges everybody to engage in dialogue. She urged the conference participants to work on the World Dignity University Initiative during the conference.
Her words confirm that we must work locally and globally: Dignity must be a movement, a culture, a spirit, both locally and globally.
And this is precisely what we work for in our Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network and with our World Dignity University initiative.
Joining hands, nurturing a culture of mutual care, working for dignity, locally and globally, is what we need to invest all our energy in. Even though it cannot undo any harm that has happened in the past, it will, hopefully, help contribute to preventing more harm being perpetrated in the future. Never has work for dignity been more important.
In our work, we see it as our responsibility to create and disseminate narratives that respect the grievances that stand behind such violent narratives, yet, lead them into the direction of the dignity of a Mandela, rather than the direction of terror, genocide, and war.
We believe that the terrible tragedy that happened in Oslo and on Utøya is not just a Norwegian "problem" but a call that we, as humankind, have to show much more civic responsibility. The dignity of "unity in diversity" is the path to go, rather than "uniformity in division," or one camp trying to achieve "strength" through inner uniformity, in hostile division to the "enemy" camp that responds in kind (Christian versus Muslim, for example). Global interdependence, and the need for global cooperation in the face of global challenges, requires that we understand that narratives of hostile division bring demise to all of us, from whatever background such narratives may originate.
This was the message from the HumanDHS network after 22nd July 2011: "We are with you in Norway now, all of us, from all around the world, with our hearts and our tears, and, let us all understand that here we face a global responsibility, for all of humankind!"
See Terror in Norway: How Can We Continue from a Point of Utter despair? Promoting a Dignity Culture, not Just Locally, but Globally, a paper prepared for the 17th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies “Enlarging the Boundaries of Compassion” in Dunedin, New Zealand, 29th August - 1st September 2011.
Introduction: On 22nd July 2011, Norway suffered two sequential terrorist attacks against its civilian population, the government, and a political summer camp in Norway. This tragedy has shocked Norway to the point that even mentioning the name of the 32-year-old perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik was being avoided for a while and ABB was being used to refer to him. He was first regarded as right-wing terrorist and later, in an initial evaluation, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. A second evaluation began on 13th January 2012. The guiding questions of this paper are the following: What should be done after such atrocities have occurred? How can one continue from a point of utter despair? What can a society do to help its members? What can a society do to help prevent repetitions of similar acts of violence in the future?
See also a chapter written by Evelin Lindner earlier (among others), "The Relevance of Humiliation Studies for the Prevention of Terrorism," in Pick, Thomas M., Speckhard, Anne, and Beatrice Jacuch (Eds.), Home-Grown Terrorism: Understanding and Addressing the Root Causes of Radicalisation among Groups with an Immigrant Heritage in Europe, Section 3.1: The Societal Subsoil Nurturing Intolerant Militancy and Terrorism, as Against Measures and Processes Nurturing Tolerance, Section 3.1, pp. 163-188, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, E: Human and Societal Dynamics, Vol. 60, 2009. These are Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop Indigenous Terrorism: Understanding and Addressing the Root Causes of Radicalisation Among Groups with an Immigrant Heritage in Europe, Budapest, Hungary, 7-9th March, 2008. Please see a long first draft of this paper, and see also some pictures of the event at www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php.
Abstract: Why do young people who grew up in Europe kill innocent citizens in suicide attacks? In her paper, the author makes a link between the deep structure of terrorism and genocide, and offers humiliation as an explanation for both—feelings of humiliation, which carry the potential to lead to acts of humiliation and cycles of humiliation. Current historic times are characterised by two historically novel trends, first, rapidly increasing global interdependence, and second, a growing impact of the human rights message. Furthermore, new research indicates that one can feel as humiliated on behalf of victims one identifies with, as if one were to suffer this pain oneself, a phenomenon that is magnified when media give access to the suffering of people in far-flung places. Human rights ideals also compound this effect because humiliation represents the core violation of the human rights ideal of equality in dignity for all human beings. In the context of globalisation and human rights, therefore, humiliating people no longer produces humble underlings but risks fostering angry 'terrorists,' who have yet to realise that equal rights and dignity for all can only be attained by non-humiliating means. The Nelson-Mandela path out of humiliation, namely his strategy of embarking on proactive constructive social change instead of re-active cycles of humiliation, requires the nurturing, locally and globally, of a social and societal climate of mature differentiation, embedded into respect for the equality in dignity of all.
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See also Norway and the World after the 22nd of July 2011: The Significance of the World Dignity University Initiative (in Norwegian)
Norge og verden etter den 22. juli 2011: Betydningen av et Verdensuniversitet for verdighet og likeverd, av Evelin Lindner
Denne videoen ble tatt opp av Evelin Lindner i New York City den 3. november 2011. Se også teksten i pdf format.
Se også Inga Bostad, prorektor av Universitetet i Oslo, og hennes personlige videohilsen som hun sendte til oss i august 2011, når vi hadde vår 17 årlige konferanse. Hun bekreftet hvor umåtelig viktig det er å arbeide for en global verdighetskultur og at å utvikle Verdensuniversitetet for verdighet og likeverd må være vår høyeste prioritet. Lasse Moer lagde videoen med Inga Bostad i Oslo. (Nøkkelord: Anders Behring Breivik, Utøya)

• 07 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Genocide
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Genocide" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
See, among others, article titled "Genocide, Humiliation, and Inferiority: An Interdisciplinary Perspective," in Robins, Nicholas and Adam Jones (Eds.), Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice, Bloomington, chapter 7, pp. 138-158. IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Abstract: Genocide has many perplexing characteristics. For example, is it solely and fundamentally about killing? If so, why are so many genocide victims not “merely” killed, but elaborately humiliated beforehand? Furthermore, are the victims of genocide not members of rather powerless minorities whose significance is blown up artificially? If so, why are resources mobilized to humiliate and kill people who are already powerless? Why, in short, are the powerless perceived as a threat? This chapter draws on the author’s work on humiliation studies, and other analyses of humiliation in the genocide-studies literature. It suggests that neither ethnic fault lines, nor dwindling resources or other “rational” conflicts of interest, nor simple scapegoating, nor any general “evilness” of human nature may lie at the heart of genocide. Rather, complex psychological mindsets and behavioral clusters operate according to their own “rationality.” These may entail acts of humiliation as a response to fear of humiliation – or, more precisely, to an imagined fear of future humiliations, based on past ones. Accordingly, genocide’s perpetrators may be drawn not only from elites, but also from a recently risen underclass exhibiting a complex web of features, sometimes labeled as an “inferiority complex.” These dynamics are relevant not only for genocide, but also for global terrorism and thus represent an important field of inquiry not only locally but also for global human security.
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• 08 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for War
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for War" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Evelin Lindner's reflections derive from close to forty years of international experience, first as a clinical psychologist, then coupled with social psychological research on humiliation. Her four-year doctoral research project in social psychology was titled The Feeling of Being Humiliated: A Central Theme in Armed Conflicts. A Study of the Role of Humiliation in Somalia, and Rwanda/Burundi, Between the Warring Parties, and in Relation to Third Intervening Parties (2000, University of Oslo). See also the chapter titled "Emotion and Conflict: Why It Is Important to Understand How Emotions Affect Conflict and How Conflict Affects Emotions," in Deutsch, Morton, Coleman, Peter T. and Eric C. Marcus (Eds.), The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice. (2nd ed.), Chapter Twelve, pp. 268-293, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
Introduction to Evelin Lindner's chapter: We have all experienced strong emotions related to conflict. Our emotions affect the conflicts in our lives and conflict, in turn, influences our emotions. This chapter begins with two brief examples, one international and one personal, to show the interaction between emotions and conflict. For the international example, let us look at World War II. Hitler was an isolated and alienated loner obsessed by the weakness of Germany during World War I and after. At some point, however, his obsessions began to resonate with the feelings of what was called in Germany "the little people" (die kleinen Leute, or the powerless). He offered a grand narrative of national humiliation and invited "the little people" to join in with the personal grievances they suffered due to the general political and economic misery. "The little people" occupied a distinctly subordinated position in Germany 's social hierarchy prior to Hitler's rise. They rallied to Hitler's cause because he provided them with a sense of importance. He was greeted as a savior, as a new kind of leader promising them love and unprecedented significance instead of insignificance. Only after World War II did they have to painfully recognize how he had abused their loyalty. As soon as he had enough popular support, Hitler built institutions that forced his manipulation on everybody, evoking noble feelings of loyalty and heroic resistance against humiliation, convincing the German people that the Aryan race was meant to lead and save the world. Hitler was an expert on feelings. Many Germans put such faith in Hitler that they followed him until 1945, even when it became clear that the situation was doomed. Intense loyalty and highly emotional participation in a collective obsession undercut even the most basic rational and ethical considerations. See more on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php.
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• 09 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for World Economy
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for World Economy" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
A Dignity Economy is Evelin Lindner's fourth book (2012). Please read here a quote from this book: "Linda Hartling and I, since we are not economists, hesitate to analyze economic topics. On the other hand, we cannot avoid witnessing the humiliating effects of existing economic practices and institutions. Furthermore, since economic structures represent the largest frames within which human activities are played out, they are of utmost importance and cannot be overlooked. If the largest frames were to introduce systemic humiliation, in the way apartheid did, this would be extremely significant. Under apartheid, since it was an all-encompassing system, all lives and relationships were tainted with humiliation. It was impossible to dignify apartheid by merely being kinder to each other or creating well-intentioned small-scale initiatives: the entire system had to be shaped anew at the appropriate large-scale level. What if today's apartheid is represented by the fact that (exponential) growth is incompatible with sustainability?
Or should we encourage everybody to agree with Herman Cain, United States Republican presidential candidate, to individualize systemic problems? He said on October 5, 2011: "Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself." Should we follow Cain and try to make people fitter for a rat race that might be unfeasible and damaging for us all and our environment?
We often feel as helpless as the Archbishop of Canterbury, who called for a "rehumanising of economics", and a "discussion on the relationship between wealth and well-being," in a debate at the British Library on Tuesday evening, on October 1, 2010. "The Archbishop described himself as an 'economic illiterate.' He said the Church had been 'hypnotised by the assertion of expertise' on issues related to the economy."
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• 10 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for National Sovereignty
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for National Sovereignty" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Evelin Lindner's reflections derive from close to forty years of international experience. These are some of her reflections: Throughout history, leaders were known to "unite" countries or even world regions. Unification, wherever it was undertaken, usually had "good" and "bad" aspects: there was the newly-found unity to be celebrated, yet, also oppressive uniformity to be decried. It was not unity in diversity that manifested, but uniformity without diversity. It is not impossible to propose that we, as a human family, find ourselves in a similar situation with respect to globalization today. A fragmented world is being united, globalized, however, this brings not just unity to the fore, also uniformity, in this case it is the uniformity by way of global corporation. The "king" who unites, is now the global corporation. Colonization started with trade, and trade typically treats all players as equal partners. Yet, throughout history, economic power has at some point been translated into political power. This is where we are now: Corporate power is being translated into global political power. National sovereignty is no longer sovereign, but a tool for global power to divide and rule.
What is the solution? A multitude of concepts have been proposed, all with the aim to honor the common interest of all of the human family. Cosmopolitanism, or world federalism are just two concepts to be mentioned. However, as it seems, the most important innovation will be to think in fluid and self-learning systems rather than the traditional rigid fixity. Democracy is already more flexible and adaptable than totalitarian systems, yet, it is not yet adaptable and resilient enough and needs to be developed further. "Harvesting" best practices for consensus building from all cultures around the world is the call of our time (see Lindners' article "Avoiding Humiliation - From Intercultural Communication to Global Interhuman Communication," in the Journal of Intercultural Communication, SIETAR Japan, Number 10, June 2007, pp. 21-38. See a draft for this lecture, which was revised and published in the Journal of Intercultural Communication, SIETAR Japan in June 2007.)
A quote from Lindner's Dignity Economy book: "The transition that is needed at this historical juncture, seems to require two core moves (using Max Weber's ideal-type approach (Lewis A. Coser, 1977, p. 224.): (1) a large enough group of committed citizens at all levels, from civil society to the gatekeepers of political and economic institutions, must muster sufficient awareness of global responsibility to implement (2) new global institutional frames of inclusionism and dignism, new frames that give new form to global institutions, form that would be truly functional for an interdependent world and would serve the interests of all of humankind, not the interests of a few. Institutions (2) have preeminence because decent institutions can drive feedback loops that foster global cooperation in a systemic rather than haphazard way. Any subsequent move will have the advantage of enjoying the support from the system, no longer depending on a few gifted individuals."
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• 11 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace, Harmony, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace, Harmony, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
See, among others, the article titled "Why There Can Be No Conflict Resolution as Long as People Are Being Humiliated," with the short version of a response by Finn Tschudi and a rejoinder by the author, see here the long version of A review by Finn Tschudi & Evelin Lindner's responses, July and August 2008, in the International Review of Education, Special Issue on Education for Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution edited by Birgit Brock-Utne, Volume 55 (2-3, May): 157-184, 2009, published in OnlineFirst on 27th December 2008, with DOI 10.1007/s11159-008-9125-9, and ISSN 0020-8566 (Print) and 1573-0638 (Online). Published by Springer (Dordrecht), with the original publication available at www.springerlink.com.
See a quote from Lindner's writing on harmony. "At present, we, the human family on planet Earth, take part in a large-scale historical Zeitgeist shift. It is the transition from unequal to equal worthiness, away from social arrangements where “higher” beings preside over “lesser” beings, toward ranking everybody as equally worthy. The first sentence of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” This represents also a transition from one definition of harmony to a new definition. Traditionally harmony is being defined as quiet submission of underlings in rigid authoritarian dominator systems (Riane Eisler’s coinage). The new definition acknowledges life as being a process, reality as being in flow, and it manifests itself through a never-ending dialogue between equals who nurture relationships of mutual respect and partnership.
A harmony revolution is profoundly different to former revolutions. In past times, revolutionaries simply replaced their former masters as new dominators, maintaining the same authoritarian style as their former masters, dominating underlings and militating against the "enemy camp." A harmony revolution means more. It means co-creating new forms of living together, as a united human family, in never-ending dialogues between equals who nurture relationships of mutual respect and partnership."
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• 12 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for a Sustainable World Future
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for a Sustainable World Future" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner are the co-authors of the book The Moment Is Now (2012), which explains: "We live in extraordinary times. Never before in history have we, as human species, been presented with a window of opportunity as wide as now. None of our ancestors was able to see pictures of our Blue Planet from the perspective of an astronaut and see how we humans are one species living on one little planet. None of our ancestors lived in a world with such a comprehensive knowledge base, knowledge that - if we decide to use itis substantial enough to tackle all our challenges.
In a shrunk world, in contrast, we are now faced with the undeniable reality of global interdependence, a reality that is making itself felt in ways that would astonish our forefathers. Living on one planet has never been about anything else but interdependence—a planetary ecosphere is interconnected by default—however, this fact was obscured by lack of knowledge and by the dynamics of the security dilemma. Today, human interdependence must be taken seriously, it must be addressed with urgency. We now have the means to understand and to act upon the new reality that the world has grown too small for walls and too small for wars. Security is no longer to be had in the same ways as in the past. In the past, contention and enforced separation sometimes did bring a certain measure of security, at least temporarily. Powerful empires did succeed in giving their citizens a sense of security, at least as long as they had rulers who guarded and expanded the empire’s borders with due ruthlessness and cunning. In contrast, security in an interconnected world can only be had by nurturing relationships of global cohesion. Cohesion that is informed by equal dignity for all, a dignity that is manifested through the principle of unity in diversity."
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• 13 The Role of Human Rights Ideals for Honor, Dignity, Shame, and Humiliation
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace, Harmony, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
See, among others, the article titled "How the Human Rights Ideal of Equal Dignity Separates Humiliation from Shame," written for the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in 2007. Please see the first draft here.
Abstract: Usually, science, at least until recently, has been dominated by Western scholars. Therefore, much research is situated in Western cultural contexts. A Western scholar typically begins research within his or her own cultural setting and then makes some allowances for historic and cultural variations. In the case of research on emotions, the focus is usually on affect, feeling, emotion, script, character and personality, while larger cultural contexts and an analysis of historic periods in human history are less emphasized. Dialogue and bridge-building with other academic fields and other cultural realms are not easy to achieve even in today’s increasingly connected world.
The author of this article has lived as a global citizen for more than thirty years (due to being born into a displaced family) and has thus acquired an understanding not just for one or two cultural realms, but for many. The result is that she paints a broad picture that includes historic and transcultural dimensions. In this article the usual approach is inversed: Larger cultural contexts as they were shaped throughout human history are used as a lens to understand emotions, with particular emphasis, in this article, on humiliation and shame. This is not to deny the importance of research on affect, feeling, emotion, script, character and personality, but to expand it.
Subsequent to the conclusion of the doctoral dissertation on humiliation in 2001, the author has expanded her studies, among others, in Europe, South East Asia, and the United States. She is currently building a theory of humiliation that is transcultural and transdisciplinary, entailing elements from anthropology, history, social philosophy, social psychology, sociology, and political science.
The central point of this article is that shame and humiliation are not a-historic emotional processes, but historical-cultural-social-emotional constructs that change over time. Humiliation began to separate out from the humility-shame-humiliation continuum around three hundred years ago, and there are two mutually excluding concepts of humiliation in use today around the world, one that is old, and one that is new.
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• 14 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Conflict
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Conflict" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
In her second book, Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (2009), Lindner describes how realizing the promise of equality in dignity can help improve the human condition at all levels—from micro to meso to macro levels. This book uses a broad historical perspective that captures all of human history, from its hunter-gatherer origins to the promise of a globally united knowledge society in the future. It emphasizes the need to recognize and leave behind malign cultural, social, and psychological effects of the past. The book calls upon the world community, academics and lay people alike, to own up to the opportunities offered by increasing global interdependence. Please see more details on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin041.php.
Quoted from the Emotion and Conflict book (p. xv): "Imagine that you are a social worker and Eve is a woman in your district. She is regularly and severely beaten by her husband, Adam. You are afraid that Eve might not survive the abuse. Neighbors describe scenes of shouting and crying, and the bruises on Eve’s body are only too obvious. You visit her as frequently as your schedule permits. You try to convince her to protect herself better, for example by leaving her unsafe home and seeking refuge in protected housing designed for cases like hers. You consider her a victim and her husband a perpetrator. You explain that “domestic chastisement” has long been outlawed. You suggest that Adam’s behavior humiliates her and urge her to develop a “healthy” rage as a first step toward collecting sufficient strength to change her life for the better. In your eyes, this situation clearly represents a destructive conflict loaded with hot and violent emotion and you wish to contribute to its constructive resolution.
Sometimes, Eve is so exhausted that she seems to listen to you. At other times, however, she resists you, arguing: “Beating me is my husband’s way of loving me! I am not a victim! It is all my fault! I bring it upon myself! My grandmother taught me that arrogant women sin against divine traditions! We have to respect our traditions!” Her husband, of course, adamantly refuses to be labeled a perpetrator. He accuses you of viciously disturbing the peace of his home, of violating his male honor. To Adam, there is no destructive conflict, no suffering victim, no violent perpetrator—except in your mind, the mind of the social worker, a third party.
You cannot help remembering the South African elite and its defensiveness about apartheid. You also think of the current attention to so-called honor killings and how this practice has recently moved from the neutral category of cultural practice to the accusatory category of violation of human rights. Or the Indian caste system, that has only recently been renamed “Indian apartheid.” All such framings—unsurprisingly—do not meet with friendly acceptance from the supposed perpetrators."
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• 15. The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Love, Hate, and Other Emotions

