2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
"Can We Teach Dignity?
Becoming Lifelong Apprentices of Dignity from Childhood Throughout All Ages"
representing the
34th Annual HumanDHS Conference
and the Sixteenth Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
Day One
December 5 – 6, 2019
hosted by
The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
(MD-ICCCR)
Columbia University, Teachers College (TC)
525 West 120th Street, New York City, NY 10027
subway 1, exit 116th Street
in cooperation with the World Dignity University initiative
This workshop series has two parts:
• Public Event
Thursday, December 5, 5 pm – 7 pm, Teachers College, Everett Lounge
Open to everyone, free entrance, see the flyer
• Two-Day Workshop, Teachers College, Everett Lounge
Thursday and Friday, December 5 – 6, 10 am – 7 pm (registration at 9 am), TC
See the program
Only upon invitation, no registration fee, we always use a dignity economy approach
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York CityThis workshop was an invitation to all HumanDHS friends and members to explore how we can best deepen, grow, and practice the global message of dignity — now and far into the future. We built on the concept of "becoming better ancestors" by devoting special attention to how all of us can develop apprenticeships in dignity that strengthen the lives of children, young people, and all generations. Please see your invitation from October 30, 2019, the Dignity Letter from October 10, 2019, and a short program for print-out.
If you wish to participate in our workshops, please send an email to workshops@humiliationstudies.org. Please know that you are always invited to spend the entire workshop with us, so that true dignity-family-building can emerge. All our events are part of an ongoing effort to nurture a global dignity community. The workshop series follows a format of organic growth, and is thus different from mainstream conferences. In all our events, our aim is to create a community, rather than having an "audience" listen to "speakers."
All participants are always warmly invited to fill out our Appreciative Introduction form, print it out, and bring it with you.
There is no registration fee, we use to share minimal cost according to ability at the end. Our work is a labor of love and maintained entirely by volunteers who give their time and energy as a gift. All our efforts are pro bono and not-for-profit endeavors. Everyone who participates does so because of dignity, because of their appreciation for our work for dignity. Nobody is there "for the money," nobody is being paid, there is no "paid staff." This is our way of walking our talk of "being the change we want to see in the world."
At the entrance of Teachers College, please show your picture ID and print out your invitation or program, so that you can show it.
• Short Workshop Program
• Public Event Flyer (see a Jpg version)
• Announcements of our 2019 News and a Dignity Press flyer
• Personal invitation letter 2019
• Invitations to the workshop: See your invitation from October 30, 2019, and your Dignity Letter from October 10, 2019
• Newsletter Nr. 34, compiled subsequent to the workshop. You are warmly invited to contribute to it! (Please send your comments to us so that we can include them)
• Please have a look at a compilation of all NY workshops and the newsletters written after these conferences.
• This workshop is the sixteenth in a series that began in 2003. See an overview over all our previous conferences and see the workshops of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.
After the workshop, friends wrote articles inspired by the collaboration, deep dialogue, and mutual learning generated by all who participated in this special event:
• David Yamada, Minding the Workplace, “Dignitizing” Conferences and Workshops," December 13, 2019
• See also the Message of Gratitude and Review of Our 2019 Annual HumanDHS Workshop in NYC, sent out on January 21, 2020
Honorary Convenor since 2003
(he passed away in March 2017, and we honor his memory)
Morton Deutsch
First HumanDHS Lifetime Commitment Award Recipient
Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner are the conveners of the annual workshops at Teachers College, Columbia University. Late Morton Deutsch convened the first workshop in 2003, and he has been its honorary convener until his passing in 2017. We wish to honor his memory by conducting this workshop also in the future.
(The photo with Morton Deutsch was taken in 2014. Please click on the picture above to it larger.)
Linda & Evelin
Our Workshops on Humiliation and Violent Conflict are convened by The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), with Morton Deutsch, its late Director Emeritus, as our Honorary Convener since 2003,
on behalf of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network and the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative (since 2011). MD-ICCCR was part of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), and, in 2009, also co-founder of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4). We are very grateful to our hosts!
We thank Keerthana Hirudayakanth and Keenan Powers for so kindly arranging the venue for our workshop!
To request disability-related accommodations and equipment, please contact OASID at oasid@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689, (212) 678-3853 TTY, (212) 678-3854 video phone.
Overview
Frame |
Program • Public Event (see flyer)
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Participants, Convening Organizations, Papers, Practical Details |
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• Participants (in all New York City workshops so far) |
• Papers |
• Pictures |
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Thursday, December 5, 2019, Workshop Thursday, December 5, 2019, Public Event |
Friday, December 6, 2019, Workshop |
Rationale, Methodology, and Frame
Rationale
This workshop series is part of a larger process. Each workshop is much more than a stand-alone event. It is part of the overall mission of our global dignity movement, which is to create an atmosphere in which people can meet on a plane of mutual friendship and equality in dignity. The workshop invites its participants to experiment with creating a new culture of global cohesion and togetherness, and to nurture a global family of dignity, a family that truly acts like a good family should act and protects and cherishes our unity in diversity. The workshop invites into enlarging and transcending concepts such private versus public, or family/friends/good neighbors versus "bad neighbors" (or even "enemies"), as well as concepts such as life mission versus job/hobby..
Given the current context of the field of international conflict, the impact of emotions on conflict has become one of the most important questions worldwide. However, there are only scattered publications in the research and applied literature that would address issues on conflict and emotion directly, as well as their relations and their impact on public policy.
The first one-day meeting was held at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2002, convened by Morton Deutsch personally, the first two-day workshop in 2004, hosted by the Columbia University's Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), since 2009, AC4 stepped into the place of CU-CRN), with special help from SIPA – Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) and The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR)
Since 2004, CICR on behalf of CU-CRN and later AC4, together with the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network and, since 2011, also the World Dignity University (WDU) initiative, invites selected groups of scholars, counselors, conflict resolution practitioners, mediators, and teachers among other professions for a two-day workshop every year to explore issues of conflict and emotions and its application to actual negotiations and diplomacy. The aim is to particularly probe the role of the notion of humiliation from the two different angles of conflict and emotion.
The workshops are envisaged as a learning community gathering, interactive and highly participatory. The purpose is to create an open space to identify and sharpen our understanding of the discourse and debate on emotion and conflict and the role that might, or might not be played by humiliation within this field. We hope to be able to continue this effort in follow-up workshops in the future.
We see humiliation as entry point into broader analysis and not as "single interest scholarship." We are aware that most participants focus on other aspects than humiliation in their work and have not thought about humiliation much, or even at all. We do not expect anybody to do so beforehand. We encourage that everybody comes with his/her background, his/her theoretical concepts and tools, and that we, during the conference, reflect together. We invite everybody to use their focus and give a thought to whether the notion of humiliation could be enriching, or not, and if yes, in what way. We warmly invite diverging and dissenting views.
How We Go About
In our conferences, we choose a dialogical methodology that stresses interaction and participation, because we wish to create an atmosphere of openness and respectful inquiry through "dignity dialogues" or dignilogues and, when appropriate, the use of Open Space Technology. We believe that notions such as dignity and respect for equal dignity are important not only for conflict resolution, but also for conferences such as our workshops. The name Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies attempts to express this. We wish to strive for consistency between what we think are important values for conflict resolution, and the way we conduct our work and our conferences.
We believe in "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to divide, create hostility, and foster hatred and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter and foster an atmosphere of common ground and mutually caring connections as a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest questions of humiliation, trauma, and injustice.
Every dignilogue is being opened by brief remarks by each participant to present their entry points into the inquiry. In order to facilitate feedback, we wish to make available a brief synopsis of 1 to 4 pages, preferably with references, from each participant, prior to the workshop through this site so that all participants can meet virtually before meeting in person. Longer papers are welcome as well both prior and subsequent to our workshops, not least for the envisaged publications of the results of our conferences. Please notify us, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as a journal article in our Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
All participants are warmly invited to send in their papers as soon as they can. We would be grateful if you could help us by formatting your contribution as follows:
1. Title: bold and in a large font.
2. The author's name under the title, proceded by a copyright sign 
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3. In case the text is longer than one page: A footer for the name of the author, and a header for the title and the page number (in Word, you can use View > Header and Footer > Page Setup > Different first page, etc.).
4. Spacing: Single-spacing.
5.
For non-natural English speakers who need support to make a text readable, please let us know and we try to find help.
5. The final Word document needs to be transformed into a Pdf file (use, for example, convert.neevia.com), and given a name. Please use your family name, and then identify the conference, in case of the 2008 NY workshop, this would read as follows: "FamilynameNY08meeting."
6. Please send us both you Word and Pdf files. Thank you!
Peace Linguist Francisco Gomes de Matos commented on this format as follows (May 2, 2012): "It enhances RELATIONAL DIGNITY. Everyone will make the most of such dignifyingly used time! A great humanizing, interactive format: a little bit of MONOlogue, followed by much DIALOGUE, will help create DIGNILOGUE."
Frame
by Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (until 2008 Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at Wellesley College in Boston, USA)
In our conferences we aim at creating a humiliation-free, collaborative learning environment characterized by mutual respect, mutual empathy, and openness to difference. The perspective of "appreciative enquiry" is a useful frame of our work. Our HumanDHS efforts are not just about the work we do together, but also about HOW WE WORK TOGETHER. At appropriate points during our conferences, for example at the end of each day, we take a moment to reflect on the practices observed that contributed to an appreciative/humiliation-free learning experience.
It is important to emphasize that an appreciative approach is not about expecting people to agree. In fact, differences of opinion enrich the conversation and deepen people's understanding of ideas. This could be conceptualized as "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller), which means practicing radical respect for differences and being open to a variety of perspectives and engaging others without contempt or rankism. As we have seen in many fields, contempt and rankism drain energy away from the important work that needs to be done. Most people only know "conflict" as a form of war within a win/lose frame. "Waging good conflict," on the other side, is about being empathic and respectful, making room for authenticity, creating clarity, and growth.
Please see also the following background material, mainly created by Linda Hartling:
• Dignilogue Tips and Dynamic Dignilogue List, created on October 10, 2015, for the 2015 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, in New York City, December 3 – 4, 2015.
• Dignilogue: An Introduction to Dignity + Dialogue, created on 31th May 2015 for the 2015 Kigali Conference
• Greetings to All (short version), created on 16h April 2013 for the 2013 South Africa Conference
• Greetings to All (long version), created on 16h April 2013 for the 2013 South Africa Conference
• Welcome to Everybody, created on 12th August 2012 for the 2012 Norway Conference
• Our Open Space Dignilogue Format, created on 12th August 2012 for the 2012 Norway Conference
• A Summary of Our Dignilogue Format for you to download
• An Appreciative Frame: Beginning a Dialogue on Human Dignity and Humiliation, written by Linda Hartling in 2005
• Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Dignilogue Moderators, written by Judith Thompson in February 2006 to support the moderators of our workshops
• Buddhist Teachings on Right Speech, kindly provided to us by Thomas Daffern in 2006, relating to our quest for appreciative enquiry, caring and being
• Please see also the videos on our Appreciative Frame, created by Linda Hartling:
- Linda Hartling Introduces the Appreciative Frame of the Workshop (2019)
- Appreciative Frame, by Linda Hartling on December 8, 2016, at the 2016 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, in New York City, December 8 – 9, 2016.
- Appreciative Enquiry 4, a video that was recorded on May 27, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the 25th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, in Kigali, Rwanda, 2nd - 5th June 2015.
