Research Team
General
Academic Advisors
Refugees and Humiliation Project (alphabetical)
Terrorism and Humiliation Project (alphabetical)
The research branch of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) aims at encouraging research related to dignity and humiliation. We wish to contribute to the capacity of people to build peaceful societies and be mindful of how humiliation may disrupt the social fabric, and how social cohesion may be sustained by preventing humiliation from occurring. You are invited to develop ideas and projects that aim at dignifying our world, and preventing and healing humiliation.
We wish to harness and nurture everybody's expertise for our HumanDHS research activities, create cross-fertilization and synergy, and hope that our efforts will grow organically from our discussions and meetings!
We are looking for a Coordinator/Director for our Research Team (please note that our HumanDHS definition of a coordinator is different as compared to mainstream definitions - please read more here).
| LINDA M. HARTLING Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., is the HumanDHS Director, and also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, HumanDHS Global Core Team, HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore the Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). Linda is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, a model of psychological growth and development. She 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 co-editor 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. She is currently a member of an international team establishing the first Center for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. Please see: • Humiliation: Assessing the Specter of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, doctoral dissertation, Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995/1996. • Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement by Linda M. Hartling, and Tracy Luchetta, first published in 1999 in The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278. • An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, introductory text prepared by Linda M. Hartling for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. • Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared by Linda M. Hartling for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. • Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence, preliminary draft of a paper prepared for Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. • Relationship Tips developed by Judith Jordan, and Linda Hartling, at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, 2006. • From Humiliation to Appreciation: Walking Toward Our Talk, abstract prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. • From Humiliation to Appreciation: Walking Toward Our Talk, presentation at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA, in 2007. |
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| MOIRA R. ROGERS Moira R. Rogers, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Moira is Associate Professor of Spanish at Eastern Mennonite University and Intercultural Consultant for a variety of organizations in Germany, Spain, and the U.S. She has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, an MA in Biblical Studies from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, IN, and a Teaching Degree in Philosophy from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in Argentina, Professor Rogers grew up in a multicultural and multilingual home in Buenos Aires and brings her personal and professional experiences as well as her Anabaptist faith commitments to bear on her teaching and research work. As faculty, she teaches Spanish, intercultural communication, and courses on Migrations/ Inmigration that integrate Global, National, and local issues. Her doctoral research focused on the elitism and mechanisms of exclusion of academic cultures in early eighteenth-century Germany, published as Newtonianism for the Ladies and Other Uneducated Souls: The Popularization of Science in Leipzig (2003). More recently, she has done training at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. She received an international award for her study entitled "Internationales Baucamp: Bausteine für ein gelingendes Zusammenleben im 21. Jahrhundert" (2005). Moira currently leads a program at the University of Cadiz, Spain, and works with its newly established "Instituto de Inmigración e Interculturalidad." Her current research project is entitled "Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations," a study that tells a chapter of the story of mass migrations in the 21st century with a focus on the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco. Through this study she hopes to contribute to breaking the cycles of humiliation fueled by the displacement of many and to making our world a hospitable place for all people. |
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| MAGGIE O'NEILL Maggie O'Neill is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHs Global Core Team, the HumanDHS Education Team, and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Maggie is particularly an Academic Advisor to our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. She is furthermore a Member of the Academic Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). Maggie is based in Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University. Prior to this she worked for eleven years in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University and before that was ten years in the Department of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. She co-edited Sociology (with Tony Spybey): the journal of the British Sociological Association from 1999-2002; she is a member of various professional associations including the National Network of Sex Work Projects and the British Sociological Association and British Criminology Association. She acts as a research consultant on community cohesion issues and has had commissions from the Home Office, and regional Local Authorities. Maggie researches the issue of prostitution, women's experiences, routes in to prostitution, and communities affected (since 1990) and forced migration (since 1998). An expert in participatory action research (working with people, groups, communities to create change) Maggie has a reputation for developing innovative culture work to imagine new ways of understanding and articulating the experiences of crime and victimization, that breach disciplinary boundaries and expand and enliven the methodological horizons of cultural criminology. Her theoretical concept of ethno-mimesis (the inter-connection of sensitive ethnographic work and visual re-presentations) is a methodological tool as well as a process for exploring lived experience, displacement, exile, belonging and humiliation. Research funding has been received from the AHRB; Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Home Office; Leicester Local Authority and Local Education Authority, East Midland Arts, Nottingham Trent and Staffordshire Universities. Books include: • Adorno, Culture and Feminism (Sage); • Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling (Polity); • Prostitution: A Reader (Ashgate) with Roger Matthews; • Gender and the Public Sector (Routledge) with Jim Barry and Mike Dent; • Sex Work Now (Willen) with Rosie Campbell. See also: • Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis, note prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 6th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 15-16, 2005; • together with Ramaswami Harindranath, Theorising Narratives of Exile and Belonging: The Importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in “Understanding” Asylum, in Qualitative Sociology Review, II (1, April 2006), pp. 39-52. • Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR), abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 8th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 14-15, 2006. |
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| KENNETH PARSONS Kenneth Parsons holds the Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Avila University in Kansas City. He teaches philosophy and ethics and is one of the lead organizing members of a centre for Global Studies. He aims to ground this work in a complex confrontation and appreciation of humiliation and dignity. Ken's primary research interests are violence, systemic or structural. Please see here a quote: "in what sense is power an organising force that makes possible, or produces, relations of violence? How can we better understand, both analytically and ethically, the reality of violence where individuals are not intending harm against one another but rather it is part of the fabric of institutional and social life and an avoidable condition of human relations?... One major impediment to the realisation of socially just relations between persons is the lack of ability for people to 'see' (in a literal and moral sense) the violence of everyday life. Through its very identification as a reality we are making moral judgements. Within social justice advocacy and movements, the reduction and elimination of violence as a way to realise more dialogical, nonviolent relations between social beings is of utmost importance." |
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| GRACE FEUERVERGER Grace Feuerverger is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, and of the HumanDHS Education Team. Grace is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. A child of Holocaust survivors, Professor Grace Feuerverger grew up in a multicultural and multilingual home in Montreal and brings her personal and professional experiences to bear on her teaching and research work. Grace was educated at a variety of institutions - McGill University, the Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Alberta, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Toronto. Grace Feuerverger’s research interests focus on theoretical and practical issues of cultural and linguistic diversity, ethnic identity maintenance, and minority language learning within multicultural educational contexts, as well as on conflict resolution and peacemaking in international settings. Her courses at OISE/University of Toronto and her research projects explore the personal and professional texts of those who live within and between various cultural worlds. She continues to direct a multicultural literacy project in various schools in Toronto where she has developed an in-service teacher's guide and video programs. Grace is also Principal Investigator of a large-scale SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) research study, which focuses on the school experiences of immigrant and refugee students in Toronto and Montreal. She is also an invited member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Professor Feuerverger’s recent award-winning book Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel (New York/London: Routledge/Falmer, 2001) is based on a nine-year study that she carried out as researcher in this extraordinary cooperative village and it is about hope in the midst of deadly conflict. It is a reflexive ethnography focusing on the two bilingual, bicultural educational institutions in this place of peaceful coexistence - an elementary school where Jewish and Arab children study together, and the "School for Peace" which is a conflict resolution outreach program for Israeli and Palestinian adolescents and their teachers. Please see furthermore: • The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village, paper prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. • Building Bridges to Peace and Social Justice: An Emancipatory Discourse in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel, abstract prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. • Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (Rotterdam: SensePublishers) explores teaching and learning in schools as a sacred life journey, a quest toward liberation (see the flyer). |
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| PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ MOSQUERA Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and she is part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Patricia is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. Patricia studied psychology at the Autónoma University of Madrid (Spain) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA, The Netherlands). She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. Her Ph.D. involved a series of cross-cultural studies on the role of honor in emotion. She was awarded a post-doctoral research grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to continue her work on honor cultures. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher and as Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam. She is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. Her research focuses on the interplay between culture and emotion. She does research on a variety of emotions: pride, shame, anger, envy, and happiness. She has studied emotions in a variety of cultures and geographical regions: Southern Europe, Northern Europe, North-Africa, Middle-East, the Caribbean islands, U.S.A. Her work on humiliation focuses on the role of this emotion in insult-related conflict. She is especially interested in the situational, cognitive, and behavioral correlates of humiliation. Please see: • Humiliation and Honor, note prepared for Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. • Humiliation and Racism, paper Presented at The National Conference on Racism in Global Context, 9th-11th November 2007, Murdoch University, Australia. • Rodriguez Mosquera, P.M., together with Agneta H. Fischer, Antony S. R. Manstead, and Ruud Zaalberg (2007), Attack, Disapproval, or Withdrawal? The Role of Honor in Anger and Shame Responses to Being Insulted, Cognition and Emotion, in press. |
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| EVELIN G. LINDNER Evelin Gerda Lindner is the Founding Director and President of HumanDH and a social scientist and holds two Ph.D.s, one in medicine and one in psychology. In 1996, she designed a research project on the concept of humiliation and its role in genocide and war. German history served as starting point. |
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| MAURO KOURY Mauro Guilherme Pinheiro Koury works with Anthropology of Emotions and is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. He is a Professor in the Department of Social Science at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil and Director of GREM – Research Group of Anthropology of Sociology of Emotions. |
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| EMANUELA DEL RE Emanuela C. Del Re (1963) Emanuela C. Del Re (1963) is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. She is an Italian scholar specialized in geopolitics and security issues, who has been working on "terrorism" and in particular "religious terrorism" in the last few years focusing on the issue of "terrorists' profiling". Her interest in the link between security and religious issues dates back to the 1980s when she started carrying out long field researches in the field in New Religious Movements (in Europe, South Africa and in the Balkans). She has a somehow eclectic background as she started as a political and cultural anthropologist, but carrying out researches on field in conflict areas at a very early age (her first systematic field work research was carried out in the South African black townships of Mamelodi and Soweto in 1990), she slowly developed other interests under different scientific approaches that derived from the application of the method of participant observation, by which in her studies she tries to apply a multifaceted perspective that in her view allows a much deeper perception of the essence of a particular issue., She is professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences (www.comunicazione.uniroma1.it) of the first University of Rome, named "La Sapienza". She is professor of International Relations within the Master's degree course on "Immigration and Refugees issues" (www.masterimmigrati.it) where she also organized a "International Crisis simulation". She has organized and directs a Jean Monnet module on " European Culture(s), Citizenship(s) and Governance" in the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University "La Sapienza" of Rome. She teaches "Religious Terrorism's issues" in the Master's Degree Course "Human Rights and Conflict Management" of the School S. Anna of Pisa (Italy). She regularly lectures in various Italian and international courses organized by academic institutions as well as governmental institutions and NGOs. She is a presenter of papers and Keynote speaker on the themes of her researches in numerous conferences and seminars (European Parliament; London School of Economics; School for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, London; Universities and Research Institutes in Italy; Central European University, Prague; University of Bielefeld; University of Tirana; University of Sofia; University of Budapest et al.). As an expert in Geopolitics and Security Issues, she acts as reference and consultant for Institutions such as, amongst others, the Italian Ministry of Interiors, Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Italian Ministry of Production, Italian National Radio Network RAI and research institutes such as the Military Centre for Strategic Studies (Rome) and NOMISMA. She is a member and analyst of the European Stability Initiative (ESI). She is a member of the Network of Excellence Transfuse (www.transfuse-organization.org). She is a member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion. She is a known expert in Balkan issues, having carried out long field researches in the area since 