"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Love, Hate, and Other Emotions" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
For Evelin Lindner, feelings of humiliation are "the nuclear bomb of the emotions." In her doctoral research, she analyzes how, during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, were forced to "choose" between two "loves" in the service of cycles of humiliation. Her four-year doctoral research project in social psychology was titled The Feeling of Being Humiliated: A Central Theme in Armed Conflicts. A Study of the Role of Humiliation in Somalia, and Rwanda/Burundi, Between the Warring Parties, and in Relation to Third Intervening Parties (2000, University of Oslo).
In her second book, Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (2009), Lindner describes how realizing the promise of equality in dignity can help improve the human condition at all levels—from micro to meso to macro levels. This book uses a broad historical perspective that captures all of human history, from its hunter-gatherer origins to the promise of a globally united knowledge society in the future. It emphasizes the need to recognize and leave behind malign cultural, social, and psychological effects of the past. The book calls upon the world community, academics and lay people alike, to own up to the opportunities offered by increasing global interdependence. Please see more details on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin041.php.
She wrote, among others, in her Emotion and Conflict book (2009): "In Kenya, I heard stories of Hutu genocidaires who were in hiding and needed psychotherapy because they could not eat without seeing the small fingers of children on their plates. Many Hutus had been forced to kill their own families, their Tutsi spouses and Tutsi-looking children, to show their allegiance to the Hutu cause. Their love for the Hutu cause became pitted against their love for their family. After the genocide, they were alone, deprived of their beloved family-and the killers were none but themselves. The International Panel of Eminent Personalities confirms: "Hutu women married to Tutsi men were sometimes compelled to murder their Tutsi children to demonstrate their commitment to Hutu Power. The effect on these mothers is . . . beyond imagining."
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This book attempts to show how the concept of ranked honor is the single largest “master manipulation” ever perpetrated (and still virulent, see more in Chapter 8). The driving force is the hideous suggestion entailed in ranked honor that it is unavoidable, either divinely ordained or nature’s order, that dignity is not equal but that “higher” beings are meant to preside over “lower” beings who are expected to subject themselves to their masters’ belief systems and decisions. In this way, ranked honor underlies and facilitates all other manipulations—it gives the power to define what is and what ought to be to a small master elite.
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Only if we deeply understand the ideals of ranked honor versus equality in dignity can we forge a constructive transition to the latter. It is encouraging that slavery and apartheid are no longer regarded as legitimate almost everywhere on the globe. Or, for the most recent success on this path, it is a step forward that more than one hundred nations agreed in Dublin on May 30, 2008, on a treaty that will ban current designs of cluster bombs. Yet our psyches—even among the most enlightened human rights advocates—are still filled with bits and pieces of the emotional cluster bombs that our past cultural and social environments placed there. Inside ourselves and between ourselves, myriad destructive processes are still at work—we have yet to fully grasp the opportunities that human rights offer.
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Throughout history, underlings have died for the honor of their masters, advised to define their own honor as faithful identification with their masters, without regard for their own health and survival and without questioning the reality of honor. Adolf Hitler required his followers to be ready to die for him “with enthusiasm” (“begeistert sterben”) Interview with Paul Lindner, July 22, 2008. And at the end, even the powerful themselves may pay with their own lives. Hitler’s “glory” ultimately ended in wretched death also for him personally.
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Masters want their underlings to love them, and to hate their master's enemies. Love and hatred are being prescribed within a dominator context.
In short, honor (or, more precisely, the ranking order that is entailed in systems of honor and often in systems of power in general—read more in Chapter 5), driven by emotions, can have horrendous outcomes. Its potential for dismal destructiveness was always apparent, even in the past; however, its occasional successes worked to outweigh the perception of risk. Yet in today’s interdependent world, the concept of honor (and concepts of power that define power as “power over others”) is no longer suitable, and its outfall is even more negative. Destructive conflict is created unnecessarily when honor steers conflict resolution today. Today, global interdependence represents the ultimate deterrent for violent conflict resolution informed by honor—we need to learn much more constructive approaches to conflict."
See more on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 16 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Love and Sexuality
"The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Love and Sexuality" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs (2010) is Evelin Lindner's third book. Archbishop Desmond Tutu contributed with a Foreword. The book rounds off with an Afterword by Linda Hartling in honor of Jean Baker Miller and Don Klein. The book examines the social and political ramifications of human violations and world crises related to humiliation. It charts how humiliation is conditioned into individuals by large-scale, and systemic social forces. It offers ideas for counteracting the powerful psychological effects of humiliation in order to encourage constructive social, political, and cultural change. The book is being "highly recommended" by Choice (in July 2010).
Quoted from the Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security book (p. 96): "Humankind learned to make fire; we learned to burn fossil fuel and utilize its force. We still have a long way to go until we efficiently make use of the force of nonfinite and nonpolluting resources such as the sun, the wind, the movement of waves and tides, geothermal heat, or perhaps even of the zero-point field.
With love, we have not yet even succeeded in making fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin opened the Introduction to this book by saying, “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Our relationship with love is unsophisticated and wasteful. Early hominids were presumably impressed by the force of the fires that at times ravaged the savannah. Likewise, we are impressed by the force of love when it comes down on us like wildfire. Early hominids could not imagine that their successors in the 21st century would succeed in using this force to change almost all aspects of our lives, from powering airplanes to staying connected through the Internet. Similarly, we cannot imagine today that the use of the force of love will change all aspects of human life in the future (under the condition that humankind has not annihilated itself before reaching this new level of expertise)."
See more on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin042.php, and www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 17 Evelin Lindner: Global Research Experience: Egypt, Rwanda-Burundi, Somalia, Japan, China, USA, Europe
"Global Research Experience" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Evelin Lindner was interviewed by The Muses Journal: Love, Peace and Wisdom in 2005, and said: "'Never again' was to become central for my life. My life has turned out to be a 'project' rather than a 'normal life,' a project with the aim to learn about the world in order to apply lessons for 'never again.' My medical studies are part of this larger project. Already as a schoolgirl, I was interested in the world's cultures and languages and I eventually learned to familiarise myself with around 12 languages, among them the key languages of the world. My aim was to become part of other cultures, not only 'visit' 'them.' I wanted to develop a gut feeling for how people in different cultures define life and death, conflict and peace, love and hate, and how they look at 'others.' As a medical student, I was able to work in many parts of the world and immerse myself into various cultures."
See more on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 18 Evelin Lindner: A Personal Path From Humiliating Displacement to the Dignity of Global Citizenship
"A Personal Path From Humiliating Displacement to the Dignity of Global Citizenship" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Evelin Lindner's aim it to help increase awareness that we, as a human species, form one singe human family on a tiny home planet, whose stewardship is our shared responsibility. See her reflections on her website:
"It is important for me to make clear that my global life is not a homeless or restless life. I do not even use the term "travel," since I live in the global village and in a village one does not travel, one lives there, even if one moves around in it. When I look for cultural templates for my life, which treats our planet as one undivided locality, I can think of migrating animist hunter-gatherers, a way of life that defined being human prior to 10,000 years ago. I resonate with what indigenous native American leader Sitting Bull (1831-1890) said: "White men like to dig in the ground for their food. My people prefer to hunt the buffalo… White men like to stay in one place. My people want to move their tepees here and there to different hunting grounds. The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in their towns or farms. The life my people want is freedom." Clearly, I do not hunt buffalo, and I do not have a teepee. Yet, what I do is refraining from defining a small geographical locality as "my home." My home is the entire global village, or more precisely, the people I love in that village. I do not even see my life as nomadic, and, as mentioned above, I do not resonate with the notion of travel. To my view, I "stay in love," rather than "travel in circles in a caged rat race." In other words, I see myself being much more "still" and true to "my place," namely love, than those who sell out their soul for a rat race that is defined by large-scale societal frames that have increasingly become toxic during the past decades. I see many people travel extensively, yet, usually, they have a "caged rat race" frame within which they travel. I prefer to "stay still" in the realm of love. I am closer to a person who chooses to opt out of the rat race to live a simpler life nearer to nature, for example, than to a frequent business flyer who travels in circles in the isolated elite bubble of international hotels. I never search for a "place to stay." I move between different relational contexts of love and "a place to stay" is secondary to being embedded into relationships of mutual care."
Please see also "How Becoming a Global Citizen Can Have a Healing Effect," a paper presented at the 2006 ICU-COE Northeast Asian Dialogue: Sharing Narratives, Weaving/Mapping History, February 3-5, 2006, International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan.
See also Jackie Wasilewski's invitation, pictures from Evelin's camera, and the organizers' pictures.
Introduction to the paper: "First versions of this paper were written for the 2006 ICU-COE Northeast Asian Boundary-spanning Dialogue Project ("Sharing Narratives, Weaving/Mapping History," February 3-5, 2006, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan). The participants were divided into four circles and encouraged to present their personal histories. A great sense of enthusiasm, almost exhilaration, permeated the Dialogue weekend. One of the most exiting aspects was that everybody had the permission to be a "human being" - as opposed to "a Chinese," or "a Korean," or "a Japanese." Usually, by stepping out of in-group definitions, one has to pay by sacrificing one's sense of belonging and mutual connection. During the Dialogue weekend, nobody was punished for failing to be adequately "loyal" to their in-group; nobody was ostracized for failing to be sufficiently "Japanese," or "Korean," or "Chinese." On the contrary, a new "in-group membership" was on offer - the membership in all humankind. No longer had the participants to carefully hide "unfitting" aspects of themselves; on the contrary, everybody was encouraged to just be "me" and would still be connected and loved. In the Dialogue weekend, everybody was allowed to break out of narrow in-group boundaries and forge a new in-group community, humankind.
In this paper I first outline how I initially felt a painful sense of not-belonging (I am born into a refugee family) and how I proceeded to building a deeply fulfilling and satisfying global identity. In the subsequent section I discuss what I gained with this approach. I conclude with advocating that we all need to cooperate in building an inclusive world for all."
See more on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 19 Global Citizenship as Path to Dignity and Prevention of Humiliation
"Global Citizenship as Path to Dignity and Prevention of Humiliation" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Evelin Lindner writes (in one of her upcoming books on dignity): "The caring element in anthropologist Alan Page Fiske's communal sharing (CS) template is currently stepping into the limelight and is taken more seriously, however, it needs to be highlighted and prioritized more, and more systematically.
The global village is currently acquiring a life of its own, beyond McLuhan’s initial connotations, but this process needs to be guided proactively. Citizens increasingly relate to each other across borders, states are losing their status as more or less isolated entities that constrain and define their citizens’ global relationships, however, such relationships can turn sour. Global terrorism is only one example for the fact that globalization does not necessarily lead to global friendship.
Even though a global 'supranational We-feeling' is in the making, and the 'struggle for recognition' by individuals alongside that of states is emerging as a force at the system level, such tendencies need to be nurtured and helped forward more systematically. We do see postindividual consciousness emerge (G. Heard, The Five Ages of Man, 1963), or unity consciousness (M. Hollick, The Science of Oneness: A Worldview for the Twenty-First Century, 2006), or a “Kantian culture” of collective security or “friendship” (A. Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics, 1999), or a global civic culture (E. Boulding, Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World, 1988), or a world society (Alexander Wendt’s stage three).
A growing number of people are now joining the so-called cultural creatives movement and refuse “cynical realism” (P. H. Ray and S. R. Anderson, The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World, 2000). Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson identify three main cultural tendencies: firstly moderns (endorsing the “realist” worldview of Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, big government, big business, big media, or past socialist, communist, and fascist movements); second, the first countermovement against moderns, the traditionals (the religious right and rural populations); and third, the most recent countermovement, the cultural creatives (valuing strong ecological sustainability for the planet, liberal on women’s issues, personal growth, authenticity, and antibig business). In the United States, traditionals comprise about 24-26 percent of the adult population (approximately 48 million people), moderns about 47-49 percent (approximately 95 million) and cultural creatives are about 26-28 percent (approximately 50 million). In the European Union, the cultural creatives are about 30-35 percent of the adult population.
What is lacking at the current point in human history is global leadership that informs the creation of a decent global community of social and ecological sustainability, following the call for a decent society by philosopher Avishai Margalit (The Decent Society, 1996). Viable global superordinate institutional structures are still lacking, structures that can effectively overcome Hobbesian anarchy among citizens and states and that can successfully attend to the wounds humankind has inflicted on its ecological environment."
See more on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 20 How to Be a Mandela and Create a World of Freedom and Dignity instead of Fighting for Individual Freedom in an Undignified World?
"How to Be a Mandela and Create a World of Freedom and Dignity instead of Fighting for Individual Freedom in an Undignified World?" is a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the World Dignity University initiative.
Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Evelin Lindner, together with her colleagues, aim to act on Margaret Mead's saying when they work to manifest equal dignity for all living beings as a two-tiered refolution (Timothy Ash), or a two-tiered evolutionary reconstruction (Gar Alperovitz), and it must become a continuous, never-ending refolution. It is a two-tiered process because not just dominators are to be taken down, the dominator model itself is to be taken down. In former times, when rulers were toppled by revolution, their usurpers kept the system in place without reforming it; former underlings became the new dominators. The new partnership model, in contrast, calls for entirely new ways of living together.
The new ways are those of equal dignity manifested through unity in diversity, rather than uniformity and division. The new ways emphasize continuous process and fluidity, rather than rigidity. They emphasize learning, co-creating, moving ahead together. Partnership cannot be forced, it cannot be commanded, it cannot be straight jacketed into rigid rules. Partnership must be nudged and nurtured, through lovingly asking questions, through creating common ground, through forming relationships of social cohesion, from where we can walk together toward a more favorable future for all.
The Emotion and Conflict book recommends an action plan for humankind with two core loops to travel, (1) acquiring new awareness for global responsibility, (2) acquiring new personal skills of cooperation, and (3) creating new global institutional frames that enable new forms of global and local cooperation. Institutions (3) have preeminence because decent institutions can drive feedback loops that foster (1) and (2) in systemic rather than haphazard ways. The first loop, the initial realization of new institutions, depends on a few Nelson Mandela-like individuals, who “nudge” the world’s systems into a more constructive frame. The second and subsequent loops will have the advantage of enjoying the support from the system, no longer only depending on a few gifted individuals. A new culture has to emerge, locally and globally, at all societal, social, and psychological levels, a truly humane culture of Unity in Diversity, where people have access to the full range of their emotions and learn to regulate them so that their motivational force can drive the creation of an ecologically and socially sustainable world rather than a world of destruction.
See more on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin02.php.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 21 "Do We Need Concepts such as Humiliation, Dignity, and Respect to Understand Majority/Minority Relations?," in high density and MP4 format
This video was created on 10th May 2012 in the Valle de las Animas (Valley of the Souls) near La Paz, Bolivia, as a contribution to the seminar "Majority and Immigrants: Social Psychological Aspects," to be held on Thursday, 31st May 2012, at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway, in honor of Reidar Ommundsen. See here some still pictures of the 10th May.
Located 40 minutes from La Paz, at about 4,000 meters above sea-level, the Canyon and Lagoon of the Souls is a sacred place to the Aymara inhabitants of the Andean highlands who come here to offer burnt-offering ceremonies to the imposing Mountain Gods that overlook our Valley, Mount Illimani (6,438 meters above sea-level) and Mururata (5,871 meters above sea-level).

• 22 The Scale of Humiliation - What Are the Smallest and Largest Effects/Impact of Humiliation in the World?
This is a video produced by Evelin Lindner and Gabriela Saab in São Paulo, Brazil, on 22nd May 2012, in response to the BBC Radio planning a programme on humiliation research. The video provides examples from the macro to the micro level of human relationships (the international, intergroup, interpersonal, and intrapersonal levels, as well as the relationship with our ecosphere).
The video begins with the global level, considering the following question: Are there connections between humiliation and genocide at the global level? The link between help provided to Somalia and help withheld from Rwanda can serve as an example to illustrate this question. For intergroup dynamics the 1994 genocide in Rwanda can serve as an example at the intergroup level (errratum: In the example of Rwanda, the patron-client ties that existed between Tutsi and Hutu, evidently, lasted for centuries, not just decades). The practice of honor killing is being highlighted as an example for humiliation playing out between families and within families.
This is the request from the BBC: Lucy Greenwell wrote to Linda Hartling (22nd May 2012): "... Our programme is very unformed at the moment, I am in the process of researching the subject, and trying to find real human stories that illustrate the effects of humiliation in the world. We find that the best stories for our series tend to be the personal ones. What appeals to me about humiliation as a subject is the incredibly personal nature of it (so there will certainly be lots of small local stories about humiliation) but at the same time the grand scale of it, the way it's a global issue. I am interested to hear from you about this scale of humiliation - what are the smallest and largest effects/impact of humiliation in the world?
I guess what would be wonderful was if you were able to point me in the direction of fascinating real stories that shed light on the importance of this issues. Are there any unfolding stories that are particularly interesting? Most people think humiliation means being shown up publicly at work, or in front of friends. Is this what it really is? Is there more to it than that? I read that a survey found that 91% of people had considered murdering someone in their lives - and the main reason given was that they were humiliated by them. ... Really looking forward to it, Lucy, Lucy Greenwell, Producer.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 23 A Letter to my Father - Memories of Humiliation in International Conflicts
Lecture in the course of literature by Dr. Laura P. Zuntini of Izarra, the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Department of Modern Languages​​, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24th May 2012.
Português: Palestra no curso de literatura pela Dra. Laura P. Zuntini de Izarra, na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Letras Modernas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, 24 de Maio 2012.
Please see here the video of this lecture. Gabriela Saab kindly did the video-taping. Please see here still pictures, kindly taken by Marcelle Guil. Please see here still photos, kindly taken by Marcelle Guil. See here the entire São Paulo Agenda organized by Gabriela Saab.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 24 International Law in Relation to Humiliation and Armed Conflict
Lecture at the Faculty of Law in the International Criminal Law course taught by Prof. Cláudia Perrone-Moisés at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, 24th May, 2012.
Português: Humilhação e Conflito Armado, palestra na Faculdade de Direito (sala Miguel Reale, 3º. Andar) no curso Direito Internacional Penal ministrado pela Profa. Dra. Cláudia Perrone-Moisés, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, 24 de Maio 2012.
Please see here the video of this lecture. Fabricio Rodrigo Costa kindly did the video-taping. Please see here still photos, kindly taken by Marcelle Guil. See here the entire São Paulo Agenda organized by Gabriela Saab. See also Professor Murilo Jardelino da Costa without whom this programme would not be the same! Thank you, dear Gaby and Murilo!

• 25 Educação, Conflitos e Democracia
Mesa-redonda, participação de Evelin Lindner e Annie Dymetman, doutora em Sociologia, e membro-fundadora da Casa da Mediação de Conflitos na Universidade São Judas Tadeu. Mediação Helena Singer (pós-doutora pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas e diretora pedagógica da Associação Cidade Escola Aprendiz). Memorial da América Latina, Sala dos Espelhos, Av. Auro Soares de Moura Andrade, 664, Saõ Paulo, Brasil, 29 de Maio 2012.
English: Education, Conflict and Democracy, roundtable, participation by Evelin Lindner and Annie Dymetman, PhD in Sociology, and a founding member of the House of Conflict Resolution at the University São Judas Tadeu. Mediation by Helena Singer (post-doctorate from the University of Campinas and pedagogical director of the Associação Cidade Escola Aprendiz).
Please see the invitation. See also still pictures.

• 26 Humiliation, Dignity and Reconciliation / Humilhação, Dignidade e Reconciliação
Palestra em inglês com tradução consecutiva. Centro Universitário Maria Antonia da Universidade de São Paulo, Salão Nobre Rua Maria Antônia, 258, 3º andar, Vila Buarque, São Paulo, SP. Coordenação Sergio Adorno (FFLCH, NEV e Cátedra UNESCO - USP). Mediação Guilherme Assis de Almeida (Faculdade de Direito - USP). Apoio: Cátedra da UNESCO na USP (Cátedra Educação para a Paz, Democracia, Direitos Humanos e Tolerância). 1º de junho de 2012, 20h.
English: Lecture in English with consecutive translation together with Professor Sergio Adorno, Professor of Sociology, University of São Paulo. Mediation Guilherme Assis de Almeida, Law School, University of São Paulo. Supported by the UNESCO Chair Education for Peace, Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance, and the Centro Maria Antônia at the University of São Paulo, 1st June 2012.
Please see the invitation. Please see also the video of this lecture. See still pictures. See here the entire São Paulo Agenda so kindly organized by Gabriela Saab.

