Che Guevara
Economic Development is just a means to an end, which is human dignity.
Che Guevara
(as reported in german radio channel SWR 2)
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Dignity Road Report* - May 2020
Dear All!
We are profoundly thankful to Linda Hartling for creating another wonderful Dignity Letter for us, full of information, all presented in dignifying beauty and with Linda's enormous artistic creativity!
Just click here and you can see all of the Dignity Letters that Linda has created since 2009.
All HumanDHS efforts are a labor of love — we are all Sharegivers! Linda has been deeply dedicated to the work of dignity for over three decades and she gives her time, energy, and loving creativity as a gift to the world. Linda wrote her doctoral dissertation on the violation of dignity — namely humiliation — in 1995, and she is the director of our global dignity family since 2003. She is like a gardener, a gardener of dignity, nurturing all people and projects that bring more dignity into this world.
We celebrate you, dear Linda!
In deep gratitude to you, dearest Linda
Evelin
& the entire global dignity family!
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Dignity Road Report* - November, 2019
Dear All!
Welcome to our 16th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, titled "Can We Teach Dignity? Becoming Lifelong Apprentices of Dignity from Childhood Throughout All Ages" at Columbia University in New York City, December 5 – 6, 2019. Our dear late Morton Deutsch has been the honorary convener of this workshop series since he convened the first one in 2003, and we wish to honor his memory by conducting this workshop also in the future.
See the invitation here: https://conta.cc/2MUKoO2. The program evolves on www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/34.php.
In deep gratitude
Evelin Lindner
Linda Hartling
& the entire global dignity family!
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On January 24, World Dignity University co-founder Francisco Gomes de Matos (from Recife,Brazil), conducted a Workshop on DIGNITY for 40 teachers of the local elementary-secondary school Colégio Madre de Deus.
Participation in the interaction also included the school psychological and pedagogical coordinators. In his powerpoint presentation, Dr. Gomes de Matos engaged the participants in characterizing DIGNITY as a conceptual composite of human character, conduct,communication and human right-responsbility. There followed a mini-group activity in which educators were challenged to identify many of the salient features of DIGNITY. The use of the ending -IDADE (from the Portuguese word dignIDADE) was useful for collective completion of that task. Thus, among identified features were:
igualdade, solidariedade, espiritualidade, honestidade and felicidade (The school`s motto is Lição 1: Ser Feliz / Lesson 1: To be happy. Madre de Deus educatorsare seen as co-promoters of learners` happiness ).
At the closing of the workshop, peace linguist Francisco Gomes de Matos challenged the group to identify reasons for making educational choices in the perspective of Human Dignity.Such practice was a translation-adaptation of one of the pieces he has written for the WDU website. Mention was made of the visit to Recife,this year, of Evelin G. Lindner.
For further information on the pioneering initiative, contact Francisco:
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At the inauguration of the World Dignity University,which took place in Oslo on June 24, 2011, Norway’s Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim greeted all participants via a pre-registered video message.