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Evelin Lindner(2011). A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy That Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet; (2010). Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs;(2009). Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help US to Wage Good Conflict; (2006). Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict.

Four books by Evelin Lindner, 1-3 Praeger Security International, Greenwood, 4 Dignity Press.

Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict (2006). Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, Greenwood

Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (2009)

Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, Greenwood

Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and

Parenthood to World Affairs (2010) Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, ABC-CLIO

A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet

Evelin Lindner ,2011

CONTENTS

Foreword by the Directors of Dignity Press ????????????????????. vi

Foreword by Linda Hartling ????????????????????????????.. vi

Foreword by Ulrich Spalthoff ???????????????????????????. vii

Acknowledgments ??????????????????????????????????. xi

Preface ???????????????????????????????????????.. xvii

Introduction ???????????????????????????????????? xxvii

Part I: Where Do We Stand? Where Might We Go? ??????????????? 35

Chapter 1: While Critical Voices Get Louder, a Sense of Helplessness Prevails ?. 37

Chapter 2: Let Us Work Together and Dig Up the Facts! ????????????? 47

Chapter 3: Where Might We Go? Toward a Dignity Transition ?????????? 58

Part II: Dignity or Humiliation? That Is the Question! ?????????????.. 75

Chapter 4: When Scarcity and Environmental Degradation Become Systemic ?? 77

Chapter 5: When Mistrust Becomes Ubiquitous ?????????????????? 85

Chapter 6: When Abuse Becomes a Means of .Getting Things Done??????.. 92

Chapter 7: When Fear Becomes Overwhelming and Debilitating ????????? 98

Chapter 8: When False Choices Crowd out Important Choices ?????????.. 104

Chapter 9: When Our Souls Are Injured by the Homo Economicus Model ???. 116

Part III: What Should We Do? Let Us Unite As a Human Family! ??????.. 127

Chapter 10: We Need a Panoply of New Strategies for Dignism! ????????. 129

Chapter 11: We Need to Humanize Globalization with Egalization! ??????.. 147

Chapter 12: We Need Many More Voices and a Clear Direction! ???????? 168

Appendix I: Quotes ????????????????????????????????.. 199

Appendix II: Selected Publications ????????????????????????. 201

Index ????????????????????????????????????????.. 207

Bibliography ????????????????????????????????????. 216

FOREWORD BY THE DIRECTORS OF DIGNITY PRESS

Foreword by Linda Hartling

I have had the honor and privilege of collaborating with Evelin Lindner

for more than a decade. We met through Donald C. Klein, a pioneer in the

field of community psychology who was one of the first psychologists to launch

an in depth discussion of the dynamics of humiliation. In 1995, I had just completed

my dissertation developing the first scale to assess the internal experience of

humiliation; while, in another part of the world, Evelin was formulating her

research exploring the connection between humiliation and violent conflict.

During those years, each of us knew we were virtually lone researchers in a

new field of study. After Don?s introduction in 1998, we celebrated that we

were no longer alone.

From the beginning, I realized that Evelin Lindner was on her way to

becoming the world?s leading scholar on the experience of humiliation and

human dignity. Her decision to live as a global social scientist has given her

the broad-based knowledge, experience, and perspective that make this book

possible. Transcending the limits of working in a conventional academic

setting, Evelin sees the world as her university. She dedicates herself to

synthesizing and integrating knowledge gained from engaging a richly diverse

community of scholars, researchers, and practitioners. Her life as a citizen of

the world has allowed her to question economic systems that deprive and

deplete humankind of vital social and natural resources, threatening our

existence on this planet.

One of the most remarkable aspects of Evelin Lindner?s research over the

years is its complete freedom from corporate and other profit-driven

influences. In a world the worships the accumulation of wealth, Evelin is a

living example of how .money should serve, not lead one?s efforts.. Practicing

this principle has allowed her to sustain a level of independent thinking and

writing that is essentially unheard of in science today. This book is a tribute to

her stunning creative ability to walk the talk of her work, both intellectually

and economically. Her whole life is a portal into what can be accomplished

without giving in, giving up, or selling out.

Evelin Lindner demonstrates her commitment to intellectual integrity by

choosing Dignity Press as the publisher of The Dignity Economy. Other

publishers, influenced by today?s profit-maximization motive, might

undermine the fundamental message of her work. The author?s incomparable

commitment to integrity, combined with her spirit of humility, makes this

publication a one-of-a-kind intellectual treasure. This book will enrich the

lives of readers seeking new economic thinking that can lead us to a

sustainable future that dignifies the lives of all people.