• 27 Humilhação, Dignidade e Direitos Humanos
"Humilhação, Dignidade e Direitos Humanos," talk by Evelin Lindner to the Committee for Human Rights and Minorities at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília, Brazil, on 5th June 2012. She was invited by Deputado Domingos Dutra, President of the Committee for Human Rights and Minorities, and Ricardo Jose Pereira Rodrigues, Senior Policy Specialist in the Office of Legislative Counsel and Policy Guidance at the Chamber of Deputies. Clara Becker explained Evelin's thoughts in Portuguese. The historical moment for this talk was timely: On 16th May 2012, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff had just inaugurated a truth commission to investigate rights abuses, including those committed during military rule.
Português: "Humilhação, Dignidade e Direitos Humanos," palestra na Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Minorias, Câmara dos Deputados, Brasília, Brasil, 5 de Junho 2012. Clara Becker explicou pensamentos Evelin em Português. O momento histórico para esta palestra foi oportuna: No dia 16 de Maio de 2012, o presidente brasileiro, Dilma Rousseff, tinha acabado de inaugurar uma comissão da verdade para investigar abusos de direitos humanos, incluindo aqueles cometidos durante o regime militar.
• See the announcement prior to the event (or see here)
• Listen to an audio clip from the event
• Read a summary after the event (or see here)
• Please click here to see still photos.

• 27.2 Creating a Dignified World: A Video Message to the Brazilian People from Evelin Lindner
This video message was recorded by journalist Alex Paniago after the talk "Humilhação, Dignidade e Direitos Humanos," that Evelin Lindner gave for the Committee for Human Rights and Minorities at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília, Brazil, on 5th June 2012. She was invited by Deputado Domingos Dutra, President of the Committee for Human Rights and Minorities, and Ricardo Jose Pereira Rodrigues, Senior Policy Specialist in the Office of Legislative Counsel and Policy Guidance at the Chamber of Deputies. Clara Becker explained Evelin's thoughts in Portuguese.
Português: "Humilhação, Dignidade e Direitos Humanos," palestra na Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Minorias, Câmara dos Deputados, Brasília, Brasil, 5 de Junho 2012. Clara Becker explicou pensamentos Evelin em Português.
• See the announcement prior to the event (or see here)
• Listen to an audio clip from the event
• Read a summary after the event (or see here)
• Please click here to see still photos.

• 28 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in Regard to Peace, Harmony, Reconciliation and Forgiveness / O papel da Dignidade e da Humilhação no que Concerne à Paz, à Humanização e à Conciliação em Contextos Familiar e Universitário (English, with simultaneous translation into Portuguese)
This was a lecture at the Center for Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, 12th June 2012. When you watch the video (see Part I and Part II), please be aware that Evelin listens to the Portuguese translation through earphones and that the pauses are caused by her waiting for Fatiha Dechicha Parahyba, the translator, to finish before continueing.
See a brief video in Portuguese (see the mp4 the flv version) by Maria José Luna, current president of the Dom Helder Camara Human Rights Commission at the University of Pernambuco, and Director of the Federal University of Pernambuco Press.
Português: Palestra na Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humana, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brasil, 12 de Junho 2012. Quando você assistir ao vídeo (Part I e Part II), por favor, esteja ciente de que Evelin ouve a tradução Português através de fones de ouvido e que as pausas são causados ​​por ela à espera de Fatiha Dechicha Parahyba, o tradutor, para terminar antes de continuar. Veja um breve vídeo em Português por Maria José Luna, atual presidente do Dom Helder Camara Comissão de Direitos Humanos da Universidade de Pernambuco e Diretor da UFPE Imprensa.
See the announcements prior to the event, both as a poster and on the UFPE website 1 + 2.
Please click here to see still photos from Evelin's camera, and here to see still photos from UFPE's official camera.

• 29 Evelin Lindner: Education, Dignity, and Crosscultural Communication
Workshop in English at the Associação Brasil-América (ABA) for the ABA administrative-cultural staff and faculty, invited by Eduardo J. G. Carvalho, Executive Director of ABA, and ABA Co-founder Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos, Recife, Brazil, 15th June 2012. See the announcement and the invitation. See also the article Humilihação e Dignidade by Tereza Halliday, published in the newspaper Diário de Pernambuco on 4th June 2012.
Please see here photos from Evelin's camera. May I draw your attention to the work of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS, www.humiliationstudies.org), a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation. We wish to stimulate systemic change, globally and locally, to open space for mutual respect and esteem to take root and grow, thus ending humiliating practices and breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world. We are currently around 1,000 personally invited members, and our website is being accessed by between 20,000 and 40,000 people from more than 180 countries per year.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.

•30 Fostering Global Citizenship
In: Peter T. Coleman and Morton Deutsch (Eds.), Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace: An Introduction, Peace Psychology Book Series, New York, Springer Science+Business Media, 2012, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3555-6_1, ISBN: 978-1-4614-3554-9, ISBN 978-1-4614-3555-6 (eBook), chapter 15, pp. 283-298. See the flyer and invitation to the book launch on November 7, 2012. Please see the video of the book launch on the ICCCR website and on YouTube.
•  Abstract: The purpose of this book is to enhance understanding of sustainable peace by supplementing the standard approach of studying the prevention of destructive conflict, violence, war and injustice with the equally important investigation of the promotion of the basic conditions and processes conducive to lasting peace. For in addition to addressing the pervasive realities of oppression, violence and war, peace requires us to understand and envision what alternatives we wish to construct. Recognizing the ultimate need for multidisciplinary frameworks to best comprehend and foster sustainable peace, we hoped to elicit what contemporary psychology might have to contribute to such a framework. This chapter provides a brief historical and conceptual context for the many fine scholarly chapters that follow in the book.

Contents:

• 1. Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace: An Introduction, Morton Deutsch and Peter T. Coleman, 1-14
•  2. Effective Cooperation, The Foundation of Sustainable Peace, David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson and Dean Tjosvold, 15-53
•  3. Constructive Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Peace, Peter T. Coleman, 55-84
•  4. Creative Problem Solving: Not Just About the Problem, Daniel L. Shapiro, 85-104
•  5. Transforming Communication for Peace, Beth Fisher-Yoshida, 105-120
•  6. LIF PLUS: The Life-Improving Force of Peaceful Language Use, Francisco Gomes de Matos, 121-129
•  7. The Role of Equality in Negotiation and Sustainable Peace, Cecilia Albin and Daniel Druckman, 131-151
•  8. Sustaining Peace through Psychologically Informed Policies: The Geohistorical Context of Malaysia, Daniel J. Christie and Noraini M. Noor, 153-175
•  9. Justice, Activity, and Narrative: Studying of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, Carolina Muñoz Proto and Susan Opotow, 177-196
•  10. Gender and Sustainable Peace, Abigail Disney and Leymah Gbowee, 197-203
•  11. The Psychodynamics of Peace, Alon Gratch, 205-225
•  12. Culture of Peace, Douglas P. Fry and Marta Miklikowska, 227-243
•  13. Reconciliation Between Groups, the Prevention of Violence, and Lasting Peace, Ervin Staub, 245-263
•  14. Sustainable Peace: A Dynamical Systems Perspective, Andrzej Nowak, Lan Bui-Wrzosinska, Robin Vallacher and Peter T. Coleman, 265-281
•  15: Fostering Global Citizenship, Evelin Lindner, 283-298
•  16. A Framework for Thinking About Developing a Global Community, Morton Deutsch, Eric C. Marcus and Sarah Brazaitis, 299-324
•  17. Education for Sustainable Peace: Practices, Problems and Possibilities, Betty A. Reardon, 325-352
•  18. Conclusion: The Essence of Peace? Toward a Comprehensive and Parsimonious Model of Sustainable Peace, Peter T. Coleman, 353-369

When Evelin Lindner was first invited to contribute with a chapter to this book, its first working title was The Psychological Components of a Sustainable, Humane, Peaceful World.
The papers listed further down represent the first four drafts for this chapter, developed from February 2010 to December 2010. The papers are rather different from each other. They illustrate the process of developing the ideas for this chapter. The title of each draft was suggested by Morton Deutsch, as was the main structure of each paper, including most of the main section headings. The titles and the section headings thus represent a question, or a challenge posed by Morton Deutsch to Evelin Lindner to respond to. The text of each section can therefore be read as a responses to Morton Deutsch's formulation of the headings.
• Paper 4, March 10, 2011: Fostering Global Citizenship 2
• Paper 3, October 15, 2010: Fostering Global Citizenship 1
• Paper 2, May 30, 2010: Why Global Citizenship Is Needed for Global Peace
• Paper 1, February 25, 2010: Harmonious and Sustainable Peaceful Relations: How They Can Be Fostered by Fulfilling Basic Human Needs and Nurturing Positive Emotions and How the Frustration of Basic Needs Can Lead to Destructive Emotions and Interactions

•31 A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet
Lindner, Evelin (2012). A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet. Lake Oswego, OR; World Dignity University Press.
Book presentation and introduction of the term dignism at Columbia University, Teachers College, Gottesman Library, room Russell 104b, on December 5, 2012, 4:30-6 pm. The video recording was carried out by Hua-Chu Yen.
See the invitation flyer and the event in the Gottesman Library Calendar. See the video-tape on blip.tv and on YouTube.


Erasmus

King George Mohlala and Frans Padi about the Erasmus Community Work Programme, 15th May 2013
The Community Work Programme (CWP) is a government programme by the Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs Department of the Republic of South Africa. It aims at tackling poverty and unemployment under the motto "Restoring dignity through work opportunities." The Erasmus Community Work Programme near Pretoria, in the municipality of Tshwane, is one example. Please see also Seriti Institute's Notes about Erasmus, titled, "Re a leboga Seriti. Thank you for CWP: driven by that which inspires us!," from Wednesday, March 27, 2013. This video with King George Mohlala from CWP and Frans Padi from Erasmus was recorded by Justine Richards in Erasmus on 15 May 2013, assisted by Evelin Lindner and Howard Richards.


Catherine Odora Hoppers

SARChI Peer Review Meeting on 11th May 2013 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (see also the Programme)

On 11th May 2013, Catherine Odora Hoppers convened a SARChI Peer Review Meeting in her office, supported by Rutendo Ngara. Catherine Odora Hoppers is presently holder of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa – Pretoria. At first, Nguimatsa Zelezeck and Lebs Mphahlele presented their work, followed by Kinfe Gebre-Egziabher, Morongwa Masemula, Joy Ndwandwe, Nguimatsa Zelezeck, Simon Netswera, and Ziphrogora Moichela.
All videos were recorded by Justine Richards.

Lebs Mphahlele & SARChI: A Personal Account
Kinfe Gebre-Egziabher & SARChI: A Personal Account
Morongwa Masemula & SARChI: A Personal Account
Joy Ndwandwe & SARChI: A Personal Account
Nguimatsa Zelezeck & SARChI: A Personal Account
Ziphora Moichela & SARChI: A Personal Account

Catherine Odora Hoppers's Family Heritage, 19th May 2013

On 19th May 2013, in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa, Catherine Odora Hoppers shared some of her family heritage. Justine Richards did the video recording. Evelin Lindner first read a letter that her brother had written in the previous year, then a letter of recommendation from 1981, and thereafter some of the quotes with which Catherine had decorated her new home in Pretoria when she first moved in, see as follows:
A man's got to what he's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
A woman is the full circle — within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform.
What is better than wisdom? Woman! And what is better than a good woman? Nothing!
• A bird doesn't sing because the it has an answer; its things because it has a song.
• The greater your capacity to love, the greater is your capacity to feel the pain.

• Catherine Odora Hoppers: Poems of Exile, 20th May 2013

On 20th May 2013, Catherine Odora Hoppers shared some of her poems that she wrote when she left Uganda for Sweden, for her second exile in 1987. Justine Richards did the video recording in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa. See also some still pictures.
Please see the video here:

• 01 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: The Resolution (read the poem The Resolution)
• 02 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: The Spear (read the poem The Spear)
• 03 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Home (read the poem Home)
• 04 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Winifred(read the poem Winifred)
• 05 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Omen (see also the fourth drawing from the left above, and read the poem Omen)
06 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Absolution (read the poem Absolution)
• 07 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Banished (see also the first drawing on the left above, and read the poem Banished)
• 08 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Train Number 10 (read the poem Train Number 10)
• 09 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Bridges (read the poem Bridges)

• Catherine Odora Hoppers: Poems of Exile, 21st May 2013

On 21st May 2013, Catherine Odora Hoppers shared some of her poems that she wrote when she left Uganda for Sweden, for her second exile in 1987. Justine Richards did the video recording in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa. See also some still pictures.
Please see the video here:

• 10 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: The Smoking Ruins (read the poem The Smoking Ruins)
• 11 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: Through a Mountain Pass (read the poem Through a Mountain Pass)
•12 Catherine Odora Hoppers' Poems of Exile: A Hot December Day (read the poem A Hot December Day)


Howard Richards on Foucault, in Dialogue with Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner

• 01.1 Howard Richards on Early Foucault Part One, 3rd May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Foucault, Part One." The video was recorded on 3rd May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 01.2 Dialogue on Early Foucault Part One, 3rd May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Foucault, Part One," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on 3rd May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 02.1 Howard Richards on Early Foucault Part Two, 4th May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Foucault, Part Two." The video was recorded on 4th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 02.2 Dialogue on Early Foucault Part Two, 4th May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Foucault, Part Two," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on 4th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 03.1 Howard Richards on Early Foucault Part Three, 6th May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Foucault, Part Three." The video was recorded on 6th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 03.2 Dialogue on Early Foucault Part Three, 6th May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Foucault, Part Three," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on 6th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 04.1 Howard Richards on Early Foucault Part Four, 8th May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Foucault, Part Four," The video was recorded on 8th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 04.2 Dialogue on Early Foucault Part Four, 8th May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Foucault, Part Four," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on 8th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 05.1 Howard Richards on Early Middle Foucault Part Five, 8th May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Five," The video was recorded on 8th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 05.2 Dialogue on Early Middle Foucault Part Five, xth May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Five," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on xth May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 06.1 Howard Richards on Early Middle Foucault Part Six, 9th May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Six," The video was recorded on 9th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 06.2 Dialogue on Early Middle Foucault Part Six, 19th May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Six," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on xth May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 07.1 Howard Richards on Early Middle Foucault Part Seven, 18th May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Seven," The video was recorded on 18th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 07.2 Dialogue on Early Middle Foucault Part Seven, xth May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Seven," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on xth May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 08.1 Howard Richards on Early Middle Foucault Part Eight, 20th May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Eight," The video was recorded on 20th May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 08.2 Dialogue on Early Middle Foucault Part Eight, xth May 2013
Inspired by Howard Richards' text titled "Early Middle Foucault, Part Eight," Catherine Odora Hoppers and Evelin Lindner engage in dialogue with Howard Richards. The video was recorded on xth May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.

• 09.1 Howard Richards on Foucault's Nietzschean Turn Part Nine, 21st May 2013
Howard Richards presents his text titled "Foucault's Nietzschean Turn Part Nine," The video was recorded on 21st May 2013 by Justine Richards. See still pictures.


21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, 24th - 27th April 2013

• 01 Introductory Presentation: Who We Are by Evelin Lindner on 24th April 2013 (unfortunately, reduced video quality)
This video gives an impression of the introductory talk titled Who We Are by Evelin Lindner at the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 24th April 2013 by Akinlolu Makinwa. Unfortunately, the video quality is not optimal, due to the lack of a microphone and dimmed lights.

• 02 A Dignity Renaissance: Can There Be Too Little Shame? The Link Between Dignity, Shame, Humiliation and Humility by Hélène Lewis on 25th April 2013 (unfortunately, reduced video quality)
This video gives an impression of the talk titled A Dignity Renaissance: Can There Be Too Little Shame? The Link Between Dignity, Shame, Humiliation and Humility by Hélène Lewis, MSc (Clin Psych), host, convener, and organiser of the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 25th April 2013 by Evelin Lindner. Unfortunately, the video quality is not optimal, due to the lack of a microphone and dimmed lights.

• 03 'Development Methods' Open Space Dignilogue Session, 25th April 2013 (unfortunately, reduced video quality)
This video gives glimpses of the Open Space Dignilogue session on Development Methods in the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 25th April 2013 by Evelin Lindner. Unfortunately, the video quality is not optimal.

• 04 'Development Methods' Open Space Dignilogue Session Summary by Gavin Andersson on 26th April 2013
In this video, Gavin Andersson summarises the Open Space Dignilogue session on Development Methods in the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 26th April 2013 by Justine Richards.

• 05 'Search for Dignity by Implementing African Languages in African Schools' by Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite on 26th April 2013
In this video, Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite advocates the implementation of African languages in African schools. Her presentation is part of an Open Space Dignilogue session on Development Methods in the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 26th April 2013 by Evelin Lindner.

• 06 'Ubuntu' Open Space Dignilogue Session, 25th April 2013 (unfortunately, reduced video quality)
This video gives glimpses of the Open Space Dignilogue session on Ubuntu in the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 25th April 2013 by Evelin Lindner. Unfortunately, the video quality is not optimal.

• 07 'Ubuntu' Open Space Dignilogue Session Summary by Joy Ndwandwe on 26th April 2013
In this video, Joy Ndwandwe summarises the Open Space Dignilogue session on Ubuntu in the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 26th April 2013 by Evelin Lindner.

• 08 'Global Citizenship' Open Space Dignilogue Session Summary by Akinlolu Makinwa on 27th April 2013
In this video, Akinlolu O. Makinwa summarises the Open Space Dignilogue session titled 'Gobal Citizenship' that was part of an Open Space Dignilogue in the 21st Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Stellenbosch, South Africa, titled 'Search for Dignity', 24th-27th April 2013. The video was recorded on 27th April 2013 by Justine Richards.


Virginia Swain and Joseph Barratta

• 01 Imagine Worcester #67 Joseph Barratta
This video was recorded on December 5, 2011, in Worcester, United States, as part of a show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. In this video, she interviews her husband Joseph Barratta. Virginia Swain is the founder of the Coalition for the Human Right to Peace (HR2P), an integral part of the Global Alliance of a Culture of Peace. The Center for Global Community and World Law, which Virginia directs and co-founded, has become the umbrella organization for the HR2P endeavor in the United States. The Center has been given consultative status at the United Nations in 2011.
See:
- Launching of the Coalition to Support the Human Right to Peace at The Center for Global Community and World Law, Worcester (Massachusetts, USA), 24 March 2011
- "Seeking Original UN Goals: Couple Launch Peace Coalition," by Melissa McKeon, Telegramtowns, June 30, 2011

• 02 Imagine Worcester #68 Virginia Swain
This video was recorded on December 8, 2011, in Worcester, United States, as part of a show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. In this video, her husband Joseph Barratta interviews her. Virginia Swain is the founder of the Coalition for the Human Right to Peace (HR2P), an integral part of the Global Alliance of a Culture of Peace. The Center for Global Community and World Law, which Virginia directs and co-founded, has become the umbrella organization for the HR2P endeavor in the United States. The Center has been given consultative status at the United Nations in 2011.
See:
- Launching of the Coalition to Support the Human Right to Peace at The Center for Global Community and World Law, Worcester (Massachusetts, USA), 24 March 2011
- "Seeking Original UN Goals: Couple Launch Peace Coalition," by Melissa McKeon, Telegramtowns, June 30, 2011

• 03 Imagine Worcester #70 Linda Hartling and Lindner
This video was recorded on October 17, 2011, Portland, OR, & Worcester, MA, United States, as part of a show about peace hosted by Virginia Swain. In this video, her husband Joseph Barratta interviews her. Virginia Swain is the founder of the Coalition for the Human Right to Peace (HR2P), an integral part of the Global Alliance of a Culture of Peace. The Center for Global Community and World Law, which Virginia directs and co-founded, has become the umbrella organization for the HR2P endeavor in the United States. The Center has been given consultative status at the United Nations in 2011. .
See:
- Launching of the Coalition to Support the Human Right to Peace at The Center for Global Community and World Law, Worcester (Massachusetts, USA), 24 March 2011
- "Seeking Original UN Goals: Couple Launch Peace Coalition," by Melissa McKeon, Telegramtowns, June 30, 2011


Trine Eklund

• 01 Trine Eklund: What Are the Most Important Lessons that Future Peace Movements Can Learn from the Past?
This video was recorded on 2nd February 2013 in Oslo, Norway. Evelin Lindner asked Trine about her experiences and insights when looking back on 33 years of peace work.