1991, focusing in particular on the Albanian question, in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia, where she has followed closely the crises and conflicts that have taken place there in the last fifteen years. She has focused on themes such as: big connection axes in Europe and beyond (Pan-European Corridors, in particular V and VIII) and on geo-strategic and geopolitical implications of oil and oil pipelines, focusing in particular on Caspian Oil (field work in Azerbaijan). In the field of security studies, she is a known expert in trans-national and international illicit trafficking, with a particular focus on the link between illicit trafficking and conflicts, migration and illicit trafficking and illegal trafficking of women aimed at prostitution networks. She has obtained grants for her researches from various institutions, amongst which: Central European University (Prague), University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Military Centre for Strategic Studies (CeMISS, Rome), Department of Infrastructure and Transport ("Province" of Milan), European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy). She has vastly published in Italy and abroad, being the author of books and essays. She is the member of the editing committee and regular contributor of the leading Italian Geopolitical Review Limes (www.limesonline.com) and of the Italian Review of Intelligence Gnosis, the publication of the Italian Ministry of Interiors (www.sisde.it). In her international activity, she has also acted as International Electoral Observer since 1994 for UN, EU, OSCE in Bosnia, Albania, Yemen, South Africa, Algeria, Ukraine, Serbia, Kenya. In Algeria (1997) and Yemen (1997), also drafter of the final report. She has always kept a strong interest in the support of audiovisual techniques in her researches, and in fact she has been the director and author of the text of scientific video-documentaries. She is at the moment filming a documentary on the mutual perception of Jew, Muslim and Catholic teenagers in Europe. Emanuela C. Del Re has two children, Giulio Claudio (8) and Michele Arjuna (4), who have already followed her on field in areas such as Kosovo, Albania, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, but also to western equally interesting areas, in terms of social and political analysis, such as western Europe and the USA. Selected publications, volumes and CD Roms: Caspian Oil. An option of exploitation for the EU, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport-ANAS, CD Rom, 2005; Il Corridoio V, Province of Milan, CD Rom, 2003; Corridor VIII. Realization, financing, works, impact, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport-ANAS, 2003; Paneuropean Corridor VIII, Geopolitical and Geostrategical aspects, Military Centre for Strategic Studies, Rome, 2002, CD Rom; Albania punto a capo, SEAM, Rome, 1997; Albania on the wave of the years, Argo, Lecce,1995; Bread Salt and Heart. The Kanun of Lek Dukaginji amongst the people of the albanian mountains, Argo, Lecce, 1993. Articles and essays: "Adriatico: scenari futuri", in: R. Pavia (a cura di) Adriatico Risorsa d'Europa, Regione Emilia Romagna, Ed. Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2007; "Migrazioni=terrorismo", in: Limes, n.4, 2007; "Il profilo del potenziale terrorista", in Gnosis, Rivista dell'Intelligence Italiana, n. 2, 2007; "Status del Kossovo. Alla vigilia di un'epoca", Forum, in: Gnosis, Rivista dell'Intelligence Italiana, n. 4, 2007; "Terrorismi e Religiosi", in Gnosis, Rivista di Intelligence italiana, n.2, 2006, pp.34-48, 2006; "Il crimine organizzato straniero, ovvero le mafie d'importazione", in: Gnosis, n.3, 2006, pp. 4-28; "Balcani ed Europa Orientale", Cucchi,G., A. Politi (a cura di), Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2005 sulle prospettive economico-strategiche, A.G.R.A, Roma, 2006, pp.275-298; "Quanto costa lo status", in: Kosovo. Lo stato delle mafie, Limes, Quaderni speciali, n.6, 2006, pp.79-88; "Terrore e terrorismo internazionale. Breve excursus storico e tentativo di definire l'attualità", in: Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali, n. 4, Ottobre-Dicembre, 2006, pp.608-619; "Guerre sante e guerra cosmica", in: Nomos e Khaos. Rapporto Nomisma 2006 sulle prospettive economico-strategiche, A.G.R.A., Roma, 2006, pp.253-274; "Energia geopolitica. Dall'Unione Europea all'Europa Sudorientale, passando per Russia e Turchia", in: Est-Ovest, Rivista di studi sull'Integrazione Europea, n.6, 2006, pp. 11-29; When our men arrive. Unmik's post-conflict administration of Kosovo, in: P. Siani-Davies (a cura di) Post-conflict Kosovo, Oxford University Press, Routledge, London, 2003; "I servizi segreti al G8", in Limes, n.3, 2001, pp.95-102; "Crimine e stato in Albania", in: Gli Stati mafia, LIMES, Numero speciale, n.2, 2000, pp.49-64; Albanian society in evolution. The migration factor, in: C. Lanni (ed.), Albania. A Country of Europe. The migration factor, Torino, EGA, 2000, pp. 9-43; " Albania: social, political and economic questions in the process of democratization", in: AWR Bulletin, n.1, 1999, pp.28-38; " Albania in transition: the question of identity and the customary law", in: Bianchini S., Schopflin G. (a cura di), State building in the Balkans. The dilemmas on the Eve of the XXI century, Longo, Ravenna, 1999, pp.167-194. Video-documentaries: Sangam. A River of Humanity at the Kumbh Mela, C.A.T.T.I.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1995; The mountains, the qiri, and the Blessed Virigin, C.A.T.T.I.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1993; In the light of the Elohim. The Raelian Movement: a UFO cult, C.A.T.T.I.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1992. |
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| ROSITA ALBERT Rosita Albert is a Visiting Scholar in the Social Psychology area of the Psychology Department at Harvard, and her research focuses on Intercultural Relations and Intercultural Conflicts. She is also an Associate Professor in the pioneering program in Intercultural Communication at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is a Founding Fellow and a member of the Governing Board of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. She is originally from Brazil, and her mother and grandparents left Germany to escape from Hitler. It is because of this background that she works to create respectful relations among groups from different backgrounds. As to her educational background and her positions, Rosita Albert earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has taught in Psychology, Education and Communication at a number of Universities. Rosita Albert has conducted research in a variety of topics, including research on a) the development and evaluation of the Intercultural Sensitizer, an instrument designed to foster intercultural sensitization; b) interactions between Latin Americans/Latinos and North or Anglo-Americans; c) the experiences and difficulties of Asian employees in American companies; d) conflicts and mutual misperceptions between African-Americans and Koreans in the U.S.; e) cultural differences in perceptions of negotiation; f) the effect of intercultural courses on intercultural development; and f) the effect of online interactions on perceptions of the other. With respect to teaching, training and consulting, Rosita Albert has taught courses in social psychology, intercultural communication, negotiation, and diversity. These courses have included students from many fields, countries all over the world, and a very wide range of cultures. She has conducted intercultural and diversity training, given presentations, and consulted for a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the 3-M company, Booz Allen Hamilton, the National Association of Transplant Coordinators, the University of São Paulo, the University of Minnesota and a number of other institutions. As to languages and international/intercultural experience, Rosita Albert speaks Portuguese, French, Spanish and English, and has had extensive experience with cultures from many parts of the world. Please see Violent Interethnic Conflict and Human Dignity: Major Issues in Intercultural Research and Knowledge Utilization, the abstract she prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006. |
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| LYNNE EDWARDS Lynne Edwards is the Director and Coordinator of the Napier HumanDHS Group. She is currently working in the field of employee well-being as the Knowledge Transfer Project Developer and Co-ordinator in the Edinburgh Human Resource Academy, Napier University Business School where her remit is to focus on employee well being. In this context she is particularly keen to further develop her earlier work on young people and bereavement and is now looking at bereavement in the workplace given the changing workplace demographic including migration and asylum issues. Lynne is also planning to develop earlier work on bullying, where she focussed on primary and secondary schools and now plans to look at bullying in the workplace, particularly in health care settings. Lynne has co-designed and is developing two third year modules for the MSc in Social Research in the School of Health and Social Science that builds on her skills and knowledge in working in collaboration with people who use mental health services. The modules are: Participation and Action in Health Research and Ethical Issues in Health Research. The course is designed for health professionals as continuing professional development and will give them practical knowledge and action directly useful to their work in organisations and the community. They will be enabled to analyse the levels of empowerment primary in health services through the use of owned experience which give rise to the ethical issues in engaging under-represented groups in the research process. Lynne is also one of Her Majesty's Commissioners for Mental Health (part -time), and on the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (MWCS). The MWCS is an independent organisation working to safeguard the rights and welfare of everyone with a mental illness, learning disability or other mental disorder. The duties of the MWCS are set out in the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) ( Scotland ) Act 2003. Lynne is on the Management Group, the Investigations and Inquiries Group and the Child and Adolescent Group. As part of her work on the MWCS she visits people in both hospital and community settings to check on their care and treatment and to make sure that healthcare staff are operating the principles of the 2003 Act. She has recently completed research that looked at how Independent Advocacy Services have been impacted by the 2003 Act. Independent Advocacy Services support mental health and learning disabled service users to have their voices heard and listened to in healthcare settings and in hearings held under the 2003 Act. She has an interest in the involvement of vulnerable people and external partners working as collaborative leaders in the development of mental health services and the education of health professionals. As part of this interest she is currently involved in the Scottish Government's Delivering for Change: Mental Health Leadership Programme where she is the Functional Set Leader for the Mental Health Service User Leaders. This involves building the leadership skills of service users and their development/support workers through the use of action learning. Lynne was appointed as a visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Family and community Medicine/ Migration Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm in 2006 where she will work in collaboration with Dr Salma Siddique, an expert in medical anthropology and visiting Reader. From 2003 to 2005 she was involved in developing a partnership of service users, carers and mental health nurse lecturers to work together on projects to enhance the education of mental health nurses. These projects gained national recognition for innovative practice. During the previous 18 years she held academic research posts with Aberdeen University and the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE), latterly the SCRE Centre, Glasgow University. Here she began her work in the areas of adolescent bereavement, bullying and the emotional well being of young people. She also worked on a wide variety of externally funded projects in the field of child, adolescent and adult education. She has held a number of consultancy posts including the social inclusion of people with long term mental health problems, to carers of people with mental health problems and Mental Health Officer training. At Aberdeen University she researched on decision making in the field of nuclear power developments and land planning implications. Lynne is also a trained careers adviser, holding a diploma in careers guidance. Selected Publications: • 2005 Edwards, L. in Tew, J; Gell, G and Foster, S. (eds) Learning from Experience; a good practice guide. A Strategy for Involvement: service user and carer involvement in mental health education: a good practice guide. Mental Health in Higher Education. • 2003 Ewards, L; Dockrell, A and Powney, J. Supporting Bereaved Young People: a support pack. SCRE Centre, Glasgow University. • 2000 Powney, J; McPake,J; Edwards; L and Hamilton, S. Gender Equality and Lifelong Learning. Equal Opportunities Scotland. • 1992 Johnstone, M; Munn, P and Edwards L. Action Against Bullying: a support pack for schools. SCRE Scottish Office Education Department. • 1980 Edwards, L and Rowan-Robinson, J. Whatever Happened to the Planning Inquiry Commission? Journal of Planning and Environment Law. • 1994 Edwards, L(ed), Munn, P and Fogelman (co-eds) Education for Democratic Citizenship in Europe - New Challenges for Secondary Education. NITRA Council of Europe. Swetts & Zeitlinger bv. • 1979 Pearce, D. W; L, Edwards and Beuret G. Decision Making for Energy Futures. McMillan London. |
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| MYRA MENDIBLE Myra Mendible is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. Myra was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to the US as a child. Mendible earned a Ph.D. (with honors) in American Literature and Culture Studies from the University of Miami in 1993 and then joined Florida Gulf Coast University as founding faculty in 1994. In this capacity she contributed to the design of the University's Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies degree, which introduces students to a series of social, political, and cultural issues in their historical contexts; she also served as co-founder of the English program, developing curriculum, formulating goals and outcomes, and serving in an administrative capacity as English Program Leader. Dr. Mendible has presented her interdisciplinary research at both national and international conferences. In 1996, for example, she delivered a paper at the University of Havana, where she reconnected with the land of her birth. In the summer of 2004, she participated in an invitation-only roundtable on Womens Leadership at Oxford University in the UK, where she spoke on the issue of gendered humiliation. Dr. Mendible has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including Genders: Innovative Work in the Arts, Humanities and Social Theories; International Fiction Review; Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction; Florida Law Review; Feminist Media Studies, and the Journal of American Culture. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled, Mediated Humiliations: Culture, Politics, and the New Mass Media and is the Editor of a forthcoming anthology on the history of Latinas representations in US film and media (University of Texas Press). |
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| JIUQUAN HAN Jiuquan Han is Associate Professor of Linguistics in College of Foreign Languages, Hebei Agricultural University. During 1985-1989, he was educated as an English major in the Department of Foreign Languages, Hebei Teachers University. While teaching English in Hebei Agricultural University, Handan Branch, he was thirsty for reading any interesting book in the fields of aesthetics, law and philosophy. During 2002-2006, he was educated as a part-time graduate in the Department of English, Beijing International Studies University, where he read cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and anthropology. And he comes to understand that it is impossible to probe human's nature without comprehending the schematization or conceptualization process of a certain idea which guides human being's behavior. His major works are: • A cognitive view of the Number Complex in ancient Chinese Culture, paper prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. • "Five Penalties": A Psychological-Cultural-Social-Historical Construct Paper prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007. |
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| BRIAN J. TRAUTMAN Brian J. Trautman is a doctoral student in the educational leadership and change program at Fielding Graduate University. His dissertation research is focused on education initiatives using ‘The Earth Charter’. Brian is an adjunct faculty member with the peace and world order studies program at Berkshire Community College. His primary research interests are peace education, social and ecological justice studies, and human rights education. Brian also holds a strong interest in Indigenous worldview studies. |