Linda Hartling

Director, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

November 7, 2011, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A

Foreword by Ulrich Spalthoff

Evelin Lindner and I first met in 2003 at the airport in Paris, queuing up for

the security check before flying to Tel Aviv. She told me about her life and

invited me into her life project, called Human Dignity and Humiliation

Studies. I was impressed by her passion and zest for action. In addition to

organizing a network and two annual conferences on Humiliation Studies, she

has published extensively, including three books.

Her first book, Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict,

presented a ground-breaking analysis of international conflicts and how these

often result from humiliating practices. This book received an award as

.Outstanding Academic Title. by the journal Choice for 2007. In her second

book Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and

Help Us Wage Good Conflict she extended the discussion to personal emotions

and conflicts. In her third book, Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security:

Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs,

she emphasized the important role of gender when analysing humiliating

systems. That book again was highly recommended by the journal Choice.

With this new book she extends the analysis of humiliating systems to the

realm of economics. I know from our conversations that she has observed for

some time how Western-style capitalist economic systems contribute to

humiliating practices that pervade personal lifestyles and political decision-

making.

How timely it is that she is able to present her analysis just now, when the

malfunction of our financial system becomes so obvious to people on all

continents. But Evelin Lindner?s personality does not allow her to simply

present an analysis. She goes beyond traditional academic research. She is also

an activist wanting to make an impact. Starting with a description of the

disastrous and highly alarming situation, she then looks for solutions on a

global scale. Hope never dies, indeed, it never needs to die. Her intellectual

framework?identifying dynamics of humiliation and searching for solutions

which bring dignifying systems to the fore?allows her to present a multitude

of initiatives, proposals, and calls for action. She does this in a way that the

reader can feel deeply motivated to contribute personally to the necessary

changes we all have to make.

Necessary systemic change can only be achieved by many people making

personal changes in their attitudes and their behavior. Therefore I find her

highly personal presentation of the subject very appropriate. When reading this

manifest, I not just learned about our economic system, I was also freshly

motivated to be part of the necessary change. I wish many readers a similar

experience.

Ulrich Spalthoff , Director of Projects and System Administration,

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

October 25, 2011, D?rzbach, Germany

PREFACE

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To

change something, build a new model that makes the existing

model obsolete.

?Buckminster Fuller

We, the human family, live in times of unparalleled opportunity. So far, we

have created unparalleled crises. Together, we can change that. We can

recognize our good fortune.

In the past, we adapted to changing conditions haphazardly. Today, we are

much less the puppets of history. Never before have we had such a good

understanding and such good tools to shape our fate in systematic and

intentional ways. Today, we can sit together and reflect and plan intentionally.

This book advocates deep paradigm shift, not from one rigid paradigm to

another, but away from rigidity altogether. Away from monolithic fixity

toward co-created fluid processes. Away from inflexible edifices toward

organic coming-into-being, growing like trees grow. Away from monolithic

institutions toward a global movement that is co-created by people and their

energy of passion and enthusiasm. Away from a combative dominator world,

into which people are installed like little cog wheels, toward global partnership

that allows rich diversity to flourish.

This book exemplifies this approach. The first version of this manuscript

was presented on August 20, 2009, at a conference we organized at the

University of Hawai?i at Manoa.1 Since then, it has been growing almost daily

and has had many titles.2 It is not a traditional manuscript planned at the

drawing board, designed .to sell.. It is rather a snapshot taken at one moment

of an ongoing process, an ever unfinished book, a .walking. book, part of a

journey.

This book is not just about a new what. The book is also about a new how.

The new how is about fluid conversation, about public deliberation,3 about

grappling with issues.4 And it is more personal in that I use .I,. because I wish

to model academic work as embedded into a context, rather than pretending to

exist in a social and psychological vacuum. This book brings a very personal

journey to the table, a journey that travels the circles of the reflective

equilibrium (Chapter 12).

For a long time, I thought that this book could never be published. How

could a book on dignity be published in an undignified context? It would be

undermining itself. .Academic Publishers Make Murdoch Look Like a

Socialist,. is a particularly provocative heading that decries the practices of

some academic publishers.5 Then, Linda Hartling and Uli Spalthoff developed

Dignity Press for our Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network and our

World Dignity University initiative, finally opening a path for this book to be

published.6 This book is among its first publications.

This book?s publication has also been hastened by the Occupy Wall Street

movement. This movement gave me the motivation to sit down and bring an

unfinished manuscript from the drawer to the level of publication.

In 2010, I finished another manuscript about deep paradigm shift, a book

about how we, as humankind, can dignify all relationships, at all levels, from

micro to meso to macro, by focusing on what I call big love.7 I worked on that

book for years. It started with the following paragraph:

The economic crisis that broke in 2008 has changed the path of this book.