• 02 Trine Eklund: The Norwegian Peace Movement - A Personal Account
This video was recorded on 31st January 2013 in Oslo, Norway, by Evelin Lindner. (Please note that several video clips have been cut together for this video, all recorded on the same day. You will see that Trine speaks about certain topics twice, each time from a slightly different angle.)

• 03 Trine Eklund: Nordic Women's Peace Marches - A Personal Account
This video was recorded on 31st January 2013 in Oslo, Norway, by Evelin Lindner.


Deepak Tripathi

• 01 Imperialism & Humiliation
In this video presentation for HumiliationStudies.org, Deepak Tripathi explains the relationship between imperialism and humiliation. A PhD in social science, Tripathi belongs to the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network of scholars and practitioners. The video was published on 20th October 2012 near London.

• 02 A Journey Through Turbulence
This video was created on 29th March 2013, in connection with Deepak Tripathi's book A Journey Through Turbulence (published in Dignity Press on 22nd March, 2013, with a Foreword by Victoria Fontan), a collection of Deepak Tripathi's writings in the last decade, covering a vast landscape and many subjects, from the United States, Britain and the European Union to conflicts in South Asia and the Middle East, the Arab Awakening, the power shift from west to east, and the new great game in the east. These essays have an insightful analysis of the present in the context of the past.


19th Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network in Oslo, Norway, 27th - 30th August 2012

• 01 Music, Movement, the Arts, and Mindfulness to Integrate Victims and Perpetrators of Violence
This video was created by Randi Gunhildstad from Norway, Tomoko Ishii and Sayaka Iwazaki from Japan, and Carmen Hetaraka from New Zealand. Anna Strout did the planning and video-taping.
This video was created on 28th August 2012 at the end of Day Two of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, titled "In the Aftermath of the 22nd July: How to Sustain a Global Culture of Equality in Dignity or likeverd."

• 02 Grandmothers for Peace in Oslo (see video in English and in Norwegian/English
"Grandmothers for Peace" is a video that was created on 5th December 2012 in front of the Parliament in Oslo, Norway. Roger Haugen did the filming. The first part of this video is in Norwegian, the second part in English (Sissel Melbye, among others). We see also Mai-Bente Bonnevie, Berit Waal, Trine Eklund, and many others. See more at www.bestemodreforfred.com.

This video was inspired by a first video that was created on 29th August 2012 at the end of Day Three of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, titled "In the Aftermath of the 22nd July: How to Sustain a Global Culture of Equality in Dignity or likeverd." Mai-Bente Bonnevie and Trine Eklund explain the activities of the Grandmothers of Peace in Oslo.

• 03Gabriela Saab and Wellington Lira Discuss Linguistic Discrimination
This video was created on 29th August 2012 at the end of Day Three of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, titled "In the Aftermath of the 22nd July: How to Sustain a Global Culture of Equality in Dignity or likeverd." Anna Strout did the planning and video-taping.

• 04 Anne-Katrine Hagelund Received the Beacon of Dignity Award on 30th August 2012
Anne Katrine Hagelund received the Beacon of Dignity Award from Inga Bostad, Vice-Rector of the University of Oslo, Noway, Jorunn Økland, Head of the Centre for Gender Research, and Evelin Lindner, Founding President of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network, on 30th August 2012. The ceremony was part of the Public Event of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, titled "In the Aftermath of the 22nd July: How to Sustain a Global Culture of Equality in Dignity or likeverd." Anna Strout did the video-taping.
For a webgallery of the still pictures please click on the picture above or here to see all the photos that Anna Strout kindly took on Day Four of Anne-Katrine's award ceremony.
You can also see the still pictures as pdf file.

• 05 Inga Bostad, Vice-Rector of the University of Oslo, welcomes all conference participants on 28th August, followed by Carmen Hetaraka from New Zealand who presents the Maori world view
This video was recorded on 28th August 2012 at the University of Oslo in the context the 19th Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Oslo, Norway, 27th-30th August 2012. The conference was titled "In the Aftermath of the 22nd July: How to Sustain a Global Culture of Equality in Dignity or likeverd." We thank Lasse Moer for making it possible for us to use the Adobe Connect video platform throughout our conference, and for donating his free time to edit and publish this video.
This video has two parts:
1. Inga Bostad, Vice-Rector of the University of Oslo, welcomes the participants of the conference.
2. Carmen Hetaraka from New Zealand presents the Maori world view. See more on:

• 06 Compassion, a Voice from the Past to Voices of the Future," presentation by Michael Britton on 29th August 2012
This talk was recorded on 29th August 2012 at the University of Oslo in the context of the 19th Annual Conference of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network in Oslo, Norway, 27th-30th August 2012. The conference was titled "In the Aftermath of the 22nd July: How to Sustain a Global Culture of Equality in Dignity or likeverd." We thank Lasse Moer for making it possible for us to use the Adobe Connect video platform throughout our conference, and for donating his free time to edit and publish this video.



Fredsuniversitetet på Tronfjell / Mt. Tron University of Peace
, see also Shantibu


• 01 Art of Life and Dignity by Bjørn Pettersen
Bjørn Pettersen and the Mt. Tron University of Peace wish to collaborate with the World Dignity University initiative. This video, "Art of Life and Dignity," by Bjørn Pettersen, was made in Oslo, Norway, on 13th November 2011 in the home of Thamba at Karihaugen. Baheerathan (Thamba) Vykundanathan is a computer programmer of Sri Lankan origin working in Oslo. The interviewer is Thamba's wife, Preeti, from North India, also working with computers in Oslo. Benjamin Ree, who is a professional working with NRK and Reuters, instructed the scenes, recorded the video and edited the film.
Bjørn Pettersen leads the Mount Tron University of Peace in Alvdal, Norway. The University of Peace aspires to become a transnational centre for humanity. "Here the human being itself is the centre of attention, and not phenomena, religion or politics. It will focus on human integration, human dignity and human possibilities, and work to develop the whole human being - physically, mentally and spiritually - solely through the individual's own natural resources. It will also raise central and universal human issues on the collective level and function as a sanctuary and forum for humankind."
"Mt.Tron is internationally known as the ’Mountain of Truth’ or the ’Mountain of Wisdom’ in Norway since the Indian sage, poet and philosopher, Swami Sri Ananda Acharya, lived on this mountain for nearly 30 years. Both his tomb and his memorial are found on the mountain. As long ago as 1918 Ananda Acharya himself chose the ’Peace Plateau’ as the proper site for the proposed University of Peace."


• 02 Aud Lindseth Finsen forteller
(Norsk)
Denne videoen ble spilt inn i Shantibu i Alvdal, Hedmark, 31. juli 2012. Aud Lindseth Finsen blir interjuet av Gjermund Glittfjell og forteller om hennes liv og hvordan hun ble kjent med Einar Beer. (Se Fredsuniversitetet på Tronfjell / Mt. Tron University of Peace.)Evelin Lindner holdt kameraet. Se bilder tatt på Shantibu fra 4. august 2012.



Mariana Vergara


• 01 Mariana Vergara about the Ruku Kausay World Dignity University Amazon Initiative in Ecuador
This video was recorded in New York City in December 2011.
Please read more at
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Pdf): World Dignity University Initiative: Co-creating Sustainability in the Amazon Rainforest with the Kichwa Community: Why, Who, What, How, Where, When (2012)
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Pdf): The BRIDGE® Model: The Case for Integrating Phenomenological Documentation aAnd Participatory Action Research through Collaborative Inquiry: Transformational Learning in Transforming High Aspirations into Human Agency (2012)
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Videos 2012) (2012)
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Pdf from Powerpoint) (2011)

• 02 Mariana Vergara and her Scholarly Path / Mariana Vergara y Su Camino Universitario(English)
This video has been created on 18th July 2012 in Quito, Ecuador. Mariana Ines Vergara explains her scholarly work. She initiated the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University initiative, located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. Mariana's son Mario Tamariz did the recording.
Please see the links to all four videos created on the 6th and 7th of July 2012 at the Ruku Kausay World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the rainforest of Ecuador:
• 01 Tayler Mulcahy and Andrew McInnis Present their Participatory Action Research (PAR) at Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador
• 02 Mariana Vergara on Building Dignity in the Amazon Systemically: From Idea to Reality - Manifesting the World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the Rainforest of Ecuador
• 03 Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador: Evelin Lindner Invites to an Afternoon Strall
• 04 Agustin Grefa's Ancient Knowledge and the World Dignity University Initiative

• 03 Mariana Vergara: A South American Biography / Mariana Vergara: Una biografía de América del Sur(English/Inglés)
This video has been created on 18th July 2012 in Quito, Ecuador. Mariana Ines Vergara explains her scholarly work. She initiated the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University initiative, located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. Mariana's son Mario Tamariz did the recording.
Please see the links to all four videos created on the 6th and 7th of July 2012 at the Ruku Kausay World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the rainforest of Ecuador:
• 01 Tayler Mulcahy and Andrew McInnis Present their Participatory Action Research (PAR) at Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador
• 02 Mariana Vergara on Building Dignity in the Amazon Systemically: From Idea to Reality - Manifesting the World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the Rainforest of Ecuador
• 03 Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador: Evelin Lindner Invites to an Afternoon Strall
• 04 Agustin Grefa's Ancient Knowledge and the World Dignity University Initiative

• 04 Mariana Vergara: Una biografía de América del Sur / Mariana Vergara: A South American Biography(Español/Spanish)
Este video ha sido creado el 18 de julio de 2012 en Quito, Ecuador. Mariana Inés Vergara explica su trabajo académico. Ella inició Ruku Kausay, rama de la iniciativa de la Universidad Mundial de la Dignidad (WDU) ubicada en la comunidad de Río Blanco en la parte amazónica del Ecuador. El hijo de Mariana Mario Tamariz hizo la grabación. Vea el video con los primeros estudiantes de la rama: Tayler Mulcahy y McInnis Andrew presentar su investigación-acción participativa (IAP).
English: This video has been created on 18th July 2012 in Quito, Ecuador. Mariana Ines Vergara explains her scholarly work. She initiated the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University initiative, located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. Mariana's son Mario Tamariz did the recording.
Please see the links to all four videos created on the 6th and 7th of July 2012 at the Ruku Kausay World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the rainforest of Ecuador:
• 01 Tayler Mulcahy and Andrew McInnis Present their Participatory Action Research (PAR) at Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador
• 02 Mariana Vergara on Building Dignity in the Amazon Systemically: From Idea to Reality - Manifesting the World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the Rainforest of Ecuador
• 03 Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador: Evelin Lindner Invites to an Afternoon Strall
• 04 Agustin Grefa's Ancient Knowledge and the World Dignity University Initiative



Ruku Kausay World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the Rainforest of Ecuador

The videos you see further down were created on in the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University initiative located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. The Grefa family, an extended indigenous Kichwa family, has developed ecotourism as a way to preserve their sacred rainforest lands and culture for over 20 years. Ruku Kausay (pronounced "roo- koo - kow - sigh") means "wisdom of the ancestors" in the indigenous Kichwa language. Ruku Kausay invites into experiencing the wisdom of the rainforest and the authentic culture and traditions of its people. The Grefa family has practiced the shamanic healing traditions of its people for generations, see also their video Ruku Kausay Eco Lodge.
Please see here some still photos from Andrew's camera, from Mariana's camera, and from Evelin's camera.
See also:
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Pdf): World Dignity University Initiative: Co-creating Sustainability in the Amazon Rainforest with the Kichwa Community: Why, Who, What, How, Where, When (2012)
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Pdf): The BRIDGE® Model: The Case for Integrating Phenomenological Documentation aAnd Participatory Action Research through Collaborative Inquiry: Transformational Learning in Transforming High Aspirations into Human Agency (2012)
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Videos 2012) (2012)
- WDU Amazon Rainforest Initiative (Pdf from Powerpoint) (2011)

• 01 Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador: Tayler Mulcahy and Andrew McInnis Present their Participatory Action Research (PAR) at Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador
This video has been created on 6th July 2012 in the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University initiative located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. Tayler Mulcahy and Andrew McInnis present their Participatory Action Research (PAR). Both students, Tayler Mulcahy and Andrew McInnis attend Washington & Jefferson College (W&J), located in Pennsylvania, US. From W&J, Tayler received the Cargill grant and Andrew received the Walker's grant. Both students were given the opportunity to conduct PAR at Ruku Kausay which is located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. Tayler, an environmental studies and sociology major, shares her particular area of study on gaining the local perspectives of the plants and nature, as well as the impact that ecotourism is having on the community through participatory action research. Andrew, who is a biology and environmental studies major, shares how he conducted a local flora and fauna inventory as well as a tree and plant's density study in this particular area of the Amazon rainforest. They learned about this opportunity and they were inspired by Mariana Ines Vergara's presentation of this project at Washington & Jefferson College. Mariana Vergara recorded this video for the students so that they may share their experiences with others in hopes to increase awareness of this opportunity. For more information on these studies please contact Tayler at mulcahyth[@]washjeff.edu or Andrew at mcinnisaj[@]washjeff.edu. Please see some still photos from Andrew's camera.
See the article "How Research Can Humiliate: Critical Reflections on Method," by Evelin Lindner, published in theJournal for the Study of Peace and Conflict, Annual Edition 2001-2002, pp. 16-36, an article that supports the view that Taylor and Andrew express in this video, namely, that valid results emerge from doing research WITH people rather than ON people.

• 02 Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador: Mariana Vergara on Building Dignity in the Amazon Systemically: From Idea to Reality - Manifesting the World Dignity University Amazonian Branch in the Rainforest of Ecuador
This video has been created on 6th July 2012 in the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University initiative located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. It is a dialogue between Mariana Ines Vergara and Evelin Lindner about the manifestation of this branch.
This dialogue touches upon Mariana Vergara's background and how her work and the work of the World Dignity University connected. After the launch of the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative in June 2011, in Oslo, Norway, Evelin brought Mariana to the conference "Reimagining Democratic Societies: A New Era of Personal and Social Responsibilities" also in Oslo, 27-29th June 2011. There they met the President of the Washington & Jefferson College (W&J), located in Pennsylvania, US, Tori Haring-Smith. Tori connected Mariana with Robert East, who arranged for Mariana to present the WDU initiative at the Washington & Jefferson College. Inspired by Mariana's presentation, by June 2012, the first two students came to Ruku Kausay, Tayler Mulcahy and Andrew McInnis, both from W&J. Tayler had received the Cargill grant and Andrew the Walker's grant.
Both students were given the opportunity to conduct Participatory Action Research (PAR) at Ruku Kausay. Please see the video where Tayler, an environmental studies and sociology major, shares her particular area of study on gaining the local perspectives of the plants and nature, as well as the impact that ecotourism is having on the community through participatory action research. Andrew, who is a biology and environmental studies major, shares how he conducted a local flora and fauna inventory as well as tree and plant's density study in this particular area of the Amazon rainforest. Andrew recorded this video.

• 03 Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador: Evelin Lindner Invites to an Afternoon Strall
This video has been created on 6th July 2012 in the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University initiative located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador.
The Grefa family, an extended indigenous Kichwa family, has developed ecotourism as a way to preserve their sacred rainforest lands and culture for over 20 years. Ruku Kausay (pronounced "roo- koo - kow - sigh") means "wisdom of the ancestors" in the indigenous Kichwa language. Ruku Kausay invites into experiencing the wisdom of the rainforest and the authentic culture and traditions of its people. The Grefa family has practiced the shamanic healing traditions of its people for generations. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 04 Ruku Kausay, Amazonian Ecuador: Agustin Grefa's Ancient Knowledge and the World Dignity University Initiative / Ruku Kausay, la Amazonía de Ecuador: Conocimiento Antiguo de Agustín Grefa y la Iniciativa de la Universidad Mundial de la Dignidad (English/Spanish, Inglés/Español)
English: This video has been created on 7th July 2012 in the Ruku Kausay branch of the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative located in the community of Rio Blanco in the Amazonian part of Ecuador. This video documents how Agustin Grefa most generously offers his knowledge to the World Dignity University initiative. The Grefa family, an extended indigenous Kichwa family, for over 20 years has developed ecotourism as a way to preserve their sacred rainforest lands and culture. Ruku Kausay (pronounced "roo- koo - kow - sigh") means "wisdom of the ancestors" in the indigenous Kichwa language. Ruku Kausay invites into experiencing the wisdom of the rainforest and the authentic culture and traditions of its people. The Grefa family has practiced the shamanic healing traditions of its people for generations.
Español: Este video ha sido creado el 7 de julio de 2012 en Ruku Kausay, rama de la iniciativa de la Universidad Mundial de la Dignidad (WDU) ubicada en la comunidad de Río Blanco en la parte amazónica del Ecuador. Este video documenta cómo Agustín Grefa más generosamente ofrece su conocimiento a la iniciativa de la Universidad Mundial de la Dignidad. La familia Grefa, una gran familia indígena kichwa, por más de 20 años ha desarrollado el ecoturismo como una forma de preservar sus tierras sagradas del bosque lluvioso y la cultura. Ruku Kausay significa "la sabiduría de los antepasados​​" en la lengua indígena kichwa. Ruku Kausay invita a experimentar la sabiduría de la selva y la auténtica cultura y las tradiciones de su pueblo. La familia Grefa ha practicado las tradiciones chamánicas de curación de su pueblo durante generaciones.



Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogues

Evelin Lindner had been invited to Rio + 20 in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, but chose to go to Marabá in Pará with her video camera instead. She chose Marabá over Rio + 20 because, as she had learned, the voices of the people in the Amazon are not heard. She wanted to hear them and bring their voices to larger audiences. Her hosts were Daniel Baron Cohen, known in Brazil as Dan Baron, or Dan, and Manoela Paula Latronica de Souza, known as Mano Souza, or Mano, and their Rivers of Meeting community project (Rios de Encontro) in Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), which is the founding community of Marabá at the confluence of two rivers, Rio Tocantins and Rio Itacaiúnas (the name "dry hair" comes from the observation that the hair of Africans is so tightly coiled that it does not get wet when bathing in the river).

See the article "Norueguesa Troca Rio+20 por temporada em Marabá" in Correo do Tocantins (translated by Google Translator and summarized in Evelin's South America 2012 "digniventure" reflections.

Please see also the bilingual masterpiece Harvest in Times of Drought - Colheita em Tempo de Seca, by the pedagogic collective Voices of the Country with Daniel Baron, published by Transformance Institute, Tocantins and Itacaiunas Rivers, in 2011. See also Dan's presentation Identity, Diversity and Collective Action (Rio+20, Maraba, Amazon) further down, a presentation that gives an introduction to Dan Baron's work. See, furthermore, his description of the monument "As Castanheiras of Eldorado dos Carajás."
01 Vozes do Campo / Voices of the Country, autoria coletiva
02 Eu canto / I sing, Raimundo Ferreira
03 A planta e o jardineiro / The plant and the gardener, Adriano Rosa
04 Criança alegre / Happy child, Margarete Ferro
05 Sonhar / To dream, Raimundo Ferreira
06 Falam com X / Speak with X, Raimundo Ferreira
07 Piratas / Pirates, José Hilton
08 Que bom seria / How good it would be, Geane Lopes
09 Vento norte / North wind, Raimundo Ferreira
10 Cheiro da terra / Smell of the land, Airton Pereira
11 Alerta Amazônia / Alert Amazon, Zequinha Souza

• Please see the Relatorio do Primeiro Semestre 2012 do Premio Itau-Unicef 2011 (Report from the 2012 First Semester of the 2011 Itau-Unicef Prize)
Relatorio do Segundo Semestre 2012 (16 de janeiro de 2013) (Report from the 2012 Second Semester of the 2011 Itau-Unicef Prize)
Rivers of Meeting Presentation Dedicated to Laisa Santos, London 2013 - Protect the Life of Laisa Santos and the Promise of a Sustainable World!

• Please see the CD Amazonia Nossa Terra Rios de Encontro 2013 (CD cover, CD booklet) by the Latinhas de Quintal of the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil.
• Please see the 2013 calendar Calendario Rios de Encontro 2013.