- Our Appreciative Frame 3, a video created in December 2014 (see also Pdf), for the 2014 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, in New York City, December 4–5, 2014.
- Appreciative Enquiry 2, a video that was uploaded onto YouTube on August 11, 2012, in preparation of the 19th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, 27th-30th August 2012, in Oslo, Norway.
- Appreciative Enquiry 1, a video that was recorded on October 30, 2011, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Evelin Lindner, for the World Dignity University initiative.
List of Conveners
Honorary Convener 2003 – 2017: Morton Deutsch (February 4, 1920 – March 13, 2017), E. L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, and Director Emeritus of The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), Teachers College, Columbia University
Morton Deutsch has been one of the world's most respected scholars and the founder of The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR). MD-ICCCR was part of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), and in 2009 co-founded the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4). Professor Deutsch has been widely honored for his scientific contributions involving research on cooperation and competition, social justice, group dynamics, and conflict resolution. He has published extensively and is well known for his pioneering studies in intergroup relations, social conformity, and the social psychology of justice. His books include: Interracial Housing (1951); Theories in Social Psychology (1965); The Resolution of Conflict (1973); Distributive Justice (1985); and The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (2000, 2nd edition 2006). Please note, in particular, Morton Deutsch's pledge titled Imagine a Global Human Community and its progress.
Morton Deutsch has been a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board since the inception of our dignity work in 2001, and, in 2014, he accepted, "with delight," our invitation to be our HumanDHS Board of Directors Honorary Lifetime Member. Morton Deutsch has also been the first recipient of the HumanDHS Lifetime Achievement Award, which he received at the 2009 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict. Furthermore, Morton Deutsch has been a Founding Member of the World Dignity University initiative.
Morton Deutsch founded this workshop series in 2003 and has been its Honorary Convener until his passing in 2017. We will honor his memory by conducting this workshop also in the future. The first "Annual Round Table of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (as we called it then) was convened by Morton Deutsch at the MC-ICCCR on July 7, 2003, with Peter T. Coleman, Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Janet Gerson, Andrea Bartoli, Michelle Fine, and Susan Opotow and as participants.
We wish to give special thanks to Peter Coleman, Beth Fisher-Yoshida, and Janet Gerson for their ongoing substantive support for our dignity work since 2001. Andrea Bartoli inspired this workshop series and helped design it in 2003. He was at that time the Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Chairman of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN). Andrea Bartoli is a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board since its inception. Also his successor, Aldo Civico, kindly supported this workshop, as did his successor,
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, who became the President of the International Crisis Group in 2014. We wish to give special thanks to all three for their kind support. Since 2015, CIRC is dormant and the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) at the School of International and Public Affairs offers courses in specialization in conflict resolution (ICR Concentration).
Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., Social Psychologist, organizer of the HumanDHS conferences, in support of the local conveners
Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2015 Human Dignity (Half!) Lifetime Commitment Award.
She is the Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) and contributes to the leadership and development of workshops, conferences, Dignity Press publications, and the World Dignity University initiative. She works in daily collaboration with HumanDHS Founding President Evelin Lindner and is the orchestrator and key creator of the Dignity Letter. She is also a member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board, HumanDHS Global Core Team, HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, HumanDHS Research Team, and HumanDHS Education Team.
Linda Hartling's husband Richard Slaven, formerly Brandeis University, Massachusetts, U.S.A., is the Director of HumanDHS Dignifunding. Richard Slaven is a Member of the Board of Directors of HumanDHS, he is a member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and a Member of the HumanDHS Planning Committee. He is the recipient of the 2014 HumanDHS Lifetime Commitment Award.
Prior to the founding of HumanDHS, Linda Hartling was the Associate Director the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI) at the Stone Center, which was part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She worked closely with Jean Baker Miller, MD, and other colleagues on the development of Relational-Cultural Theory. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical/community psychology and she developed the first scale to assess the internal experience of humiliation in 1996, which has been translated into many languages. In addition, she has published papers and chapters on resilience, substance abuse prevention, shame and humiliation, relational practice in the workplace, and Relational-Cultural Theory. [read more]
Linda Hartling kindly co-editing this book, and wrote the Foreword:
Human Dignity: Practices, Discourses, and Transformations: Essays on Dignity Studies in Honor of Evelin G. Lindner. Edited by Chipamong Chowdhury, Michael F. Britton, and Linda M. Hartling. Lake Oswego, OR: Dignity Press, 2019.
Please see also:
• Humiliation: Real Pain, A Pathway to Violence, the draft of Linda's paper for Round Table 2 of our 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City.
• Humiliation: Assessing the Impact of Derision, Degradation, and Debasement, first published in The Journal of Primary Prevention, 19(4): 259-278, co-authored with T. Luchetta, 1999.
• Shame and Humiliation: From Isolation to Relational Transformation, the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMIT), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College No. 88, Wellesley, MA 02481, co-authored with Wendy Rosen, Maureen Walker, Judith V. Jordan, 2000.
• Humiliation and Assistance: Telling the Truth About Power, Telling a New Story, paper prepared for the 5th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies 'Beyond Humiliation: Encouraging Human Dignity in the Lives and Work of All People', in Berlin, 15th -17th September, 2005.
• Our Appreciative Frame, created on 12th August 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference
• Our Open Space Dignilogue Format, created on August 12, 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference
• Our Appreciative Frame, created in December 2014 for our 2014 New York Workshop (Pdf)
• Appreciative Enquiry 4, a video that was recorded on May 27, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the 25th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, in Kigali, Rwanda, June 2 – 5, 2015.
• Appreciative Frame shared on December 8, 2016, at the 2016 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, in New York City, December 8 – 9, 2016.
• Dignilogue Tips and Dynamic Dignilogue List, created by Linda Hartling on October 10, 2015, for the 2015 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, in New York City, December 3 – 4, 2015.
• Mini-Documentary of the Annual Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict "The Globalization of Dignity," December 8 - 9, 2016
[read more]
Evelin Gerda Lindner, Medical Doctor, Clinical and Social Psychologist, Ph.D. (Dr. med.), Ph.D. (Dr. psychol.), organizer of the HumanDHS conferences, in supporting of the local conveners
Evelin Gerda Lindner is the Founding President of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) network and initiator of the World Dignity University initiative. She is a transdisciplinary social scientist and humanist who 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. She is the recipient of the 2006 SBAP Award, the 2009 "Prisoner’s Testament" Peace Award, the 2014 HumanDHS Lifetime Award, and she has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016, and 2017. She is affiliated with the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network (CU-CRN), which was superseded, in 2009, by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), at Columbia University, New York City. She is also affiliated with the University of Oslo, Norway, with its Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, and with its Department of Psychology (folk.uio.no/evelinl/), and, furthermore, with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. Lindner is teaching globally, including in South East Asia, the Middle East, Australia, Africa, and other places globally. [read more]
Please see:
• Interview with Evelin Lindner - Challenges of our Time; Learning to Connect, December 8, 2016
• Mini-Documentary of the Annual Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict "The Globalization of Dignity," December 8 - 9, 2016
Program
Day One, Thursday, December 5, 2019
Columbia University, Teachers College (TC), Everett Lounge,
just beside the main TC entrance and the John Dewey bust
We so much thank Anna Strout for taking such lovely photos!
The still photos come in several web galleries:
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
9.00 am Registration, meeting, greeting, listening, learning, and digniloging
(Careholders meet already at 8.00 am)
Columbia University, Teachers College (TC), Everett Lounge, just beside the main TC entrance and the John Dewey bust
We so much thank Anna Strout for taking such lovely photos!
The still photos come in several web galleries:
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
9.00 am Registration, meeting, greeting, listening, learning, and digniloging
(Careholders meet already at 8.00 am)
What a gift Teachers College of Columbia University gives to the world by hosting a global dignity workshop! We have no words to thank the new President of Teachers College, Thomas R. Bailey, together with Portia Williams, Joe Levine, Peter Coleman, Danielle Coon, Charlott Macek, Keenan Powers and Keerthana Hirudayakanth, as well as our friends from media, facilities, and security at Teachers College, Kofi Asare, Louis, Jasmine Ortiz, Hua-Chu Yen (media), Kevin Waldron, Corine Best Campbell (faclities), Yeremy Chavez, James Kearney (security), and many more, including our dear Sandra Afflick, Audrey Hurley, Yocasta Brens-Watson, Patricia Gibson, Jennifer Govan, to name only a few of all those valued friends at Teachers College who are so kind to make our workshop possible!
• Please click on the pictures to see them larger
We are extremely grateful to the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) of Teachers College for giving us this wonderful gift each year of hosting our global dignity workshop! We would like to thank Peter T. Coleman, and Danielle Coon, Director and Associate Director of the MD-ICCCR, together with their wonderful team, including Keenan Powers, Charlott Macek, Andy Chan, and Jaspar Leahy. Late Morton Deutsch convened the first workshop in 2003, and he has been its honorary convener until his passing in 2017. We wish to honor his memory by conducting this workshop also in the future. MD-ICCCR is a co-founder of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) (since 2009).
We also wish to thank Josh Fisher, PhD, Director of the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at Columbia University, and Beth Fisher-Yoshida, PhD, Executive Co-Chair of the AC4, and Director of the Youth, Peace & Security Program.
• Please click on the pictures to see them larger
Rick Slaven always steps up most courageously in this workshop series, kindly joined by Bonnie Selterman and Mara Alagic, who most lovingly takes over whenever needed! Rick Slaven always creates a unique atmosphere of humor, modeling our motto of "taking ourselves lightly, even when we take our work seriously." A profound thank-you goes to you, dear friends!
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
Instead of "shareholders" we have Careholders! Thank you so much, dear Janet Gerson, Adair Linn Nagata, Denyse Kapelus, Bhante Revata Chipamong Chowdhury, Anastasia Sarantos Taskin, Anne Wyatt-Brown (timing), Martha Eddy, Robert Anderson, Shahid Khan, and Joni Baird!
This was the fifth workshop with Dignigardeners. David Yamada, Michael Britton, Claudia Cohen, Mara Alagic, and Adair Linn Nagata kindly offered to hold, guard, and protect the most important goal of our work, namely, to place relationships first and nurture them so that diversity of opinions and conflict can enrich, rather than tear the fabric of the relationships apart. Please see an Introduction into the Dignilogue Sessions Format, created by Linda Hartling on August 12, 2012, for our 2012 Norway Conference, and read more about the Dignilogue format and what it entails. See also Linda's Dignilogue Tips and Dynamic Dignilogue List, created on October 10, 2015, for last year's workshop, and Gabriela Saab's Dignigardener Tips created on December 6, 2016. See, furthermore, our reflections on Appreciative Nurturing.
Our Careholders, early in the morning!
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
We thank Anna Strout for always taking such amazing still photos! She does much more than taking photos, she builds bridges of gentle love and creates dignifying connections between all of us! We call her "our dignity angel"! See also her Dignilogue "I Am Workshop"!
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
And equally many thanks to our dear Gaby Saab, Ana Ljubinkovic, Fatma Tufan, and Claudia Thimm for doing all our video-recording for us! And we would like to again thank most warmly our friends working with media, Kofi and Louis!
Thank you, dear Robert Anderson, for mounting our Appreciative Introductions!
For all our conferences, our participants are invited to fill out our Appreciative Introduction form, print it out, and bring it with them.