The crisis has many labels ranging from .subprime crisis. to .credit

crunch,. to .financial tsunami. or .economic Armageddon,. preceded by

an .Enron crisis,. possibly leading up to a .credit default swap crisis..8

But, around the world, people are coming to a single diagnosis: .Something

is deeply unhealthy in our world.. Even one year earlier, most people I met

were much more accepting: .The world is as it is, and if we want to be

competitive, we should work harder and not complain!.

When I ask about the reasons for the crisis, people point to greed and lack

of morality. However, let us ask: Is it greed? Is it immorality? The bank

employees I know tell me that they are under extreme pressure to maximize

profit and that this pressure has increased since the crisis began, to the point

that some can no longer endure it. Managers report that they will lose their

jobs if they do not place short-term shareholder value first. All seem to be

victims to a mind-set that races toward crisis by default. If there is unethical

behavior, it is nourished by the very design of our systems. It appears that

the roots of our crises are more complex and systemic than one-dimensional

and personal. Could lack of dignity be a systemic challenge?9

In 2011, when .the Arab Spring. unfolded, I added the following paragraph

to this economy manuscript:

We need a dignity revolution, and not just in Tunisia or Egypt. Now we

need a global dignity revolution, a world dignity movement, a movement

that creates inclusion, both locally and globally. We need a dignity

movement that forges global public policies and institutions that help

dignity to manifest in our realities. We need to transcend policies and

institutions that cause the sellout of dignity, that .exclude people from

access to dignified lives, both socially and economically,.10 and that make

environmental damage invisible by treating it as mere .externality.. If we

do not succeed with such a dignity revolution (or refolution, the word that

Timothy Garton Ash drew together from revolution and reform), we might

engineer yet another collapse, as Jared Diamond describes it, this time a

global collapse of human civilization.11

If the Arab Spring is the uprising of the .Arab street,. then the Occupy

Wall Street movement may be just the uprising of the global street that I called

for, despite my despair that the world seemed to be asleep. It may be people

pressure awakening as suggested by analysts like Paul Hawken.12 It may be

what economist Jeremy Rifkin calls a pro-democracy revolution, carrying us

by lateral power toward an empathic civilization.13 This may be the beginning

of a global refolution, the start of a global evolutionary reconstruction, as

another economist, Gar Alperovitz would call it,14 or the beginning of Paul

Raskin?s great transition.15

As any movement that intends to shift paradigms, it risks being coopted

into the old paradigm and derailed. If this happens, it will have to be

reinvigorated, refreshed, and renewed.

We can take any liberation movement as an example. Take the liberation

from narrow-mindedness and bigotry with respect to sexuality. What is the

result, for all to see, at any kiosk that sells magazines? We see women?s bodies

dismembered into legs, breasts, or thighs, reinforcing the message that women

are objects rather than whole human beings.16 Mary Roach asks: When did sex

research shift from prudish to freewheeling to corporate-controlled? How did

this happen, and why?17

The Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement will face many

attempts at control by ulterior interests. My Egyptian friends believe that the

system is still a Nasserist regime and that the Arab Spring has yet to succeed.

Hala Mustafa, one of Egypt?s most prominent liberal intellectuals and the

founder and editor of Egypt?s journal on democracy, is distraught.18

Danger looms from outside and inside liberation movements. The true

believers of change have to be the ones most on guard. In the past, those who

refused being bribed or coerced into forsaking their principles were among the

first victims to be .cleansed out. when power hijacked values.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been criticized for its apparent lack

of concrete calls for action. My recommendation: when big paradigms need to

change, small-scale Band-Aids that fit into the old paradigm are insufficient.

New large-scale visions that fit new paradigms are not easily created, not least

because the language for them does not yet exist. From collecting ideas outside

of the present grid, to forging innovative visions, to deciding on which visions

to enact, to planning how to realize next steps?none of this can be done

quickly and neatly. We no longer live in a top-down command-and-obey

world. Calls for immediate solutions betray ignorance of the depth of change

that is needed.

I felt very assured when I heard the representatives of the Occupy Wall

Street movement on November 5, 2011, at the 31st Annual E. F. Schumacher

Lectures in New York City.19 They were very clear in standing up to the fact

that deep reflection is now needed, rather than frantic .projectism. (Chapter

2).

Politicians from all camps seem to have problems understanding this; they

believe this movement is about frustrated voters or the middle class losing

jobs. Yet, much more is at stake. Dignity is at stake. The dignity of people,

their equality in dignity, the dignity of all living beings, the dignity of our

planet. We humans need to dramatically change course to reverse the short-

sighted human actions that threaten all life on this planet. So far, we have

blown it. So far, we are going down a ravaging path. Those familiar with Jared

Diamond?s work will understand when I say we seem intent on following the

Easter Island model, a recipe for depleting resources and destroying social and

ecological systems in the process.20

Perhaps now it is time to briefly explain who I am?21 May I start with a

question: Do you believe people are inherently lazy? Would nobody do any

serious work if not humiliated into compliance or rewarded with incentives?