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| EINAR STRUMSE Einar Strumse is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and the HumanDHS Architecture Team. Einar Strumse (Cand. Psychol. and PhD in psychology) is associate professor of psychology and head of the psychology programme at the Lillehammer University College (LUC). He is also adjunct associate professor of environmental psychology at the University of Bergen. Since 1990 his research in the field of environmental psychology has focused upon landscape preference/landscape aesthetics, environmental attitudes and predictors of environmental behaviors. Please see: • Summary of the Special Session on the Role Played by Human Dignity and Humiliation for Environmental Psychology, prepared for 11th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Norway , 23rd June -1st July, 2008. |
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| SIMON SOUYRIS STRUMSE Simon Souyris Strumse graduated from a music option with an exam in classical piano. After that he's spent one year at the Nansen Academy - Norwegian Humanistic Academy, where he studied politics, culture, philosophy, conflict resolution and dialogue. Since then he has been active in the refugee board of SOS Racism, working with norwegian refugee policy, and now works in the central committee of The Socialist Youth League of Norway as the head of international relations. In 2009 he hopes to finish his bachelor program at the University College of Oslo. Other than that he has been working as an intern in "The NGO Platform on Shipbreaking", a global coalition of human rights and environmental NGOs working for safe and environmentally sound shipbreaking, is an elected representative both in his local municipality and at the Oslo University College. Simon is a notorious activist and believes that durable change is only possible when every one of us change our own societies. "Therefore it is of utter importance that people be provided with the insight and the tools necessary to change their own life and their surroundings." - Simon S. Strumse |
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| BJØRN AKSEL FLATÅS Bjørn Aksel Flatås is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. He is the Director of Research of the Falstad Center, near Levanger in Trøndelag, the middle of Norway. Falstad is a building complex that was erected in 1921 as a special school for delinquent boys. In 1941, the building was confiscated and transformed into a prison camp by the German SS Nazi-occupiers. About 5000 people from thirteen nations were imprisoned here in the period of 1941 to 1945. Most were Norwegian political prisoners. Approximately 220 prisoners were executed in the forest nearby in the period of 1942 to 1943. After the liberation of Norway, Falstad prison camp was transformed into a forced labor camp. Over three thousand members of the Norwegian Nazi Party served their sentence here. Falstad Museum opened in 1995, celebrating the 50th anniversary of liberation. Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Center was established in 2000. Education, documentation and communication concerning the history of imprisonment during World War II and Human Rights constitute the core activities of the Center. The Falstad Archive consists of objects and documents originating from the prison camp. |
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| KATRINE FANGEN Katrine Fangen, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. She is a sociologist, working at the Department of Sociology, University of Oslo. She has published several books and journal articles within the research-field of racism, national, political and ethnic identity, stigmatisation and youth subcultures. Her MA-thesis was a study of three political youth groups in Eastern Germany in the period before, during and after the unification of the two German states (in 1990). This study examines the adaptation strategies and identity work among east-German communist youth, anarchist youth and neo-Nazi youth from Berlin, Leipzig and Weimar. Fangen's PhD thesis (Pride and Power - a Sociological Interpretation of the Norwegian Radical Nationalist Underground Movement, Department of Sociology, University of Oslo, 1999) is a study of Norwegian neo-Nazi youths, which, similar to her MA-thesis, is based on a combination of participant observation (one year) and in depth interviews. This thesis examines identity work, ideology, style, violence, gender-differences and interpersonal interaction among the Neo-Nazis. Attention is also paid to how society can prevent these kinds of groupings, and how one can encourage young people who join these groups to leave. This study is also published in two Norwegian books: • A Book About Neo-Nazism Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2001. • Behind Neo-Nazism Oslo : Cappelen, 2002. It is as well published (among others) in the following journal articles and book-chapters: • 'Separate or Equal? The Emergence of an All-Female Group in Norway 's Rightist Underground', Terrorism & Political Violence 9:3, 1997. • 'Right-Wing Skinheads. Binary Oppositions and Working-Class Nostalgia', Young (Nordic Youth Research Journal) No. 3, 1998. • 'On the Margin of Life. Life-Stories of Far-Right Activists' Acta Sociologica, No. 4, 1999. • "'Radical nationalism': What are the key contemporary conceptual and theoretical issues?" Sosiologisk årbok, nr. 1, årgang 5.1, 2000. • 'Living out our Ethnic Instincts. Ideological Beliefs among Right-Wing Activists in Norway ', Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo: Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture; Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1998. • 'A Death Mask of Masculinity. The Brotherhood of Norwegian Right-Wing Skinheads', Søren Ervø and Thomas Johansson (eds.) Among Men. Moulding Masculinities vol. 1 (Hants: Ashgate Publ. Ltd., 2003). • 'Eastern Germany 1990. Youthculture as adaption to a changing society' in: Manuela du Bois-Reymond, Lynne Chisholm, Sibylle Hübner-Funk, Burkhardt Sellin (eds.): Youth in the European Context. A Scientific Reader,1994. Finally, Fangen has published research reports on forced marriages and a study of living conditions and life quality among people suffering from HIV/AIDS. She has also published several research reports on racism and integration of immigrants. Apart from her PhD-thesis, her main publication so far is a lecture book in participant observation which has been published in Norwegian and Swedish: • Deltagende observasjon[Participant Observation], Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, 2004. • Deltagande observation[Participant Observation], Stockholm: Liber förlag, 2005. Katrine's present study is a five year long study of identity work, integration and mental health among Norwegian Somali immigrants. Please see Humiliation Experienced by Somali Immigrants in Norway In Journal of Refugee Studies, 19 (1, March), 2006; Katrine developed this article from a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Humiliation Studies, Maison des Hommes, Paris, 15th-18th of September, 2004. |
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| ØYVIND EIKREM Øyvind Eikrem (b. 1973), Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. He is Associate Professor of Social Sciences and of Mental Health at the University College of Stord/Haugesund, Norway. He studied social anthropology, clinical psychology and philosophy at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ending up with postgraduate degrees in all three fields. Eikrem obtained his PhD in 2005 from the same institution on a dissertation on the magic and mythic dimensions of modern economic life. Eikrem has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in The Netherlands Antilles and in Colombia. His research has focused on ethnicity and identity, economic anthropology, psychological anthropology, the psychological consequences of Colombian violence and terror, the nature of health and its cultural variability, and on the theory of the social sciences. He also has strong interests in art and philosophy, having published on the philosophies of Foucault, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, among others. Eikrem has a private practice as a clinical psychologist and he is also a member of the NGO Building Peaces, working closely with Rais Neza Boneza and Vegar Jordanger. He is married and has a daughter. |
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SOPHIE SCHAARSCHMIDT Sophie Schaarschmidt is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She was born nearby Dresden, Germany, 27 years ago. She has lived and studied in several countries, including Great Britain, Netherlands and Malta. She is a doctorate student of psychology working at the "FernUniversität" in Hagen, Germany (a distance learning university). Sophie writes: In my free time I've been actively involved in the Youth Programme of the European Commission (EC) by volunteering, setting up (inter)national youth projects and training. Over the last years I have become interested in the co-operation between Europe and the Middle East. My Master thesis focussed on differences in cultural values of youth and youth workers engaging in the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Programme of the EC which aims at creating co-operative youth projects in both regions. I was involved in establishing CYT (Conyoungtion) association, a Dutch based association that facilitates and implements intercultural youth projects with a specific focus on cooperation with partners from the Middle East. My dissertation will now focus on (emotional) barriers in dialogue between youth from Israel and Palestine, which is of specific interest for me. I've visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Westbank) several times, and I've lived there for a period of 3 months. For my future I envision to get involved in projects in that region that are aimed at creating an atmosphere for and facilitating dialogue for peaceful change. I like working in the spirit of the HumanDHS group because I really believe that here we're dealing with a core issue of human relations and peace, be it in the micro or the macro level. I feel very connected to the vision and concept and the ambition to research, publish and put into practise models of how human relations can improve through mutual respect, dignity and appreciation and the avoidance of humiliation, counterhumiliation, shaming and blaming. This connects very well with the concept of non-violent communication which I find very important and valuable, especially in the field of peace work. Please see here some of Sophie's publications: • Cognitive and Emotional Ingroup-identification of Youth in Israel and Palestine, note prepared for Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. • Samen in Zee: Israelis and Palestinians in the Same Boat Camp. • Contribution prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007. |
| MICHAEL SAYLER Michael Sayler is a minister in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His dissertation at the Fielding Graduate Institute is entitled Humiliation and the Poor: A Study in the Management of Meaning (Ph.D. dissertation, Fielding Graduate Institute, 2004, available through the University of Michigan dissertation service), a study of how homeless people (in an affluent society) manage the meaning of humiliating experiences. |
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| TINA OTTMAN Esta Tina Ottman is also a Member of the HumanDHS's Global Core Team, and Director and Coordinator of HumanDHS's World Films for Equal Dignity Project. Born in Manchester, UK, and educated at Oxford University, Tina Ottman is the daughter of a German Kindertransport refugee, and has worked in teaching, journalism and publishing for over two decades. She lived for around a decade in Israel as a new immigrant, and has now been lecturing at Japanese universities for 11 years. Currently Tina Ottman is Associate Professor at the School of Government (in the School of Law ) at Kyoto University, Japan. She attempts to balance research interests in Israel/Palestine/gender with labour activism, and is a coordinator of the Japan conference series Peace as A Global Language. |
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| DONNA FUJIMOTO Donna Fujimoto is Associate Professor at Osaka Jogakuin College in Osaka, Japan where she teaches English as a Foreign Language, Intercultural Communication and Human Rights courses. She was born in the U.S. and has lived in Japan for over 26 years, and this experience prompted her to organize a study group of other long-term Nikkei residents of Japan (Nikkei means people of Japanese heritage). Donna has been in the field of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) for over 30 years, and she has an M.A. from the Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii, and is a doctoral candidate at Temple University, Japan. She is the Chair of the Intercultural Communication Interest Section of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Co-Publicity Chair for the Pragmatics Special Interest Group of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching), Co-Program Chair of SIETAR Kansai chapter (Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research), and Coordinator of the Contrast Culture Method, an intercultural training group. She is currently involved in research on Conversation Analysis, Nikkei-related topics, Intercultural Communication and issues about racism and teachers in Japan. |
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| EDWARD J. EMERY Edward J. Emergy is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and HumanDHS Education Team. He is the Chief Representative to the United Nations for World Information Transfer, an international NGO in Genral Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations. He is also a Senior Partner with Ethical Futures and a psychoanalyst in private practice. Dr. Emery has lectured and taught internationally. Please see: • An Ethics of Engagement: Shame and the Genesis of Violence, paper presented at a Conference of the Peacemaker Corps Association in Honor of Sergio Vieira de Mello "Peacemaking in the Family: Nuclear, Community and Global" United Nations Headquarters, February 27, 2004. Forthcoming in Psychotherapy and Politics International in 2004 (2) 3. • Musings on Shame and Idolization, abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007. |
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| LENE HULBAKVIKEN LAFOSSE Lene Hulbakviken Lafosse is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and HumanDHS Education Team. Her current project is titled "Stories of trauma, a study of space for action and possibilites." Through the telling of life stories she will show the implications of trauma in the life of young adults/adults from the Middle-East and/or North Africa presently living in Norway. Her project will be presented as a her thesis for the Cand. Polit. degree at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. In relation to experiences of trauma, an aim is to undress the "dialog" between the sense of the self, the knowledge of the self, the informants’ coping strategies and their feeling of happiness and well-being. Her scope is to reveal whether and how the category or term "trauma" is manifested in a cultural context and how the cultural context contributes to give meaning and color to the term for the individual and the collective. An aim is to reveal taboos in relation to trauma, and how shame and humiliation can be aspects of trauma that may contribute to a reassuring of the taboos. Although Lene Lafosse’s project is funded by a social anthropological foundation, she moves towards psychology colored by phenomenology and gestalt theory. Through the project she wants to concentrate efforts, focusing on three main academic and social concerns. Firstly she wants to contribute to the rising awareness on the implications of aspects related to trauma in our societies. Among others, one pillar for her project is the Norwegian Ministry’s focus on the economic and social costs of repercussions of trauma such as the circle of violence. Her second focus is to address collective and individual implications of trauma, and her project will have a direct address to instituions working with this and related themes. Her third concern is to show the cultural complexity that is experienced in today’s Norway, in regard to how we look at sickness and the subsequent healing process. |
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| VIVIAN LUN Vivian Lun is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. She has recently obtained the degree of M. Phil. in Psychology from the Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Michael Harris Bond as academic advisor. In her undergraduate and postgraduate years, she worked on projects concerning individuals' responses to interpersonal harm and interpersonal relationship harmony. She is also interested in cross-cultural research, because she believes they help understand and respect the similarities and differences among people from different cultural backgrounds. |
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| SOWAN WONG (SOPHIA) Sowan Wong is also a Member of the HumanDHS Research Team, and of the Global Coordinating Team. She has recently obtained her Ph.D in psychology from Brunel University, West London, the U.K., under the supervision of Prof. Robin Goodwin. Her thesis was a cross-cultural study on work-family conflict and marital satisfaction. She received her M.Phil and Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Prof. Michael Harris Bond as her academic supervisor. She is interested in looking at culture influences on the attitudes, values, and beliefs of individuals, which then influence individuals' behaviors. She is currently involved in devising and delivering an intervention program which aims to enhance parents' parenting competencies, which can in turn lead to enhanced parent-child relationship. The program is being conducted in a local community in Hong Kong. The ultimate goal of the program is to promote family harmony, happiness, and health. Selected publication: Selected publication: • Measuring Emotionality across Cultures: Self-Reported Emotional Experiences as Conceptualizations of Self (retrievable also from http://self.uws.edu.au/Conferences/2002_CD_Wong_&_Bond.pdf), in Graven, Rhonda G., Marsh, Herbert W., and Simpson, Katrina B. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Biennial Conference. Self-Concept Research: Driving International Research Agendas (Sydney: SELF Research Center, University of Western Sydney, 2002). • Wong, S., & Goodwin, R. (2007). Predicting marital satisfaction across cultures. In A. Chybicka, & M. Kazmierczak (Eds.), Appreciating diversity: Cultural and gender issues.(pp. 171-109). Kracow, Poland: Oficyna Wydawnicza "Impulse". • Wong, S., Bond, M. H., & Rodriguez Mosquera, P. M. (2008). The influence of cultural value orientations on self-reported emotional expression across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39, 224-229. (Impact Factor: 1.524). • Wong, S., & Goodwin, R. (2009). The impact of work on marriage in three cultures: A qualitative study. Community, Work, and Family, 12, 213-232. • Wong, S., & Goodwin, R. (in press). Exploring marital satisfaction across three cultures: A qualitative study. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. (Impact Factor: 0.870). |