10.00 am Linda Hartling, Director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) Network, opened the workshop with a song as part of "Moments of Awe and Wonder" (Video 1 | Video 2 | Pdf)
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
10.05 am Linda Hartling, Director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) Network, welcomed all participants (Video)
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
Thank you, dear Linda, for bringing two poems by Poet Laureate of Oregon Kim Stafford to us: I am the Seed and Citizen of Dark Times
10.10 am Danielle Coon, Associate Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), welcomed all participants (Video), together with her colleagues Keenan Powers, Andy Chan, Jaspar Leahy, and Charlott Macek
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
Building a World of Dignifying Dialogue: Introducing the Appreciative Frame of our Dignity Approach (2019 Video | 2016 Video | 2014 Pdf)
Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., Director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network.
Linda usually sets the frame of our workshops and conferences within "Appreciative Enquiry" that takes the best from the concept of debate, and dignifies it by placing relationships first. We create a list of agreed upon norms having to do with the nature and tone of our dialogue.
Donald Klein used to support Linda in her efforts. To our immense sadness, our beloved Don passed away in June 2007. We are still heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. Linda continues to keep our workshop together with her untiring caring interventions, while we remember Don's caring wisdom that always used to save our conferences in crucial moments!
It is important to note that our appreciative frame is a HumanDHS-defined version of AI. We emphasize "waging good conflict" (Jean Baker Miller). We believe that diverging opinions and perspectives need to be expressed and not avoided, because diversity enriches. However, diversity only enriches if embedded into mutual connection and appreciation. If not harnessed lovingly and caringly, diversity has the potential to humiliate, divide, create hostility, foster hatred, and even violence. In the spirit of our vision, we, the HumanDHS network, wish therefore to avoid the latter, and instead open a space of common ground and mutually caring connections, a space for the safe expression of even the deepest differences and disagreements, and the toughest issues of humiliation, trauma, and injustice to be aired safely.
Please see also:
• Our Appreciative Frame, created on 12th August 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference
• Our Open Space Dignilogue Format, created on 12th August 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference
• Our Appreciative Frame, created in December 2014 for our 2014 New York Workshop (Pdf)
• Appreciative Enquiry 4, a video that was recorded on May 27, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, USA, by Linda Hartling, for the 25th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, in Kigali, Rwanda, June 2 – 5, 2015.
• Appreciative Frame shared on December 8, 2016, at the 2016 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, in New York City, December 8 – 9, 2016.
10.25 am Gabriela Rodrigues Saab Riva invited everyone into the WhatsApp Group that is in existence since August 2019, initially created for the 2019 Dignity Conference in the Amazon, and into two YouTube channels, Evelin/HumanDHS and World Dignity University initiative (WDU)
10.30 am Philip M. Brown invited into getting to know each other (Video)
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First round of introductions in four groups of identifications:
1. Higher Education: University - College
1.2 Higher Education - group 2
2. Visual or Performing Arts or Other
3. Human Services: NGOs/Nor-for-Profits
Second round of introductions in five groups of identifications:
1. Spiritual Development
2. Reading / Writing
3. Physical Activity: Sports/Dancing/Gardening
4. Friends & Family
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11.10 am Acknowledging Bill and Joni Baird (Video)
Joni and William Baird co-direct a non-profit organization for women’s rights. Bill Baird’s U.S. Supreme Court case, Baird v. Eisenstadt, legalized birth control in the U.S. in 1972. Joni attended the University of Massachusetts's University Without Walls. [read more]
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11.15 am – 11.30 am Greetings from the Dignity Conference in the Amazon with Gabriela Saab and Evelin Lindner (Video)
Gabriela Saab and Evelin Lindner shared an overview over the 33rd Dignity Conference in the Brazilian Amazon, Brasil, August 28 – September 7, 2019
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11.45 am - 1.00 pm Pre-Planned Dignilogue 1: How Are Human Dignity and Humiliation Relevant to Destructive Conflict?
Please note that this title is meant to serve only as an inspiration; the topic of humiliation is so new and multifaceted, as is dignity, that we do not wish to force it into too rigid and narrow structures
• David Yamada introduced the Dignilogue format (Video 2019 | Video 2018)
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• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One• Phil Brown invited into Dignity Dialogues (Dignilogues) (Video 2017)
How we usually go about: Every contributor has ca. 7-10 minutes to present her entry point into the dialogue, then we have an open dialogue. We have 2 empty chairs in the circle that can be taken by participants from the audience who wish to introduce a question or comment. We have two moderators for each Round Table. In that way, the Moderators are not prevented from also being contributors to the dialogue: while one Moderator makes a contribution to the dialogue, the other takes over as Moderator, and vice versa (with only one Moderator, this kind of flexibility would be lacking). We kindly invite the Moderators to summarize the contributions immediately following the dignilogue, and identify three "Key Learning Points" from the dialogue."
Peace Linguist Francisco Gomes de Matos commented on this format as follows (May 2, 2012): "It enhances RELATIONAL DIGNITY. Everyone will make the most of such dignifyingly used time! A great humanizing, interactive format: a little bit of MONOlogue, followed by much DIALOGUE, will help create DIGNILOGUE."
Dignilogue Moderators introduce the contributors (including the moderators), manage time in a supportive and friendly manner, facilitate dialogue after presentations, and summarize highlights.
Dignilogue Contributors present their contributions within the alloted time frame and nurture a lively dialogue
Please see background information created by Linda M. Hartling:
• Dignilogue: An Introduction to Dignity + Dialogue created on 31th May 2015
• Introducing the Open Space Format to the HumanDHS Network, longer version created on 13th August 2012
• Dignilogue Tips and Dynamic Dignilogue List, created on 10th October 2015 for our 2015 New York Workshop
• Our Open Space Dignilogue Format, created on 12th August 2012 for our 2012 Norway Conference
• See also A Summary of Our Dignilogue Format created in 2010 for you to download
• See also Appreciative Facilitation: Hints for Dignilogue Moderators, written in February 2006 by Judith Thompson to support the Moderators of our workshops
Honorary Convenor since 2003 until he passed away in 2017: Morton Deutsch
Moderators: David C. Yamada and Adair Linn Nagata
Seating Manager: Rick Slaven
See here a Summary of Our Dignilogue Format for you to download
For the history of Dignilogue 1, see our Past Workshops
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Participants in Dignilogue 1:
• Claudia E. Cohen (unfortunately, no video was recorded)
- Humiliation, Honoring Dignity and Destructive Conflict: You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught (2019)
- 'This is Civity' Radio Show podcast (2018)
- Confronting Narratives of Hate with Stories of Dignity (2018) (Video | Powerpoint)
- Dignity As a Practice: The Nonhuman Rights Project (2017) (Video)
- Everyday Dignity - Blog Entry: An Illuminating Act of Justice (2016)
- Is Dignity Possible During War Time? A Small Act of Humanity... (2016)
- Welcome to the 2014 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 2014 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict.
- Emotional Awareness: Can it Mitigate Against the Experience of Humiliation and Promote Constructive Conflict Resolution? (2009)
• Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo (Video)
- How to Provide Dignity for Persons with Autism in the Criminal Justice Process (2019) (Pdf | Video)
- A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Deconstruction of Seclusion and Restraint Law: Thinking About Humiliation, Shame and Dignity (2018) (Video | Pdf)
- "Them Who Are Slandered and Humiliated": How Marijuana Arrest Patterns Perpetuate a Racist Criminal Justice System and Shame and Humiliate Minority Youth (2017) (Video | Pdf)
- “She’s Nobody’s Child/The Law Can’t Touch Her at All”: Seeking to Bring Dignity to Legal Proceedings Involving Juveniles (2016)
- “Had to be Held down by Big Police”: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective on Interactions between Police and Persons with Mental Disabilities (2015)• Tony Gaskew (Video)
- Life Support: Ritual, Community, and Healing Through the Eyes of a Juvenile Lifer (2019) (Pdf | Video)
- Learning to Speak the Language of Police Abolition (2018) (Video | Pdf)
- The Metaphysical Nature of Justice (2017) (Video)
- Creating Spaces for Dignity: Policing in Communities of Color (2015) (Video 1, Video 2 next day)
- Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming Humiliation into Humility (2014) (Abstract | Pdf | Video)
- Released: Searching for Dignity and Respect Through Prison Re-entry Initiatives (2010)
- The Role of Humiliation and Dignity for Structural, and Political Violence (2009)
• Avi Shahaf and Nira Shahaf (Video)
- Advancing Human Dignity Through the Concept and Tools of Organizational Development (2019)
- Movement As an Attempt to Inquire the Language of Dignity (2018)
- Advancing Dignity in Schools (2010, together with Yoav Peck), presentation given at the 15th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies 'Peace at Home, Peace in the World', in Istanbul, Turkey, 28th - 30th April 2010.
- Human Dignity in Israeli Elementary Schools: A Rationale for a Project in Nine Schools (2007, together with Yoav Peck)
• Monty Marshall (Video)
- Conflict and Governance in the Light of Dignity and Humiliation (2019) (Video)
• Dialogue (Video)
These participants were unfortunately hindered to participate:
• Jack Goldstone
- Teaching the Universal Understanding of Human Dignity to Last Throughout Our Lifetimes (2019)
• Alberto Collazzoni
- The Lack of Dignity and the Negative Consequences of Humiliation (2018) (Pdf | Powerpoint)
- See also Alberto Collazzoni's Appreciative Introduction (2018)
• Announcements (Video)
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• The DignityNowNYC group presents itself (Video)
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• Diane Perlman explained her gift (Video 2019 | Video 2018)
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• Rick Slaven, Director of Dignifunding (Video)
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• We always ask for permission to post photos and videos (Video 2018 | Video 2017)
• Linda Hartling always invites all participants to fill out their Appreciative Introduction form (Video 2018)
• Linda Hartling always invites all participants to share their dignity feedback (Video 2018)
1.00 pm - 1.45 pm Lunch & continued Digniloging, Digniposters, Digniart, Dignibeing & Announcements of our News
Lunch in the Cafeteria in the basement of Teachers College, or in the Everett Café at the entrance of the Gottesman Library, or, to avoid long queuing in the cafeteria at noon time, you could bring your own food and eat it in our workshop room.
Afternoon: Turning Ideas into Action
1.45 pm - 3.30 pm Co-Created Dignilogues # 1 - facilitated by Phil Brown and Linda Hartling (Video)
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• Co-Created Dignilogues in the Making: Philip Brown invited into the Co-Created Dignilogues (Video 2018)
• Co-Created Dignilogues in the Making: David Yamada invited into the Co-Created Dignilogues (Video 2018)
Dignilogue topics that emerged
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day OneFor the past decade, we have continuously worked to dignify the traditional institution "conference." The Open Space movement originally started from the observation that after mainstream academic conferences, the participants, when asked, often say: "Oh, I slept through the presentations, but the coffee breaks were wonderful!" "Conference programs are replete with monologues that silence all but the speaker. The vitalizing communication is typically found in the hallways, the bars, and the dinner table – the venues of informal conversation," wrote scholar Kenneth Gergen in 2009 (in his book on relational being). In other words, the motivating impetus behind the Open Space approach is that academic conference can be rather boring; invited speakers might not be in tune with the audience; and reading papers aloud may be particularly uncommunicative. The creators of the Open Space approach thought: "Ok, why don't we create conferences that are structured like coffee breaks!" Please read more about the originator of the Open Space Technology, Harrison Owen. See also Open Space Tools by Peggy Holman.
