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This picture-blog is meant to document Evelin's efforts and whereabouts and share them with the HumanDHS network [read more].
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Main program points • Dignilogue 1: "Dignity Through Solidarity: What Can We Do Make This Future Possible?" • Bonus Sessions Day One |
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Linda Hartling and Evelin Lindner are the conveners of the annual workshops at Columbia University, together with honorary convener Morton Deutsch. He 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 pictures above to see it them larger. |
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Welcome and Greetings on
Day One of our workshop • Opening of Day One with musical meditations from Lasse Moer, Humler og lavendel (bumblebees and lavender) (Video Day One | Video Day Three | original Video September 7, 2021) • Linda Hartling, Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, welcomed all participants of the workshop (Video | the Digni-Planners gathered prior to the workshop Video) • Linda Hartling acknowledged the Digni-Planners of this workshop (Video) • Linda Hartling explained the use of the camera and microphone during this workshop (Video Day Three) • Danielle Coon, Associate Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), welcomed all participants (Video) • Evelin Lindner, Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, welcomed all participants of the workshop (Video | Video recorded on December 6, 2021 | Text) • Linda Hartling introduced the Appreciative Frame for this workshop (Video 2021 | Video 2020) We use the perspective of Appreciative Enquiry as a frame for our work. See introductions shared in previous workshops: 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015, 2014 (see also Pdf), 2012, 2011, and see An Appreciative Frame, written by Linda Hartling in 2005 • Linda Hartling gave an overview over the program of the workshop (Video) • Connection and Reflection Groups explained by Janet Gerson (Video 2021 | Video 2020) • Anna Strout gathered the participants for group photos with Danielle Coon as a gift to the MD-ICCCR (Version 1 | Version 2 | Version 3) |
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Michael Britton gave the traditional Don Klein Memorial Lecture on Day One of our workshop Michael uses Don's metaphor of a scrim, a transparent stage curtain, where one believes that what one sees is reality only as long as the light shines on it in a certain way: see Don's explanation. • Michael Britton's Don Klein Celebration Lecture of 2021 (Video) See the original video that was recorded on December 5, 2021, and edited by Linda Hartling on December 6, 2021, and a longer presentation with PowerPoint recorded on November 30, 2021, and edited by Linda Hartling on December 1, 2021 • Please see all of Michael Britton's Don Klein Celebration Lectures since 2007 here |
Dignilogue #1 on
Day One of our workshop |
Dignilogue #2 on
Day One of our workshop Creating Courage Through Action in the Age of Cogitocide, Sociocide, and Ecocide • Digni-Host — Linda Hartling • Digni-Contributors — His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Rebecca "Becky" Tabaczynski, Victoria Fontan, Evelin Lindner, Femke Wijdekop, Jojo Mehta (background information), and Rosario Galvan (comment) • Dignilogue 2: Full Length |
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Bonus Sessions at the end of
Day One of our workshop Deepening the Dialogue/Co-Creativity Groups • David Yamada and Janet Gerson: Welcome to HumanDHS: New and Returning Friends, Students, and Mentors • Beth Boynton: Warm-up Activities for Engaging & Connecting Your Groups on Zoom (Video) |
Dignilogue #3 on
Day Two of our workshop Generating Dignity Through Compassionate Justice? • Digni-Host — Philip Brown • Digni-Contributors — Michael Perlin, Janet Gerson, David Yamada, Tony Gaskew, Ginger Lerner-Wren (guest) • Dignilogue 3: Full Length |
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Dignilogue #4 on
Day Two of our workshop Plotting the Future of the World Dignity University Initiative • Digni-Host — David Yamada • Digni-Contributors — Evelin Lindner, Ulrich Spalthoff, Mara Alagic, David Yamada • Dignilogue 4: Full Length |
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Howard Richards Was Honored with the 2021 HumanDHS Lifetime Commitment Award • Award Ceremony in full length (Video) • Message of Appreciation from Evelin Lindner (Video | Pdf) • Award Acceptance Speech by Howard Richards (Video recorded on December 8, 2021 | long Pdf | short Pdf) • Howard Richards' 3 Most Important Messages to the World (Video, 5th June 2013 | short version prepared by Linda Hartling on December 5, 2021) |
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Bonus Sessions at the end of
