The World Dignity University Initiative was founded by members of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network. In fact it is now the organizational frame for the educational activities of HumanDHS. Both organizations are closely related. The HumanDHS website https://www.humiliationstudies.org still holds the majority of content relevant for the history and concept of the WDU initiative.
Paul Sites
The need for self-esteem “is perhaps the most pervasive of any of the needs in humans”
Paul Sites
from: “Needs as analogues of emotions” in J Burton (ed.) 1990, Conflict: human needs theory,
St. Martin’s Press, New York.
(found in Hilarie Roseman's book "Generating Forgiveness", Dignity Press 2014)