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| ANA LJUBAS Ana Ljubas is currently working on her doctoral thesis at the Department of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany, examining the influence of culture on communication styles, intimacy and conflict resolution practices in intercultural couple relationships. She is looking at how mixed couples (German-French) have developed their communication patterns and established intimacy, taking into account their different cultural background and reflecting upon gender roles. At the moment she is conducting interviews with mixed couples (being married vs. having been divorced) of different ages, one sample living in different regions of Germany, the other sample living in several French departments. Based on initial interviews a questionnaire will be designed which will be used for a comparative study also including non-mixed couples (living in France/Germany). According to those empirical findings that underline the cultural component of the expression of feelings and thoughts in the context of couple relationships, she is looking at how the investigated couples are managing their specific situation highlighting affective, behavioral and cognitive components of their experiences. |
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| MIRIAM MARTON Miriam H. Marton is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. She is an attorney and a social worker in New York (after Detroit, MI), USA. Prior to practicing law, Miriam Marton spent 14 years as a therapist specializing in the treatment of and advocacy for domestic violence and sexual abuse survivors. During that time period, she also developed and implemented programs for the community aimed at educating teachers, parents, and professionals on the underlying dynamics, symptoms, and consequences of domestic violence and sexual abuse. She has also conducted research and presented workshops on the impact of western religion on the contemporary woman's psyche. Please see Relevance of Sexual Violence Against Female Noncombatant Victims of Destructive Conflict in the Study of Humiliation, paper prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. Please see furthermore Terrorism and Humiliation, note prepared for Round Table 1 of "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. See also Humiliation in the Home: Survivors of Childhood Rape in the United States, note prepared for Round Table 3 of "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. |
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| ANA LJUBINKOVIC Ana Ljubinkovic is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. She holds a Masters degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights and is currently doing her PhD in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex, UK. The research is entitled 'Collateral Effects or the New Wretched of the World: Invisible Victims of Human Rights Crusades'. Ana is currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Sociology Department, University of Essex and as a temporary research officer for CARE International in Kenya. Main spheres of interest include sociology of human rights, military humanitarian intervention, ethnographic research, humiliation and refugees. Please see Milk and Urine: Intentional Humiliation as a part of Humanitarian Assistance, note prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. Please see also From Violent to Subtle Humiliation: Case of Somali Victims of UNOSOM Living in the Refugee Camps in Kenya, note prepared for Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. See furthermore Is Hope the Last to Die? Research Study On The Situational Analysis In The Dadaab Refugee Camps, 2005, and Report on Field Research Conducted in Dadaab Refugee Camps (16.05.05 - 01.06.05), 2005. |
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| ZINTHIYA GANESHPANCHAN Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan is a doctoral research student at Loughborough's Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, focusing her doctoral dissertation upon "Women and Conflict a case study of Sri Lanka." Her special interest is Gender and Violence. Zinthiya is currently working for Homeless International, an International Development Agency working on Urban Poverty. Before joining Homelss Internatioanl she worked for the Newcastle City Council Regional & European Programmes Team and was a voluntary worker for the North East Refugee Services. Zinthiya's aim is • to study women and conflict in relation to Sri Lanka, exploring ethnic nationalism's historical and cultural forms and meanings; • to map the forms and impact of women's involvement in conflict and violence; • to analyse the political, social and cultural impact of women's involvement in conflict/war, specifically in relation to identity formation and political involvement; • to explore to what extent women have accommodated, participated and/or resisted relations with national movements and with the state, their families and militarism; • to develop a analysis on women in ethnic national conflicts re-thinking the issue of difference' with specific focus on re-representation, identity and political involvement; • a related objective is to explore and analyse issues of gender specific harms in conflict, and the extent to which such harms have been recognised in the determination of refugee status and intended to fill in the gap in the current literature on women and conflict with specific focus upon Sri Lanka. Zinthiya is kindly building on our parents union idea and developing it further, please see Parents and Equal Dignity. Please see Domestic and Gender based Violence among Refugees and Internally Displaced Women (2005). See also New Parenting, a text written for Parents and Equal Dignity, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. |
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| JOSEPH A. AGARD Joseph A. Agard is a Mediator/Arbitrator and Guardian Ad Litem in New York City. He studied EU and US Law, dispute resolution and international affairs in Europe and the United States. He holds a Masters Degree in law (UK), also advanced qualifications in international arbitration, transnational civil litigation, intercultural negotiation/ mediation law and practice and international affairs. A former Guyana Scholar, European Fellow, senior public servant also police detective Joseph was an 'A' student at New York University. He has lived, worked and studied in the UK, USA, France, Germany, Belgium Luxembourg and Holland and received training and exposure at the European Court of Justice, European Court of First Instance, European Court of Auditors, The European Parliament, European Commission, European Council, The European Reconstruction Bank; The French Parliament and French Supreme Court; the United Nations in New York; also with several humanitarian organizations. Among other professional associations Joseph is a member of the American Society of International Law. He is affiliated with the United Nations Association of USA, the City University of New York International Center (CUNY), the Medicare Rights Center as a Medicaid/Medicare Counselor also with several other NGOs. In 2004 he was awarded the Volunteer Service Award by CUNY Graduate Center also the Certificate of Appreciation by the Medicare Rights Center for outstanding voluntary service. Joseph studied at the Faculty of Law Graduate School, University of Leicester, UK; University of Paris II, Paris Institute of European Legal Studies, France; University of Humboldt Faculty of Law, Germany; Tulane University School of Law, USA and New York University, Center for International Affairs, USA. |
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| SEEMA SHEKHAWAT Seema Shekhawat holds a doctoral degree from the University of Jammu, J&K on the topic “Impact of Conflict Situation, Militancy and Displacement on Women: A Study of Jammu Region.” She has written a book titled “Conflict and Displacement in Jammu and Kashmir: The Gender Dimension.” She works together with Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, who holds a doctoral degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru Uni-versity, New Delhi on the topic “Russia and the Kashmir Issue Since 1991: Perception, Attitude and Policy.” He has written a book titled “India-Russia Partnership: Kashmir, Chechnya and Issues of Convergence.” Currently, both are doing research on the Kashmir across the line of control. They are also editors of quarterly newsletter Across LoC. Both are affiliated to the Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies, University of Jammu. Please see: • Conflict and Displacement in Jammu and Kashmir: The Gender Dimension, Jammu, India: Saksham Books International, 2006. • Conflict in Kashmir: The Gender Dimension, abstract prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. • Shekhawat, Seema & Mahapatra, Debidatta Aurobinda (2006), Kargil Displaced of Akhnoor in Jammu and Kashmir - Enduring Ordeal and Bleak Future: A Report on the Border Displacement and Return in Akhnoor. • Mahapatra, Debidatta Aurobinda and Shekhawat, Seema (2007), Conflict in Kashmir and Chechnya: Political and Humanitarian Dimensions. Delhi, India: Lancer's Books. • Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, in The Icfai Journal of Governance and Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 43-56, December 2007. • Mahapatra, Debidatta Aurobinda and Shekhawat, Seema (2008), Viewing Kashmir Conflict through the Prism of Dignity and Humiliation, abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008. |
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| DEBIDATTA AUROBINDA MAHAPATRA Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra works with the Centre for Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Mumbai in India. He holds a doctoral degree from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on the topic “Russia and the Kashmir Issue Since 1991: Perception, Attitude and Policy.” He has written a book titled “India-Russia Partnership: Kashmir, Chechnya and Issues of Convergence.” He works together with Seema Shekhawat, who holds doctoral degree from the University of Jammu, J&K on the topic “Impact of Conflict Situation, Militancy and Displacement on Women: A Study of Jammu Region.” She has written a book titled “Conflict and Displacement in Jammu and Kashmir: The Gender Dimension.” Currently, both are doing research on the Kashmir across the line of control. They are also editors of quarterly newsletter Across LoC. Both are affiliated to the Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies, University of Jammu. Please see: • India-Russia Partnership: Kashmir, Chechnya and Issues of Convergence, New Delhi, New Century, 2006. • Plight of Divided Families in Jammu and Kashmir, abstract prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. • Shekhawat, Seema & Mahapatra, Debidatta Aurobinda (2006), Kargil Displaced of Akhnoor in Jammu and Kashmir - Enduring Ordeal and Bleak Future: A Report on the Border Displacement and Return in Akhnoor. • Mahapatra, Debidatta Aurobinda and Shekhawat, Seema (2007), Conflict in Kashmir and Chechnya: Political and Humanitarian Dimensions. Delhi, India: Lancer's Books. • A Perspective on Peace in Kashmir, in The Icfai Journal of Governance and Public Policy, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 31-42, December 2007. • Mahapatra, Debidatta Aurobinda and Shekhawat, Seema (2008), Viewing Kashmir Conflict through the Prism of Dignity and Humiliation, abstract prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008. • The Pearls and String of the Theory. • BRIC Seeking Fresh Answers to Old Problems. |
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| LONE ALICE JOHANSEN Lone Alice Johansen is currently working on her master thesis on African conflict resolution traditions (ubuntu) effect on perceived humiliation. She wants to investigate how the humiliation that is connected to being part of an ethnic/cultural group in conflict can be reduced by using ubuntu. To explore Ubuntu's effect on perceived humiliation she is going to do an empirical study at a dialogue/conflict resolution seminar in Norway. Here students from Sudan, Great Lakes Region and Ethiopia/ Eritrea will participate as representatives for their conflict areas. She wants to use a method combining questionnaire, participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The semi-structured interviews will be conducted before and after the dialogue seminar. The interviews (pre and post the seminar) and the participant observation will focus only on one of the three groups who are going to take part in the ISFiT Dialogue seminar, and at the post seminar interview it may be possible to conduct a group interview. As opposed to the qualitative approach to the study, all of the three groups will receive a questionnaire before and after the seminar (see project description). She has tried to reformulate the "human inventory index" into an index for humiliation experienced as a group member. She searches for other ways of measuring humiliation that are more connected with conflict and experienced humiliation because of ones group belonging and asks whether there is a way to measure humiliation that is more related to how people experience humiliation in conflict. Please see here her project African Solutions to African Intergroup Conflicts: Ubuntu and Humiliation, A Study of Ubuntu and Its Effect on Perceived Humiliation in an Interactive Track Two Dialogue Seminar. |
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| PAMELA M. CREED Pamela M. Creed is a doctoral student at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia. Her dissertation research explores narrative connection between the macro and micro levels. In particular, she is studying the narrative that the Bush administration created to legitimize and mobilize the American public, especially White men, for the preemptive invasion of Iraq. At the micro level, she will interview American male soldiers who served actively in Iraq in order to explore the emotive and cognitive connections they made to the macro narrative. Pamela has done research with Joseph Montville on the relationship between the North and South in the United States. She studied the historical Northern narrative of insult and disdain toward the South in an attempt to enhance understanding of the historical alienation between the white North and the white South. This relationship has been marked by cultural, religious, and intellectual tensions, which have created an identity-based split where resentments against Northern insult and exploitation, once strictly centered in the South, are now dispersed throughout the United States in the so-called 'red' states. Pamela presented this work with Joseph Montville in April 2005 at the Esalen Institute Center for Theory and Research. She also presented this study at University of Massachusetts, Boston in November 2005 at the "New Generation of Ideas" conference. Pamela holds a M.Ed. from the University of Maryland and a BA in History from the American University in Washington, DC. In the summer of 2006 she will study local educational policy for disadvantaged populations under a Fulbright Scholarship in South Africa. She teaches in Fairfax County, VA. Please see here: • The Dominant American Narrative between 9/11/01 and the Invasion of Iraq, an introduction to a potential dissertation, written for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006. The dissertation aims to analyze the dominant American narrative between 9/11/01 and the invasion of Iraq through positioning theory and the literature on humiliation and conflict. • An American Conflict of Mind: Competing Narratives of National Identity and Values, 2007. |
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| METTE LEBECH Mette Lebech lectures in philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth since 1998. She has lectured and published widely on the idea of Human Dignity, on bioethics and on the philosophy of Edith Stein. In 2006 she defended her thesis The Identification of Human Dignity. Hermeneutic, Eidetic and Constitutional Analyses in the Light of the Phenomenology of Edith Stein in Leuven, Belgium. She is currently the President of the Irish Philosophical Society and the General Editor of its Yearbook. Please see here is most recent book publication: • On the Problem of Human Dignity: A Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Investigation,Würzburg: Könighausen und Neumann., 2009. |
