From http://www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/board02.php:

Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos is also a Member of our HumanDHS Global Core Team, and kindly coordinates two of our projects: he is the Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS’s World Language for Equal Dignity Project and of HumanDHS’s Creativity Through Equal Dignity Project. Furthermore he is a founding member of the World Dignity University.
Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Federal University of Pernambuco and President of the Board of Associação Brasil America. He is a member of the Dom Helder Camara Human Rights Commission, Federal University of Pernambuco.

His book Nurturing Nonkilling:a Poetic Plantation was published June 2009 by the Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu. It can be downloaded,FREE,pdf format, from this site.
Francisco Gomes de Matos has taught linguistics and languages at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) in Recife, northeastern Brazil till his retirement in 2003. He holds degrees in languages and law from UFPE and in linguistics from the University of Michigan and the Catholic University of São Paulo. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Texas (Austin), Mexico, Ottawa, and Georgia (Athens, USA). Gomes de Matos is the author of two pioneering pleas: For a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (1984) and for Communicative Peace (1993). His current research interests include linguistic rights and responsibilities (of language users) and peace linguistics.
Please see some of Francisco’s publications listed at the page linked on top.

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies is proud to publish poems and other works from Francisco, as part of his ongoing Applied Peace Linguistics activity. A selection of these can be found at the following pages:

• An INDIGNITY-Centered Preventive Checklist Through Rhymed Reflections (February 12, 2012)
• Relational Dignity: Rhymed Reflections for Educational Action (February 9, 2012)
• Rhymed Reflections on Steven Pinker`s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (February 6, 2012)
• On Terminological DIGNITY for HUMAN BEINGS: A Plea (February 3, 2012)
• A Metareflection on Steven Pinker`s Final Reflection, p. 696 of his “The Better Angels of Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” (January 31, 2012)
• A  Selective,10-Concept Review of  Steven Pinker`s Book “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” (January 30, 2012)
• On Rising Ecospiritually: Some Rhymed Reflections (January 29, 2012)

Received in 2011:

• Volcanic Eruption in Hawaii: A Nonkilling Reflection (7th March 2011)
• All Occupations Serving a Nonkilling World (5th March 2011)
• Nurturing Nonkilling (Book announcement plus poster, pdf, 3rd March 2011)
• Human INTERCULTURAL RIGHTS: A Nonkilling Checklist (27th February 2011)
• NONKILLING Related Concepts: DIGNITY (25th February 2011)
• Conflicts for a Peaceful Life (for Stella Cornelius, 22nd February 2011)
• In Support of USIP: A Plea (22nd February 2011)
• Sociologists for Nonkilling (14th February 2011)
• Are We Dignifiers? A Serious Self-Test (14th February 2011)
• Conflict Resolution Professionals for Nonkilling (13th February 2011)
• Humiliation in Organizational Contexts: A Poem-Plea (13th February 2011)
• Everybody let’s respect and Dignity we’ll perfect (7th February 2011)
• NONKILLERS: A Paradigmatic Poem-Plea (6th February 2011)
• O que é linguagem (26th January 2011)
• When Is Our Home Sweet? (25th January 2011)
• Faith in God I’ll Never Lose (20th January 2011)
• Correcting Student’s Texts: A Rhymed Checklist (20th January 2011)
• On Patience: A Rhymed Reflection (19th January 2011)
• Emotions/Actions in Our Lives: An Interrogative Checklist (18th January 2011)
• For Planetary Cooperation: Beyond a Plea (16th January 2011)
• On Injustice: Some Rhymed Reflections (14th January 2011)
• Teaching Vocabulary Nonkillingly – An Example in English (11th January 2011)
• Disagreement With Dignity (10th January 2011)
• Dignity in Our Daily Dialogue(s) (6th January 2011)
• Humiliation in the Longest List of Universal Human Actions (5th January 2011)
• When We Humiliate (4th January 2011)

Received in 2010:

• The Day Human Beings Woke Up in a World Where Wealth Had a Different Meaning (December 30, 2010)
• A Rhymed Reflection, Dedicated to Morton Deutsch (25 December 2010)
• Defusing  Destructive Discourse, a Plea (24 December 2010)
• When You Learn in Depth (22nd December 2010)
• Dignity in Depth: A Daring Delight (21st December 2010)
• The Day HAPPINESS Was Interviewed by the Global Human Rights Search Committee (19th December 2010)
• Do We Dignify What We Do? (16th December 2010)
• Humanizing Human Rights: The Right to DIGNITY (15th December 2010)
• Identifying Types of Humiliation: A Checklist (4th December 2010)
• The Right to Privacy: A Nonkilling View (27th November 2010)
• Humankind and Harmony: A Dialogue (27th November 2010)
• The Right To Dignity: A Nonkilling Checklist (14th November 2010)
• The Right to Humor: A Nonkilling View (11th November 2010)
• In Search of Desirable QUALITIES: A Peace Linguist`s List (2nd November 2010)
• Book Review: Teachers and Human Rights Education (27th October 2010)
• A Rhymed Reflection on CONSISTENT LIFE (23rd October 2010)
• Humankind for Dignity: A Plea for Global Education (17th October 2010)
• LIFE below and above: a tribute to the 33 MINERS (13th October 2010)
• NONKILLING: A Qualitative-Quantitative View (9th October 2010)
• Living Positively: Some Rhymed Reflections (22th September 2010)
• Dignity, Humiliation, and Word History (20th September 2010)
• Are You a Dignifier? A Checklist (16th September 2010)
• Applying the Pedagogy of Positiveness to Communicative Dignity (16th September 2010)
• Our Life, Our Ways: Rhymed Reflections (13th September 2010)
• Reflections on a Pedagogy of Respect: Dignifiers for the World (11th September 2010)
• Stop killing One Another: A Humanizing Plea (10th September 2010)
• Peace between Palestinians And Israelis Is Possible: A Prayer-Plea (7th September 2010)
• Let`s Dignify Our Day-to-Day Dialogues (1st September 2010)
• Koreans for Unification: A Nonkilling Prayer-Plea (1st September 2010)
• Human Responsibilities As Globalizers: A Plea (31st August 2010)
• Pedagogia da Positividade (Pedagogy of Positiveness): A Pioneering Publication in Portuguese (28th August 2010)
• Today, August 19, is Called WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY (19th August 2010)
• From  CONFRONTATION to CONVERGENCE: A Plea for Communicative Dignity (18th August 2010)
• The Day DIGNITY and HUMILIATION Decided to Change the World: A Parable on Planetary Partnership (14th August 2010)
• A Universal Duty (12th August 2010)
• Women´s Rights : A Nonkilling Perspective (11th August 2010)
• The Rights of Older Persons: A Nonkilling View (9th August 2010)
• HumiliaCtion: A Checklist (7th August 2010)
• How Do We React to Forms of Verbal Humiliation? (5th August 2010)
• Imaginative Dignity in Filmmaking: A Plea (27th July 2010)
• + Dignity – Humiliation (26th July 2010)
• Transcending Educationally (23rd July 2010)
• Dignity and Peace for the World (21st July 2010)
• The Dignity of Words (A List of Nouns in -ity) (updated 12th July 2010)
• Applying Alliteration for Nonkilling Advocacy-Action (5th July 2010)
• Learning to Pray Nonkillingly (3rd July 2010)
• On Communicative Health (29th June 2010)
• Empathic Dignity: A plea (25th June 2010)
• WHICH dignity, WHICH dignity? (24th June 2010)
• Being humiliated (20th June 2010)
• DIGNITY, DIGNITY we dream of THEE (13th June 2010)
• Dignity as a humanizing might (26th March 2010)

Poems from previous years may be found at HumanDHS’s World Language for Equal Dignity web pages. Please refer also to Francisco’s poems published at the website of the Global Center for Nonkilling.