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 also a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, HumanDHS Global Core Team, HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, and the HumanDHS Education Team. She is furthermore a Member of the Academic Board 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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| ROGER BROMLEY Roger Bromley holds the Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, and has degrees from the universities of Wales, Illinois, and Sussex. He is the author of Lost Narratives: Popular Fictions, Politics and Recent History (1988), Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions (2000), From Alice to Buena Vista: the Films of Wim Wenders (2001), and co-editor of A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice (1995), and A Reader in Cultural Studies (1999). He pioneered the academic study of popular fiction in the 1970s and has also published a large number of scholarly articles and book chapters, and spoken at conferences in 18 countries. As well as working on issues of migration, identity, and narrative, he has written on film from a cultural studies perspective, and his work in progress, Narratives of Hope? Conflict, Reconciliation and Cultural Fictions (on film, literature, performance and commemoration in the context of Bosnia, Rwanda, and South Africa) combines these different approaches. He is on the management board of the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures at the University of Nottingham, and for a number of years he was on the executive of the Association for the Teaching of African, Caribbean, and Asian Literatures (Vice-President), chaired the Raymond Williams Trust, and sat on the Board of Directors of the Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham. He has also worked at the universities of Portsmouth, Gloucestershire, and Nottingham Trent. Please see: • Dignity and Hope Versus Humiliation and Despair, abstract prepared for the 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York, December 13-14, 2007 (please see here a longer draft for a full paper and a summary). |
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| RALPH LENTZ 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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| JAISHREE BEEDASY Jaishree Beedasy [read more] |
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| RAMESH RAMLOLL Ramesh Ramloll [read more] |
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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 an 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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| 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 Global Core Team, and of the Global Coordinating Team. She has earned her Masters in Psychology from Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, with Michael Harris Bond as academic advisor. She is now working on her Ph.D. Please see Michael Harris Bond & Sowan Wong, 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). |
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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 Cross Cultural Analysis with Special Empahsis on Sri Lanka." Her special interest is Gender and Violence. Zinthiya is currently working for the Newcastle City Council Regional & European Programmes Team and is also a voluntary worker for the North East Refugee Services. Zinthiya's wishes • 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 cross cultural 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. Zinthuya 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, 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. |
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| DEBIDATTA AUROBINDA MAHAPATRA Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra 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. |
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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 |