Do our best and brightest go where the money is? Or do our best and brightest

go where dignity is, where the ethics are? Who are our best and brightest, in

your opinion?

I think the view that it is proof of excellence and brightness to .go where

the money is. degrades the humanity of all involved. I presented my

perspective in an earlier book as follows:

I feel personally humiliated when I am expected to draw my motivation for

what makes my life meaningful from status or monetary remuneration. I am

motivated by stature?my pro-social contributions?rather than status,

social rank, or class. I work very hard, day and night, seven days a week. I

receive neither traditional status nor salary for my efforts. My motivation is

entirely independent from such rewards, and if it were otherwise, I would

find the degradation and humiliation unbearable. Therefore, my path is not

altruistic or egoistic; it is both, because I would not survive the humiliation

of having to define myself as a status- or salary-making machine that

endangers the common good. I am not a Pavlovian dog who needs status or

monetary remuneration as incentives to work. I would not survive such

emptiness of meaning and such poverty of spirit.22

Have you seen the film Pleasantville?23 I would feel like I were in

Pleasantville, and I would get severely depressed, if I accepted to be nothing

but the supplier or consumer of sales of products or services. I react with

disgust when the first information I receive about a product or service is that it

is .free. or .discounted. or .expensive, since you are worth it.. I react with

revulsion when I hear the ingenuous sweetness of the advertising voice, or see

the strained smile of an actress who sells her soul to pretend that a certain

product or service has changed her life. The effect on me of the fake world that

advertisement has created around us is that I do not wish to buy anything

anymore. And I staunchly refuse to reduce my creativity to serve .personal

branding. so as to become a product myself.

Allowing myself to feel deficient lest I buy or sell something, would

humiliate my humanity at its core. Cleverness is repulsive to me?nothing

of what I do is done because it is smart?and I draw no satisfaction from

petty power games. I only engage in activities that are profoundly

meaningful to me.24 I respond to the fact that I have to eat, clothe myself,

and have a roof over my head in ways that do not require me to

compromise what I regard as meaningful, on the contrary, they contribute. I

do not wish to have a job, I want to have a life. I am profoundly selfish in

this point because I could not live otherwise.25

I bring very rare experiences to the table, so rare that I often lack the

language to describe them. I am the artist so to speak, not the art critic. I have

created a global life design that could be described to be a social sculpture.

The insights offered in this book are the result of decades of living and

working all over the world?in many countries within Africa, Asia, Europe

and America. I lived for longer periods in Norway (regularly since 1977),

Germany (intermittently since 1954), Switzerland (intermittently since 2000),

France (intermittently since 2001), Belgium (intermittently during 1984?

1991), the Middle East (intermittently since 1975), Egypt (1984?1991 and

since), Somalia (1998), the Great Lakes in Africa (1999), Thailand, Indonesia,

Malaysia, Burma (1981), China (intermittently since 1983), Japan (2004?

2007), New Zealand (1983, 2011), Australia (2007, 2011) and the United

States (intermittently since 1982).

My international life has given me the opportunity to observe global trends

before most people do. It provides me with a bird?s eye perspective and at the

same time with an intimate closeness to the many cultures that make up our

human culture. During the past 40 years, all around the globe, my intuition has

grown that dignity and humiliation?or, more precisely, equality in dignity or

nondomination,26 with humiliation as its violation?are gaining significance as

never before in human history.

I was born into a family deeply traumatized, like many others, by the forced

displacements from Eastern Europe after World War II. That initial experience

set me on a path to work for .never again,. never again war and genocide.

What followed were by now close to four decades of international life.

My aim was to become part of as many cultures as possible and learn as

many languages as possible, to understand, deeply, what we humans are

capable of, in love and hatred, in war and peace, in conflict and conflict

resolution. My goal was to acquire a gut feeling for as many cultural

perspectives as possible. I wanted to bring these perspectives into my body,

under my skin, rather than do .field work,. where I would have to look at

people. I wanted to become a part of as many social webs and local cultural

outlooks as possible. How does it feel to grow up in China, for example, where

a child cannot avoid taking in an elaborate philosophy simply by learning how

to read and write, something which takes a lifetime? In contrast, how does it

feel to grow up with Arabic, a script so phonetic and easy to learn that it can

be done in a single afternoon, while the language itself is so rich that a lifetime

is insufficient for grasping all of its elegance? Or, how does it feel to be proud

of a history that eclipses most peoples? history?as Chinese and Arab history

does?while being humiliated by Western powers for during recent centuries?

The list of similar questions I have asked myself throughout the past 40 years

of global life is endless.

My roots in displacement gave me a considerable degree of inner freedom.