The fragility of the Cabelo Seco community is illustrated by the case of the killing of a man in a wheel chair that Dan describes as follows:
Alexandre
Last night, as we were returning from the June fest on the riverfront of the Tocantins, enjoying a Tacacá stew, we learned that Alexandre had been executed in his rusty old wheelchair. We were devastated. He was one of fifteen special needs young people from our community who had received a gift of 100 Brazilian Dollars from the artists of our youth-band during the final cultural fest of 2011, after they and their mothers decided to recycle a performance fee of $1500 from the global Brazilian mining company Vale do Rio Doce into a currency of solidarity.
The next morning, the streets revealed more detail. Alexandre had been playing with his one-year old son on his lap. As a car drove at him to tip him into the street, Alexandre had thrown his child onto the sidewalk. He was shot in the head and died instantly. Alexandre had been paralyzed from the waist a year earlier in a drug-trafficking feud, but had continued to command the circulation of oxy (a lethally addictive, cheap derivative of crack-cocaine), and even executions, from his wheelchair. Alexandre simply met our 'Rivers of Meeting' project a little too late, our emerging artist-leaders said, at the crossroads between two worlds: a midnight project of death and a dawn project of life. Was he crossing their threshold? He knew he would end up on the front-page of the local newspapers, but was not yet aware his death would be used to promote the industrialization of the Amazon, to fuel 'electricity for all'.
His days were numbered, the street whispered, and it's good that he died. Now we will all sleep easier. If Alexandre had known how his death would be used to justify the accelerated development of the riverside and dispersal of its Afro-Indigenous community to make way for a luxurious international resort – financed and powered by Vale do Rio Doce, would he have made other choices? What was he singing to his son as they played at midnight? Will he grow up gasping for refuge from putrid river highways in evergreen shopping-centres, consuming his own ancestral memory as 'Amazon cool'?
Alexandre's rusty wheelchair offers insight into all that we face in the Amazonian State of Pará today. Dan Baron
25 June 2012
Transformance Institute
Tocantins and Itacaiunas Rivers

• 01 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 1: Educação e Sustentabilidade - Ari Martins e Seus Colegas Trocam Saberes na Escola Jonathas Pontes Athias / Education and Sustainability - Ari Martins and her Colleagues Exchange Knowledges in the Jonathas Pontes Athias School (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado em Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 20 de Junho de 2012. Dan Baron facilita e traduz uma conversa entre professores e pedagogos sobre os desafios que enfrentam no fomento de co-responsabilidade e pedagogias de transformação com professores, alunos e famílias. Ari, Cris, Hosana, Lucélia Cristina dos Santos
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 20th June 2012. Dan Baron facilitates and translates a conversation between head-teachers and pedagogues about the challenges they face in nurturing co-responsibility and pedagogies of transformation with teachers, pupils and families.

• 02 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 2: Cantando para uma Amazônia Sustentável: Zequinha de Cabelo Seco Canta na Orla do Rio Tocantins / Singing for a Sustainable Amazon - Zequinha of Cabelo Seco Sings on the Edge of the River Tocantins (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco, Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 21 de Junho de 2012 na orla do Rio Tocantins. Em 26 de Junho na casa de cultura do projeto Rios de Encontro. Em 21 de junho, Dan Baron organizou uma viagem de barco até o local onde o Rio Itacaiúnas se encontra com o Rio Tocantins. Dan também traduz.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 21st June on the bank of the River Tocantins. On 26th June 2012 in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project. On 21st June, Dan Baron organized a boat trip to the place where the Rio Itacaiúnas meets the Rio Tocantins. Dan also translates.

• 02.1 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 2.1: RBA Entrevista: O Rio Tocantins Fala atraves do Musico Zequinha e da Jovem Lideranca Carolayne de Cabelo Seco / The River Tocantins Speaks through the Musician Zequinha and the Young Leader Carolayne of Cabelo Seco (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Em 21 de junho, Dan Baron organizou uma viagem de barco até o local onde o Rio Itacaiúnas se encontra com o Rio Tocantins na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco, Marabá, Pará, Brasil, com o líder comunitário José Carlos (Zequinha), o jovem líder Carolayne Valente, e do pesquisador e autor Lindner Evelin. Dan também traduz. Jornalista Victor Haôr Correêa Dias (Chefe de reportagem na Sistema Costa Norte de Comunicação) veio junto com a câmera homem Jânio Andrade, da TV RBA, também conhecida como RBA (Rede Brasil Amazônia de Televisão), uma emissora de televisão brasileira afiliada à Rede Bandeirantes em Belém, no Estado do Pará.
English: On 21st June, Dan Baron organized a boat trip to the place where the Rio Itacaiúnas meets the Rio Tocantins in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, with the community leader José Carlos (Zequinha), the youth leader Carolayne Valente, and the researcher and author Evelin Lindner. Dan also translates. Journalist Victor Haôr Correêa Dias (Chief reporter in the North Coast System of Communication) came together with camera man Janio Andrade, from the RBA TV, also known as RBA (Brazil Amazon Network Television), a Brazilian television station affiliated with the Bandeirantes Network in Belém, Pará, Brazil.

• 02.2 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 2.1: RBA Barra Pesada
Português: Esta entrevista com Dan Baron, Manoela Souza, Zequinha, Elizangela Neves, e Evelin foi conduzido na casa de cultura do projeto Rios de Encontro na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco, Marabá, Pará, Brasil, na 19 de junho de 2012. Esta entrevista foi conduzida por jornalista Victor Haôr Correêa Dias (Chefe de reportagem na Sistema Costa Norte de Comunicação) com o câmera Jânio Andrade, da TV RBA, também conhecida como RBA (Rede Brasil Amazônia de Televisão), uma emissora de televisão brasileira afiliada à Rede Bandeirantes em Belém, no Estado do Pará.
English: This interview with Dan Baron, Manoela Souza, Zequinha, Elizangela Neves, and Evelin was conducted in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 19th June 2012. The interview was conducted by journalist Victor Haôr Correêa Dias (Chief reporter in the North Coast System of Communication) and cameraman Janio Andrade, from the RBA TV, also known as RBA (Brazil Amazon Network Television), a Brazilian television station affiliated with the Bandeirantes Network in Belém, Pará, Brazil.

See more background information:
Dan Baron wrote on Monday, 22nd August 2011 about "Music for a Sustainable and Vital Amazon":
Good morning from the Amazon! On this world day of action against the building of the hydro-electric plant, Belo Monte, on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon (to be the third largest plant in the world), with unpredictable, irreversible sociocultural and environmental damage in the region which will impact on all of our lives, we present two songs...
- Alerta Amazonia (Zequinha de Cabelo Seco)
- Clamor popular (Zequinha de Cabelo Seco)
- See the booklet of songs from the Brazilian Amazon which includes the translation of Alerta Amazonia (from the Transformance Archive)
Both songs have emerged in Cabelo Seco, an afro-indigenous community, the founding community of Marabá, Pará, where we live and work. The riverside community is already suffering serious consequences of the large dams completed in the past two years. The songs have been developed by our friend, project collaborator and art-educator Zequinha de Cabelo Seco, inside our project Backyards of Cultural Solidarity. We hope they contribute to the broadening of the international quest for a living, sustainable Pan-Amazônia.
Even if you don't understand the poetic lyrics, we believe you'll understand their emotions. Please write to us if you would like a translation, and feel free to use the songs in your own projects and community. Here are some links if you'd like more information:
- www.avaaz.org/en/amazon_under_threat/
- www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_amazon_a/?fp
Please see here some still photos.

• 03 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 3: Em Busca de uma Estética Amazônica de Transformação com Artista Plástico Antonio (Botelinho) Botelho de Marabá / In Search of an Amazonian Aesthetics of Transformation with Sculptor Antonio (Botelinho) Botelho of Marabá (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco em Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 21 de Junho de 2012, na casa de cultura do projeto Rios de Encontro, e oferece reflexões poéticas sobre o papel do artista, memória e intervenção cuidadosa. Dan Baron traduz.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair") in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 21st June 2012, in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project, and offers poetic reflections about the role of the artist, memory and careful intervention. Dan Baron translates.
Please see here some still photos.

• 04 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 4: Democratização da Amazônia com o MST / Democratization of the Amazon with the MST (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na entrada da sede da Fazenda Cedro, próxima à Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 21 de Junho de 2012. Voltamos no dia 24 de Junho e viu a bandeira "Contra a intolerância dos ricos e a intransigência dos pobres." Dan Baron explica e traduz.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created at the entrance to the vast Cedro Farm, near to Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 21st June 2012. We returned on the 24th June and saw the banner "Contra a intolerância dos ricos e a intransigência dos pobres." Dan Baron explains and translates. MST stands for the Landless Workers' Movement (Portuguese: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra), the largest rural social movement in Brazil.
Please see here some still photos.

See also the video of made on 22nd June 2012 by the MST movement:
Global Action: MST Occupation of the Area of ​​ALPA / VALE in Marabá - Pará / Ação Global: MST em Ocupação da Área da ALPA / VALE em Marabá - Pará
English: More than 400 workers and students from different social organizations, occupied this morning (22nd June 2012) the area Aços Laminados do Pará (Alpa / Vale), a protest of a peaceful character, with marches and the composition of human monuments [chestnut tree, symbol of money and mandala people] as part of the "Global Action," which is being held in various parts of the country, an action critical of the capitalist system and the policy of the green economy discussed at Rio +20 event.
Português:Mais de 400 trabalhadores e estudantes, de diferentes organizações sociais, ocuparam hoje (22 Junho 2012) pela manhã a área da Aços Laminados do Pará (Alpa / Vale), o protesto de caráter pacífico, com marchas e composição de monumentos humanos [castanheira, simbolo do dinheiro e a mandala dos povos] faz parte da chamada "Ação Global", que está sendo realizada em várias partes do País, numa ação de crítica ao sistema capitalista e a política da economia verde debatida no evento Rio+20.

• 05 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 5: Cultura, Saúde e Sustentabilidade, com Ana Louiza Silva e Razia Friedler / Health, Culture and Sustainability with Ana Louiza Silva and Razia Friedler (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco em Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 21 de Junho de 2012, na casa de cultura do projeto Rios de Encontro. Razia Friedler participa via Skype de Uruguai. Dan Baron facilita e traduz.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 21st June 2012 in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project. Razia Friedler participates via Skype from Uruguay. Dan Baron facilitates and translates.
Please see here some still photos.

• 06 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 6: O Monumento "As Castanheiras of Eldorado dos Carajás" e Sua Relevância Global / The Monument "As Castanheiras of Eldorado dos Carajás" and its Global Relevance
This video was created in the "Curve of the S" on the PA105 motorway between Marabá and Eldorado in Pará, Brazil, on 24th June 2012. Dan Baron, artistic coordinator of the global community monument "The Castanheiras of Eldorado dos Carajás" which marks the site of the massacre of landless rural workers on April 17, 1996, explains its symbolism.
Português: Este vídeo foi criado na "Curva do S" na rodovia PA105 entre Marabá e Eldorado, Pará, Brasil, em 24 de Junho de 2012. Dan Baron, coordenador artístico do monumento comunitário e mundial "Castanheiras of Eldorado dos Carajás" que marca o local do massacre de trabalhadores e trabalhadoras sem terra no dia 17 de Abril, 1996, o explica sua simbologia.

• 07 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 7: Hélio Hamarana Dias on the Past and the Future of the Amazon in its Global Context (English)
This video was created in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on 29th June 2012, and in the settlement "17 do Abril" in Pará, Brazil, on 24th June 2012, when Dan Baron, Manoela de Souza, Hélio Dias, and Evelin Lindner visited this settlement. Hélio Hamarana Dias reflects on the past and the future of the Amazon in its global context.
Português: Este vídeo foi criado em Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 29 de junho de 2012, e no assentamento "17 do Abril" no Pará, Brasil, em 24 de junho de 2012, quando Dan Baron, Manoela de Souza, Hélio Dias, e Evelin Lindner visitados este acordo. Hélio Dias Hamarana reflete sobre o passado eo futuro da Amazônia no seu contexto global.
See A Plot Of Their Own, written on January 20, 2002:
"...Trees are not the only casualties of Brazil's failed reform. Just ask the people of 17 de Abril, a settlement named for a day of infamy. On April 17, 1996, 3,000 squatters marched for land rights in Para in eastern Amazonia. They ran into a police barricade. When the shooting was over, 19 peasants were dead, many shot at point-blank range, one in the back. The police involved are still awaiting trial. The bloody incident, and Brazil's failure to bring the culprits to justice, unleashed a fury of international protest. Brasília accelerated land reform, settling 74,600 homesteader families a year, five times the rate of previous governments. By rights, 17 de Abril ought to be the centerpiece of Cardoso's new rural democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth..."

07.1 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 7.1: Eric Vieira Carvalho Speaks with Hélio Dias about the Amazon (English)
This video was created in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 29th June 2012. Hélio Hamarana Dias asks Eric Vieira Carvalho about his views on life as young man of twenty-two in Marabá.
Português: Este vídeo foi criado na Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 29 de Junho de 2012. Hélio Hamarana Dias pede Eric Vieira Carvalho sobre suas visões sobre a vida como jovem de 22 em Marabá.

07.2 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 7.1: Eric Vieira Carvalho Sings
This video was created in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 29th June 2012.
Português: Este vídeo foi criado na Marabá, Pará, Brasil, em 29 de Junho de 2012.

08 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 8: Justiça Social e Sustentabilidade - Irmãs do Ativista Ambiental Assassinado José Claudio Ribeiro Explica a Campanhã pela Justiça e Sua Relação com o Futuro das Florestas Amazônicas e nosso Planeta / Social Justice and Sustainability - Sisters of Assassinated Environmental Activist José Claudio Ribeiro Explain their Campaign for Justice and its Link to the Future of the Amazonian Forests and our Planet (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco, Marabá, Pará, B rasil, em 21 de Junho de 2012, na casa de cultura do projeto Rios de Encontro. Inclua Claudenir e Claudelice Ribeiro, irmas do ambientalista assassinado, José Claudio Ribeiro e conhadas de sua companheira assassinada, Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, eco-pedagoga, educadora do campo e co-autora com Claudenir do livro Harvest in Times of Drought - Colheita em Tempo de Seca. Também, inclua Claramilta Sousa dos Santos, sobrinha do Jose Claudio. Dan Baron, co-autor e coordinador do projeto Harvest in Times of Drought, traduz.
English: This video is bilingual. It was created in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 21st June 2012 in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project. It includes Claudenir and Claudelice Ribeiro, sisters of the assassinated environmentalist José Ribeiro and sisters-in-law of his assassinated partner, Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, eco-pedagogue, rural educator and co-author with Claudenir of the book Harvest in Times of Drought - Colheita em Tempo de Seca. It also features Claramilta Sousa dos Santos, niece of José Claudio. Dan Baron, co-autor and coordinator of the project Harvest in Times of Drought, translates.
Read more in The Guardian:
"Amazon Rainforest Activist Shot Dead," by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, 24 May 2011. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva fought against illegal loggers and had received death threats but was refused police protection...
"Brazilian Police Arrest Suspects in Amazon Murders of Environmentalists," by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, Monday 19 September 2011. Two held over killings of José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo, who were dedicated to saving the rainforests...
"Environmental Activists 'Being Killed at Rate of One a Week'," by Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro, 19 June 2012. Death toll of campaigners involved in protection of forests, rivers and land has almost doubled in three years...
See also:
"Over 700 People Killed Defending Forest and Land Rights in Past Ten Years," June 19, 2012.
Please see here some still photos.

09 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 9: Dan Baron on Identity, Diversity and Collective Action (Rio+20, Maraba, Amazon)
This video was created in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 27th June 2012 in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project. Dan Baron shares the presentation he gave to open the Course on Trade Union Action and Solidarity-Based Sustainable Development for the National School of Family Agriculture on June 23 2012 as part of the Rio+20 week of action in Maraba. See here the Powerpoint presentation. This video was edited by Luária Augusto S.A..

Dan Baron Cohen
Dan Baron, please click on the picture to see it larger.
Monument
The Castanheiras of Eldorado dos Carajas 1999 (10m x 15m x 25m), please click on the picture to see it larger.

Military police is moved to sing in the school of the assassinated art educator Maria Silva, 24th August 2011, Nova Ipixuna, Para, Amazonia. Please click on the picture to see it larger. See also Colheita em Tempos de Seca or Harvest In Times of Draught, a CD that provides a celebration of the Amazon as a source of human values and rich popular culture, by those who live both everyday. But it also reminds of its vulnerability. It is an inspiring resource for all educators and communities who seek a sustainable future.

Dan Baron is a community-based arts-educator and cultural activist who lives and works in the Amazonian northern state of Pará, Brazil.

Dan wrote from Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), in Marabá, southeast of Pará, in the Amazonian north of Brazil on 22nd August 2011:
Good morning from the Amazon! On this world day of action against the building of the hydro-electric plant, Belo Monte, on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon (to be the third largest plant in the world), with unpredictable, irreversible sociocultural and environmental damage in the region which will impact on all of our lives, we present two songs...
- Alerta Amazonia (Zequinha de Cabelo Seco)
- Clamor popular (Zequinha de Cabelo Seco)
- See the booklet of songs from the Brazilian Amazon which includes the translation of Alerta Amazonia (from the Transformance Archive)
Both songs have emerged in Cabelo Seco, an afro-indigenous community on the periphery of Marabá, Pará, where we live and work. The riverside community is already suffering serious consequences of the large dams completed in the past two years. The songs have been developed by our friend, project collaborator and art-educator Zequinha de Cabelo Seco, inside our project Backyards of Cultural Solidarity. We hope they contribute to the broadening of the international quest for a living, sustainable Pan-Amazônia.
Even if you don't understand the poetic lyrics, we believe you'll understand their emotions. Please write to us if you would like a translation, and feel free to use the songs in your own projects and community. Here are some links if you'd like more information:
www.avaaz.org/en/amazon_under_threat/
www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_amazon_a/?fp

Many thanks. An amazonian hug!
Dan Baron e Mano Souza
Cabelo Seco, Marabá
Institute Transformance/ABRA

Dan wrote on 23rd August 2011:
"The conference takes place during my final 5-day period of intensive writing (and type-setting of our new book 'Harvest in Times of Drought: a pedagogy of life for sustainable community', written with 50 rural, riverside and forest arts-educators), but I would like to make myself available for 90 minutes, if that works for you. Is there a definite open or closed space where I could share reflections on what we have learned from arts-based pedagogical work in response to the destruction of the Amazonian forests? I could speak very concretely on how a group of 50 teachers transformed a culture of collusion into an community-based ethics of co-responsibility, based on reflexive solidarity and cooperation. This could also connect to our response to the assassination of our student/grandmother/eco-pedagogue Maria Silva (on May 24). Alternatively, or within the same contribution, I could speak about our work with young people as cultural organizers and artists, transforming themselves, to transform their own afro-indigenous community, one of the poorest and allegedly most violent in Maraba, cradle of the 'industrialization of the Amazon'."

10 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 10: Mano Souza in Conversation about Community Transformation and the Sustainability of the Amazon
This video was created in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 28th June 2012 in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project. Manoela Souza, together with her partner Dan Baron, are artistic-pedagogic coordinators of the project. Dan is the cameraman of this video tape. This video was edited by Luário Augusto S.A.
Português: Este vídeo foi criado na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco, Marabá, Pará, B rasil, em 28 de Junho de 2012, na casa de cultura do projeto Rios de Encontro. Manoela Souza, com seu companheiro Dan Baron, são os coordinaadores-artisticos do projeto. Dan está filmando. Esta video foi editado por Luária Augusto S.A.

11 Rios + 20 Amazon Dialogue 11: Jovem Comunitária Leader Camylla Alvis sobre o Futuro da Amazônia / Young Community Leader Camylla Alvis on the Future of the Amazon (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na comunidade afro-índigena de Cabelo Seco, Marabá, Pará, B rasil, em 27 de Junho de 2012, na casa de cultura do projeto Rios de Encontro.
English: This video is bilingual. It was created in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco ("dry hair"), Marabá, Pará, Brazil, on the 27th June 2012 in the cultural home of the Rivers of Meeting project.