Day Two of our workshop Deepening the Dialogue/Co-Creativity Groups • Chipamong (Chipa) Chowdhury, or Bhante Revata Dhamma (monk's name, known in the monastic communities) announced his Bonus Session titled "Pandemic, Inner Adventure, and Nomad Mindfulness!" (Video) • Claudia Thimm announced her Bonus Session titled "Nonviolent and Dignifying Communication" (Video | PowerPoint) |
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From Humiliation to Dignity: For a Future of Global Solidarity — Evelin Lindner (Video | PowerPoint | Big History Summary Pdf | Version of 39 minutes recorded on November 27, 2021, in Germany Video) This talk was based on Evelin Lindner's book: From Humiliation to Dignity: For a Future of Global Solidarity (Lake Oswego, OR: World Dignity University Press of Dignity Press, 2022, see the synopsis) |
Dignilogue #5 on
Day Three of our workshop Pathways to Solidarity: Dignifying Relationships with People and the Planet — Turning Ideas into Action • Digni-Host — Elaine Meis • Contributors: Phil Brown for for the Dignity Now New York City Group, Chipamong (Chipa) Chowdhury, or Bhante Revata Dhamma (monk's name, known in the monastic communities), the Dignity Now Hameln (Hamelin) Group, Zuzana Lučkay Mihalčinová (greetings) • Dignilogue 5: Full Length |
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His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal: "Message to the World" Video edited by Linda Hartling on January 3, 2021 See the original Video that His Royal Highness pre-recorded in the Majlis in Amman, Jordan, on December 10, 2020. Prince Hassan bin Talal has served as the president of the Club of Rome from 1999 to 2007, the board of directors for the Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the University of Oklahoma, the Parliament of Cultures, the Royal Jordanian Polo Club, and the International Tolerance Foundation for Humanities and Social Studies, and is honorary president of the Euro-Mediterranean Association for Cooperation and Development since 2012. Prince Hassan bin Talal is a member of the Jordanian royal family, he is the brother of King Hussein, who was King of Jordan until his death in 1999, and he is the uncle of King Abdullah II, the present King of Jordan, who reigns since February 7, 1999. See also: • Prince El Hassan bin Talal explains the notion of the Cogitosphere (Video recorded on October 25, 2021, and edited by Linda Hartling). • Prince El Hassan bin Talal explains the notion of the Cogitosphere in his remarks at the Stop Ecocide International Criminal Court side event (Video recorded on December 8, 2021) |
Messages to the World "Messages to the World" are a contribution to the World Dignity University Library of Ideas to be shared with the world and, hopefully, inspirational for future generations. See more messages here |
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A big thank you to all music, movement, and poetry contributors throughout the workshop! See more here |
December 7, 2021 Ecocide: A fifth crime defined This year, in response to political demand, an independent expert panel of top international criminal and environmental lawyers from around the world spent 6 months drafting a clear, concise definition of “ecocide” as a potential 5th crime under the Rome Statute. With the new definition already gaining significant political traction, co-chairs of the panel Philippe Sands QC and Dior Fall Sow are joined by key voices from countries at the forefront of the growing movement to recognise ecocide at the International Criminal Court. Opening address: Mr Dreli Solomon, Chargé d'Affaires at the Embassy of the Republic of Vanuatu in Brussels Supporting statement: Rt. Hon. Fiame Naomi Naomi Mataʻafa, Prime Minister, Independent State of Samoa Speakers from the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide: * Professor Philippe Sands QC, UCL/Matrix Law. (UK/France, Co-chair) * Dior Fall Sow, UN jurist & former prosecutor (Senegal, Co-chair) * Judge Tuiloma Neroni Slade, former ICC judge (Samoa, Panelist) * Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bangladesh, Panelist) * Jojo Mehta, Chair, Stop Ecocide Foundation (UK, Convenor) With reflections from: * HRH Esmeralda of Belgium, Journalist, author & activist. * HRH El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, humanitarian, & peace & interfaith advocate * Mindahi Bastida, Indigenous Elder and Spokesperson (Mexico, Otomi-Toltec tradition) • Please click on the picture above to see it larger |
November 26, 2021 Maternal Gift Economy: Breaking Through - Virtual Conference (see the recording) Thank you so much, dear Geneviève Vaughan and Darcia Narváez, for inviting Linda and me! It was a great privilege to have you, dear Geneviève, with us in our 2014 workshop at Columbia University in New York City! Theory and Practice of the Gift Economy by Genevieve Vaughan: "Actually the market is limited and floating on a sea of gifts. Profit itself is a gift as it comes from the part of the labor of workers which is not covered by the salary, their so called ‘surplus labor’. But there are also the gifts of housework and of nature which are exploited by the market, which does not have to pay for the reproduction of the workers or the cleanup of pollution." • Please click on the pictures above to see them larger and see also the recording of this conference |