Displacement gave me distance from the cultural dictates of the world, and this

distance has increased through moving between cultural realms. For instance,

attaining higher status in one context may undermine one?s status in another,

and in this way the clamoring for status reveals itself as an altogether rather

futile endeavor. I became ever more independent from local formalities and

ever more at home in direct egalitarian human-to-human relationships, all

around the globe, in all cultural realms.

Today, I resonate with 14th century Persian Sufi poet Hafez-e ?irazi?s

saying: .I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a

Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The truth has shed so much

of itself in me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman..

If asked about my religion, I say: .My religion is love, humility, and awe

for a universe too large for us to fathom..

Recently, I was queried: Why are you so .pure. and so .unbribable.? I

replied that I am not able and willing to sell out meaning for illusionary

.shortcuts.. What do you mean? was the perplexed response. I posed a

question in return: Is it possible for people who have money to buy a home?

Yes, was the answer. No, was my reply. You can only buy a house. A house

can also be a prison. A house is a home only if you nurture the relationships

with the people who live in this house, including the relationship with

yourself. You cannot buy relationships, not with yourself, not with your

family, not with God, and you cannot buy happiness. Therefore, you can only

buy a house, not a home. It is an illusionary hope to believe that it is possible

to shortcut to happiness by way of money, and this illusionary hope is built

into the usage of the phrase .buying a home.. I am unable to be part of this, as

culturally accepted as it may be.

Do you never feel greed? Do you never feel envy at those who have more

than you? This was the next question. My reply: I am much more greedy and

envious than anybody else I know. I am greedy for meaning, for being able to

give love and be loved?I am too greedy to sell out quality for quantity. And I

am envious of the birds, the clouds, and the stars, not of the trappings of

luxury that keep their victims in golden cages (Chapter 9).

I recently added the following paragraph to my biographical page on our

website:

It is important for me to make clear that my global life is not a homeless or

restless life. I do not even use the term .travel,. since I live in the global

village and in a village one does not travel, one lives there, even if one

moves around in it. When I look for cultural templates for my life, which

treats our planet as one undivided locality, I think of migrating animist

hunter-gatherers, a way of life that defined being human prior to 10,000

years ago. I resonate with what indigenous native American leader Sitting

Bull (1831?1890) said: .White men like to dig in the ground for their food.

My people prefer to hunt the buffalo? White men like to stay in one place.

My people want to move their tepees here and there to different hunting

grounds. The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in their towns

or farms. The life my people want is freedom.. Clearly, I do not hunt

buffalo and I do not have a teepee. Yet, I refrain from defining a small

geographical locality as .my home.. My home is the entire global village,

or more precisely, the people I love in that village. I do not see my life as

nomadic, and, as mentioned above, I do not resonate with the notion of

travel. To my view, I .stay in love,. rather than .travel in circles in a caged

rat race.. In other words, I see myself being much more .still. and true to

.my place,. namely love, than those who sell out their soul for a rat race

that is defined by large-scale societal frames that have increasingly become

toxic during the past decades. Many people travel extensively, yet, usually,

they have a .caged rat race. frame within which they travel. I prefer to

.stay still. in the realm of love. I am closer to a person who chooses to opt

out of the rat race to live a simpler life nearer to nature, for example, than to

a frequent business flyer who travels in circles in the isolated elite bubble of

international hotels. I never search for a .place to stay.. I move between

different relational contexts of love and .a place to stay. is secondary to

being embedded into relationships of mutual care.

I see my roots in displacement and the path that ensued from it as a

responsibility. It is a path that is extremely difficult, and I pay a very high

price, in many ways and at many levels. However, it is also an utterly

enriching path, and, for me, it is without alternative. Manifesting humanity to

the fullest represents the only way for me by which I can be in a world that

otherwise sells out humanity for profit.

Along with Linda Hartling27 and a valuable and dear team of like-minded

people,28 we have founded the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

(HumanDHS) network,29 and launched the World Dignity University (WDU)

initiative.30

On the home page of our website you can read:

We are a global transdisciplinary network and fellowship of concerned

academics and practitioners. We wish to stimulate systemic change,

globally and locally, to open space for dignity and mutual respect and

esteem to take root and grow, thus ending humiliating practices and

breaking cycles of humiliation throughout the world.

We suggest that a frame of cooperation and shared humility is necessary?

not a mindset of humiliation?if we wish to build a better world, a world of

equal dignity for all. We are currently around 1,000 personally invited members, with more than

2,000 more people supporting our work, and our website is being accessed

by ca. 40,000 people from more than 180 countries per year.

This economy book is different from my first three books. It is more open,

more .unfinished. in that it follows a never ending journey as it is unfolding.