Fatima Souza


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Fátima Souza de Representações Sociais de Professores de Inglês / Fatima Souza on Social Representations of English Teachers (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo foi criado em Teresina, Piauí, Brasil, em 17 de Junho de 2012, primeiro em Português, em seguida, em Inglês. Fátima Sousa explica como as representações sociais entre professores de inglês sem querer leva a desrespeitar quando eles ensinam nas escolas públicas.
English: This video was created in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, on the 17th June 2012, first in Portuguese, then in English. Fatima Sousa explains how the social representations among English teachers unintentionally lead to disrespect when they teach in public schools.
Please see here some still photos from Evelin's camera, and here some still photos from Giselda's camera.



Giselda Costa


• 01
Giselda Costa sobre o Potencial de Dignificação de Telefones Celulares em Ensino de Inglês nas Escolas Públicas / Giselda Costa on the Dignifying Potential of Cellular Phones in English Teaching in Public Schools (Português)
Português: Este vídeo foi criado em Teresina, Piauí, Brasil, em 17 de Junho de 2012. Giselda Santos Costa explica como o telefones celulares podem ajudar os alunos a melhorar o seu desempenho linguistico em escolas públicas.
English: This video was created in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, on the 17th June 2012. Giselda Costa explains how cellular phones can be help English teachers to empower their students in public schools.
See also her video Mobile Learning IFPI Teresina Zona Sul.
Please see here some still photos from Evelin's camera, and here some still photos from Giselda's camera.


Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos

• 01 Francisco Gomes de Matos: Interview with Evelin Lindner (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
English: Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos, President of the Associação Brasil-América (ABA), converses with Evelin Lindner, medical doctor and psychologist, and Founding President of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studes network. This video was created on 14th June 2012 in Recife, Brazil.
Portuguese: O Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos, Presidente do Conselho da ABA, conversa com Evelin Lindner, médica e psicóloga fundadora e presidente da Rede de Estudos sobre Humilhação e Dignidade. Este vídeo foi criado em Recife, Brasil, em 14 de Junho de 2012.



Marcos José Noronha


• 01
Marcos José Noronha: Bringing Dignity into Psychiatry
This video was created in Recife, Brazil, on the 14th June 2012, in Marcos José Noronha's clinic Centro de Atenção Psicossocial - CAPS CASA FORTE, together with Evelin Lindner. Marcos José Noronha explains how his work evolved. The video taping was done by Carol Cosentina. Please see here also some still photos.

• 02 Célia Cunha: "Hospital Dia" (Português, with English translation)
This video was created in Recife, Brazil, on the 14th June 2012, in Marcos José Noronha's clinic Centro de Atenção Psicossocial - CAPS CASA FORTE, together with Maria Odette S. Maciel. Célia explains her experiences with the psychiatric system to Evelin Lindner. The video taping was done by Carol Cosentina.
Português: Este vídeo foi criado em Recife, Brasil, sobre o 14 de junho de 2012, na clínica de Marcos José de Noronha, Centro de Atenção Psicossocial - CAPS CASA FORTE, junto com Maria Odette S. Maciel. Célia explica suas experiências com o sistema psiquiátrico para Evelin Lindner. A gravação de vídeo foi feito por Carol Cosentina.
Please see here also some still photos.



Marcelle Guil


• 01
Bringing Dignism into the World / Trazendo Dignism para o Mundo (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na São Paulo no dia 3 de junho de 2012. Marcelle Guil compartilha suas opiniões sobre a dignidade e suas contribuições para a iniciativa da Universidade Mundial para Dignidade com with Evelin Lindner.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created in São Paulo on the 3rd June 2012. Marcelle Guil shares her views on dignity and her contributions to the World Dignity University initiative with Evelin Lindner.
See also some still pictures.



Natalia Brasil


• 01
The Brasílian Path to Equality in Dignity / O Caminho Brasileiro para a Igualdade em Dignidade (Português/Inglês, Portuguese/English)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na São Paulo no dia 3 de junho de 2012. Natalia Brasil compartilha suas opiniões sobre a dignidade e suas contribuições para a iniciativa da Universidade Mundial para Dignidade with Evelin Lindner.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created in São Paulo on the 3rd June 2012. Natalia Brasil shares her views on dignity and her contributions to the World Dignity University initiative with Evelin Lindner.
See also some still pictures.



Rosy Rodrigues


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Dignidade Humana e o Desemprego (Português, com tradução Inglês, Portuguese, with English translation)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português, com tradução Inglês). Foi criado na São Paulo no dia 3 de junho de 2012. Rosy Rodrigues compartilha de seu trabalho com o Grupo de Apoio Psicoprofissional (GAP) que atende desempregados na cidade de Guarulhos, Brasil, com Evelin Lindner.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese, with English translation). It was created in São Paulo on the 3rd June 2012. Rosy Rodrigues shares her work with the Grupo de Apoio Psicoprofissional (GAP) serving unemployed in the city of Guarulhos, Brazil, with Evelin Lindner.
See also some still pictures.



Murilo Jardelina da Costa


• 01
Dignity, Attentive Listening and Dialogue (Português/Inglês/Alemão, Portuguese/English/German, Portugiesisch/Englisch/Deutsch)
Português: Este vídeo é trilíngüe (Português/Inglês/Alemão). Foi criado na São Paulo no dia 3 de junho de 2012. Murilo Jardelino da Costa compartilha suas opiniões sobre a dignidade e suas contribuições para a iniciativa da Universidade Mundial para Dignidade com Evelin Lindner.
English: This video is trilingual (Portuguese/English/German). It was created in São Paulo on 2nd June 2012. Murilo Jardelina da Costa shares his views on dignity and his contributions to the World Dignity University initiative with Evelin Lindner.
Deutsch: Dieses Video ist dreisprachig (Portugiesisch/Englisch/Deutsch). Murilo Jardelina da Costa teilt zuerst seine Ansichten über Würde. Dann erklärt er Evelin Lindner wie er zur Initiative der Weltuniversität für Menschenwürde beitragen möchte.
See also some still pictures.



Fernando Rangel


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Agência Popular Solano Trindad (Português, com tradução Inglês, Portuguese, with English translation)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português, com tradução Inglês). Foi criado na casa de David Calerdoni, depois de uma visita na Centro de Direitos Humanos e Educação Popular de Campo Limpo (CHDEP) en Jardim Ângela, São Paulo, no dia 2 de junho de 2012. Fernando Rangel explica o trabalho da Agência Popular Solano Trindad, que é uma moeda, um banco, e uma comunidade no Capão Redondo. Inês Castilho traduz em Inglês, com Evelin Lindner ajudar (ela pede desculpas para segurar o microfone muito perto, fazendo com que sua voz ser demasiado alto quando ela fala). Capão Redondo, Parque Santo Antônio e Jardim Ângela são o lar de um total combinado de mais de meio milhão de pessoas. Jardim Ângela, Capão Redondo e Jardim São Luis, foram considerados pela Polícia Civil de São Paulo para ser o "triângulo da morte". Em 1996, havia 538 pessoas assassinadas nesta área, a maioria dos quais eram adolescentes.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese, with English translation). It was created in the home of David Calderoni after a visit to the Centro de Direitos Humanos e Educação Popular de Campo Limpo (CHDEP) in Jardim Ângela, São Paulo, on 2nd June 2012. Fernando Rangel explains the work of the Agência Popular Solano Trindad, which is a currency, a bank, and a community in Capão Redondo. Ines Castilho translates into English, with Evelin Lindner assisting (she apologizes for holding the microphone too closely, thus causing her voice to be too loud when she speaks). Capão Redondo, Parque Santo Antônio, and Jardim Ângela are home to a combined total of more than half a million people. Jardim Ângela, Capão Redondo, and Jardim São Luis, were considered by the São Paulo Civil Police to be the "triangle of death." In 1996, there were 538 people murdered in this area, most of whom were teenagers.
See also some still pictures.


David Calderoni

• 01 About Hope and Democracy (English/Portuguese)
English: This video is bilingual (English/Portuguese). It was created in São Paulo on 2nd June 2012. Gaby Saab did the recording. David Calderoni is in dialogue with Evelin Lindner about his work at the Núcleo de Psicopatologia, Políticas Públicas de Saúde Mental e Ações Comunicativas em Saúde Pública (NUPSI).
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Inglês/Português). Foi criado na São Paulo no dia 2 de junho de 2012. David Calderoni está em diálogo com Evelin Lindner sobre seu trabalho na Núcleo de Psicopatologia, Políticas Públicas de Saúde Mental e Ações Comunicativas em Saúde Pública (NUPSI). Gaby Saab fez a gravação.
See also some still pictures.

See also:
I Seminário Intersetorial Nupsi – o encontro da Renda Básica com a Economia Solidária, 29/6/12, 19-22h, FSP/USP I Seminário Intersetorial Nupsi – o encontro da Renda Básica com a Economia Solidária. 29/6/12, 19-22h, FSP/USP
Nesse vídeo, Paul Singer, Guy Standing, Eduardo Suplicy e David Calderoni anunciam o I Seminário Intersetorial Nupsi – Invenções Democráticas frente aos desafios do precariado: o encontro da Renda Básica com a Economia Solidária, a ocorrer em 29 de junho de 2012 (sexta-feira), das 19h às 22h, na Faculdade de Saúde Pública da USP – Auditório João Yunes – Av. Doutor Arnaldo, 715 - São Paulo (Metrô Clínicas). Tendo por motivo articular maneiras criativas e solidárias de desenvolver autonomia e cooperação para o enfrentamento conjunto dos desafios do precariado (segmento social marcado pelo empobrecimento material e inseguridade laboral), este seminário intersetorial constitui ocasião de um encontro vital propiciado pelas reflexões e propostas de um homem de academia e de ação de renome mundial: o Prof. Dr. Guy Standing, docente de Seguridade Econômica na Universidade Britânica de Bath e Co-Presidente da Rede Mundial da Renda Básica. Suas colocações voltadas à elevação social do precariado serão precedidas por relatos do Prof. Ms. Oscar Zalla sobre o impacto positivo da atuação do pesquisador cooperado sobre precariados assistidos pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso e sucedidas por comentários de líderes nacionais e mundiais dos movimentos sociais também relacionados ao tema: o Senador Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy, autor da Lei da Renda Básica de Cidadania, o Prof. Dr. Paul Singer, Secretário Nacional de Economia Solidária do Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego e a Dra. Rosane Maia, Assessora da Direção Técnica Nacional do DIEESE – Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconômicos. Por fim, o Prof. Dr. Guy Standing introduzirá os debates entre as organizações e os cidadãos presentes mediante um breve relato sobre o papel de um banco comunitário de mulheres em um projeto-piloto de Renda Básica na Índia.
Prof. Dr. David Calderoni, organizador do Seminário



Annie Dymetman


• 01
From Mediation to Transmediation (Português/Inglês, English/Portuguese)
English: This video is bilingual (English/Portuguese). It was created in São Paulo on 2nd June 2012. Gaby Saab did the recording. Annie Dymetman is in dialogue with Evelin Lindner about her work on Transmediation at the University São Judas. Gaby Saab did the recording.
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Inglês/Português). Foi criado na São Paulo no dia 2 de junho de 2012. Annie Dymetman está em diálogo com Evelin Lindner sobre o trabalho dela em Transmediação na Universidade São Judas. Gaby Saab fez a gravação.



Gabriela Rodrigues Saab Riva


• 01
Gabriela Saab Apresenta a Universidade Mundial para Dignidade / Gabriela Saab Presents the World Dignity University (Português/Portuguese)
Este vídeo foi criado na CHDEP, Jardim Ângela, São Paulo no dia 1 de junho de 2012. Ury fez a gravação.
English: This video was created in CHDEP initiative in Jardim Ângela, São Paulo on 1st June 2012. Ury did the recording.
See also some still pictures.

• 02 Gabriela Saab: Creating International Law for Dignity (Português/Inglês, English/Portuguese)
Português: Este vídeo é bilíngüe (Português/Inglês). Foi criado na São Paulo no dia 4 de junho de 2012. Gabriela Saab compartilha suas opiniões sobre a dignidade e suas contribuições para a iniciativa da Universidade Mundial para Dignidade com Evelin Lindner.
English: This video is bilingual (Portuguese/English). It was created in São Paulo on the 4th June 2012. Gabriela Saab shares her views on dignity and her contributions to the World Dignity University initiative with Evelin Lindner. See also some still pictures from 4th June 2012. See, furthermore, the work by Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, see, for example, his chapter "Humankind as a Subject of International Law" in his book International Law for Humankind: Towards a New Jus Gentium (2010).



Fabricio Rodrigo Costa


• 01
Fabricio Rodrigo Costa and Dignity: An Invitation to Share Your Doubts About this World!
This video was created in the Law School of the University of São Paulo on 31st May 2012. Fabricio Rodrigo Costa is in dialogue with Evelin Lindner. Gabriela Saab did the recording.
Português: Este vídeo foi criado na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo no dia 31 de Maio de 2012. Fabricio Rodrigo Costa está em diálogo com Evelin Lindner. Gabriela Saab fez a gravação.
See also some still pictures.



Iván Labra


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Iván Labra and the Organization Workshop / Ivan Labra y el Laboratorio Organizacional (Español/English)
This video is bilingual (Español/English). This video was created in Howard Richards' Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile, on 26th April 2012. Iván Labra gave the presentation, Evelin Lindner did the recording. The video is about creating work processes that assist communities to overcome poverty and find their dignity.
Español: El video trata de un metodo de trabajo comunitario que ayuda a las comunidades a organizarse para superar la pobreza y recuperar su dignidad.

• 02 Iván Labra: Consciousness Is in the Act / La Conciencia Esta en el Acto (Español/English)
This video is bilingual (Español/English) This video was created in Howard Richards' Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile, on 26th April 2012. Iván Labra gave the presentation, Bill Thompson did the recording. The video presents an activity-based approach to consciousness development.
Español: El video presenta un punto de vista basando en la actividad para explicar el desarrollo de la consciencia.



Alfredo Rojas Figueroa & Nora Lambrecht


• 01
Alfredo Rojas Figueroa & Nora Lambrecht: Invitation to Co-Create a Culture of Peace (Español/English)
This video is bilingual (Español/English). This video was created with Alfredo Rojas and Nora Lambrecht, and Evelin Lindner, in Howard Richards' Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile, 21st April 2012. The recording was done by Nora Lambrecht and then by Evelin Lindner. Alfredo Rojas Figueroa and Nora Lambrecht invite all like-minded people to join them in co-creating a Culture of Peace.
Please see an example of their work: Invitación a Taller El Desafío de Educar sin Violencia 2012.



Luis Razeto Migliaro


• 01
Luis Razeto: Solidarity Economics and a New Civilization (Español/English)
This video is bilingual (Español/English). It was created with Luis Razeto Migliaro, the "father" of Solidarity Economics, Howard Richards, and Evelin Lindner, by Gabriel Razeto Barry, in Liray near Santiago, Chile, 14th April 2012.
See www.luisrazeto.net, nuevacivilizacion.net, or nuevacivilizacion.tv.
Luis Razeto writes (15th April 2012): Te mando algunos textos míos que han sido traducidos al inglés y otros al alemán, que están en mi sitio web personal. Están a disposición para que los usen del modo que deseen. Estos son los links:
English:
- What Is Solidarity Economics?
- An Alternative Analysis of Current Global Economic Crisis and the Way to Overcome It
Deutsch:
- Solidarwirtschaft: Begriff, Realität und Projekt
- Wirtschaftsorganisationen Der Basis - Eine Strategie angesichts der Krise

• 02 Luis Razeto & Evelin Lindner: ?Podemos Ser Optimistas ante las Amenazas de la Crisis Global? / Can We Be Optimistic About the Threats of the Global Crisis? (Español/English)
This video is bilingual (Español/English) was created with Luis Razeto Migliaro, Evelin Lindner and Howard Richards in Chile, in Howard Richards' Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile, on 29th April 2012. The recording was done by Gabriel Razeto Barry.
Español: ?Podemos Ser Optimistas ante las Amenazas de la Crisis Global? Evelin Lindner responde esta pregunta - que le formula Luis Razeto Migliaro -, desde su experiencia personal y en base a su vision del ser humano y del mundo contemporaneo.
English: Can We Be Optimistic About the Threats of the Global Crisis? Evelin Lindner answers this question posed by Luis Razeto Migliaro by referring to her personal experience and to her vision of human nature and the contemporary world.

• 03 Luis Razeto & Evelin Lindner: Sabiduria Popular y Ciencias Avanzadas / Popular Wisdom and Advanced Sciences (Español/English)
This video is bilingual (Español/English) was created with Luis Razeto Migliaro, Evelin Lindner and Howard Richards in Chile, in Howard Richards' Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile, on 29th April 2012. The recording was done by Gabriel Razeto Barry.
Español: Es posible, y como conectar los saberes populares y de los pueblos indigenas, con los conocimientos cientificos y academicos avanzados? Evelin Lindner responde la pregunta, primero en base a su experiencia personal, y luego al nivel de su reflection teorica. Junto a Luis Razeto Migliaro y a Howard Richards, comentan las posibilidades que en este sentido se proponen las iniciativas de Universidades de nuevo tipo en que estan participando: la Universidad Mundial de la Dignidad, y el Proyecto Universidad Nueva Civilizacion.
English: Is it possible, and if yes, how can we connect popular knowledge and indigenous knowledge with advanced academic and scientific knowledge? Evelin Lindner answers this question, first based her personal experience, then at the level of theoretical reflection. Along with Howard Richards and Luis Razeto Migliaro, she discusses the possibilities to advance in this direction by initiatives such as universities of a new type: the World University Dignity, and the New Civilization University Project.
Howard Richards later shared that he and Evelin shared similar childhood contexts. He wrote the following book: Howard Richards, Letters from Quebec: 1992 The First Eleven Letters of Volume One: Philosophy for Peace and Justice. Toronto: Elliott Chapin.
He writes on page 70:
"My father, who never held a steady job, subscribed to and believed in a now defunct magazine called Country Gentleman. When I was still young he and my mother made a down payment on a half-acre in El Monte, now a suburb of Los Angeles, then country. There they built a house themselves and developed the land while my father tried to continue with truck-driving for a cash income; they wanted a lifestyle with the fun of farming but without the worries. For my little brother and me it was an education al environment: we learned from and about
page 71:
fruit trees; ducks; chicken; a goat; plantings of corn, tomatoes, green beans, onions, beets, squash, and Swiss chard.
My role in life was to help. If there was nothing to do in the house or in the workshop, I would give greens to the chickens, tether the goad in a new place, lead a flock of ducks into the iris beds so they could eat the snails, string black twine around the branches of the plum tree to keep the birds away from the fruit, or pull weeds among the bean blossoms. Thus my parents brought me up to believe that I was supposed to be a useful person. They quietly communicated the message that it was a good thing to be useful, and the more useful the better."



Howard Richards


• 01 Howard Richards: How to Create a More Viable World: The Theory of Growth Points
This video dialogue between Howard Richards, philosopher of social science, and Evelin Lindner was created on 23rd April 2012 in Howard's Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile. In this video, Howard Richards offers the Theory of Growth Points as a methodology for creating a viable world. The video was recorded by William Thompson.
See a summary of this video titled, The Theory of Growth Points, compiled by Evelin Lindner.
This summary points at the following other texts:
- the article "Culture Change" that Howard Richards wrote together with Joanna Swanger in 2008
- a powerpoint presentation by Richards of "What Exactly Does Bourdieu Mean by Habitus?"
- Howard Richards' essay "What Does it Mean to Be a Left Wing Economist Today"

- The Nurturing of Time Future, Lake Oswego, OR: Dignity Press

• 02 Howard Richards: Peacebuilding in Daily Life
This video dialogue between Howard Richards, philosopher of social science, and Evelin Lindner, was created on 30th April 2012 in Chile, in Howard's Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile. In this video, Howard Richards explains the connections between what is possible to do in daily life and what is necessary to do for justice and sustainability. The video was recorded by Shelley Damaris Richards Higgins.

• 03 Howard Richards' Personal Background
This video dialogue between Howard Richards, philosopher of social science, and Evelin Lindner was created on 30th April 2012 in Chile, in Howard's Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile. In this video, Howard Richards explains his family background and who inspired him. The video was recorded by Shelley Damaris Richards Higgins.