November 23, 2021 Said in Exile - A book talk by Timothy Brennan • Please click on the picture above to see the recording of this book talk |
November 2, 2021 Thank you so much, dear Linda, for sending out this Final Friendly Reminder: You're Warmly Invited to the 18th Annual Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, Dec. 9–12, 2021, sent out on November 2, 2021 See more here. • Please click on the picture above to see the entire letter |
4th November 2021 Thank you, dear Ragnhild Nilsen, for your loving "Message to the World" and for reporting on your "Dignity Work"! • Please click on the picture above to see it larger, Ragnhild was in Kristiansand and Evelin in Hamelin, united on Zoom! |
4th November 2021 It is a great privilege to be connected with Maria Volpe since 2002. Thank you, dear Maria, for hosting a Monthly Roundtable Breakfast in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. You host this event at the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College in cooperation with the Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York. This time, the topic was: Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict with our dear Donna Hicks. • Please click on the picture above to see it larger |
7th September 2021 Thank you, dear Howard Richards, for founding Chileufú as one of our Dignity Dialogue Homes! |
25th August 2021 Online Launch of the 'Conflict Trends in the Arab World' Report" The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (Doha Institute, with director Sultan Barakat) and PRIO released a new report analysing Conflict Trends in the Arab World, 1946 – 2019. • Please click on the picture above to see the link to the announcement at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway |
July 2021 Thank you, dear Michael Boyer, for adapting the logo of our World Dignity University initiative (WDUi) for the Dignity Now Hameln initiative! Thank you also for creating your wonderful Digniworld initiative in 2019: Digniworld WordPress | Digniworld Facebook | Digniworld Twitter | Digniworld Instagram | World Dignity Movement (on YouTube) • Please click on the picture at the top to see it larger |
July 2020 and 2021 I very much thank historian Bernhard Gelderblom for his tireless work for making everyone aware of the war legacy in and around the city of Hamelin in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany, and the need to work through this legacy rather than 'forgetting' about it. I also thank very much the local Dewezet magazine for publishing relevant articles. On the left side you see a statue that was erected in 1922 in Bad Münder in Niedersachsen in honour of ‘our heroes’ who fell in World War I, and it shows the body of giant muscular man who stands straight upright, naked, with nothing but a steel helmet on his head, a kind of Roman tunic on his shoulders, and a giant sword at the place of his penis. See ‘Debatte ums Ehrenmal: Aus einer anderen Zeit’, by Jens Rathmann, Neue Deister-Zeitung, 12th July 2021. On the right side you see the Kolonialdenkmal on the St-Maur Platz in Hameln. See 'Was der Gedenkstein mit Rassismus zu tun hat: Kolonialdenkmal in Hameln: Eine unbequeme Erinnerung', by Philipp Killmann, Dewezet, 1st July 2020: 'Am Saint-Maur-Platz in Hameln erinnert seit über 100 Jahren ein Kriegerdenkmal an die deutsche Kolonialzeit. Gedacht wird der deutschen Soldaten, die bei der Niederschlagung von Aufständen in Afrika und China getötet wurden. Das Kolonialdenkmal hat jedoch auch etwas mit den aktuellen Protesten gegen Rassismus zu tun...' Consider also, ‘New Orleans removes its final Confederate-era statue’, Associated Press, The Guardian, 20th May 2017. See also the book that Mitch Landrieu wrote in 2018, titled 'In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History'. I thank Trevor Noah for inviting Landrieu into his Daily Show on 26th March 2018. See also ‘Classism, racism, and war — How long will the myth of white supremacy bind white Americans?’ by Martha R. Bireda, Human Wrongs Watch, 26th May 2019. • Please click on the pictures above to see them larger |
July 13, 2021 Thank you so much, dear Linda, for bringing together this wonderful Dignity Letter — July 2021 — Dignity Through Solidarity! sent out on July 13, 2021 See more here. • Please click on the picture above to see the entire letter |
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March 23, 2021 Thank you so much, dear Linda, for bringing together this wonderful Dignity Letter — March 2021 — Good News in Hard Times sent out on March 23, 2021 (Pdf) • Please click on the picture above to see the entire letter! |
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