In slight variation of traditional conferences, we therefore aim at co-creating our conferences. We have adapted the Open Space approach, added the term dialogue, and connected it with dignity to form the expression Dignilogue (see also our Video page for how peace linguist Francisco Gomes de Matos has inspired this linguistic creation). Please see an Introduction into the Dignilogue Sessions Format, created by Linda Hartling on August 12, 2012, for our 2012 Norway Conference, and read more about the Dignilogue format and what it entails. See also Linda's Dignilogue Tips and Dynamic Dignilogue List, created on October 10, 2015, for last year's workshop, and Gabriela Saab's Dignigardener Tips created on December 6, 2016. See, furthermore, our reflections on Appreciative Nurturing.
This format is very open, it means that a conference is self-organizing. However, when we tried this in our first workshops in New York (for instance, in 2004), it turned out that for our NY participants required more structure. Therefore, we waited until 2012, before we opened up the workshop to self-organize more. We invited participants to be with us without the ambition to "present" something, so that we all could get a feel for the dignity-family-building work that we wish to nurture first and foremost. So, from 2012 onward, the workshop is more open and requires our participants to bring themselves as they are, be prepared for everything, and use the flow to contribute in the most nurturing way they can. As background reading you might enjoy "Are College Lectures Unfair?" by Anne Murphy Paul, The New York Times, September 12, 2015, or When Nothing Is Cool by Lisa Ruddick, Criticism, 2015.
Since 2012, our afternoons were therefore more action oriented than in earlier workshops. Instead of three Pre-Planned Dignilogues, we have only two, and choose to dedicate the afternoons of both days to Co-Created Dignilogues. These Dignilogues focus on topics of interest proposed by the participants. Rather than planning a “presentation,” we encourage everybody to come as they were and enjoy the mutual learning experience of engaging in — or facilitating — authentic, creative conversations that can lead to new ideas and new opportunities for action. Everybody is invited to send an abstract or a paper they wish to share — or to develop a new paper as it might emerge from the inspiration that the workshop experience brings. Everybody is warmly invited to send it to us also after the workshop so we can publish it on this website.
The grand finale of each afternoon is to invite representatives from each Dignilogue to create a Dignivideo, where they document the highlights of their conversation and insights, and more than that, formulate a "message to the world" as it has cristallized in the dignilogue. These videos are treasured contributions to our World Dignity University Library of Ideas that will be shared with the world and will inspire future generations of our community. Please read about the way we work in our newsletter10.
There are two main ways to conduct our WDU videos:
1. Each group can choose two representatives (usually the initiator chooses one participant in the group) and they engage in a short dialogue (example). Advantage: the message may be clearer.
2. The entire group can stand in front of the camera (example). Advantage: everybody is being included.
For our 2015 workshop, we created a new role in our workshop, namely the role of Dignigardener (dignity and gardener) for each Co-Created Dignilogue. This person has the responsibility to remind everybody of the "rules" for Dignicommunication (dignity + communication).
We always encourage all participants of our events to nurture mutually dignifying connections with the other participants and gather together afterwards to experiment with new forms of "conferencing" wherever you live in the world. New solutions are necessary and they need to be nurtured in dignified ways, ways which protect them from being destroyed by being framed in old paradigms (such as those of protest that simply ends in new dominators taking over). See our reflections on appreciative nurturing, or Charles Eisenstein's Reflections on the New Story Summit, or Evelin's text Is it Possible to "Change the World"? Some Guidelines to How We Can Build a More Decent and Dignified World Effectively: The Case of Dignifying Abusers.• Evelin Lindner and Michael Britton explained the concept of the "Dignivideos – Messages to the World" (Video 2019)
• Michael Britton explained the concept of the "Dignivideos – Messages to the World" (Video 2017)
• Evelin Lindner explained the concept of the "Dignivideos – Messages to the World" (Video 2017)Co-Created Dignilogue 1: "Just Dance" with Karen Bradley, Michael Britton, Martha Eddy, Claudia Thimm, Nira Shahaf, and Anna Strout
"Message to the World" for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video 1 | Video 2)
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Co-Created Dignilogue 2: "International Center for Assault Prevention" with Phil Brown, Ariel Lublin, Anastasia Taskin, Harley Hessel, Curt Lamb, Constance Klein, and Alanna O'Donnell
"Message to the World" for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
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Co-Created Dignilogue 4: "Violence Prevention" with Claudia Cohen, Michael Greene, Monty Marshall, Peter Pollard, Hannah Sherak, and Anne Wyatt-Brown
"Message to the World" for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
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• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day OneCo-Created Dignilogue 3: "Circle of Courage and Hope" with Mechthild "Mecke" Nagel, Yvette Jackson, Janet Gerson, Ana Ljubinkovic, and Elaine Meis
"Message to the World" for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
See also: Playing with (Lady) Justice: Another World is Possible? by Mecke Nagel, 2020
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• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day OneCo-Created Dignilogue 5: "Conceptualizing Dignity: To Whom Does Dignity Adhere" with Erin Hilgart, Bonnie Selterman, David Yamada, Aura Sofía Díaz, Mara Alagic, Denyse Kapelus, Karen Hopenwasser, Lou Lombardo, and Diane Perlman
"Message to the World" for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
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4.45 pm - 5.00 pm Wrapping up Day One
• Fred Ellis contributed with his art
• Announcements for the Public Event
• Michael Britton announced his Don Klein Lecture for next day
• Closing comments
5.00 pm End of Day One of our workshop
5.00 pm - 7.00 pm Public Event "Can We Teach Dignity? Lessons from the People of the Amazon"
at Columbia University, Teachers College, Everett Lounge
Everybody who is interested is always invited to our Public Events,
entrance is free, our work is a labor of love and we offer it as a gift!
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Videos:
• 29 Fred Ellis Performs with His Students
• 30 Thank You, Dear Fred Ellis and Students!
• 31 Betty Reardon, the Mother of Peace Education, Honors Us with Her Presence
• 32 Gaby Saab and Evelin Lindner: "Can We Teach Dignity? Lessons from the People of the Amazon"
• 33 Contributing Dialogue on Dignity Rights
• 34 Fred Ellis Performs Closing the Public Event
• Betty Reardon, the Mother of Peace Education, honored us with her presence (Video)
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• Linda Hartling, Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), greeted everyone
• Musical contribution: In the spirit of our motto of Unity in Diversity, in the past years, our evenings always began with Fred Ellis and his young students, singing songs from many cultural backgrounds (Video)
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• Thank You, dear Fred Ellis and students! (Video)
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• Gabriela Saab, Ph.D., and Evelin Lindner, Ph.D.'s:
"Can We Teach Dignity? Lessons from the People of the Amazon" (Powerpoint | Video)
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We recently held our 33rd Annual Dignity Conference in the Amazon of Brasil, in Marabá and Belém in the State of Pará, a 'Caravan' conference titled 'Cultivating Good Living Amazon: Nurturing Solidarity with Mother Earth', August 28 – September 7, 2019. The forest had just been set on fire, and our friends in the Amazon need our support.
See a "cry-for-help" letter that school children gave to us to forward it to everyone in the world who might be interested (Evelin Lindner translated from Portuguese):
• Portuguese original • English translation • German translation • French translation • Norwegian translation
(translations by Evelin Lindner)• Have a look at the Dignity Letter sent out subsequent to the conference
• Follow Evelin Lindner's reflections on her experience
• Watch The Amazon On The Brink, documentary film by Albert Knechtel, Arte, available from 19/11/2019 to 11/12/2019: 'The Amazon region, the largest reservoir of biodiversity in the world, has experienced huge fires in recent months. But what does this disaster mean for the people who live there, and for the planet?'
• Dialogue with Erin Daly, James May, Linda Hartling, and Chipamong Chowdhury (Video)
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• Musical Final with Fred Ellis (Video)
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• 7.00 pm Ending our Public Event
Contribution from India
Fr. Yesupadam Bobbili is a Roman Catholic priest and a professional classical Indian singer, and a friend of Rambabu Talluri, who brought him to our 2018 NY workshop. Rambabu Talluri sent this message on WhatsApp on December 5, 2019: Dear Dignity Family, This is the message from Fr. Yesupadam Bobbili. He expressed that he misses our conference so much and he is grateful to be part of our group and he wants express his point of view how to teach dignity as a language. He strongly believes in what he has been practicing to fill his people with dignity. He composed a song for us and I will send the video later. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 ESV. Dear Dignity Family, I am so grateful to you for the invitation for this conference. I will be missing you all for this conference and hope and pray that you will have fruitful dignilogues. First of all, Every creature in this beautiful world needs to be loved and respected and we are all connected. Human Beings needs to be more specially loved because we are all created in Gods own image and needs to be treated with dignity and that dignity can be thought with the language of love. I would say that it is possible to teach the language of dignity and it should start from our own families, churches, temples and whatever the religion you belong to. Give clothes to those who have no clothes, give food for those who have no food and and shelter to those who have no shelter and that is teaching dignity in action. Treat human beings like Gods because we are all created in His own image. We still have the subhuman conditions and that insults the human dignity. There is so much of disgraceful working conditions and that takes away the dignity from many of my brothers and sisters in our communities. It has to change and it is possible with your dignilogues. Thanking you and God bless you all abundantly! Kind Regards, Fr. Yesupadam Bobbili."Contribution from Recife in Brazil
DIGNITY Let's Teach!
By Francisco Gomes de Matos, Co-founder, ABA GLOBAL EDUCATION, Recife, Brazil
Author of DIGNITY: A Multidimensional View, Dignity Press, 2013
A rhymed reflection created for this workshop on August 10, 2019
Everyday Dignity how do we teach?
When humble mutual respect you and I reach
For Dignity how can we educate?
When human character we help elevate
A Youth Apprenticeship for Dignity?
It should inspire all Humanity
Interactively how can we dignify?
By showing multilingually how to edify
Why should Dignity be a lifelong endeavor?
It is a virtue to be nurtured forever!
An Apprenticeship in Dignity
By Francisco Gomes de Matos, a rhymed reflection created for this workshop on August 14, 2019
What would Dignapprentices learn to do?
To view Dignity as a daily priority for all Humanity.
To help educate children as
Dignicommunicators
To help schools nurture human rights as embedded in Dignity
To help communities prevent/stop
humiliation from taking place
To encourage the inclusion of
Dignity Studies in school curricula
To contribute to the rise of
a generation of Dignifiers
Dignity – An Acrostic
By Francisco Gomes de Matos, a rhymed reflection created for this workshop on August 18, 2019
D ecency
I ntegrity
G oodness
N onviolence
I nterdependence
T ranquility
Y outh-education
To Make a Difference
By Francisco Gomes de Matos, a rhymed reflection created for this workshop on October 14, 2019
A difference how to make?
Only digniroads let's take
Our character they will elevate
and our communities educate
A global difference how to make?
By treating one another for dignisake
Dignity to apply
By Francisco Gomes de Matos, a rhymed reflection created for this workshop on October 16, 2019
DIGNITY you want to apply?
With this principle comply:
Human character help elevate
and for decency/equality educate
Training Youth in DignEducation: A Checklist
By Francisco Gomes de Matos, a rhymed reflection created for this workshop on October 19, 2019
Ask trainees to...