• 04 Howard Richards on Terrorism
Evelin Lindner is working on a book on humiliation and terrorism and persuaded Howard Richards, philosopher of social science, to comment on the topic of terrorism from his perspective. This video dialogue was created on 1st May 2012 in Chile, in Howard's Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile. The video was recorded by Shelley Damaris Richards Higgins.
- As for the "chemistry" of emotions, see Melvin Konner, The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, 2002
- As for deriving moral authority for peace from Islamic theology, see Saoud al-Mawla
- As for the lack of feasibility of the use of violence to reach the aims it intends to achieve, check out the work of Stephen Zunes

• 05 Howard Richards on a Governable Plural Economy
Magnus Haavelsrud commented on the video on growth points that we created on 23rd April 2012 as follows (1st May 2012): "Thank you Howard and Evelin for this – make more! How about corporate responsibility as a topic and the new and reformed capitalism you are mentioning. Good business in other words and implications for Departements of Economy and research in economy and their great need for transdisciplinarity – also in economic thought. Greetings from oslo - magnus"
In response to Magnus' comment, this video dialogue between Howard Richards, philosopher of social science, and Evelin Lindner was created on 1st May 2012 in Chile, in Howard's Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile. The video was recorded by Shelley Damaris Richards Higgins.
- As for the relationship between economics and history and the error made by looking for invariate relationship between variables, see Robert Boyer, L'économiste face aux innovations qui font époque : les relations entre histoire et théorie, in Revue Économique, Vol. 52, No. 5, Sept. 2001, pp. 1065-1115
- For a plural economy see the work of Pierre Calame, see, for example:
- Ethics: Paradigm Shifts that Need to be Made for the Transition, by Pierre Calame, the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress, French Collective Rio+20, January 21 2012
- Turning the European Union into a Model of Multilevel Governance Founded on the Principle of Active Subsidiarity, a proposal by Pierre Calame, 2009
- As for an experimental society, see John Dewey, The Public and its Problems, 1927
- As for an open society, see Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945

• 06 Charla harla para Universidad de Valparaíso, Howard Richards' talk, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, 10th April 2012, as Pdf file and as video. (Español)


• 07 Howard Richards: Cambio de Paradigma Hacia una Economía Plural (Español)

This video was created in Howard Richards' Dialogue Home and Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile, on 26th April 2012. Howard Richards gave the presentation, Bill Thompson did the recording.
Este video fue creado en el Home Diálogo y Centro para el Desarrollo Alternativo en Limache, Chile, de Howard Richards el 26 de abril de 2012. Howard Richards hizo la presentación, Bill Thompson hizo la grabación.



Claudia Arcos Duarte


• 01 Che Guevaras Bedeutung für die Südamerikanische Jugend (The Significance of Che Guevara for Today's Youth in South America) (Deutsch)
• 02 La importancia del Che Guevara de la Juventud de Hoy en América Latina (Español)


English: These two videos dialogues between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner were created on 7th April 2012 in Limache, Chile. The first video is in German, the second represents the Spanish version. The videos were recorded by Claudia's son Luciano.
Deutsch: Diese beiden Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner wurden am 7. April 2012 in Limache, Chile, erstellt. Das erste Video ist in deutscher Sprache, das zweite ist die spanische Version. Die Videos wurden von Claudias Sohn Luciano aufgezeichnet.
Español: Estos dos vídeos diálogos entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner se creó el 7 de abril de 2012 en Limache, Chile. El primer vídeo está en alemán, la segunda representa su versión en español. Los videos fueron grabados por el hijo de Claudia, Luciano.

• 03 Claudia Arcos Duarte: Eine Chilenische Biographie (Claudia Duarte Arcos: A Chilean Biography) (Deutsch, 7th April 2012)
• 04 Claudia Arcos Duarte: Una Biografía de Chile (Claudia Duarte Arcos: A Chilean Biography) (Español, 15th April 2012)

English: These two videos dialogues between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner were created on 7th and 15th April 2012 in Limache and in Caleu, Chile. The first video is in German, the second represents the Spanish version. The first video was recorded by Claudia's son Luciano in Limache, the second by Alberto Neumann in Caleo.
Deutsch: Diese beiden Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner wurden am 7. und 15. April 2012 in Limache und in Caleu, Chile, erstellt. Das erste Video ist in deutscher Sprache, das zweite ist die spanische Version. Das erste Videos wurde von Claudias Sohn Luciano in Limache aufgezeichnet, das zweite von Alberto Neumann in Caleu.
Español: Estos dos vídeos diálogos entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner se creó el 7 y 15 de abril de 2012 en Limache y en Caleu, Chile. El primer vídeo está en alemán, la segunda representa su versión en español. Los videos fueron grabados por el hijo de Claudia, Luciano, en Limache, y por Alberto Neumann en Caleu.


• 05 Claudia Arcos Duarte: Mann und Frau heute / El Hombre y la Mujer de Hoy (Claudia Duarte Arcos: A Chilean Biography) (Deutsch/Español, 15th April 2012)

English: This video is bi-lingual (Deutsch/Español). This video dialogue between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner was created on 15th April 2012 in Caleu, Chile. It is both in German and Spanish and was recorded by Alberto Neumann.
Deutsch: Dieses Video ist zwei-sprachig (Deutsch/Español). Dieser Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner wurde am 15. April 2012 in Caleu, Chile, erstellt. Das Video ist in deutscher und spanischer Sprache und wurde von Alberto Neumann aufgezeichnet.
Español: Este video es bilingüe (Deutsch/Español). Este diálogo vídeo entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner fue creado el 15 de abril 2012 en Caleu, Chile. Es a la vez en alemán y español y fue grabado por Alberto Neumann.

• 06 Claudia Arcos Duarte & Alberto Neumann: Exilerfahrungen / Experiencia del Exilio (Deutsch/Español, 15th April 2012)

English: This video is bi-lingual (Deutsch/Español). This video dialogue between Claudia Arcos Duarte and Alberto Neumann was created on 15th April 2012 in Caleu, Chile. It is both in German and Spanish and was recorded by Evelin Lindner.
Deutsch: Dieses Video ist zwei-sprachig (Deutsch/Español). Dieser Video Dialoge zwischen Claudia Arcos Duarte und Alberto Neumann wurde am 15. April 2012 in Caleu, Chile, erstellt. Das Video ist in deutscher und spanischer Sprache und wurde von Evelin Lindner aufgezeichnet.
Español: Este video es bilingüe (Deutsch/Español). Este diálogo vídeo entre Claudia Arcos Duarte y Alberto Neumann fue creado el 15 de abril 2012 en Caleu, Chile. Es a la vez en alemán y español y fue grabado por Evelin Lindner.


• 07 Claudia Arcos Duarte & Evelin Lindner: Die Identität einer Stadt / La Identidad de una Ciudad (Deutsch/Español, 12th April 2012)

English: This video is bi-lingual (Deutsch/Español). Claudia Arcos Duarte and Evelin Lindner use Limache, Chile, as an example to explain how large supermarket chains may fail to provide the "progress" that they promise. Claudia and Evelin are filming each other,12th April 2012.
Deutsch: Dieses Video ist zwei-sprachig (Deutsch/Español). Claudia Arcos Duarte und Evelin Lindner nehmen Limache in Chile als ein Beispiel dafür, wie grosse Supermarktketten möglicherweise nicht den Fortschritt bringen, den sie versprechen. Claudia und Evelin filmen sich gegenseitig, 12. April 2012.
Español: Este video es bilingüe (Deutsch/Español). Claudia Arcos Duarte y Evelin Lindner uso Limache, Chile, como en el ejemplo para explicar cómo grandes cadenas de supermercados puede que no proporcionan el "progreso" que prometen. Claudia Duarte y Evelin están filmando entre sí, 12 de abril 2012.

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John Braithwaite on Restorative Justice


• 01 The Key Theories and Applications of Restorative Justice

In this short lecture (18 min.), John Braithwaite examines some of the key theories and applications of Restorative Justice.




Ingela Lundin Kvalem's Contribution to the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative


• 01 The Negative Effects of Impossible Body Ideals on Dignity (see also on YouTube)

This video, titled "The Negative Effects of Impossible Body Ideals on Dignity," was recorded on 25th January 2012, at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway, by Carolin Aulie for the World Dignity University initiative. Evelin Lindner interviews Ingela Lundin Kvalem.

Please see, for example, Kvalem, Ingela Lundin & Von soest, Tilmann (2010). Body dissatisfaction and overweight - a longitudinal study.



Annette Engler's Contributions to the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative

These videos were recorded on October 28, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner for the World Dignity University initiative.

• 01 Annette Engler: Introduction

Annette Engler is being interviewed by Evelin Lindner. The recording is done by Linda Hartling. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 02 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Grief
Annette Engler is being interviewed by Evelin Lindner. The recording is done by Linda Hartling.

• 03 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for the Transmission of Transgenerational Trauma
Annette Engler is being interviewed by Evelin Lindner. The recording is done by Linda Hartling. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

• 04 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Cultural Diversity
Annette Engler is being interviewed by Linda Hartling. The recording is done by Evelin Lindner. (Please note that Annette Engler uses the term "servitude" in the sense of "service.")

• 05 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Conflict Resolution
Annette Engler is being interviewed by Linda Hartling. The recording is done by Evelin Lindner.

• 06 The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Poetry

Annette Engler's presentation is being recorded by Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner.



Carmen Hetaraka's and Michelle Brenner's Contributions to the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative


• 01 Conversation with Michelle Brenner and Carmen Hetaraka
This conversation was video-taped for the World Dignity University initiative in Dunedin, New Zealand, 31st August 2011. The interviewers are Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner. The recording was done by Brian Ward. See a copy of this video on a site in China.

The following videos were recorded at the 17th Annual Conference in Dunedin, New Zealand, by Brian Ward:
Video 05 from Brian Ward's camera: Michelle Brenner introducing Carmen Hetaraka (this is an "unlisted" video until we had time to edit it)
Video 06 from Brian Ward's camera: Carmen Hetaraka (this is an "unlisted" video until we had time to edit it)
Video 07 from Brian Ward's camera: Carmen Hetaraka & all participants introducing themselves (this ian "unlisted" video until we had time to edit it)
Video 08 from Brian Ward's camera: All participants introducing themselves (this is "unlisted" video until we had time to edit it)
Video from Adobe Connect: Dan Baron's Presentation and Carmen Hetaraka's Haka (this is an "unlisted" video until we had time to edit it; please note that the comments to Dan from the audience were sounded out, we did not know that Dan's microphone would have had to be switched off; please note also that Carmen Hetaraka's Haka is at the very end of this video)

Biographical background for Taura Carmen Hetaraka: For more than 25 years, Taura Carmen Hetaraka has applied his extensive knowledge of tikanga in developing programmes throughout the social and criminal justice sectors. In 2002 Carmen was one of two nationwide delegates representing New Zealand on an International Cultural Advisory Committee for Healing Our Spirits: World-Wide: Indigenous Drug and Addiction conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Carmen is a fluent speaker of Maori and has developed a number of indigenous based programmes that are applied within a number of New Zealand Prisons and schools. Furthermore, Carmen is the core cultural expert - working with several native Hawaiian organizations in developing, implementing, and evaluating a cultural education curriculum based on Hohourongo (Ho’oponopono).

Biographical background for Michelle Brenner: Holistic Law Approach to Indigenous Incarceration: Cultural Cognitive Restructuring and Restorative Justice Practices is an article that was written by Michelle Brenner with acknowledgment to Carmen Hetaraka for insights and correct use of Maori language. Acknowledgment and gratitude to Kauila Clark and all the active bearers of Hawaii for their service and practice in traditional Ho'oponopono. Published by Mediate.com, republished here with the permission from the author.
See also the questionnaire to the Right of Peoples to Peace that Michelle wishes to discuss.
See also "Children of Peace and War: From Child Soldiers to Peace Education" chaired by Dot Maver, and Ana's Playground.



Brian Ward's Contributions to the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative


Brian Ward welcomed the participants of the 17th Annual Conference in Dunedin, New Zealand, as follows: "Dear HumanDHS Friends: My name is Brian Ward and I have been an associate of HumanDHS since 2006. As a New Zealander, living in the South Island of New Zealand, I look forward to meeting everyone at the 2011 HumanDHS Conference in Dunedin! May I recommend the wider experience of the South Island both with its friendly people and beautiful scenery! For some information for intending visitors please google ‘South Island New Zealand’ or have a look at the links: http://www.dunedinnz.com/visit/home.aspx, or http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/isite.
See also, as interesting background material, the New Zealand Treasury Paper 11/02 Working Towards Higher Living Standards for New Zealanders.
You can learn more about Brian at the website www.fivepower.co.nz or watching his introductory video.
Please see also the video-taped conversation with Brian Ward for the World Dignity University initiative that took place on 5th September 2011, in Timaru, New Zealand. The interviewer is Evelin Lindner. The discussion touches on systems thinking, sustainable business principles, and equal dignity. Brian is the sole director of a startup business in the renewable energy field (in New Zealand).



Inga Bostad, Vice-Rector of the University of Oslo, Welcomed the Conference Participants
of the 17th Annual Conference in Dunedin, New Zealand, August 2011, and, in the light of the terrible 22/7 terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya, she encouraged and urged us to work on the World Dignity University Initiative


Inga Bostad, Vice-Rector of the University of Oslo, Welcomed the Conference Participants from Norway, and, in the light of the terrible 22/7 terror attacks in Oslo and Utøya, she encouraged and urged us to work on the World Dignity University Initiative. Lasse Moer, Chief Engineer for Audiovisual Technology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University in Oslo, made this video-recording with Inga Bostad on 26th August 2011.



Evelin Lindner's Invitation to Join the World Dignity University Initiative


Evelin Lindner is being interviewed by Ragnhild Nilsen about her vision of the World Dignity University. This dialogue took place on 8th February 2011 at the University in Oslo in Norway.
Lasse Moer, Chief Engineer for Audiovisual Technology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University in Oslo, was the technical director of this video-take. See it also at http://lasse-videos.blip.tv/file/4782737/. Ragnhild Nilsen uses the artist name Arctic Queen.See a copy of this video on a site in China.



Erik Solheim's Greetings for the Launch of the World Dignity University Initiative on 24th June 2011


Erik Solheim was the Norwegian Minister of the Environment and Minister of Development Cooperation.
He would have liked to join the launch of the idea of the World Dignity University on 24th June 2011, however, since he will not be in Norway then, he formulated his greetings via video message on 14th February 2011. Christian Grotnes Halvorsen was the director of this video-take. See also http://www.blip.tv/file/4768994. See a copy of this video on a site in China.



Federico Mayor Zaragoza's Greetings for the Launch of the World Dignity University Initiative on 24th June 2011


During the twelve years he spent as head of UNESCO (1987-1999), Professor Mayor Zaragoza gave new momentum to the organization's mission, "to build the bastions of peace in the minds of men." It became an institution at the service of peace, tolerance, human rights and peaceful coexistence, by working within its areas of authority and remaining faithful to its original mission. Following Professor Mayor's guidelines, UNESCO created the Culture of Peace Program, whose work falls into four main categories: education for peace, human rights and democracy, the fight against exclusion and poverty, the defense of cultural pluralism and cross-cultural dialogue, and conflict prevention and the consolidation of peace.
This video has been produced on 18th June 2011, at the Fundación Cultura de PazActualizado.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.



Arctic Queen's Interview for the World Dignity University Initiative


This dialogue between Ragnhild Nilsen - her artist name is Arctic Queen - and Evelin Lindner took place on 8th February 2011 at the University in Oslo in Norway. Lasse Moer, Chief Engineer for Audiovisual Technology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University in Oslo, was the technical director of this video-take.
See also http://blip.tv/file/4857660/ and on a site in China.



Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad

See also a faster flash-server.
Lecture at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo (Harald Schjelderups hus, Forskningsveien 3, Auditorium 1, as part of PSYC3203 - Anvendt sosialpsykologi), given on 12th January 2011 (10.00-12.00), and 14th January, 2009 (9.15-11.00). Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. See the video site of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Oslo.
Please see a background paper for this lecture in the first issue of the Journal of HumanDignity and Humiliation Studies, March 2007. For an earlier version for the introductory paper, see here or http://ssrn.com/abstract=668742 (this paper's SSRN ID is 668742).
For more recent papers see, among others, "The Need for a New World," and "What the World’s Cultures Can Contribute to Creating a Sustainable Future for Humankind." See pictures and video.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.



2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 11-12, 2009


•  Morton Deutsch interviewed by Judy Kurianski in 2008 for the Peace Division of APA.



13th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Honolulu, Hawai'i, August 20-22, 2009

•  Day One, by Stephanie Heuer
•  Day Two, by Stephanie Heuer



11th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Norway, 23th June - 1st July 2008

•  Please see videos by Svanibor Pettan:
1. Midsummer Eve Party, 23rd June
2. Midsummer Eve Party, 23rd June
3. Trio Mediaeval members Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman singing for us, 25th June.


• 
Please see videos by Brian Lynch



2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 13-14, 2007


* video-tapes made by TC still to be edited




This film was created by Lasse Moer on 18th October 2007, on the Blindern campus of the University of Oslo in sunny but very cold autumn weather. The blue jacket is part of the World Clothes for Equal Dignity project.
The text for this Welcome video has been written by Brian Ward.
Here is the full text:
"Hello! My name is Evelin Lindner and I have committed my life to engaging with people and communities around the world to end the cycles of violence resulting from people humiliating or putting other people down. To protect our planet for future generations we all need to hold hands in equal dignity and lead each other towards a peaceful, sustainable and a richly diverse global community. Your knowledge, experiences, creativity and inspiration is needed wherever it might be as without your help the journey to peace and sustainability will take so much longer. If you are able to join our network of friends on this wonderful journey please have a look at the opportunities in this website and let us know! Thank you very much!"

Please click here or on the picture at the top to see the "Welcome" film, and click on the pictrues further down to see them larger.
See a copy of this video on a site in China.


Genocide, Humiliation, and Conflict

Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian University, Boone, North Carolina, USA, November 10-14, 2007.
Guest lecturer Evelin Lindner, invited by Amy Hudnall, Adjunct Instructor, Coordinator of Peace Studies, supported by Jennifer Kirby.
Genocide, Humiliation, and Conflict
Carol Grotnes Belk Library and Information Commons at Appalachian State University, Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in Room 114
* video-tapes still to be edited


9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Hangzhou, China, 13th-16th April 2007
Our meeting had two independent parts:

1. Participation in the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, New Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 13-15th April 2007
Please see videos by Brian Lynch

2. Interactive Workshop on "Collaborative Learning Environment Characterised by Mutual Respect" at the Department of Applied Psychology, Xixi Campus of Zhejiang University, 148, Tianmushan Rd., West Building 5th, Hangzhou, room 204, Hangzhou, China, 16th April 2007
Please see videos by Brian Lynch
* video-tapes (5 DVDs by Hora Tjitra) still to be edited


Humiliation and the Roots of Violence: Human Conflict in a Globalizing World

Presentation at The New Jersey Center for Character Education, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey & The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, New Jersey Department of Education, Center for Applied Psychology, Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., November 14, 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner. Please see pictures.
* video-tapes still to be edited


Why should we develop a sense of global responsibility?

Please see here the videos of the Course PSYPRO 4030 on "Humiliation," Autumn 2006, in the Series Social Psychological Theory and Method, at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 2nd-6th October 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner.
Why should we develop a sense of global responsibility?
• Melisa Pivic
• Henrik Jacobsen
• Sverre Urnes Johnson
• Silje Cathrin Brattheim
• Lone Alice Johansen


6th Annual HumanDHS Meeting in NY

Please see here our videos of the 6th Annual HumanDHS Meeting in NY, which was our 2005 Annual Round Table Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, convened and organized by Evelin Lindner, Linda Hartling, and Andrea Bartoli.
The videos were taken by Judy Kuriansky.
•  This is part 1 of the entire video. What you see here, are the preparations for the evening. Neil is practicing his singing and Evelin is trying to make the video projector and microphones work.
•  This is part 2 of the entire video. Neil Ryan Walsh sings
•  This is part 3 of the entire video. Linda Hartling welcomes everybody. See a copy of this video on a site in China.
•  This is part 4 of the entire video. Morton Deutsch speaks (first 10 minutes)
•  This is part 5 of the entire video. Morton Deutsch speaks (second 10 minutes)
•  This is part 6 of the entire video. David Hamburg speaks (first 10 minutes)
•  This is part 7 of the entire video. David Hamburg speaks (second 10 minutes)
•  This is part 8 of the entire video. David Hamburg speaks (third 10 minutes)
•  Maria Volpe's talk is still being processed.