In my first book on dignity and humiliation, Making Enemies: Humiliation

and International Conflict (2006), I describe my vision of a more dignified

world.31 First, this book lays out a theory of the mental and social dynamics of

humiliation and proposes the need for .egalization. (the undoing of

humiliation) for a healthy global society. It then presents chapters on the role

of misunderstandings in fostering feelings of humiliation; the role of

humiliation in international conflict; and the relationship of humiliation to

terrorism and torture. It concludes with a discussion of how to defuse feelings

of humiliation and create a dignified world. This book was characterized as a

path-breaking book, honored as .Outstanding Academic Title. by the journal

Choice for 2007 in the USA.

My second book, Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify

Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (2009) is an expansion of a chapter

that I wrote for Morton Deutsch?s Handbook of Conflict Resolution.32 I

describe how realizing the promise of equality in dignity can help improve the

human condition at all levels?from micro to meso to macro.33 This book uses

a broad historical perspective that includes all of human history, from its

hunter-gatherer origins to the promise of a globally united knowledge society

in the future. It emphasizes the need to recognize and transcend malign

cultural, social, and psychological effects of the past. The book calls upon the

world community, academics and lay people alike, to own up to the

opportunities offered by increasing global interdependence.

My third book, Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying

Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs (2010),

examines the social and political ramifications of human violations and world

crises related to humiliation.34 It is a book about big love, in the spirit of

Gandhi?s satyagraha (nonviolent action), a term that is assembled from

agraha (firmness/force) and satya (truth-love).35 It analyzes why women were

devalued during the past millennia, and why the work of nurturing

relationships, including the work of love, became invisible. The book

encourages constructive social, political, and cultural change through the force

of satyagraha. The book is being .highly recommended. by Choice.

In all of my work, I make the point that equality in dignity, with humiliation

as its violation, becomes ever more salient when global interdependence

increases. Never before did anything called a global village exist.36 Until

recently, the world was fragmented into many .villages,. all afraid of their

neighbors who could quickly turn into enemies. No history lesson helps us,

because the notion of one global village turns the whole of humanity into one

single in-group (with inner diversity) on one tiny planet, something that has

never occurred before.37

Like my first three books, A Dignity Economy was written in dialogue with

Linda Hartling and the other members of our network. It is part of a larger

body of work that aims at creating new visions for the future, visions for

systemic paradigm shifts, visions of unity in diversity, not just locally but

globally.

Our aim is to nurture the next Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandelas to change

the world. To serve this aim we strive to bridge existing gaps. We connect

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poor, between the lord and the slave, it is freedom which

oppresses and the law which sets free.)

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Superbowl Betting Guide Before and During Visiting Indianapolis

The action of the Superbowl Betting Guide will be taken to Indianapolis so why don?t we take in all the action this 2012 with this guide to visiting Indianapolis?

This February will be a busy month for Indianapolis and it?s sure to have excitement everywhere and you don?t really need a ticket to the Superbowl Betting Guide just to get a glimpse of the action since there?s a lot of things to do outside of Lucas Oil Stadium.

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NFL Experience

It is perhaps the one thing that Football fans should never miss during the Super Bowl XLVI. Widely known as THE place for fans during the 2012 Superbowl, the NFL Experience is an ?interactive theme park? that includes games, entertainment, clinics, a monstrous memorabilia show, autograph sessions with former players, live programming from the NFL Network and much more.

Fans can spend hours inside the Indiana Convention Center taking in all that the experience has to offer.

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Super Bowl Village

This is where the heart of the action lies in downtown Indianapolis at the three-block interactive fan environment known as Super Bowl Village. AFC and NFC Fans, families, visitors and locals alike enjoy this ultimate, free fan zone that spans from Bankers Life Fieldhouse all the way to the NFL Experience at the Indiana Convention Center via the newly redesigned Georgia Street.

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Visit the Super Bowl City

You don?t really need tickets to the Super Bowl in order to have some fun in Indianapolis this winter.

If you are in the mood for some super excitement, then head to Indianapolis this February to enjoy all the amenities the Super Bowl in Indy as to offer.

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Super Cars

Indianapolis is widely known as the ?Racing Capital of the World? and our auto-racing heritage is merging head on with the NFL for Super Bowl week. Fans will be on the hunt for 33 Indy cars, each sporting custom NFL team graphics, located in and around the city. So why don?t you find your team car, get a memorabilia photo and might just unlock special rewards.

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Super Bowl Events

There will also be a lot of events regarding the Super Bowl, you just have to check out places and other areas in Indy or just ask around about certain events especially before the big game. There will be a lot of celebration sites as well around the city so don?t worry about missing out. It?s not just in downtown but also outside of that.

Source: http://leisure.ezinemark.com/superbowl-betting-guide-before-and-during-visiting-indianapolis-7d337fb26c0f.html

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Limited edition Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx appear, exclusive to Verizon employees?