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TONYA R. HAMMER Tonya R. Hammer is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the Global Coordinating Team. In August 2008, Tonya took up the position of Assistant Professor with the University of Houston-Clear Lake, in Texas, U.S.A. In 2008, Tonya finished her doctoral dissertation entitled: Myths, Stereotypes, and Controlling Images in Film: A Feminist Content Analysis of Hollywood's Portrayal of Women's Career Choices, at the Counselor Education and Supervision department at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas (the dissertation can be ordered through ProQuest). She summarizes her disseration as follows: "Myths, stereotypes and controlling images are imbedded in cinema. Women can be disempowered and marginalized by these images and it is important to explore the images found in this medium and the potential they have to affect women’s career choices. The content analysis of 81 films revealed themes including but not limited to the idea that relationships should be secondary to careers in women’s lives; women are secondary to men in the workplace; women in power are depicted in isolation; women are portrayed in traditional careers more than non-traditional careers; regardless of career choice women are often depicted in a negative light and women of ethnicities other than White are not adequately represented in mainstream media, in any area, much less with regard to career choices. Through film women are learning that they are secondary to men in one more area of society and that, in essence, there is nothing wrong with this perception." Her Masters degree in Psychology and Counseling is from the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas and her bachelor's degree is in English from the University of Texas, Arlington. Prior to entering the counseling field she was a paralegal for fourteen years. She is currently working as a case manager with Communities in School, San Antonio, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help students stay in school and prepare for life. Communities in Schools' main focus is working with students who have been determined by the state to be "at-risk" a classification in itself that can be humiliating regardless of the conditions that led to the labeling. Tonya's current research areas include, incorporation of relational cultural theory into career counseling, the use of film in counseling, and the issues of humiliation and shame surrounding malpractice claims against therapists and clinical supervisors. Tonya wishes to work overseas after she finishes with her dissertation. She writes: "My goal or vision statement for my professional career is to teach on the college level. Specifically, I would like to teach on the graduate level in the field of counselor education. I am inspired and challenged by the dialogue that is entered into in the classroom when you have a passionate educator. I want to be that passionate educator and be able to share my passion for RCT and for social justice advocacy, including the work of the humiliation studies network. I see this being done not only in the classroom but through the written word as well. I see myself writing and publishing not just journal articles but books as well. I have always loved to write, evidenced by my undergraduate degree in English, and I would like to combine those skills with my interests in Relational Cultural Theory, as well as social justice advocacy to produce written works that would be incorporated not only into my classroom but other classrooms as well. Personally and professionally I want to use every opportunity to further an understanding of Relational Cultural Theory and Social Justice. I see both as being vehicles through which we can interrupt or end the cycles of humiliation that occur in our everyday lives both on a personal and a global level." Please see: • The Global Impact of Humiliation on Relationships and World Peace, presentation proposal together with Dana Comstock to the Third International Women's Peace Conference, Dallas, Texas U.S.A., July 10-15, 2007. |
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| CHANDER SHEKHAR Chander Shekhar, Ph.D., hails from a Dalit family (Jatavs) of a village in northern Indian. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Demography and Statistics, International Institute for Population Sciences (Deemed University) Mumbai. He has been involved in various research projects in Population Studies and Public Health funded by the national and the international agencies. Presently, he is coordinator of a nationwide District Level Household and Facility Survey under the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH-DLHFS) funded by the World Bank. He is also one of the two principal investigators of the study entitled “Elderly Abuse in North Indian Families”. He has conducted various capacity building programmes in South Asia. He has been associated with the research studies commissioned by the Planning Commission of India, the National Commission on Population, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India and UNDP. |
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| SILJE RIVELSRUD Silje Rivelsrud (Norway) is a master student at Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Oslo. She has a BA in social science, with psychology as main subject, from the University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. |
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JENNIFER KIRBY Jennifer Kirby is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and of the HumanDHS Education Team. She graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Biology. At the university she published her senior thesis on "The Nature of Holocaust Survivor Poetry: The Power of Poetic Expression." She is currently the Administrative Assistant/Event Coordinator for Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies. As she continues her academic interests, Jennifer plans to pursue graduate education in genocide and peace studies while incorporating her interest in humiliation studies within her field of study. In her free time Jennifer loves reading, traveling, and spending time with animals of all kinds. |
| SARWAR ALAM Sarwar Alam, Ph.D., has been a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia since 2007. Sarwar Alam received his doctorate in Public Policy from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, in 2006. He previously obtained baccalaureate and postbaccalaureate degrees in Political Science from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He also obtained an MA in Human Resource Development from Pittsburg State University, Kansas. Before moving to the United States, he served in the Civil Service of Bangladesh. He worked in the Ministries of Primary and Mass education, Women & Children Affairs, and Textiles & Jute. He also worked as a magistrate in some rural districts of Bangladesh. Please see: • The Genesis of Islamic Extremism in Bangladesh, paper prepared for the 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 11-12, 2008. |
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| ARDIAN ADŽANELA Ardian Adžanela (originally Axhanela), has a M.A. in State Management and Humanitarian Affairs (University of Sarajevo, La Sapienza University of Rome, and the University of Belgrade), and a B.A. in Applied Ethics and Historical Studies (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia). He is a member of the Executive Board of the Association Alumni of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (ACIPS) of the University of Sarajevo. The mission of ACIPS is to contribute to the improvement of human rights and democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the process of European integration. The ACIPS particularly focuses on involving young educated people genuinely motivated to contribute in this direction, and foster cooperation at the level of Southeast Europe and wider. He publishes articles for ACIPS on a regular basis. His future plans include a wide scope of involvement (personal research, training, academic research and eventually a Ph.D.) in areas pertaining to the quality of social interaction in transitional countries like Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its effects on individuals and the society as a whole. |
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| RALPH LENTZ Ralph introduces himself as follows: I am a native of the mountains of northwestern North Carolina and my family's roots in the region date back to the 1700s. Much of my academic work has been concerned with trying to discover what it means to be an "Appalachian". I am also a Christian, and more recently, I have become more interested in what it means to be a true human being - and to live in true community with other human beings. Hence my latest research has to do with exploring the connections between empire ("power") and theology ("religion") and how Christian theology can provide an alternative - another Way - for human community that is not based on an ontology of violence, but on what I like to call the "Ontology of the Word." This "ontology of the Word" is really the ontology of the Christian God's LOVE for the world and for humanity. Historical Christianity, of course, has unfortunately often collaborated with the two gods of modern world history (i.e. after 3,500 B.C.E.) - empire and force. Yet, there have also been throughout the centuries Christians who lived out their faith in the face of these terrible forces to make the world better - people like Mother Teresa, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther King Jr. - and these are the people whom I am interested in researching. |
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ANNETTE A. ENGLER Annette Anderson-Engler, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and HumanDHS Education Team. She earned her doctorate in 2008 at Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco, California. Her research focused on secondary trauma and displaced identity in daughters of U.S. Vietnam War veterans. She specialized in using narrative analysis as a method of inquiry by examining how daughters of war-traumatized veterans use narratives to construct social and personal meaning to their lived experiences. Annette was awarded her Masters degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova Southeastern University and received her BSW in social work from the University of North Texas. She is currently a member of Association of Conflict Resolution and ISPP-International Society of Political Psychology. Annette took part in Dan Bar-On's Storytelling and Dialogue work through the Körber Stiftung foundation in Hamburg, Germany (2006-2008). Her dissertation is dedicated to the work and memory of Dan Bar-On (1938-2008). Please see: • the notes that Annette prepared for our workshops in NY: Humiliation and Displaced Identity (2004), and Displaced Identity and Humiliation in Children of Vietnam Veterans (2005). • Constructing and Reconstructing Narratives – A Passageway to Personal Meaning and Social Change, abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007. |
| JAISHREE BEEDASY Jaishree Beedasy [read more] |
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| LINDA M. HARTLING Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., is the HumanDHS Director, and also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore the Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). Linda is the Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which is part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Dr. Hartling is a member of the JBMTI theory-building group advancing the practice of the Relational-Cultural Theory, a model of psychological growth and development. She 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 co-editor 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. She is currently a member of an international team establishing the first Center for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. Please see • Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement by Linda M. Hartling, and Tracy Luchetta, first published in 1999 in The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278. • An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, introductory text prepared by Linda M. Hartling for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. • Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared by Linda M. Hartling for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. • Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence, preliminary draft of a paper prepared for Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. • Relationship Tips developed by Judith Jordan, and Linda Hartling, at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, 2006. • From Humiliation to Appreciation: Walking Toward Our Talk, abstract prepared for the Second International Conference on Multicultural Discourses, 13-15th April 2007, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, & Department of Applied Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, as part of the 9th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. • Bykr, A. S. and B. Schneider (2002). Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement. New York, Russell Sage Foundation. Please see the notes that Linda made on this book. • From Humiliation to Appreciation: Walking Toward Our Talk, presentation at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA, in 2007. |
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| MOIRA R. ROGERS Moira R. Rogers, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Moira is Associate Professor of Spanish at Eastern Mennonite University and Intercultural Consultant for a variety of organizations in Germany, Spain, and the U.S. She has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, an MA in Biblical Studies from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, IN, and a Teaching Degree in Philosophy from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Born in Argentina, Professor Rogers grew up in a multicultural and multilingual home in Buenos Aires and brings her personal and professional experiences as well as her Anabaptist faith commitments to bear on her teaching and research work. As faculty, she teaches Spanish, intercultural communication, and courses on Migrations/ Inmigration that integrate Global, National, and local issues. Her doctoral research focused on the elitism and mechanisms of exclusion of academic cultures in early eighteenth-century Germany, published as Newtonianism for the Ladies and Other Uneducated Souls: The Popularization of Science in Leipzig (2003). More recently, she has done training at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. She received an international award for her study entitled "Internationales Baucamp: Bausteine für ein gelingendes Zusammenleben im 21. Jahrhundert" (2005). Moira currently leads a program at the University of Cadiz, Spain, and works with its newly established "Instituto de Inmigración e Interculturalidad." Her current research project is entitled "Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations," a study that tells a chapter of the story of mass migrations in the 21st century with a focus on the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco. Through this study she hopes to contribute to breaking the cycles of humiliation fueled by the displacement of many and to making our world a hospitable place for all people. |
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| MAGGIE O'NEILL Maggie O'Neill is also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, the HumanDHs Global Core Team, and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Maggie is particularly an Academic Advisor to our upcoming Refugees and Humiliation Project. She is furthermore a Member of the Academic Board of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). Maggie is based in Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University. Prior to this she worked for eleven years in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University and before that was ten years in the Department of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. She co-edited Sociology (with Tony Spybey): the journal of the British Sociological Association from 1999-2002; she is a member of various professional associations including the National Network of Sex Work Projects and the British Sociological Association and British Criminology Association. She acts as a research consultant on community cohesion issues and has had commissions from the Home Office, and regional Local Authorities. Maggie researches the issue of prostitution, women's experiences, routes in to prostitution, and communities affected (since 1990) and forced migration (since 1998). An expert in participatory action research (working with people, groups, communities to create change) Maggie has a reputation for developing innovative culture work to imagine new ways of understanding and articulating the experiences of crime and victimization, that breach disciplinary boundaries and expand and enliven the methodological horizons of cultural criminology. Her theoretical concept of ethno-mimesis (the inter-connection of sensitive ethnographic work and visual re-presentations) is a methodological tool as well as a process for exploring lived experience, displacement, exile, belonging and humiliation. Research funding has been received from the AHRB; Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Home Office; Leicester Local Authority and Local Education Authority, East Midland Arts, Nottingham Trent and Staffordshire Universities. Books include: • Adorno, Culture and Feminism (Sage); • Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling (Polity); • Prostitution: A Reader (Ashgate) with Roger Matthews; • Gender and the Public Sector (Routledge) with Jim Barry and Mike Dent; • Sex Work Now (Willen) with Rosie Campbell. See also: • Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis, note prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 6th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 15-16, 2005; • together with Ramaswami Harindranath, Theorising Narratives of Exile and Belonging: The Importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in “Understanding” Asylum, in Qualitative Sociology Review, II (1, April 2006), pp. 39-52. • Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR), abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 8th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in New York, December 14-15, 2006. |