1- probe the concept of Dignity and represent its multidimensionality
2- collect and summarise definitions of Dignity in current dictionaries (monolingual,bilingual) and encyclopedias
3- to provide contextualised examples of Communicative Dignity in several languages
4- explain why Dignity has to do with human character-elevation
5- show how Dignity can help overcome/prevent Humiliation and other forms of discrimination
6- explain why Human Rights are embedded in Dignity
7- suggest creative applications of Dignity in specific contexts (home,work, school, science/ technology, economy, diplomacy, health, spirituality, politics, arts, environment, trade, media
8- provide full characterisations of global citizens as dignifiers/dignitarians
9- expand the vocabulary of Digniwords
10- make a cogent case for the inclusion of DigniStudies in education curricula
Anticipating a DigniFuture
By Francisco Gomes de Matos, a rhymed reflection created for this workshop on October 21, 2019
On DIGNITY Human Rights are embedded
Where is Humanity headed?
Is sustainable global Peace our goal?
How to share the Earth responsibly do we know?
How do we contribute to character elevation?
By offering our children a DignEducation?
How will they become Ecodignifiers?
By learning to live as environmental edifiers?
A DigniFuture how can we anticipate?
In the development of dignicommunities let's participate
Day Two, Friday, December 6, 2019
Columbia University, Teachers College (TC), Everett Lounge, just beside the main TC entrance and the John Dewey bust
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• Linda Hartling and Rick Slaven welcomed all participants and shared practical details (Video)
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• Rick Slaven always leads with humor, here is speaks on nametags! (Video 2017)
• New arrivals introduced themselves
• Carolyn Lin introduced herself
• Katherine Stoessel introduced herself
• Brian D'Agostino introduced kimself
• Stephen Post introduced himself
• Curt Lamb introduced himself
• Keenan Powers introduced himself
• Cassandra Langer introduced herself
• Irene Javors introduced herself
• Angélica Walker introduced herself, see also Angélica Walker Offers the Gift of Art
• Acknowledging Claudia Thimm and her generous gifts
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• David Yamada invited everyone to join in singing "What A Wonderful World"
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10.15 am - 11.00 am Can We Teach Dignity? Becoming Lifelong Apprentices of Dignity from Childhood Throughout All Ages (Full Video | Short Video by Chipamong Chowdhury)
Michael Britton always holds our Don Klein Celebration Lecture in place of the lecture that Don Klein held each year until he passed away in 2007, titled The Humiliation Dynamic: Looking Back... Looking Forward
Michael Britton is a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, the HumanDHS Global Core Team, and a Member of the HumanDHS Global Coordinating Team, as well as Co-Director and Co-Coordinator of the HumanDHS Stop Hazing and Bullying Project. He is also the HumanDHS Director of "Global Appreciative Culturing."
Michael is concerned with integrative thinking across neuroscience, in-depth psychotherapies and historical/cultural living, Michael's work looks at how participation in the historical life of our times and interior life are deeply intertwined. See an introduction to Michael Britton and his work by Reinaldo Rivera (Video).
Donald Klein was a Professor Emeritus of the Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a Member of the HumanDHS Board of Directors, a Member of the HumanDHS Global Advisory Board and Global Core Team. To our immense sadness, our beloved Don Klein passed away in June 2007. We are still heartbroken. We commemorate his memory with great love. He spoke to us about Awe and Wonderment. About our human ability to live in awe and wonderment, not just when we see a beautiful sun set or the majesty of the ocean, but always. That we can live in a state of awe and wonderment. And we do that, said Don, by leaving behind the psychology of projection. The psychology of projection is like a scrim, a transparent stage curtain, where you believe that what you see is reality only as long as the light shines on it in a certain way. However, it is not reality. It is a projection. And in order to live in awe and wonderment, we have to look through this scrim and let go of all the details that appear on it, in which we are so caught up. When we do that, we can see the beautiful sun set, the majestic ocean, always, in everything. We will continue our work while keeping Don’s words at the center of our work and in our hearts.
In 2008, Michael Britton prepared thank-you cards for the workshop participants and helpers and he chose this picture of a scrim to honor Don's memory:
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11.00 am - 12.15 pm Pre-Planned Dignilogue 2: How Can We Cultivate Dignity?
Please note that this title is meant to serve only as an inspiration; the topic of humiliation is so new and multifaceted, as is dignity, that we do not wish to force it into too rigid and narrow structures
Honorary Convenor since 2003 until he passed away in 2017: Morton Deutsch
Moderators: Michael L. Perlin and Janet Gerson
Seating Manager: Rick Slaven
See here a Summary of Our Dignilogue Format for you to download
For the history of Dignilogue 2, see our Past Workshops
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Participants in Dignilogue 2
• Janet Gerson (Video)
- Climate Catastrophe and Political Discourse (2017) (Video)
- Bullying: Nuclear, Presidential, Patriarchial (2016) (Video)
- Janet also thinks of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah as having the pain, the humility, and the awe of being human, see 4'38'' or 7'21''• David C. Yamada (Video)
- Launching a Law and Psychology Lab (2019) (Pdf | Video)
- Dignity Work. What Does It Mean? How Might We Define It? What If We Made the Nurturing of Dignity Our Primary Purpose as Human Beings? What Kind of World Would We See?, Minding the Workplace The New Workplace Institute Blog, November 11, 2018
- Can a Narcissist Feel Your Pain? (Maybe Yes, Study Suggests), by David Yamada, Minding the Workplace The New Workplace Institute Blog, May 31, 2014
- American Elders: Human Dignity and the Aging Population (2012)
- Intellectual Activism: Using Blogs and Social Media to Advance a Human Dignity Agenda (2011)
- The Dignifying Effects of Workplace Bullying Legislation (2009)
• Danielle Coon with Jaspar Leahy (Video | Pdf)
• Lucien Lombardo (Video)
- Adults ‘Becoming Better Ancestors’ through Exploring Their Childhood Experiences with Human Dignity (2019) (Pdf | Video)
- Learning the Language of Dignity and Humiliation in Childhood (2018)
- Bringing Human Dignity to Work and Workplace through the Study of Work, outline for the "Work and Professional Studies" degree program developed at the Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA, shared at the 2014 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 4-5, 2014.
• Chipamong Chowdhury (family name), or Bhante Revata (monk's name in the monastic communities) (Video)
- The Eco-Monks, Forest Dignity and Reforestation in Buddhist Asia (2019) (Pdf | Video)
- See also Dorje, Ogyen Trinley (2017). Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society. Wisdom Publications.
- Mindful Speech (2016)
• Stephen G. Post (Video)
- God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (2019) (Pdf | Video)
See his book God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (Coral Gables, FL: Mango, 2019)
- Dignity, Humiliation and Deeply Forgetful People (2018) (Video | Pdf)• Aura Sofía Díaz, supported by Adair Linn Nagata (unfortunately, no video was recorded)
- Bolivia Is Suffering Maybe More Than Brazil: Their Forest Is Also Burning and It Is a Smaller Country (2019)
• Dialogue (Video)
These participants were unfortunately hindered to participate:
• Daniel Rothbart
- Systems of Humiliation and Compassion in Destructive Conflicts (2018) (Video | Pdf)
- Invading the Mind and Controlling Population Groups: The Power of Systemic Humiliation (2016)• Rambabu Talluri and Fr. Yesupadam Bobbili
- Untouchables Love, Labor and Live (2018)
- Journey with Lenape Tribe for Defending their Rights and Sustainable Development (2017)• James Shanahan
- Conflict Resolution: Technique and Spirit (2018, an amalgamation of ancient eastern martial arts philosophy and modern psychological theories to build Crisis Intervention Teams for first responders: the “Talk Down Before The Take Down")
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Current Advances in Police Training (2009)
- Conflict Resolution: Spirit & Technique - A comprehensive course taught for law enforcement officers, critical incident workers and other emergency first responders (2012)• Beth Fisher-Yoshida
- Dignity, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution (2013)
• Announcements: Preview of the remaining schedule (Video)
• Fred Ellis contributed with his art (Video)
• New arrivals introduced themselves
• Gay Rosenblum Kumar introduces herself
• Vincent Lyn introduced himself
• Shahid Khan introduced himself
12.15 pm - 1.00 pm Lunch & Digniloging, Digniposters, Digniart, Dignibeing, Dignimovement & Announcements of our News, including the 2016 Dignity Press flyer
Lunch in the Cafeteria in the basement of Teachers College, or in the Everett Café at the entrance of the Gottesman Library, or, to avoid long queuing in the cafeteria at noon time, you could bring your own food and eat it in our workshop room
1.00 pm - 1.45 pm Appreciations, Recognitions, Remembrances, and Awards: Lifetime Commitment Award Celebration
Claudia E. Cohen received the Human Dignity (Half) Lifetime Commitment Award! (Video)
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• Claudia Cohens' family and friends introduced themselves earlier
See Claudia's contributions to the dignity work over the years:
- Humiliation, Honoring Dignity and Destructive Conflict: You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught (2019)
- 'This is Civity' Radio Show podcast (2018)
- Confronting Narratives of Hate with Stories of Dignity (2018) (Video | Powerpoint)
- Dignity As a Practice: The Nonhuman Rights Project (2017) (Video)
- Everyday Dignity - Blog Entry: An Illuminating Act of Justice (2016)
- Is Dignity Possible During War Time? A Small Act of Humanity... (2016)
- Welcome to the 2014 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, 2014 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict.
- Emotional Awareness: Can it Mitigate Against the Experience of Humiliation and Promote Constructive Conflict Resolution? (2009)
• Honoring the Careholders (Video)
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• Beacon of Dignity Award for Anna Strout
• Beacon of Dignity Award for Ana Ljubinkovic
• Beacon of Dignity Award for Fatma Tufan
• Beacon of Dignity Award for Gaby Saab
• Beacon of Dignity Award for Shahid Khan
• Beacon of Dignity Award for Anastasia Sarantos Taskin
• Beacon of Dignity Award for Denyse Kapelus
• A Beacon of Dignity Certificate for Each Participant
• Honoring Gaby Saab
• Honoring Anna Strout (unfortunately, this precious moment was not recorded)
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• Honoring Fred Ellis (Video)
Afternoon: Co-Creating Courage in Connection: Turning Ideas into Action
For the history of Dignilogue 3 see our Past Workshops
(until 2013, when it was replaced by co-created dignilogues)
1.45 pm - 3.30 pm Co-Created Dignilogues # 2 - Facilitated by David Yamada and Linda Hartling (Video)
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 277 photos of Day Two
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 99 photos of Day Two• Co-Created Dignilogues in the Making: David Yamada invited into the Co-Created Dignilogues (Video 2018)
• Co-Created Dignilogues in the Making: Philip Brown invited into the Co-Created Dignilogues (Video 2018)Dignilogue Topics That Emerged
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 277 photos of Day Two
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 99 photos of Day Two• Evelin Lindner and Michael Britton explained the concept of the "Dignivideos – Messages to the World" (Video 2019)
• Michael Britton explained the concept of the "Dignivideos – Messages to the World" (Video 2017)
• Evelin Lindner explained the concept of the "Dignivideos – Messages to the World" (Video 2017)Co-Created Dignilogue 6: "Dignity Exchange" with Beth Boynton, Carolyn Lin, Ariel Lublin, Elaine Meis, Nira Shahaf, Hannah Sherak, Katherine Stoessel, Fred Ellis, Gaby Saab, and Claudia Thimm
Message to the World for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 277 photos of Day Two
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 99 photos of Day TwoCo-Created Dignilogue 7: "Transcending Political Humiliation to Bring Dignity to Power" with Lucien Lombardo, Gay Rosenblum-Kumar, Vincent Lyn, Diane Perlman, Adair Linn Nagata, Aura Sofía Díaz, and Peter Pollard
Message to the World for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 277 photos of Day Two
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Lucien Lombardo comments in a personal message on December 21, 2019: "Just received this from the Children's Rights Information Network (CRIN). A new magazine with an <18 focus! Issue is on POWER! I remember our discussions in NYC a few weeks ago about bringing dignity to power."Co-Created Dignilogue 8: "Climate Change and Dignity" with Irene Javors, Michael Britton, Martha Eddy, Angélica Walker, Harley Hessel, Cassandra Langer, Deborah Hillman, and Ana Ljubinkovic
Message to the World for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 277 photos of Day Two
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 99 photos of Day TwoCo-Created Dignilogue 9: "Dignity as a Process: Can Dignity Be Taken Away?" with Erin Kincaid, Shahid Khan, Anastasia Taskin, and Denyse Kapelus
Message to the World for the World Dignity University (WDU) Initiative (Video)
• Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 277 photos of Day Two
• Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 99 photos of Day TwoCo-Created Dignilogue 10: "I Am Workshop" with Anna Strout and Liz Perkins
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Closing Thank-You Round
We collected appreciative feedback and ideas for collective planning about how to cooperate during the coming year, until we meet again next year
4.15 pm - 5.00 pm Closing Ceremony - Moving into the World (Video)
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• Musical gift from Soprano Audrey Hurley (Video)
• Soprano Audrey Hurley introduced herself
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• Closing the Workshop: We Sing "Some Say Love" for Rick Slaven
• Closing the Workshop: Ariel Lublin
• Closing the Workshop: Janet Gerson
• Closing the Workshop: Shahid Khan
• Closing the Workshop: Martha Eddy
• Closing the Workshop: Ariel Lublin
• Closing the Workshop: Carolyn Lin and Taiji
• Closing the Workshop: Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner
• Closing the Workshop: We sing "What a Wonderful World"
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We thank Kathy Komaroff Goodman for sharing with us What A Wonderful World sung by Louis Armstrong!