It seems that the hard workin' folks at Verizon Wireless may soon have a special phone to call their own. That's the word from Android and Me, which reports that Big Red's staffers are being offered exclusive versions of the Droid RAZR (16GB, $99) and RAZR Maxx (32GB, $199). In addition to a distinctive red and black pattern on the handset's rear, a unique number will be engraved within the camera pod and the words 'Limited Edition' will appear next to Verizon's logo on the front. Employees will also score a free dock with their purchase and can expect the handsets to arrive in April -- which is a good indication of when these things should hit Craigslist.

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Forex Tips For Those Who Are Serious About Trading

All Forex traders should learn when it is appropriate to cut their losses and call it a day. Many traders will stay in the market too long after it declines in the hope of recouping their losses. This strategy is doomed to fail.

Be actively involved in choosing the trades to make. Don?t rely on software. Forex trading decisions are complex, and still require human ingenuity and dedication to make the smart choices that result in success.

When you are in the early stages of your career in forex, do not try to get involved with multiple markets. For many traders, this can create a great deal of confusion and exasperation. Rather than that, put your focus on the most important currency pairs. This tactic will give you a greater chance of success, while helping you to feel capable of making good trades.

Look into investing in the Canadian dollar if you want to be safe. Forex trading can be confusing since it?s hard to keep track of all changes occurring in other countries. The Canadian dollar usually follows the same trend as the U. S. dollar, which shows that it might be worth investing in.

It is important to set goals and see them through. If you choose forex investments, create and maintain goals and plans for when you must reach your goals. Of course things will not go exactly as planned, but you will be closer than you would without a plan. Additionally, it helps to ascertain the amount of time you have to invest in your trading venture, including the hours required to perform essential research.

You amy be tempted to use multiple currency pairs when you start trading. Start simple and only focus on one currency pair. Once you get some experience, you can branch out further and have a better chance of making money instead of losing it.

Learn the market, and then rely on on your own intuition. This is most effective way for you to taste success and to make the money you hope to make.

Putting in accurate stop losses is more of an art than a science. Find a healthy balance, instead of having an ?all or nothing? approach. It is normal for it to take years to become an expert in the stop loss technique.

A lot of people mistakenly think stop loss markers can be seen, making currency value dip just below these markers before the value starts to go up again. This is absolutely untrue, and trading without stop loss orders can be very dangerous to your wallet.

Many traders who are new to forex are understandably excited, devoting lots of time and energy to the pursuit. Typically, most people only have a few hours of high level focus to apply towards trading. Remember, the market isn?t going anywhere; it is perfectly acceptable to take a brief break from trading.

Separate your emotions from your trades. Impulse trading is going to yield bad results more often than not. Be sure to pay close attention to your actions. Manage your anxiety and stress. If you stay calm, you will be able to make excellent trades.

As a case in point, if you move stop points right before they?re triggered, you?ll lose much more money than you would have otherwise. Impulse decisions like that will prevent you from being as successful with Forex as you can be.

You will develop the skill to know the best time to sell or buy by the use of the exchange market signals. There are ways you can convert any of your software so that you can be alerted when there?s a rate that is reached. Figure out your exit and entry points ahead of time to avoid losing time to decision making.

As pointed out earlier in this article, those who are new to the market will benefit immensely from the advice of more experienced traders. This piece has terrific tips that are sure to prove invaluable to beginning Forex traders. A trader who is willing to put in the effort and listen to advice can reap huge rewards.

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Be sure to practice on a demo platform before investing in real Forex trading. Using a demo account is a great way to prepare for real trading.Making a rash decision at the last minute can result in your loses increasing more than they might have otherwise. Impulse decisions like that will prevent you from being as successful with Forex as you can be. In order to place stop losses properly in Forex, you need to use your intuition and feelings along with your technical analysis to be successful. Part of this will be following your gut, the other part will be past experience with the market. Just like anything else in life, to be successful at trading it takes quite a bit of trial and error to reach the goals you wish to achieve. No purchase is necessary to play with a demo forex account. All you need to do is visit a Forex website and set up a free account. Some traders do so well, that foreign currency trading completely replaces their day job. This will depend on how good of a trader you want to be. The key place to start is learning the basics of profitable trading.

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Whitney Houston: Anatomy of a Lesbian Rumor - The Daily Beast

Remember when Whitney Houston was supposedly a lesbian?

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Long before she married Bobby Brown and became a crack addict, long before ?doodie bubbles? on Being Bobby Brown, long before her supposedly clean comeback, Whitney Houston was rumored to be a lesbian. Like Gayle and Oprah, Whitney had an ultra-close best friend, Robyn Crawford, who was also her personal assistant.