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| REINHARD WOLF Reinhard Wolf is a professor of international relations at the Department of Political Science at Goethe University, Frankfurt/M. His current research focuses on the relevance of respect and disrespect in international relations, notably on the expression of, sensitivity to and consequences of disrespect among states and nations. He is especially interested in applying insights and findings from both philosophy and social psychology to theoretical and empirical studies in international relations. Please see: • Respect and International Relations: State Motives, Social Mechanisms and Hypotheses, paper presented at the 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008. |
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| PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ MOSQUERA Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and she is part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. Patricia is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. Patricia studied psychology at the Autónoma University of Madrid (Spain) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA, The Netherlands). She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. Her Ph.D. involved a series of cross-cultural studies on the role of honor in emotion. She was awarded a post-doctoral research grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to continue her work on honor cultures. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher and as Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam. She is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK. Her research focuses on the interplay between culture and emotion. She does research on a variety of emotions: pride, shame, anger, envy, and happiness. She has studied emotions in a variety of cultures and geographical regions: Southern Europe, Northern Europe, North-Africa, Middle-East, the Caribbean islands, U.S.A. Her work on humiliation focuses on the role of this emotion in insult-related conflict. She is especially interested in the situational, cognitive, and behavioral correlates of humiliation. Please see: • Humiliation and Honor, note prepared for Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. • Humiliation and Racism, paper presented at The National Conference on Racism in Global Context, 9th-11th November 2007, Murdoch University, Australia. • Rodriguez Mosquera, P.M., together with Agneta H. Fischer, Antony S. R. Manstead, and Ruud Zaalberg (2007) Attack, Disapproval, or Withdrawal? The Role of Honor in Anger and Shame Responses to Being Insulted, Cognition and Emotion, in press. |
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| EVELIN G. LINDNER Evelin Gerda Lindner is a cross-cultural social psychologist and physician and she is part of the HumanDHS Research Management Team. Evelin is the founder of HumanDHS. She holds two Ph.D.s, one in medicine and one in psychology. In 1996, she designed a research project on the concept of humiliation and its role in genocide and war. German history served as starting point. |
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| BARBARA HARRELL-BOND Barbara Harrell-Bond is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. Barbara is a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. |
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| ARIE NADLER Arie Nadler is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. He was born in Munich in 1947. He is Professor of Social Psychology at the Tel-Aviv University. From 1984 to 1988 he served as the Head of the Department of Psychology and, from 1993 to 1998, as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University. He was the Head of the Academic Committee of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University since its foundation in 1992 until 2002. He has also founded, and was the first Head, of the Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation at Tel Aviv University (1999-2002), which was established jointly by the Peres Centre for Peace and Tel Aviv University. Since 2000, Professor Arie Nadler holds the Argentina Chair for Research on Social Psychology of Conflict and Cooperation (donated by the Argentinean Friends of Tel Aviv University). He has written extensively in scholarly international journals of social psychology. His major areas of scientific interest focus on cooperation between individuals and groups, inter-group relations and social conflict, social identity and prejudice, as well as massive social traumas and their impact on individuals and collectives. Please find here some of his publications: • From Tel Aviv to Ulcinj - Can we learn from each other about reconciliation and peace-building? by Arie Nadler in Eurozine (2001-07-04). • Inter-Group Helping Relations As Power Relations: Maintaining or Challenging Social Dominance Between Groups Through Helping, in Journal of Social Issues(58, 3, March, pp. 487-502, 2002). • Arie Nadler (2004), together with Tamar Saguy, Reconciliation Between Nations: Overcoming Emotional Deterrents to Ending Conflicts Between Groups, in Langholtz, Harvey and Stout, Chris E. (Eds.), The Psychology of Diplomacy (New York, NY: Praeger, 2004). Arie comments this chapter as follows: The empirical paper which Tamar wrote is reported (in part) in the chapter. It is an analysis of the pitfalls in reciprocal assistance in "joint Israeli-Palestinian projects". It basically asked the question: Which projects survived and continued despite the tensions of the Intifada, and which folded? It does say a lot about equality in giving and receiving assistance (the hallmark of true cooperation). Unfortunately, it was published in an Israeli journal (in Hebrew). But the chapter may still be relevant. • Going beyond guilt and revenge: The effects of admitting responsibility and expressing empathy for the enemy's suffering on inter-group reconciliation, note prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. • Intergroup Helping as Status Relations: Effects of Status Stability, Identification, and Type of Help on Receptivity to High-Status Group’s Help, in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91 (1), pp. 97–110, together with Samer Halabi, 2006. • Arie explains (April 14, 2007): I am attaching (1) an empirical paper ( with Liviatan) on the effects of apology on reconciliation, and (2) a chapter (with my student and co-worker Nurit Shnabel) that is forthcoming in a book which I co-edit and summarizes some ideas on the process of reconciliation between groups, and the Need Based Model of reconciliation. I think that the model is very relevant to our work on humiliation and conflict: (1) Intergroup Reconciliation: Effects of Adversary’s Expressions of Empathy, Responsibility, and Recipients’ Trust, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32 (4, April), pp. 459-470, together with Ido Liviatan, 2006. (1) Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation, to appear in: A. Nadler, T. Malloy & J.D. Fisher (eds.) Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, together with Nurit Shnabel, 2006. • Arie explains (April 14, 2007):You already have my JPSP paper with Halabi (Intergroup Helping as Status relations). I am attaching a chapter which is less technical and much more relevant to the issue of Humiliation and Assistance and the importance of attending to this link in social-programs on the inter and intra national levels: (1) Inter-Group Helping as Status Organizing Processes: Implications for Inter-Group Misunderstandings, in press in: Demoulin, S., Leyens, J.P. & Dovidio, J.F. (Eds.): Intergroup Misunderstandings: Impact of Divergent Social Realities. Washington, DC: Psychology Press, April 2007, revised version, together with Samer Halabi, and Gal Harpaz-Gorodeisky. • Arie Nadler, together with Thomas Malloy, and Jeffrey D. Fisher (Eds.) (2008). Social Psychology of Inter-Group Reconciliation: From Violent Conflict to Peaceful Co-Existence. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. |
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| PETER T. COLEMAN Peter T. Coleman is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. He is the Director of ICCCR and Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Social / Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Iowa. He has conducted research on social entitivity processes (ingroup/outgroup formation), gender discrimination in organizations, the mediation of inter-ethnic conflict, ripeness in intractable conflict, conflict resolution & difference, and on the conditions which foster the constructive use of social power. |
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| MICHAEL HARRIS BOND Michael Harris Bond is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. He is Professor of Psychology and teaches at the Department of Psychology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are social perception, the social psychology of language use, impression management, values, cross- cultural social psychology, and cross-cultural interaction. Professor Bond has written numerous articles, book chapters and books on these topics, see, for example, Social Psychology Across Cultures: Analysis and Perspectives (1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, together with Peter B. Smith), or The Handbook of Chinese Psychology that Bond edited in 1996, or "Individual perceptions of organizational cultures: A Methodological Treatise on Levels of Analysis" co-authored with Geert H. Hofstede in Organization Studies (1993). |
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| PIERRE DASEN Pierre Dasen, Professor of Anthropology of Education and Cross-Cultural Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| JUAN ALVAREZ VITA Professor Juan Alvarez Vita (Peru) is Ambassador of Peru and Professor of Public International Law. He is a Member of the Scientific Council of the Summer University on Human Rights, Geneva. He was President of the National Commission for Refugees and of the Special Commission for Cuban Refugees. He has collaborated as expert in Human Rights issues with the United Nations and with the Inter-American Court Human Rights. He is a former Vice President of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations. He participated in the elaboration of the United Nations Convention against torture, the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child as well as the Declaration on the right to development. He is author of "Diccionario de Peruanismos", "El Derecho al Desarrollo", (published in Spanish and Italian by the Inter.-American Institute of Human Rights and the University of Padua), "Tratados Internacionales y Ley Interna" and "El Derecho a la Salud como Derecho de la Persona Humana" (translated by the United Nations to English, French and Russian). |
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| FINN TSCHUDI Finn Tschudi is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board. Finn Tschudi has spent most of his professional life - 37 years - at the Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway. He has broad interests in psychology and has been teaching and publishing in cognitive, social, personality and clinical psychology. While well known for his contageous enthusiasm when teaching he was eager for a change and took an early retirement from his position as professor of psychology from January 1999. At about that time Johan Galtung - who had known Finn for a few decades - had enlisted Finn in his TRANSCEND network, and he is co-author with Johan Galtung on "Crafting Peace: On the Psychology of the TRANSCEND Approach" in J. Galtung et.al. (Eds.), Searching for Peace. The Road to TRANSCEND. Pluto Press, 151-170. Eager to get some real knowledge about conflicts and conflict transformation Finn went to Australia to study with John McDonald and David Moore. Finn then brought his Australian friends to Norway to give workshops, and he has since been a consultant to Norwegian projects using conferencing. Conferencing is a key approach within the Restorative Justice movement, which is an alternative to the dominant Retributive Justice approach. Furthermore, conferencing provides a far greater emphasis on emotional processes than usual cognitive approaches. He has published about conferencing in Norwegian, and with Bob Neimeyer in the book chapter: R. A. Neimeyer & F. Tschudi (2003) Community and Coherence in G. D. Fireman et.al. (Eds.), Narrative and Consciousness. Oxford University Press,166-191. A further article on "suspected sexual abuse" with Sissel Reichelt: When therapy is stuck: What about conferencing? has been published in 2004 in the Journal of Systemic Therapy, 23, 38-52. Finn has also written a programmatic paper on how restorative principles may be extended to handling large, controversial projects, NEWWAYS.DOC Finn greatly enjoys participating in a voluntary association dedicated to preserving a unique bird wildlife area and a surrounding landscape with a rich cultural heritage, situated just a few minutes by car from the centre of Oslo. A farm in this area is a center for a foundation working to educate young leaders from Palestine, Jordan and Israel to peacefully cooperate, a project Finn is eagerly supporting. "mep" denotes "Middle East Project." Finn talked about all this (also touching 9/11) in a keynote address: Conflict Transformation: The Road from Alienation to Solidarity at The World Peace Foundation, Novembre 19, 2002 at LaCrosse, WI. Otherwise Finn has for several years been dedicated to perfecting a set of computer programs - MULTIGRID - useful for at a group level mapping cultural climate and homo/heterogeneity, at an individual level helping client and therapist together mapping viable paths to a better life, and/or evaluating the impact of therapy. Much to his surprise the system has also been found useful in quite different fields as e.g. a current project which maps how Swedish auditors – in the wake of Enron etc. – think about their current and possible future tasks. An article about this is under review in European Journal of Accounting. How auditors work raise the problem of the relative importance of rules vs. more overriding principles. Congruent with his interest in emotions Finn has written a paper arguing for the importance of intuitive, holistic thinking: "Rules, Complexity and Emotions" and a Swedish version will appear in a Swedish book devoted to critical issues about the way auditors go about their tasks. Interest in grid methodology has been spurred by a long standing interest in mapping structure for a single individual, and a concomitant distrust in usual methodology where individual structures often are lost when comparing means. An overriding interest is whether and to what extent multivariate methods can reveal latent structures by "purifying" manifest data of "noise." This was in fact the topic of his doctoral dissertation: The Latent, the Manifest and the Reconstructed in Multivariate Data Reduction Models. A Study of Multidimensional Scaling and Similarities Data. University of Oslo, 1972. Currently Finn's interest in similarity has been rekindled by considering how much greater our concern is for those close to us than for those seen to be very different. When psychological distance is concomitant with hostility, derogation and cruelty this raises the problem of how this can be reversed – what are the possibilities for humanizing relations? What can conferencing contribute, and what other approaches as for instance the Mep project mentioned above are viable? Finn is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Constructivist Psychology, and the advisory board of Proactive-resolutions.com which is headed by John McDonald. Please see: • Accepting Vulnerability – Necessary for a Good Society?, revised draft of paper for Telemark Symposium August 18-21, 2005. • Frihet som motmakt: Venstresiden må ta frihetsbegrepet tilbake!, a short version of which was published in Klassekampen, 20th April 2006. Finn appreciates comments at finn.tschudi@psykologi.uio.no! • Reflections on World Parliament Experiment, WPE, at isfit 2007. |
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| MICHAEL ROPER Michael Roper, Sociology Department, University of Essex, UK |
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| DAVID R. BRUBAKER David R. Brubaker is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Studies at the Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. He earned a BS in Business Administration from Messiah College and an MBA in Global Economic Development from Eastern University. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona specializing in religious and organizational conflicts. In 1997 he and four partners founded Cooperative by Design – An Arizona Peacebuilding Consortium which provides a range of consulting and peacebuilding services to not-for-profit organizations, educational institutions, governmental organizations and corporations. Prior to this he served in a number of community development, mediation and human services organizations. These roles included serving as the associate director of Mennonite Conciliation Service for two years and serving as assistant director of Mennonite Central Committee’s Recife, Brazil program where he became fluent in Portuguese. Dave is the author of numerous articles on conflict transformation. |
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| JAYNE SEMINARE DOCHERTY Jayne Seminare Docherty, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Conflict Studies Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA. |