We thank
David Yamada for singing with us What a Wonderful World (Video 2017):
I see trees of green, red roses, too,
I see them bloom, for me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world.
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,
Are also on the faces of people going by.
I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
They're really sayin', "I love you."
I hear babies cryin'. I watch them grow.
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world!
Linda always reminds of this poem by Oregonian poet Edwin Markham (1852-1940):
Outwitted:
He drew a circle that shut me out -
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
5.00 pm End of Day Two of our workshop
Participants in Co-Created Dignilogues # 1 and # 2 on Day One and Day Two of the Workshop
We so much thank Anna Strout for taking such lovely photos! The still photos come in several web galleries:
• Thursday, December 5, 2019: Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 217 photos of Day One
• Thursday, December 5, 2019: Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 101 photos of Day One
• Thursday, December 5, 2019: Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 138 photos of the Public Event
• Friday, December 6, 2019: Please click here to see all of Anna Strout's 277 photos of Day Two
• Friday, December 6, 2019: Please click here to see all of Evelin Lindner's 99 photos of Day Two
• Our hosts are always warmly invited to participate in this workshop
• We are extremely grateful to the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) of Teachers College for giving us this wonderful gift each year of hosting our global dignity workshop! We would like to thank Peter T. Coleman, and Danielle Coon, Director and Associate Director of the MD-ICCCR, together with their wonderful team, including Keenan Powers, Charlott Macek, Andy Chan, and Jaspar Leahy. All MD-ICCCR members are always most warmly invited to spend as much time with us as possible!
• We would also like to thank Joshua Fisher, Director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) at the Earth Institute of Columbia University! It was great to welcome visiting scholar Miren Onaindia Olalde to our workshop! Welcome also to you, dear Azin Aliabadi, Mariana Casellato, Joán Lopez, Kobi Skolnick, and all AC4 members, you are always warmly invited to spend as much time with us as possible!
• Harriet Jackson, Teachers College External Affairs, was warmly invited to spend as much time with us as possible.
Movement
• Martha Eddy
- Mindful Movement, book talk at Gottesman Libraries (December 6, 2016)
• Karen Kohn Bradley
- JustDance – Just Dancing and Dancing Justly (2019)
• Beth Boynton
• Carolyn Lin
• Nira Shahaf
Music "Moments of Awe and Wonder" (Pdf)
• Fred Ellis
• Audrey Hurley
All Other Digniparticipants
• Bonnie Selterman
- Notes on Human Dignity as a Concept That Can Be Taught, reflections prepared in May 2019.
- Comments to Dignilogue 1 (2017) (Video)
- Comments to Dignilogue 2 (2017) (Video)
- Poem "No Shoes" (Video | Pdf) (2016)
- Please see her Appreciative Introduction 2015
• Mara Alagic
• Glyn Rimmington
• Erin Daly and James "Jimmy" May
• Volker Berghahn
• Gabriela Saab
- Empathy, or Why Humanity Cannot See Itself as One Group and How We Could Change That from a Local Perspective (2016)
• Angélica Walker
• Adair Linn Nagata
• Phil Brown
- The International Center for Assault Prevention (ICAP), a 38 Year Old Prevention Program (2019)
- The International Center for Assault Prevention (2018) (Powerpoint)
- Developing a Dignifying Culture in K-12 Schools (2017) (Video) See also the book edited by Phil Brown, Student Discipline: A Prosocial Perspective (2016)
- Prosocial Education: Developing Caring, Capable Citizens, abstract presented at the 2012 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 6-7, 2012.
- Prosocial Development: Defining the Basis for Prosocial Education, discussant background notes presented at the 2011 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 8-9, 2011. See also a slide of the Prosocial Double Helix.
- Prosocial Education, prepared by Ann Higgins D'Alessandro, Fordham University, and edited by Philip Brown, Rutgers University, for the 2010 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 9-10, 2010.
- Philip M. Brown kindly guest-edited "Humiliation in the Academic Setting," A Special Symposium Issue of Experiments in Education, published by the S.I.T.U. Council of Educational Research in 2008.
- Reflections on Policy and Humiliation: Addressing the Needs of Poor Minority Children in New Jersey’s Public Schools, draft paper presented at Round Table 3 of the 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 15-16, 2005.
- Humiliation, Bullying and Caring in School Communities, paper presented at the Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, November 18-19, 2004.
• Anna Strout
• Liz Perkins
• Robert Anderson
• Gay Rosenblum-Kumar
- Looking Back on 25 Years of Building Capacities for Conflict Prevention and Transformation in the United Nations (2014)
- Horizontal Inequality and Humiliation: Public Policy for Disaffection or Cohesion? (2005)
- Humiliation, Conflict and Public Policy (2004)
• Vincent Lyn
• Mechthild "Mecke" Nagel
- Dignity Dialogue – Entering the Circles of Hope (2019)
- Troubling Justice: Towards a Ludic Ubuntu Ethic (2016)
• Joni and William Baird with Kyle Scott, brother of Brandon Scott
- Joni and Bill Baird co-direct a non-profit organization for women’s rights. Bill Baird’s U.S. Supreme Court case, Baird v. Eisenstadt, legalized birth control in the U.S. in 1972.
• Michael Greene
- A Human Rights Perspective on Preventing Violence (2019)
• Anne Wyatt-Brown
- Learning and Creativity Throughout One’s Life (2016)
- Aging in the Right Place (2016) (see also Stephen Golant's book)
- Humiliation and Resilience in Higher Education (2015)
- From Auschwitz to the International Court of Justice in the Hague (2010)
- The Burden of Palestinian Education: Undoing Humiliation (2009)
- A Holocaust Narrative of Humiliation and Resilience (2008)
- A Challenge to Medical Hierarchies (2007)
- Humiliation In My Brother’s Image (2006)
- A Woman in Berlin: The Complexity of Humiliation at the End of World War II (2005)
• Brian D'Agostino
- Militarism, Machismo, and the Regulation of Self-Image. In The Journal of Psychohistory 45 (3, Winter 2018)
Abstract: The topic of militarism could hardly be more timely. In 2015, the world failed to meet the Millennium Development Goals while spending over 1.6 trillion dollars on war and war preparations (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2016), more than ten times what it would have cost to meet them (United Nations Development Program, 2012) [read more]
- Dignity, Humiliation, and Social Transformation, in Psychohistory News, vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2018), an overview over the 2017 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 7 - 8, 2017.
- Militarism, Machismo, and the Regulation of Self-Image, in The Journal of Psychohistory 45 (3, Winter 2018)
Abstract: The topic of militarism could hardly be more timely. In 2015, the world failed to meet the Millennium Development Goals while spending over 1.6 trillion dollars on war and war preparations (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2016), more than ten times what it would have cost to meet them (United Nations Development Program, 2012).
• Erin Hilgart
• Harley Hessel
- Please see his 2019 Appreciative Introduction
• Denyse Kapelus
• Hannah Sherak
• Ana Ljubinkovic
- Cultural Forms of Dignity Restoration (2019)
• Fatma Susan Tufan
• Claudia Thimm
• Roberta L. Kosberg
• Anastasia Sarantos Taskin
- Please see her 2017 Appreciative Introduction
• Katherine Stoessel
- Please see her Appreciative Introduction 2018
• Ariel Lublin and Francis Mead
- Ariel Lublin Introduced Herself (Video 2017)
• Diane Perlman
• Peter Pollard
• Shahid Khan
• Elaine Meis
• Talia Werber
• Irene Javors
- Do Ask; Do Tell: Contemporary Questions For Psychohistorians and Psychobiographers(2017)
- Please see her 2017 Appreciative Introduction
• Cassandra Langer
• Rabbi Bob Kaplan
• Karen Hopenwasser
• Deborah Hillman
• Zuzka Kurtz
• Curt Lamb
• Erin Kincaid
• Dawn Ravella
• Cynthia Guyer and Alanna O'Donnell
• Constance Klein
• Yvette Jackson
• Christopher Cooper
• Miren Onaindia Olalde
• Rose and Michael Sherwin
• Monika Gude
Participants before and after the workshop, and on WhatsApp
• Michael Boyer
- The Dignity World Map and the Dignity World Manifest (2019)
• Xiaojue Hu
• Kathy Komaroff Goodman
• Jeannie Filippini
• Stefanie Overbeck, Mel Wymore, Rowyn Paul
• Mary Bakhoum and Suzy Khouzam
• Talia Shafir
- Somatic Psychology and Dignity (2017)
• Amy Silverman
These participants were hindered to participate:
• Maggie O'Neill
- Humiliation, Social Justice and Ethno-mimesis (2005)
- Forced Migration, Humiliation and Human Dignity: Re-Imagining the Asylum-Migration Nexus through Participatory Action Research (PAR) (2006)
- Humiliation and Human Dignity: Conducting Participatory Action Research with Women Who Sell Sex (see www.safetysoapbox.com) (2007)
- Humiliation, Social Justice and Recognitive Communities: Thinking about the Asylum-Migration-Community Nexus in the Context of HDHS(2012)
- Refugee Women, Human Rights and Belonging: Educating for Dignity (2013)
• Grace Feuerverger
- The Fairy Tale as a Pathway Toward Dignity for Children of War and Other Oppressions (2016)
- Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on the Immigrant and Refugee Experience in an Inner-city High School in Toronto (2012)
- Acts of “Great Generosity of Spirit”: The Classroom as a Pathway Toward Abundance and Dignity (2011)
- On the Child's Right to Identity, the Best Interests of the Child and Human Dignity (2009)
- Teaching and Writing Vulnerably: An Auto-Ethnography about Schools as Places of Hope (2009)
- Building Bridges to Peace and Social Justice: An Emancipatory Discourse in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel (2006)
- The "School For Peace": A Conflict Resolution Program in a Jewish-Palestinian Village (2005)
• Carol Smaldino and Angelo Smaldino
- As a Therapist: Cultivating the Dignity of Being Ourselves(2016)
- see also:
- "In a Dialogue: In a Dignilogue," by Carol Smaldino, Huffington Post, December 20, 2016
- "Finding Dignity in Emotional Anguish," by Carol Smaldino, Huffington Post, December 29, 2016
- Vulnerability Protected: Respecting the Rawness of Vulnerability and Giving it the Protection it Needs (2015)
• Lyndon Harris and Maria Lund (Video)
- Forgiveness and Regenerative Positive Emotions: Being the Peace We Wish to See in the World (2018)
- No Future Without Forgiveness: Strategic Aims and Considerations for the Gardens of Forgiveness Movement (Video) (2015)
Topics: 1. What Forgiveness Is/Is Not 2. The Science of Forgiveness 3. Forgiveness as a Tool for Conflict Transformation 4. The Gardens of Forgiveness Movement: From Beirut to the World 5. Tips for Starting Your Own Garden of Forgiveness
• Annette Anderson-Engler (Video)
- Humiliation Through Silent Grief in Women: When Words Are Not Enough (2010)
- Shared Narratives: The “Voice” of Personal and Social Identity – Are We Listening? (2009)
- Constructing and Reconstructing Narratives – A Passageway to Personal Meaning and Social Change (2007)
- Displaced Identity and Humiliation in Children of Vietnam Veterans (2005)
- Humiliation and Displaced Identity (2004)
• Fonkem Achankeng I and Ndemazea Fonkem, daughter of Fonkem Achankeng I
- Humiliation, Betrayal and Great Pain: British Southern Cameroons, Half a Century of Self-Questioning, and a Mass Movement for Freedom (2019)
- Understanding the British Southern Cameroons' Restoration of Statehood: Internal Affair or Decolonization Conflict (2018) (Pdf)
- Imperial Dispossession of ‘Others’ by Falsification of Dignity (2017) (Video | Pdf | Powerpoint)
- The Dignity of the Commons: Re-imagining Life Experiences from the Poor & Homeless to International Politics (2016) (Pdf | Powerpoint)
- Human Dignity & A World Beyond War: Partnerships and Collaborations in Our Global Commons (2015)
- You are invited to learn more about the history of the conflict in British-Cameroon from a debate organized in South Africa and Voices from Ambazonia, to see one of Fonkem's articles on the conflict, and a letter addressed to the President of Republique du Cameroon by a party in the country in 2012. See also a piece on the conflict in Cameroon published in E-International Relations in 2018.