Evelin Lindner's Doctoral Research in Somaliland, Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi, 1998/1999

Evelin Lindner was in Somaliland, Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi in the context of her research for her doctoral dissertation in social psychology titled The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, 2000). Evelin did the filming.
The interviews you see further down were created in 1998 and 1999, and uploaded onto YouTube in 2012. Most of the videos are marked as "publically not accessible," which means that only people who know the URLs can see them. One of the reasons for not making these videos publically available is that Evelin was not able to get in contact and obtain the permission of every interview partner 13 or 14 years after having recorded these interviews.
Please, if you are among the people featured further down, or you know one of them, get in touch with Evelin! She will follow your preferences and will make your video either publically available, if you wish so, or leave it as it is now, so that only people who know the URL can see them, or, she can also mark your video to be "private," and in that way only she herself would have access (in that case, you would have to download the video onto your computer before she does that, so that you have your own copy on your computer, since you would no longer have access to your video on YouTube as soon as it is listed as "private").

Evelin Lindner Receives Her Video Equipment from Lasse Moer in October 1998
Evelin Lindner received the video equipment for her 1998-1999 doctoral fieldwork in Africa from Lasse Moer at the University of Oslo, Norway, in October 1998. Evelin was given an introduction of ca. 1 hour to learn to use this equipment. She collected altogether 10 hours of video material and 100 hours of audio material in Somaliland in 1998, in Kenya, and Rwanda/Burundi in 1999, for her doctoral thesis The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted 31st October 2000, ISBN 82-569-1817-9). All videos you see further down have been produced with this equipment. A warm thanks goes to Lasse Moer, who later helped edit the film material and make an Overview over Doctoral Research. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

• Overview over Doctoral Research: Somalia - A Case-Study: Humiliation and Coping in War
The film Somalia - A Case-Study: Humiliation and Coping in War (see also a MP4 version on YouTube) is a compilation of short videos from Somaliland, cut from altogether ca. 10 hours of video material and 100 hours of audio material that Evelin Lindner collected in Somaliland in 1998 (the film was produced in 2000), in Kenya, and Rwanda/Burundi in 1999, for her doctoral thesis The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted 31st October 2000, ISBN 82-569-1817-9).
I would like to thank Lasse Moer, member of the HumanDSH Global Advisory Board, for his work in helping create this film.
This film aims at giving an impression of Evelin Lindner's field work in Somaliland with a selection of local views and descriptions of occurrences of humiliation and resilience to humiliation. For resilience to humiliation, see particularly the stories of the SORRA group, whose members spent almost a decade in solitary confinement as punishment for wanting to help the hospital in Hargeisa (sharing the fate of many intellectuals around the world who are the first victims of dicators), and the experience of former first lady Edna Adan, who is now a Member of the Global Advisory Board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network that grew out of Lindner's doctoral research. Also Hassan Keynan is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board.

Somaliland: Fadumo Ahmed Sheikh, Chairperson of NOW, in Hargeisa on 11th November 1998
This video was created on 11th November 1998 at Hargeisa Club in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Fadumo Ahmed Sheikh, the Chairperson of National Organisation for Woman and Children Development NOW, explains the situation of Somaliland.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: The Streets of Hargeisa in November and December 1998
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland and Its "Interior" on 21st November 1998
This video was created on 21st November 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: Ali Jirdeh from the Red Crescent in Hargeisa on 23rd November 1998
This video was created on 23rd November 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The elder Ali Jirdeh from the Red Crescent in Hargeisa explains the situation of Somalia. Sadly, Ali Jirdeh passed away ten years later, on 9th October 2008.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: Gynecologist Dr. Ismail in Hargeisa on 25th November 1998
This video was created on 25th November 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Dr. Ismail explains the situation of Somaliland.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: Sheikh Ibrahim, the "King of Somaliland," in Hargeisa on 26th November 1998
This video was created on 26th November 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Sheikh Ibrahim, the "King of Somaliland," both the highest Mullah and Elder, the Head of the Guurti (Guurti council of Elders), explains the situation of Somaliland. Omar Awaleh translates.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: Dr. Gaboose on the Humiliation of Dictatorship and the Global Village in Hargeisa on 30th November 1998
This video was created on 30th November 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Dr. Mohamed Abdi "Gaboose" or "Gabose" was the former personal physician of late dictator Siad Barre. He explains how difficult this situation was. The dictator would not listen but rather would develop "a deaf ear" and, finally, Dr. Gaboose even had to flee the country. Dr. Gaboose explains what kind of personality Siad Barre was, how intelligent he was at first, but how he then became ever more destructive, "beginning a war here and there"... "identifying scapegoats".... and so forth. Dr. Gaboose concludes by speaking about the global village and its responsibilities.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: The SORRA Group and "The Alphabet Through the Wall," Hargeisa, 1st December 1998
This video was created on 1st December 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland, with members of The Somaliland Relief and Rehabilitation Association (SORRA). The SORRA group was founded in the beginning of the 1980s as a group of doctors, teachers and engeneers, who tried to improve the health services in Hargeisa. Dictator Siad Barre imprisoned them and kept in solitary confinement for almost a decade. Dr. Osman Abdi Maygag, Mohamed Barud Ali (or Barood), Dr. Abdillahi Ali Yussuf (Olad), and Ahmed Mohamed Mader (from left to right) explain how the group developed and used the "alphabet through the wall" to communicate with their fellow prisoners and thus decrease the suffering from their solitary confinement.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.
Please see the book The Mourning Tree: An Autobiography and an Prison Memoir, by Mohamed Barud Ali.
Read also an Interview with Barud in the HRLC Summer 2010 Newsletter of The Human Rights Law Centre of the University of Nottingham, UK:
Mohamed Barud Ali, attended the Chevening Fellowship course at the University of Nottingham on 'Implementing Human Rights Conventions' organized by the Human Rights Law Centre from January to April 2010. A Somali national, Barud studied in England where he obtained a degree in Geography and Chemistry in 1977. After his studies he returned to Somaliland in 1978 during the rule of President Siyad Barre where he became involved in what would become a long standing commitment to national activism. On his return, he joined a voluntary community initiative, the Hargeisa Self-help group, to stem the mismanagement of the Hargeisa Group Hospital and improve the state of streets. These activities resulted in the arrest of Barud on the grounds that his actions would emphasize the inadequacies of the Barre regime. After an unfair trial Barud was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1982 where he was tortured and subjected to inhumane conditions during his incarceration. Following continued national and international campaigns Barud was granted a presidential pardon and released from prison in March 1989. Fears that he would be arrested on the slightest pretence resulted in him fleeing the country and living as a refugee in the United States and then in Germany. Barud returned to Somaliland in 1993 where he became involved in politics, first becoming a parliamentarian and then Minister for Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Reconstruction. Since his release from prison, Barud has been a champion for the rehabilitation of Somaliland, first through SORRA, an NGO working with displaced Somalis and then as founder member and director of a new umbrella organisation, Samo Tallis, whose activities focus mainly on human rights education. He recently wrote a book about his experiences in prison entitled 'The Mourning Tree' which was launched on 20 February 2010 to commemorate the student protests that took place 28 years ago in Hargeisa demanding justice and the release of members of the Hargeisa Self-help group, known locally as the UFFO.

Somaliland: School Teacher Ahmed Mohamed Mader, The Somaliland Relief and Rehabilitation Association (SORRA), in Hargeisa on 1st December 1998
This video was created on 1st December 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland, with members of The Somaliland Relief and Rehabilitation Association (SORRA). The SORRA group was founded in the beginning of the 1980s as a group of doctors, teachers and engeneers, who tried to improve the health services in Hargeisa. Dictator Siad Barre imprisoned them and kept in solitary confinement for almost a decade. Ahmed Mohamed Mader is a school teacher who was among the prisoners.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: Dr. Maygag, The Somaliland Relief and Rehabilitation Association (SORRA), in Hargeisa on 1st December 1998
This video was created on 1st December 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The SORRA group was a group of doctors, teachers and engeneers, who tried to improve the health services in Hargeisa in the beginning of the nineteen eighties. This was the reason for why dictator Siad Barre imprisoned them and kept in solitary confinement for almost a decade. Dr. Osman Abdi Maygag is a medical doctor who was among the prisoners.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: Edna Adan Ismail in Hargeisa on 3rd December 1998
This video was created on 3rd December 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Evelin Lindner was in Hargeisa in the context of her research for her doctoral dissertation in social psychology titled The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.
Edna Adan Ismail, the former first lady of Somalia defines humiliation as follows in this video: " I think humiliation is a very difficult thing to describe. But I think humiliation is when someone tries to bring someone down to their level. They think that you are above them and they want to hurt you, humiliate you, bring you down to their level, so that you have no more self-respect, so that you lose the respect you have for yourself and others lose the respect they have for you."
She recounts: "Once they said I was planning to escape from the country, and I spent six days in jail for that. For the first, why didn't they wait until I tried to escape, why arrest me from my house! They put me in a cell of my own, but I didn't have a toilet. And right in front of the place where they put me, there was a toilet, and it had no doors. And there was the cell next to me, it was full of men, of criminals, of thieves, I don't know, just men, men all behind the bars. And, so I called out, and I said, - you know, - 'I, - I, - I need to go and use the bathroom!' And that is after I had been the first lady of the country! And they said: 'Well, you want to use the bathroom? There is the bathroom! You use everybody's bathroom! There! You are not better than the others! There is the bathroom they use!' And I thought - how can I use the bathroom with no doors facing a cell full of men! Full of criminals and people who, - you know, - and I just came out of my cell and I just looked at those men, and I said: 'Listen. I am going to use this bathroom. And, would you be watching your mother or your sister if she was using a toilet and she had no door, - is this the kind of men you are that you would watch a woman using a bathroom?' And they said, 'No.' And the first one said 'turn around,' and they made everyone turn the other way, until I finished using the bathroom. And that was one of the most emotional moments of my time. And the police was so shocked, because they couldn't get their objective, they couldn't get me to be humiliated and using a bathroom with all these men watching and shouting at me. So, this is another form of resistance, and resisting humiliation! Does humiliation lead to war? I would answer that question by saying, 'Yes, it does!' You can push human beings too far, just far enough until they turn back and say 'Hei, wait a minute, enough is enough.' And then they begin to resist with violence, with strength, with force, with whatever way they know. And, I think a good example of resisting humiliation through war is what has happened to our country, the people of Somaliland."
The former first lady of Somalia, Edna Adan, also says: "I hope you have strong cupboards to put your conscience into! Where are all the weapons produced which kill innocent people?"

Somaliland: Engineer Hussein Abdirahman in Hargeisa on 10th December 1998
In this video, engineer Hussein Abdirahman explains the plight of Somaliland (he is in charge of a shoe factory). The video was recorded on 10th December 1998 in the Horn of Africa College in Hargeisa, Somaliland, kindly arranged for by its director Dr. Ahmed Al-Azhari.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: The Researchers' House in Hargeisa on 10th December 1998
This video was created on 10th December 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. It was recorded as part of the research conducted by two researchers from the University of Oslo, Stig Jarle Hansen, and Evelin Lindner. It shows the house that was provided to the researchers for the period of their stay in Hargeisa, together with a translator Mohammed, driver Abdullahi, and two armed guards. The translator kindly explains the details of the house and its surroundings.
Please see Lindner's doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Stig Jarle Hansen was filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somaliland: Evelin Lindner in Hargeisa on 10th December 1998
Norsk: Denne videoen ble laget den 10. desember 1998 i Hargeisa, Somaliland. Den ble spilt inn som en del av doktorgradsfeltarbeidet utført av Evelin Lindner. I denne videoen viser hun den Somaliske kjolen og skauten hun kjøpte den dagen hun kom til Somaliland. Videoen er registrert nær inngangsdøren til huset som ble gitt til forskerne Evelin Lindner og Stig Jarle Hansen for perioden av deres opphold i Hargeisa, sammen med en oversetter, en sjåfør, og vaktere. Stig Jarle Hansen er den som filmer. Videoen er ubehandlet.
English: This video was created on 10th December 1998 in Hargeisa, Somaliland. It was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. In this video, she shows the Somalia dress and headscarf that she bought the day she arrived. The video is recorded near the front door of the house that was provided to the researchers Evelin Lindner og Stig Jarle Hansen for the period of their stay in Hargeisa, together with a translator, a driver, and guards.
Please see Lindner's doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Stig Jarle Hansen was filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somalia: Hebrew Sultan Ahmed Jama Hersi from the Hebrew Clan, with Translator Yassin Hersi Yama in Nairobi, Kenya, 31st December 1998
This video was created on 31st December 1999 in Nairoby, Kenya, in the home of Yassin Hersi Yama. Sultan Ahmed Jama Hersi from the Hebrew Clan explains the continuous humiliation that outcast clans suffer in Somali society. Yassin Hersi Yama translates and explains.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somalia: Abdi Willi Awale in Nairobi, Kenya, on 3rd January 1999
This video was created on 3rd January 1999 in Nairoby, Kenya. Abdi Willi Awale was part of the National Security Service (NSS) of the regime of Siad Barre. This video sheds light on the discussion of who is the perpetrator and who is the victim, and demonstrates how people tend to identify with the victim role.
The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somalia: Marian Farah Awale in Nairobi, Kenya, on 3rd January 1999
This video was created on 3rd January 1999 in Nairoby, Kenya. It was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somalia: Ola Skuterud, Internasjonale Røde Kors og Røde Halvmåne, Nairobi, 4. januar 1999 / Ola Skuterud, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, Nairobi, 4th January 1999 (Norsk/Norwegian)
Denne videoen ble spilt inn i Nairobi, Kenya, 4. januar 1999. Evelin Lindner var i Nairobi i sammenheng med forskningen for hennes doktoravhandling i sosialpsykologi, The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: Universitetet i Oslo, Psykologisk institutt, 2000). Evelin filmet. Videoen er ubehandlet. Intervjuet foregikk på norsk. I denne videoen, Ola Skuterud viser hans ekstraordinære innsikt i kompleksiteten av mennesker fra vesten som går inn i områder av lidelse for å bringe hjelp, og hvor kontraproduktiv noen av forholdene kan være som omgir denne hjelpen, selv om hjelperne er bare velmenende.
Evelin Lindners kommentar: "Ola Skuterud er blant de mest modige personene jeg noensinne har møtt, med en uovertruffen integritet. Han var min vert i Nairobi, hvor han var leder for Det Internasjonale Forbundet av Røde Kors og Røde Halvmåne Somalia Delegasjon og stedlig representant for Norsk Røde Kors. Senere ble han Federation representant for Det Internasjonale Forbundet av Røde Kors-og Røde Halvmåneforeninger i Palestina. Han valgte å vente i timevis i køen for palestinerne på sjekkpunktene snarere enn å ta den priviligerte raske ruten for ikke-palestinere, og dette er illustrerende for hele hans integritet! "
English: This video was recorded in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 1999. Evelin Lindner was in Nairobi in the context of her research for her doctoral dissertation in social psychology titled The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited. The interview was conducted in Norwegian. In this video, Ola Skuterud shares his extraordinary insight into the complexities of people from the West going into areas of suffering to bring help, and how counterproductive some of the conditions may be that surround this help, even if the helpers are thoroughly well-intentioned.
Evelin Lindner's comment: "Ola Skuterud is among the most courageous persons I ever met, with an unparalleled integrity. He was my host in Nairobi, where he was Head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Somalia Delegation and Resident Representative of the Norwegian Red Cross. Later he became the Federation Representative of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Palestine. He would choose to wait for hours in the queue for Palestinians at checkpoints rather than take the privileged quick route for non-Palestinians, and this is emblematic for all of his integrity!"

Somalia: Ambassador Hussein Ali Dualeh in Nairobi, Kenya, on 9th January 1999
This video was created on 9th January 1999 in the Serena Hotel in Nairoby, Kenya. Ambassador Hussein Ali Dualeh talks about the United Nations and the need to include the educated elite of Somalia into strategies for peace.
The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somalia: Matt Bryden in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15th January 1999
This video was created on 15th January 1999 in Nairoby, Kenya. Matt Bryden, in his capacity of being the regional coordinator of War-torn Societies Project, Somalia Country Project, UNRISD / PSIS, explains the intricate and multi-layered situation of Somalia. The interview took place in the Kenya coordinating office of the War-torn Societies Project, Somalia Country Project, in Rhapta Road 99, Westlands, Nairobi (regional offices in Boosaaso, Gaalkacyo, and Garoowe).
The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Burundi: Bujumbura Youth, 12th February 1999
This video was created on 12th February 1999, in Burundi, Africa, close to the capital Bujumbura. Stephen V. Gerardo in his capacity as the Representant Resident of the Reconciliation Programme Dutch Relief & Rehabilitation Agency (DRA), had organised a youth camp with 300 youths, all profoundly affected and traumatized by the violence in their social environments.
The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Burundi: Stephen Gerardo, Dutch Relief & Rehabilitation Agency, in Bujumbura, Burundi, on 20th January 1999
This video was created on 20th February 1999, in Burundi's capital Bujumbura, with Stephen V. Gerardo, the Representant Resident of the Reconciliation Programme Dutch Relief & Rehabilitation Agency (DRA). The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Rwanda: Mary Balikungeri in Kigali on 25th January 1999
This video was created on 25th February 1999, in Rwanda's capital Kigali, with Mary Balikungeri, the Programme Coordinator of the Rwandan Women Community Development Network, Rwandan Women Net for Economic Justice. The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Rwanda: UNDP Field Trip on 4th February 1999
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. It was a privilege to be invited to the UNDP field trip to the north of Rwanda on 4th February 1999, together with the Programme Coordinator of the Rwandan Women Community Development Network, Mary Balikungeri, and with Henri Francois Morand of the Swiss Embassy.
Please see Lindner's doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Rwanda: Médecins sans Frontières in Kigali in February 1999
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. The Médecins sans Frontières Team in Kigali kindly alllowed me to share their home and learn from their experience. Please see Lindner's doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Burundi: Conference Internationale sur le Rôle de l'Éducation dans la Promotion d'une Culture de Convivialité et d'Édification des Communautés, Bujumbura, 23-26 Février 1999
This video was created in the capital of Burundi, Bujumbura, during the "Conference Internationale sur le Rôle de l'Éducation dans la Promotion d'une Culture de Convivialité et d'Édification des Communautés, 23-26 Février 1999," Ministère de l'Education Nationale.
This video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). See Evelin Lindner's contribution to the conference titled Humiliation Dynamics and Humiliation Entrepreneurship - The Dyad of Slave and Master. Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.

Somalia: Hassan Abdi Keynan in Oslo, Norway, on 25th November 1999
This video was created on 25th November 1999 in Oslo, Norway. Hassan Abdi Keynan was the Secretary General of the Somali National Commission for UNESCO from 1985 - 1988, before he left Somalia. He later became a member in the Global Advisory Board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network.
The video was recorded as part of the doctoral field work conducted by Evelin Lindner. Please see her doctoral dissertation online on Evelin's publications page. The title is The Psychology of Humiliation: Somalia, Rwanda / Burundi, and Hitler's Germany (Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, submitted on 31st October 2000). Evelin did the filming. Please be aware that this video is unedited.


Videos still to be uploaded:

•  2007, 2008, 2009 NY workshops taped by Hua-Chu
Genocide, Humiliation, and Conflict
Carol Grotnes Belk Library and Information Commons at Appalachian State University, Tuesday, November 13, 2007, at 7 p.m. in Room 114.
Guest lecturer Evelin Lindner, invited by Amy Hudnall, Adjunct Instructor, Coordinator of Peace Studies, supported by Jennifer Kirby, at the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian University, Boone, North Carolina, USA, November 10-14, 2007.
Humiliation and the Roots of Violence: Human Conflict in a Globalizing World
Presentation at The New Jersey Center for Character Education, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey & The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, New Jersey Department of Education, Center for Applied Psychology, Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., November 14, 2006. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner, invited by Philip Brown. Please see pictures.