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| CHANTAL LOGAN Chantal Logan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA. Dr. Logan was born in Paris, France. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. with a focus in French linguistics from the University of Paris-Nanterre and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Limoges, France. Her other fields of study include psychotherapy, Islamic studies, and conflict resolution. Dr. Logan comes to EMU with many years experience teaching French and Spanish. For most of her married life, she and her husband have served the church in different capacities in Argentina, Colombia, DJibouti, France, and the US. Most recently, they served three years as co-directors for the Somali program in Kenya, sponsored by Eastern Mennonite Missions and Mennonite Central Committee. She has managed many programs including Development, peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Humanitarian Assistance. Dr. Logan values "academic excellence combined with intellectual honesty." |
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| JOSEPH AGHOLOR Joseph Agholor, Ph.D., London School of Management and Technology, London, UK. |
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| TONY JENKINS Tony Jenkins is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. He is the Coordinator as well as Director of Administration and Research at the Peace Education Center of Teachers College, Columbia University and the General Coordinator of the International Institutes on Peace Education (IIPE), planning and coordinating institutes in the Manila, Seoul, and Istanbul and in 2005, Rhodes, Greece. His current work focuses on pedagogical research and educational design with emphasis on disarmament, gender and human rights education. Tony regularly conducts courses and workshops in peace education at Teachers College New York and Tokyo campuses, and at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. |
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| RUBÉN ALBERTO CHABABO Rubén A. Chababo is a Literature Professor, who graduated from the National University of Rosario (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) in 1987. He is an Assistant Professor of Nineteenth Century Argentine Literature at the Humanities and Arts School of Rosario, and a Literature Professor at Bialik Institute in Rosario. Since December 2002, he has been the Director of the Museo de la Memoria (Museum of Memory) in the city of Rosario, pertaining to a branch of the Secretary of Culture of the Municipality of Rosario, which is the first governmental institution devoted to reconstructing and safekeeping the memory of the recent past linked to the last military dictatorship, in power from 1976 to 1983. In 1989 the United Nations Program granted him a fellowship in order to complete post-graduate studies in the Central University of Las Villas (Universidad Central de Las Villas) in Cuba, where he wrote his thesis on the Cuban artistic vanguard of the 1920s, under the supervision of Doctor Aimé Bolaños. In 1992, as a fellowship holder of the Latin American Institute of Cooperation (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana) in Madrid, he finished his second post-graduate thesis focused on the subject of exile in Spanish-Hebraic poetry, under the supervision of Doctor Manuel Alvar. That same year, he was granted a fellowship by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - C.S.I.C) to complete his pre-doctoral course in the city of Malaga on the Indian Chronicles. For his research on Orígenes magazine, a Cuban cultural and literary publication of the 1950s, he was granted a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture of the Province of Santa Fe in 1994. He has also been awarded grants for research by the Deutscher Akademischer Austaauschdienst in 1996; the National Fund for the Arts (Fondo Nacional de las Artes) in the field of "creation" in 1998; and again the Ministry of Culture of the Province of Santa Fe in 1998 for his investigation on the subject of migrations and banishments. He has worked on archives and bibliographical compilation at the National Library of Havana, Casa de las Américas, and the National Library of Madrid, as well as the Iberoamerikanische Institut of Berlin, where he investigated the controversies between the intellectuals and the political power in the years following the victory of the Cuban revolution. As a guest professor, he has been invited to lecture, dictate courses and coordinate graduate seminars on Latin American Literature at Potsdam University in 1996 and Pescara University in 1998, among others. His numerous journalistic pieces and essays are regularly published in specialized publications, newspapers and magazines with local, national and international circulation, oriented toward cultural, political and social issues. Since 1990 he has been coordinating reading and discussion workshops on the subject of contemporary Latin American literature. His published book entitled Moradas (Dwellings) deals with the search for our individual place in the world, exile and banishment in contemporary society. The text was based on the oral testimonies of immigrants residing in Argentina and of political exiles. In the last few years, he has focused his attention on the investigation of testimonial literature dealing with situations and experiences in concentration camps. He is researching the Diaries of the Italian Giovanni Guareschi, a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp, and the memoirs of Margarette Buber Neumann, a survivor of Ravensbruk camp. His essay on the personality of Jack Fuchs, a survivor of Auschwitz, received first prize from the Memory of the Holocaust Foundation in 1998. He proposed and organized the Journeys entitled Faced with the limit: reflections on the subject of the Holocaust and the dictatorial experiences in Latin America, in cooperation with the authorities of INADI (National Institute Against Discrimination) in the National University of Rosario, which took place in October-November 2001. He has dictated courses on the complexity of conveying concentration camp experiences in educational institutions, and participated in research projects on the problematic of genocide. At present, he is working on the compilation of material for his work on a broader book concerning the Chacabuco concentration camp, located in the Puna de Atacama in Chile. |
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| ISLAM ELSANOV Islam Elsanov is a Writer, Filmmaker, and Chechen/Russian-speaking North-Caucasus Specialist based in Stavanger, Norway. |
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| RICHARD BURNS Richard Burns has enjoyed a truly international lifestyle having been born in the UK and then living in every 'civilised' country from Canada to South Africa. After several years of working as a musician and music teacher, he left Australia in 2000 in order to work at SIS. In 2002 he made "mistake of his life" and moved to Manchester where he completed a MSc in Applied Psychology, involving a dissertation looking into The Sources and Symptoms of Stress Reported by a Sample of International Teachers. Richard Burns has experience teaching at Special Needs School, High School, 6th Form College and University level. At Skagerak International School in Norway he is the University/Careers Advisor, School Counsellor, Teacher of English, History and TOK. Richard Burns is currently doing a Ph.D. focusing on the effects of school organisational climate on teacher well-being. |
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| IVAN LEUDER Ivan Leuder, Ph.D., Manchester University, UK. |
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| MARTIN FARRELL Dr. Martin Farrell received his Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde in 1993. He then held a Royal Society/SERC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Aix-Marseille in France from 1993-1995. From 1995-1997 he was a postdoctoral research fellow on a project funded by the Stroke Association at the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge. He has been a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, since 1997. |
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| MONS BENDIXEN Mons Bendixen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. |
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| FRANÇOIS AUDIGIER François Audigier, Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| WILLIAMS R. O’NEILL Williams R. O’Neill, Ph.D., Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, USA. |
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| VAN DER LINDEN Van der Linden, Professor, Department of Cognitive Psychopathology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| ABDELJALIL AKKARI Abdeljalil Akkari is a Director of Research at the Higher Pedagogical Institute HEP-BEJUNE in Bienne, Switzerland. His major publications include studies on educational planning, multicultural education, teacher training and educational inequalities. Her main research interests focuses on Europe, Africa and Latin America. He is also consultant for the International Bureau of Education (UNESCO). Please see here some of his publications: Akkari, A. (2004). Paulo Freire: De l'oppression de la pédagogie à la pédagogie des opprimés. Education Permanente, 2, 60-62. Akkari, A. (2003). The Euro-Arab dialogue: An educational Bridge. What is a education's role. Prospects, vol XXXIII (4), 397-403. Akkari, A. (2002). Towards a Critical Perspective in Citizenship Education. World Studies in Education. Akkari, A. (2002). Review of "Non-Western Educational Traditions: Alternative Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice". Contemporary Psychology, 47(2). Ferrer, F. & Akkari, A. (2002). L'éducation interculturelle en Espagne et en Suisse: une analyse comparative. Migrations Themes, 17 (3), 239-264. Akkari, A. (2002). Langues, pouvoir et éducation au Maghreb. DiversCité Langues. Akkari, A. (2001). Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the Challenge of Multicultural Education. Interchange. A Quarterly Review of Education, 32(3), 271-293. |
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| CHARLES MAGNIN Charles Magnin, Professor of History of Education, at Geneva University, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences. |
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| SANDRA HELENA CACHENOT Sandra Helena Cachenot, Psychologist. |
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| ALTAF ULLAH KHAN Altaf Ullah Khan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Peshawar, in Pakistan. Dr. Khan has been the co-organiser of a series of Journalist Training Workshops in 2005. The Workshops were funded by UNESCO. They were aimed at capacity building of the District Correspondents in the periphery, the rural areas of NWFP. Dr. Khan is the author of the initial project and is also responsible for the final report to UNESCO, which has been accepted. Dr. Khan has furthermore written the manual for a training workshop in May 2005 and the reports, the first one in December 2005, and the final one in March 2006. Dr. Khan has earned his PhD on a similar topic: Profile of Journalists in Peshawar, a social psychological profile of journalists. He is also the editor of the book News Media and Journalism in Pakistan and Germany, the first of the series Communication, Media, and Social Change. He is the co-editor of the series together with his academic advisor (Doktorvater), Prof. Dr. Arnulf Kutsch, Chair of Historical and Systematic Communication Science, Institute for KMW, University of Leipzig. |
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| FLOYD WEBSTER RUDMIN Floyd Webster Rudmin is Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project and the HumanDHS World Gender Relations for Equal Dignity Project, as well as the HumanDHS Apology Project. He is also a member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and the HumanDHS Advisory Board. Floyd Webster Rudmin, Ph.D., is a Professor of Social and Community Psychology at the University of Tromsø in Norway. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy in Bowdoin College, his M.A. in Audiology in SUNY, Buffalo, his M.A. in Psychology at Queen's University, Canada, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Queen's University, Canada. His research interests include cognitive history (psychology of historical beliefs), psychology of ownership, cross-cultural psychology, statistical methods, peace research, and history of psychology. His paper Debate in Science: The Case of Acculturation won the 2004-2005 Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award given by SPSSI (Div. 9 of the APA). Please see here the full text version. Please see also: • Seventeen Early Peace Psychologists, in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 31 (2, Spring), 1991, pp. 12-43. Altaf Ullah Khan commented (23rd July 2006, in a personal message): "This reminds me of George Herbert Mead's concept of Universals. He was also in favour of developing a universal human society where interactive/rational dialogue prevails. I had never studied psychology as a discipline, but in my journey for self-discovery I have read Freud and Jung and have also gone through mythology and Sufism. I remember one Sufi saying at the very onset of a book: Sufism is to avoid preconceptions." • co-authored with Kristina Ostvik, Bullying and Hazing Among Norwegian Army Soldiers: Two Studies of Prevalence, Context, and Cognition, in Military Psychology, 2001, 13 (1), 17-39. • G. B. Grundy's 1917 Proposal for Political Psychology: "A Science Which Has Yet to Be Created", in ISPP News, 12 (2), 2005, pp. 6-7. • Six Research Designs on Humiliation, abstract prepared for Round Table 2 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. • Charles Robert Richet: Pioneer of Peace Psychology, in Peace Psychology Newsletter, in press. • Daniel Droba Day (1898-1998): Attitudes Towards War As a Cause of War, i n Peace Psychology, in press. • How History Allows Insight into the Malady of American Militarism, abridged version published by CounterPunch, vol.13. no.1, January 1-15, pp.1, 4-6, posted Feb. 17, 2006 at http://www.counterpunch.org/rudmin02172006.html as "Plan Crimson: War on Canada: Secret War Plans and the Malady of American Militarism." • Preventing Inadvertent Humiliation, abstract prepared for the 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 14-15, 2006. • Franziska Baumgarten (1883 - 1970): Early Female, Jewish, Peace Psychologist, inPeace Psychology, in press. |
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| ANTONY ADOLF Antony Adolf, author of Peace: A World History, was born in Montreal of Egyptian and Greek parents and currently lives in Chicago where he teaches. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois, M.A. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a post-graduate certificate from Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory. Visit and subsribe to his blog, "One World, Many Peaces." |
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| JORGELINA GABRIELA ALMEIDA Jorgelina Gabriela Almeida (Argentina) is specialising in Museum Conservation. The title of her project is Humiliation Policies Applied to Persecuted Individuals, Detainees and Refugees During the Period 1975/1983 in Rosario, Argentina. |
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| SADAF RASSOUL CAMERON Sadaf Rassoul Cameron (Afghanistan) is a Peace Education Master students at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica. The title of her project is Afghan Refugees in the United States: Before and After September 11th. |
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| ANDREA ENDERS Andrea Enders (Germany) is a journalist and fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, French. The title of her project is Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. |
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| GAKUBA THÉOGÈNE-OCTAVE Gakuba Théogène-Octave, Ph.D. (Rwanda, Switzerland) is an Educational Psychologist, Ecologist, Postdoctorate and Lecturer at the Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. The title of his project is Frustration, Humiliation and Psycho-Social Suffering of Rwandan Refugees in Africa and Europe. |
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| FEDERICO LAGGI Federico Laggi, MA in Development Studies, is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish, was the Camp Manager of the UNHCR D'Jabal Refugee Camp for the Italian NGO INTERSOS (2004). He is currently Italy-Morocco Remittances Corridor Project Analyst. The title of his project is Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. |
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| ANA LJUBINKOVIC Ana Ljubinkovic is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. She holds a Masters degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights and is currently doing her PhD in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex, UK. The research is entitled 'Collateral Effects or the New Wretched of the World: Invisible Victims of Human Rights Crusades'. Ana is currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Sociology Department, University of Essex and as a temporary research officer for CARE International in Kenya. Main spheres of interest include sociology of human rights, military humanitarian intervention, ethnographic research, humiliation and refugees. Please see Milk and Urine: Intentional Humiliation as a part of Humanitarian Assistance, note prepared for "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. Please see also From Violent to Subtle Humiliation: Case of Somali Victims of UNOSOM Living in the Refugee Camps in Kenya, note prepared for Round Table 1 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. See furthermore Is Hope the Last to Die? Research Study On The Situational Analysis In The Dadaab Refugee Camps, 2005, and Report on Field Research Conducted in Dadaab Refugee Camps (16.05.05 - 01.06.05), 2005. |