• Sowmya Kshtriya for Ani Kalayjian
- Transforming Humiliation Through Soul-Surfing: Movement and Breathing (2017)
- Align with Mother Earth (2016)
- I Am a Syrian Refugee (2015) (Pdf | Video)
- Transforming Horizontal Violence in Haiti through 7-step Integrative Healing Model, and Forgiveness and Peace Gardens (with Lorraine Simmons, 2015)
• Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
- Nature, Dignity and Conflict: A Perspective from Indian Philosophy (2017)
"The tension between the Gandhian vision of Gram Swaraj (village self-rule) and the Nehruvian vision of heavy industrialization contributed to this friction. The paper, while focusing on these tensions, factors dignity in the analysis, and emphasizes how the undermining of dignity has contributed to ecological imbalance in India.""We can certainly realize our full destiny and dignity only if we educate and train ourselves to be able to refrain from retaliation." ― Mahatma Gandhi.
• Merle Lefkoff and Joni Carley
- Indigenous Knowledge and the New Science of Complex Adaptive Systems (see Video) (2016)
- When the Butterfly Flaps Her Wings in Gaza (2005)
• David Yau-Fai Ho and Guangdong "Nina" Shao
- David's Expressive Dance to Ambush from Ten Sides (2016)
Published on 26 Aug 2016: Yo-Yo Ma is my hero who champions intercultural fertilization in the musical realm. The Silk Road Ensemble he has created is indeed a meeting of strangers who will enrich the musical world across cultures. The piece “Ambush from Ten Sides” is a real success in intercultural fertilization. Its militant tenor invites an interpretation with martial arts as a central component.
- Madness, Violence, and Human Dignity: Transforming Madness for Dignified Existence (2015)
• Rita Anita Linger
- Enhancing Dignity and Reducing Humiliation through the Practice of Mind-Body Skills (2016)
• Jackie Wasilewski and Marek Kaminski
- The Role of Dignity and Humiliation in Indigenous Cultures and Its Usefulness for Global Dialogue (2009)
- Transforming Humiliation: Spiritual and Dialogic Aspects (2011)
• Judit Révész and Ikhlaq Hussain
- Judit Révész Introduced Herself (Video 2017)
• Eileen Barker and Russell Wilkie
- Forgiveness as a Path to Dignity (2016)
• Renée Monrose
- See Renée Monrose's Face-to-Face exhibition at the Union Theological Seminary
• Christine de Michele
• Mariana Ferraz
- Please see his Appreciative Introduction 2016
• Marta Carlson
- Please see her Appreciative Introduction 2018
• Doaa Rashed
- How Can We Cultivate Dignity (2017) (Video)
• Sasha Moore (Video)
- Please see her Appreciative Introduction 2017
- An Intercultural Communicative Competency Handbook for Law Enforcement Personnel: The Transgender Community and Beyond (2017) (Video)
• Jonathan Cohen
- Please see his Appreciative Introduction 2017
• Jillian Post
- Please see her Appreciative Introduction 2017
• Bruno Varela
- Bruno Varela Introduced Himself (Video 2017)
• Barbara DeCosta
- Barbara De Costa Introduced Herself (Video 2017)
• Barbara Bodine
- Barbara Bodine Introduced Herself (Video 2017)
• Kayhan Irani
- Theatre for Social Change (2018)
• Nachiketa Mittal
- Please see his Appreciative Introduction 2018
• Larry Lee
- Please see his 2018 Appreciative Introduction
• Qin Shao
• Zuzana Luckay Mihalčinová
• Karen Hirsch
• Cornelia Zelter
• Barbe Chambliss
• Rana Tanver
• Maria E. Guillen
• Tony Allicino
• Janice Gilligan White
• Russell Daisey
• Camilla Hsiung
• George Chidieber Iheanacho
• Diane Sammer
• Ritu Chopra
• Peter Barus
• Orpa Navot
• Susan Scharf
• Ann Moradian
• Rita Mittal
• Cecilia Rothschild
• Davon Woodley
• Rebecca Mohr
• Dustin Hausner
• Tamar Gur
• Barbara Barnes
• Hazel Reid
• Ed Havlovic
• Adriana Melasecca
• Mimi Evans
• Monika Gude
• Michele Risa
• Annie Lewall
• Shahid Khan and family
• Heather McClellan
• Helen Bibilouri
Prior and Subsequent to our Workshop
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December 4, 2019, board meeting with our dear Linda, who was leading the meeting as lovingly as always, also with dear Rick Slaven, our Director of Dignifunding! Please see also Good News December 2019. |
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December 4, 2019: As many know, Evelin lives globally, and whenever she receives a gift in one part of the world, she takes it to another part of the world and look for a worthy recipient for that gift. She calls this the "circle of love gifts." When she has found a worthy recipient, she tries to take a picture of them and send it to the giver of the gift. In that way, not only is her global life a bridge-building endeavour, also the gifts that she carries help build more bridges. It is also a "footprint" of her path through the world. These photos memorize our circle of love gifts with dear friends at the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City! • Please click on the pictures above or here to see more photos. |
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Three WONDERFUL annual lunch meetings – always sacred time spent together – with Beth Fisher-Yoshida on December 13, 2019 (left), with Claudia Cohen on November 22, 2019 (middle), and with Danielle Coon on December 4, 2019 (right). Beth Fisher-Yoshida was the Associate Director of the MD-ICCCR for many years, until Claudia Cohen took over, followed by Danielle Coon. Beth is now the Co-Chair of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity AC4. Claudia is engaged as a community educator, directing community-based anti-racism educational programming and interracial dialogues in New Jersey. • Please click on the pictures above or here to see them larger. |
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Wonderful meetings! From left: How wonderful it was to also be with Kathy Goodman on December 13! And with Hazel Reid on December 11, 2019, during the TC Holiday Party! A loving thank you! • Please click on the pictures above or here to see them larger. |
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December 2, 2019: A big THANK YOU so Josh Fisher and The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), for their IMPORTANT work! How wonderful it was for me to reconnect today! Dear Josh, thank you so much for your gift of seeds from the Society for Technology & Action for Rural Advancement (TARA), a social enterprise set up in the year 1985 at New Delhi, India, an "incubation engine" of the Development Alternatives Group which has been providing development solutions in India and elsewhere. • Please click on the pictures above or here to see them larger. |
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Our dignifriends at Teachers College deserve our deep gratitude for their unwavering support for our Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict all the way back to 2003 when Morton Deutsch convened the first workshop! I am so glad that I had a chance to reconnect with you on November 25, 2019! Top row from left: Kofi Asare (media), Corine Best Campbell (facilities), Charlott Macek (MD-ICCCR), and Jennifer Govan (Gottesman Libraries). Bottom row: And on December 10, 2019, I made my "post-workshop thank-you" round! Thank you so much, dear friends at TC for your wonderful ongoing support! Anna Olivo (catering), Kofi Asare and his colleagues (media), Yeremy Chavez and his colleagues (security), Kevin Waldron (facilities), and Sandra Afflick and Audrey Hurley (registrar). • November 25: Please click on the pictures above or here to see more photos. • December 10: Please click on the pictures above or here to see them larger. |
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How wonderful it was to reconnect with Alba Taveras (left), Liz Hernandez (middle) on November 25, and Joe Levine (right) on November 25 and 26! Thank you so much, dearest Alba, for so lovingly supporting our dignity work since 2003, when you worked with Andrea Bartoli at SIPA. Another thank you to you, dear Liz, for your support for our dignity work since you worked with Morton Deutsch at at the ICCCR. Dear Joe, how can we thank you for being such a loving human being! I am very grateful for your kind invitation on November 26. • Please click on the pictures above to see the photos larger. |
November 23, 2019:
Thank you so much, dearest Janet and David, for hosting a wonderful DignityNowNYC get-together! I am deeply grateful! • Please click on the pictures above or here to them larger. |
November 22, 2019 How wonderful it was for me to be back at the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City! This year, we will have the 16th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict – dear Peter, do you remember, you were with us in the very first workshop that dear Morton Deutsch convened on July 7, 2003! Also this year, people from all corners of the world will travel to our event. Our profound gratitude goes to you, dear Peter Coleman and Danielle Coon, for hosting us also this year! What a great way to honor our dear Mort, and what a gift to all those who wish to bring more dignity into this world. And what a joy to meet with you for the first time, dear Andy Chan! A BIG thank you to you all for your amazing support for our shared path toward more dignity in the world! Dearest Claudia, thank you so much for inviting me again! This was our 10th annual lunch together, imagine, and it is always a sacred time spent together! • Please click on the pictures above or here to them larger. |
Participants in all NY workshops since 2003
Papers
All participants are warmly invited to send in full papers after the workshop.
Please notify us, if you wish to submit any of your papers also as a book chapter or as a journal article in our Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.