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| MIRIAM MARTON Miriam H. Marton is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team. She is an attorney and a social worker in New York (after Detroit, MI), USA. Prior to practicing law, Miriam Marton spent 14 years as a therapist specializing in the treatment of and advocacy for domestic violence and sexual abuse survivors. During that time period, she also developed and implemented programs for the community aimed at educating teachers, parents, and professionals on the underlying dynamics, symptoms, and consequences of domestic violence and sexual abuse. She has also conducted research and presented workshops on the impact of western religion on the contemporary woman's psyche. Please see Relevance of Sexual Violence Against Female Noncombatant Victims of Destructive Conflict in the Study of Humiliation, paper prepared for the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, November 18-19, 2004. Please see furthermore Terrorism and Humiliation, note prepared for Round Table 1 of "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. See also Humiliation in the Home: Survivors of Childhood Rape in the United States, note prepared for Round Table 3 of "Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People," 5th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005. |
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| CEFERINO ROQUE MOREIRA Ceferino Roque Moreira focused on Anthropology, History and Museum Conservation. The title of her project is Humiliation Policies Applied to Persecuted Individuals, Detainees and Refugees During the Period 1975/1983 in Rosario, Argentina. |
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| ESPERANZA MORENO Esperanza Moreno, BA, Justice Peace and Conflict Studies, is fluent in Spanish, and has experience in working with displaced women in Colombia and Venezuela. The title of her project is Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. |
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| TOBIAS PECHMANN Tobias Pechmann is a Student in International Politics, University of Marburg, fluent in German and English. The title of his project is Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. |
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| MOIRA ROGERS Moira R. Rogers, Ph.D., is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and part of the core HumanDHS Research Management Team. She is Associate Professor of Spanish at Eastern Mennonite University and Intercultural Consultant for a variety of organizations in Germany, Spain, and the U.S. She has a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, an MA in Biblical Studies from the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, IN, and a Teaching Degree in Philosophy from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. The title of her project is Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. |
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| RWAMATWARA EGIDE Rwamatwara Egide is a Sociologist and Anthropologist and Doctoral Student in Sociology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Africa. The title of his project is Frustration, Humiliation and Psycho-Social Suffering of Rwandan Refugees in Africa and Europe. |
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| MARÍA LAURA SALAFIA María Laura Salafia, Political Science. The title of her project is Humiliation Policies Applied to Persecuted Individuals, Detainees and Refugees During the Period 1975/1983 in Rosario, Argentina. |
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| LAURA SCHILDT Laura Schildt, MA, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University, EMU, Virginia, USA, is fluent in Spanish and English, and has experience in community development, Mexico. The title of her project is Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. |
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| NANCY GOOD SIDER Nancy Good Sider, Ph.D., Project Consultant, Graduate Faculty, Conflict Transformation, Eastern Mennonite University, EMU, Virginia, USA. The title of her project is Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations. |
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| ESPEN SIVERTSEN Espen Sivertsen (Denmark) is currently studying project management and new business design as a "Chaos Pilot" in Århus, Denmark. He has graduated from Manchester University with an Upper Second in Psychology and has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Sirois in Manchester. The title of his project is An Existential Discourse Analysis of Humiliation as Reported by Iraqi Refugees in the UK and Denmark. Although his academic experiences lie more within the field of visual navigation, sensory integration, and group processes, he has a wide variety of interests, including refugees, social interaction, self-organising systems, open source communities (particularly Wiki Wiki's), the theory-action gap, the effects of technology on everyday life, and non-verbal communication. Espen was the youngest residential tutor in the history of Manchester University during 2002-2004, looking after the well-being of 48 first year students. He was also elected faculty representative to the policy, planning and resource committee in 2002, representing some 3500 students. He also likes to travel, and has among other things: been a Buddhist monk in Cambodia; spent part of his 2003 summer biking solo from Tallinn in Estonia to St Petersburg in Russia; and - after winning the "NORWAY 2032" prize for a vision of sustainable development awarded by the (then) Norwegian Minister of Environment, Minister Børge Brende - spent a summer in South Africa attending the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Here Espen helped The Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development as an assistant coordinator. At the moment, Espen is a member of the winter bathing club in Århus, and practices Taji Chuan and Kung Fu. |
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| TSEMPZANG SIMPLICE MIAFO Tsempzang Simplice Miafo (Cameroon/Switzerland) is currently finishing the equivalence of the Licence of Psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The title of his project is Refugees' Psychological Functioning in Cameroon. The Case of Chadian or Central African Adults of Yaoundé. |
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| MARCELA VALDATA Marcela Valdata (Argentina) is currently working on her Ph.D. at the Museo de la Memoria [Museum of Memory] in Rosario, Argentina. The title of her project is Humiliation Policies Applied to Persecuted Individuals, Detainees and Refugees During the Period 1975/1983 in Rosario, Argentina. Please see Humiliation Policies Applied to Individuals, Detainees and Refugees During the Period 1975/1983 in Rosario, Argentina: Brief Historical and Political Development of the 20th Century, paper prepared for the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 15-16, 2005. |
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| JUAN MANUEL WALMAGGIA Juan Manuel Walmaggia, Anthropology. The title of his project is Humiliation Policies Applied to Persecuted Individuals, Detainees and Refugees During the Period 1975/1983 in Rosario, Argentina. |
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Terrorism and Humiliation Project (alphabetical)
| NOOR AKBAR Noor Akbar is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, of the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and of the HumanDHS Education Team. He is a native of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and has earlier worked as a free lance journalist. He has a Master's degree in Journalism & Mass Communication from the University of Peshawar and is presently doing his Master's degree in Political Science from the same university. The title of his project is Terrorism and Humiliation: To Show Empirically that Humiliation Is one of the Root Causes of Terrorism. Noor has conducted a research thesis on the topic of Osama Bin Laden and Pakistani Press- a Portrayal Study of Daily Dawn and Daily Mashriq. (The study was an analysis of the two national daylies, one Urdu and English, after the 9/11 scenario.) Besides, Noor Akbar also worked as a Research Associate in a research study on the Pukhtoon Jirga (an indigenous institution for conflict transformation and peace building in the Pukhtoon belt of Pakistan and Afghanistan). This one and a half year study is awarded by United States Institute for Peace (USIP). Noor has recently conducted, as co-facilitator, a series of trainings in non-violent communication, conflict transformation, and coexistence to the UNHCR Staff, implementing partners and government officials at Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He has also been awarded a scholarship by the Center for Non-Violent Communication to participating in a fifteen days (19th to 4th July 2005) Special Summer Session with Marshal Rosenberg, at Orchidea Lodge, Switzerland. Presently he is working as Communication Officer, at Just Peace International Inc, a nonpolitical, nonreligious, nonprofit, civil society initiative, that aims to work for JUSTICE & PEACE through conflict transformation methods in order to protect and promote constructive peace by assisting, advocating and empowering grass roots communities, organizations, governments and the civil society to enable them to allow judicious, sustainable and productive interaction to realize maximum human potential in an environment of peace, justice and dignity. |
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| JESSICA LOS BAÑOS Jessica Los Baños (Philippines) is an Attorney and holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of the Philippines and a Masters of Business (MBA) from the Monash University, Australia. The title of her project is The Effects of Humiliation on the Economic, Socio-cultural Rights and Access to Justice of Muslim Women in Mindanao. Jessica Los Baños is Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management and General Management at the University of the Philippines. She is also a business and trade lawyer and advises clients on corporate, competition and property laws. She is a co-founder of Business & Trade Legal Information Services, Inc., a legal resource center on Philippine business and trade and has co-authored two chapters of books on the Nonprofit Law in the Philippines. |
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| IMELDA DEINLA Imelda Deinla (Philippines) is an Attorney and holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of the Philippines and a Masters of Law (LLM) in International Law from the University of New South Wales, Australia. The title of her project is The Effects of Humiliation on the Economic, Socio-cultural Rights and Access to Justice of Muslim Women in Mindanao. Imelda advises clients on corporation and property laws and settlement of estate and handles cases involving violence against women. She is a freelance researcher and writer on such topics as international trade law, commercial arbitration and women's human rights. She has articles for the World Bulletin of the UP Institute of International Legal Studies on confidentiality in international commercial arbitration and the SPS Regime under the WTO and EU Law. She is a volunteer lawyer for the Women Lawyer's Network (Lawnet) and a resource person for the Women's Legal Bureau, Inc. She is currently doing a research study on incest cases in the Philippines and serves as Project Consultant on a dialogue between Muslim and Christian Women Lawyers in the Philippines. She is also an environmental advocate and underwent a training course on environmental law under the auspices of the UP-IILS and IUCN (World Conservation Union). She is a co-founder of Business & Trade Legal Information Services, Inc., a legal resource center on Philippine business and trade. |
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| MITCH ELLIOTT Mitch Elliott, Ph.D., is a Psychoanalyst working in Dublin and Belfast and the Director of the Irish Institute for Psycho-Social Studies. The title of his project is Damaged Bonds: A Study in the Social Psychodynamics of Conflicted Group Identities. Please see here some of his publications: • Mennell, Stephen, Paul A. Stokes, Mitch Elliott, Kenneth Bishop, and Ellen O'Malley Dunlop. [forthcoming]. Habitus and Identification: Stasis and Change in Intergroup Relations in Ireland. • Stokes, Paul A., Mitch Elliott, and Kenneth Bishop. 2004. "Societal PTSD? Historic Shock in Northern Ireland." Psychotherapy and Politics International 2:1-16. • Mennell, Stephen, Mitchell Elliott, Paul A. Stokes, Aoife Rickard, and Ellen O'Malley Dunlop. 2000. "Protestants in a Catholic State - A Silent Minority in Ireland." Pp. 69-92 in Religion and Politics: East-West Contrasts from Contemporary Europe, edited by Tom Inglis, Zdzislaw Mach, and Rafal Mazanek. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. • Stokes, Paul A., Mitch Elliott, Stephen Mennell, and Kenneth Bishop. 1999. "The Decomissioning Impasse." International Minds 9:10-13. |
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| CORINNA CARMEN GAYER Corinna Carmen Gayer is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team. Corinna is a PhD-student in peace- and conflict studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She finished her masters thesis entitled Of Irreconcilable Nature? Biodiversity Conservation and Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Brazil at the Department for Social Sciences at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Throughout her studies, Corinna studied at the University of Salamanca in Spain and at the University of Belo Horizonte in Brazil. For more than two years she worked in international cooperation projects in Guatemala and Brazil and also had the opportunity to visit regional development projects in North-West Africa. During her last stay in Brazil she got acquainted with the conflict of different cultural groups over a specific territory, which brought up her present interest in conflicts and possible peace-building processes. Corinna is currently based in Jerusalem in order to carry out her research project about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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| HANS OLA HAAVELSRUD Hans Ola Haavelsrud (Norway/UK) is currently about to complete a master's degree in moral philosophy and public policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he has been a student for the past four years. Before attending university in England Hans Ola lived in France for three years, where he completed the French baccalaureate at Lycee Pierre Corneille in Rouen. Areas of interest within his postgraduate degree include moral responsibility and questions of global justice. In 2003 Hans Ola did a summer internship in Argentina with an international NGO and became interested in the history and societies of southern Latin American states such as Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. The title of his project is Terrorism and Humiliation in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. |
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| VEGAR JORDANGER Vegar Jordanger is Doctorate Student at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, and a peace researcher and practitioner. The title of his project is Humiliation, Violence, and Terror in War-Torn Chechnya and North Caucasus. The last 15 years he has been living, studying and working in Angola, France, Russia, and Norway. Some of his key peace research interests includes: the role of magical and mythical operators in contemporary religio-political rhetoric and persuasion, identity dynamics and the role of emotions in dialogue processes, and music and art in conflict transformation. Vegar Jordanger is also the director of Building Peaces, a peace-NGO working to support and encourage local capacities for peace. Building Peaces is a network of researchers and peace practitioners working on dialogical leadership development and civil-society strengthening projects. A main strategy in Building Peaces’ work is to develop local peace-building capacity by working closely together with local partners. This involves jointly implementing projects with local groups in the fields of non-violent conflict transformation, human rights, peace education, dialogue and reconciliation. Building Peaces’ main long-term project is the North-Caucasian Dialogue Project which comprises a core group of young Chechen/North Ossetian/Russian civil society/business leaders and resource persons working together on a range of dialogue and peace-building projects. |
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| JELEN PACLARIN Jelen Paclarin (Philippines) is a Senior Lecturer at the Miriam College, and a Feminist & Developmental Worker. The title of her project is The Effects of Humiliation on the Economic, Socio-cultural Rights and Access to Justice of Muslim Women in Mindanao. |
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| SUSMITA THUKRAL Susmita Thukral is also a Member of the HumanDHS Global Core Team and the HumanDHS Education Team. Susmita is from New Delhi, India. She has a Masters in Psychology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Susmita has extensive research experience and has worked on an interdisciplinary research project on the lives of individuals who witnessed the partition of India and the violence that it entailed. Her scholarly interests include genocide, war trauma and terrorism. She wishes to actively work in the area of trauma studies in a way that allows her to combine her psychodynamic orientation and socio-political interests.The title of her project is Why Do People Join Terrorist Organizations? |