Please see earlier submitted papers here:
• List of all Publications
• 2004 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2005 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2006 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2007 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2008 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2009 Workshop on Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2010 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2011 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2012 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2013 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2014 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2015 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2016 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2017 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
• 2018 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict
Abstracts/Notes/Papers of 2019
Please see further down the papers/notes that participants send in prior to the workshop so that everybody can get acquainted with all others beforehand.
See here the work by:
Andrea Bartoli
Linda M. Hartling
Donald C. Klein
Victoria C. Fontan
Evelin G. LindnerMechthild "Mecke" Nagel (2020)
Playing with (Lady) Justice: Another World is Possible?
Contribution shared after the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5–6, 2019.
Monty Marshall (2019)
Conflict and Governance in the Light of Dignity and Humiliation (Video)
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5–6, 2019.Claudia E. Cohen (2019)
Humiliation, Honoring Dignity and Destructive Conflict: You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5–6, 2019.Claudia E. Cohen (2019)
"Everyday Dignity: The Surprising Power of 'Small' Acts." In Human Dignity: Practices, Discourses, and Transformations: Essays on Dignity Studies in Honor of Evelin G. Lindner. Edited by Chipamong Chowdhury, Michael Britton, and Linda Hartling. Chapter 3. Lake Oswego, OR: Dignity Press, 2019.Stephen G. Post (2019)
God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (2019) (Pdf | Video)
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5–6, 2019.
See his book God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (Coral Gables, FL: Mango, 2019)David C. Yamada (2019)
Launching a Law and Psychology Lab (Pdf | Video)
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5-6, 2019.Michael Greene (2019)
A Human Rights Perspective on Preventing Violence
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5–6, 2019.Mechthild "Mecke" Nagel (2019)
Dignity Dialogue – Entering the Circles of Hope
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019.Tony Gaskew (2019)
Life Support: Ritual, Community, and Healing Through the Eyes of a Juvenile Lifer (Pdf | Video)
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019.Chipamong Chowdhury (Banthe Revata) (2019)
The Eco-Monks, Forest Dignity and Reforestation in Buddhist Asia (Pdf | Video)
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019.Lucien Lombardo (2019)
Adults ‘Becoming Better Ancestors’ through Exploring Their Childhood Experiences with Human Dignity (Pdf | Video)
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019.Fonkem Achankeng I (2019)
Humiliation, Betrayal and Great Pain: British Southern Cameroons, Half a Century of Self-Questioning, and a Mass Movement for Freedom
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019.Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo (2019)
How to Provide Dignity for Persons with Autism in the Criminal Justice Process (Pdf | Video)
Contribution shared at the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019.Bonnie Selterman (2019)
Notes on Human Dignity as a Concept That Can Be Taught
Reflections prepared in May 2019 for the 2019 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Columbia University, New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019.
Ideas for Dignilogue Topics
Your input is very welcome!
Ani Kalayjian kindly wrote (July 9, 2009):
Can we have a special section at the December Conference for highlighting both of these volumes, as well as the forgiveness book which will be in print on Aug 4th right at the APA Convention in Toronto. We could get some of the authors of the forgiveness book on a panel addressing: Slavery, denial, US prisoners, Sudan Genocide (these authors are living in this geographic area). We can also do the same another panel on the II volumes that you contributed in focusing on rituals to transform humiliation into empowerment.
Karen Murphy kindly wrote (November 25, 2009):
I was thinking that CBS’ 60 Minutes Investigation of Congo’s Conflict Minerals on November 29, 2009 (see Enough's new Conflict Minerals web portal), would be a very interesting opportunity/resource for a roundtable, evening event, that is, using the 60 Minutes episode to raise awareness and to provide a context for discussion about the ways that we can make a difference in our daily lives to improve (even, in this case, save) the lives of others. Wishing you well and very grateful for you and your work--Karen
60 Minutes Episode on Conflict Minerals
If you have a cell phone in your pocket or a gold ring on your finger, you are directly linked to the deadliest war in the world. How is that possible? For over a century, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plagued by regional conflict and a deadly scramble for its vast natural resources. The conflict in eastern Congo today – the deadliest since World War II – is fueled in significant part by a multi-million dollar trade in minerals. Armed groups generate an estimated $180 million each year by trading four main minerals: the ores that produce the metals tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold. This money enables the armed groups to purchase large numbers of weapons and continue their campaign of rape and brutal violence against civilians, with some of the worst abuses occurring in mining areas. After passing through traders, smelters, and component manufacturers, these materials are placed in jewelry and electronic devices, such as cell phones, portable music players, and computers, and sold in the United States. See also www.enoughproject.org/conflict-minerals.
Karen Murphy kindly wrote (January 28, 2009):
I am writing with an idea for the conference.
Have you had the chance to read Samantha Power's book Chasing the Flame? It's about Sergio Vieira de Mello and his work in various countries emerging from mass violence. Based on his life's work, Power proposes several key principles. One of them is dignity.
The book is the first product in a campaign that focuses on foreign policy. There is also a documentary (premiering this month at Sundance film festival) and a feature film by Terry George. In addition, there is a website that explores the key issues, www.chasingtheflame.org, and www.chasingtheflame.org/2008/08/the-principle-o.html (for an example of one of my blogs).
I was thinking that it would be so interesting to loop your work into this campaign. Perhaps members of the conference could read the book and then discuss it at a roundtable. You could then post blogs on the site or write in other forums.
It would be so interesting to bring your research into this conversation on foreign policy, nation building, national reconstruction and reconciliation, etc. As you might know, Samantha Power has played and continues to play a key role in Obama's foreign policy – looping your work into the website would be a way to bring it to a wider audience and a way to help shape this emerging conversation.
January 29, 2009:
I'm sure we can get copies of the book at a discounted price for conference attendees – and I'd love to think about how you might take the foreign policy lens and apply your scholarship – and perhaps then post as blogs for www.chasingtheflame.org, thus broadening their audience and yours. Best, Karen
Floyd Webster Rudmin:
"Asymmetries in self-perceptions of being the humiliatee versus the humiliator"
"Archetypal humiliation in literature: A survey of English literature teachers"
Annette Anderson-Engler:
"Constructing Narratives after Violent Conflict"
Annette kindly wrote on March 31, 2006: "I would like to discuss how individuals construct their narratives after traumatic experiences or event."
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk:
"Theory, Method, and Practice of Humiliation Research"
This could also be a topic for our Open Space
Ana Ljubinkovic:
"Assistance and Humiliation"
Varda Mühlbauer:
"Humiliation/Dignity in the Workplace"
"Humiliation/Dignity in the Family"
Zahid Shahab Ahmed:
"Humiliation and Child Sexual Abuse"
Victoria C. Fontan:
"Terrorism and Humiliation" and
"Armed Conflict, Escalation and Humiliation"
Miriam Marton:
"Consequences of Humiliation"
Jörg Calliess:
"How to Prepare 'Non-Psychologists' (Human Rights Defenders, Peace Keepers, etc.) for Dealing with the Trauma of Humiliation in Victims"
Emmanuel Ndahimana:
"Ignorance and Humiliation"
Arie Nadler:
"Justice and Humiliation"
Alicia Cabezudo:
"Interlinking Peace Education and Humiliation Studies: A Bridge for Crossing Borders"
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Practical details
• Where to stay
(Please help us to continuously update this section!)
• For all our workshops, we gratefully count on you to make your own transportation, accommodation, and visa arrangements.
• Please see here the subway map of NY.
• Please see Lodgings close to Columbia University,
see particularly TC Guest Housing (Tel. +1 212 678-3235), International House, NYC (Tel. +1 212 316-8400), and Union Theological Seminary (Tel. +1 212 280-1313).
• See also AirBnB. We thank Erin Helfert for sending us this link. Thank you, dear Rosario Galvan, for writing to us on April 14, 2016: Here's another searcher for homestay, appartment rental: Roomorama. And see booking.com for hotel rooms also reflecting special deals for hostels and shared accommodations, perhaps better suited for younger students (in the search function just click on under $50 per night). They rent beds in shared rooms with shared bathrooms but also other options with private room and shared bathroom.
• A very quiet place to stay would be the Community of the Holy Spirit on West 113th Street.
• Tonya Hammer recommends Morningside Inn (very reasonable, but also very basic).
• Tomoko Ishii recommends On The Ave (more costly, but also less basic).
• The Milford Plaza Hotel is located in Broadway's Theater District (very reasonable).
• See furthermore the website for the NY City Hotel Trades Council, which will locate socially responsible hotels in the NY City area. We thank Floyd Rudmin for making us aware of this service.
• Please see also US SERVAS, hosting people for one to two nights. (This can be extended, but this is up to the host to extend, and the traveler to accept. Most NYC hosts do not host more than a week, except if the visitor is someone they really feel comfortable with and grow to like.)
• Please see also couchsurfing.com.
• Please see also craigslist.org.
• Please see furthermore Sara's New York Homestay, through which international students, visitors, interns or executives who come to New York City (this service exists also in Los Angeles, Paris, and London) for a short period of time (1 to 12 months) can find a place to stay (four weeks Manhattan cost ca. 1,500 USD, one week 900 USD, the cost is less outside Manhattan; when you write to them, convey greetings from Evelin: Evelin visited their office on November 19, 2007, and presented the HumanDHS initiative to Bernard Zagdanski, Sara’s husband).
• Some of our participants have used Aparthotels, such as Chelsmore Apartments, 205 West 15th Street, New York City, Tel. +1 212-924-7991. We thank David Bargal for this link.
• Green conference and reinventing organization
We strive to organize our conferences as "Green Conferences". Lynn King kindly advised us. We also thank Vegard Jordanger for making us aware of Frederic Laloux's work on Reinventing Organizations (2014).
• Please kindly note that...
• There is no registration fee for our conferences. To cover our expenses, we usually summarize the costs during the conference and invite participants to contribute according to their ability. This collaborative approach to financing allows us to keep the conference affordable for all.
• We like to get to know participants prior to our conferences and workshops, and prior to issuing an invitation.
• All our gatherings are by invitation only, please approach us so that we can include you and register you.
Only our Public Events are open to everybody without registration.
• The Non-Public Parts of our gatherings have limited enrollment.
• Participants are encouraged to find their own sources of funding or economic support to participate in our conferences (please help us to continuously update this section!) We offer our nurturing work as our gift of love and care to you, and we
would like to lovingly invite everybody to contribute to this gift economy. If you need funding for your travels and housing, please inquire in your country and your university about possibilities. See, among others, for the US, www.supportcenteronline.org and www.foundationscenter.org. The Weinstein International Fellowship program, inaugurated in 2008, provides opportunities for individuals from outside the United States to visit the U.S. to learn more about dispute resolution processes and practices and to pursue a project of their own design that serves to advance the resolution of disputes in their home countries.
• Participants are kindly asked to handle all of their travel arrangements and required documentation, including requests for visas, on their side. HumanDHS is a volunteer initiative and does not have the staff or resources to assist with visa requests.
• Permissions
During our conferences, we always ask all participants for their permission to have their pictures or videos posted on our website, however, if you change your mind later, either in total or for specific pictures/videos, please let us know! Thank you! Since we wish to walk the talk of dignity, it is very important for us to do our utmost in respecting everybody's privacy. We refrain from gathering written permissions from you during our conferences, since we value the building of mutual trust in relationships, and we also would like to refrain from contributing to an ever more bureaucratic and legalistic society.