She met Crawford when she was 16 in East Orange, N.J., and soon they became inseparable; Crawford later dropped out of Monmouth College to work for her friend. Houston told Time magazine in 1987, when she was 23, that Crawford was the ?sister I never had.? While both Houston and Crawford denied being gay, Houston?s explanation was still very forward-thinking for the time: ?My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don?t fight it. I?m not with any man. I?m not in love. People see Robyn with me, and they draw their own conclusions. Anyway, whose business is it if you?re gay or like dogs? What others do shouldn?t matter. Let people talk. It doesn?t bother me because I know I?m not gay. I don?t care.?

And Crawford said to Time, ?I tell my family, 'You can hear anything on the streets, but if you don?t hear it from me, it?s not true.??

Crawford could not be reached for this article.

The rumor mill was easily fueled: at the time she shared a flat with her friend, even though Miss Black America (as Time magazine had dubbed her) was certainly rich enough to live alone, having already sold 13 million records and scored three No. 1 hits with her debut record from 1985, Whitney Houston.

And, though Houston was beautiful, she didn?t exude sex, the way someone like Angelina Jolie does. She was the perfect African-American woman for prudish America to cling to?very pretty, fresh-faced, and immensely talented. In her early days, scandal never touched her.

As with Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King, who?ve publicly laughed off the lesbian comments about them, the gossips simply assumed that two women like Whitney and Robyn, who were so close, and who never seemed to have a lust-filled public love life, must be lesbians.

According to several gossip reports in recent years, it was common knowledge that Whitney and Robyn were together; blogger Daryl Deino wrote in 2009: ?Anybody who works in the recording industry knows about Whitney and Robyn?s relationship; they barely did anything to hide it during recording sessions.?

On Sunday night, Esquire posted a poignant as-told-to obituary by Crawford. In it, she said: ?I have never spoken about her until now. And she knew I wouldn?t. She was a loyal friend, and she knew I was never going to be disloyal to her. I was never going to betray her. Now I can?t believe that I?m never going to hug her or hear her laughter again. I loved her laughter, and that?s what I miss most, that?s what I miss already.?

Beyond her friendship with Crawford, the lesbian reports were also fueled by supposed sightings of Houston and Kelly McGillis. In the '80s and '90s, McGillis was best known for playing Tom Cruise?s flame in Top Gun. Houston, it was said, regularly visited McGillis in Chicago in 1991 when McGillis was filming The Babe. Then, McGillis was in the closet but rumored to be a lesbian in Hollywood entertainment circles; she came out in 2009.

The rumors about Houston and McGillis dated back to 1988, during the filming of The Accused, leading to one of the more absurd pieces of Hollywood scuttlebutt ever to emerge: that Whitney Houston was part of a love triangle also starring Jodie Foster and McGillis.

Later, when McGillis came out and Foster publicly acknowledged her then-partner of many years, the question around Houston?s sexuality once again lingered in the air.

But in 2009, McGillis squashed that urban legend in an interview with the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News. ?I?ve never met Whitney Houston. I think she?s vastly talented, but I have never met the woman.?

People began to forget about Houston-as-possible-lesbian when she married Bobby Brown in 1992 in a lavish wedding on her $11 million New Jersey estate. She was 28 and he was 23; her career was stronger than ever?she had just starred in her first blockbuster film hit, The Bodyguard, and was on top of the world. His, on the other hand, was on the descent. His band New Edition had disbanded, and his solo career had cooled; his biggest success was behind him, with the single ?My Prerogative? hitting No. 1 in 1988.

Crawford told USA Today in 1992, ?I think once she?s married she?ll feel a lot more complete. I think that?ll be a self phase where she?ll be doing something for her life.? But even in that story, which was supposedly about her finding her prince, Houston had to address the lesbian questions. ?I?m not gay,? she told the paper.

But if marrying Brown was supposed to be a shrewd career move to set Houston?s image literally straight, it had the opposite effect. America?s sweetheart was marrying America?s thug, and nobody understood why. As Grace Chu of AfterEllen wrote: ?If I really wanted to clean up my image, marrying Bobby Brown is probably the exact opposite of what I would do.?

After she married Brown, new rumors displaced the old?ones that she was on drugs. They were soon, unfortunately, proved true.

But when she divorced Brown in 2007, the lesbian question began to resurface, in part thanks to Brown himself: in a ?tell-all,? he addressed the gay rumors.

In Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But..., an authorized biography, Brown said that the marriage was ?doomed from the very beginning. I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married ... I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children. The media was accusing her of having a bisexual relationship with her assistant, Robin [sic] Crawford. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn?t go too well with her image ... In Whitney?s situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation, whether it was true or not.?

Unless Crawford or other former friends say otherwise, Houston?s true sexuality might never be known. But it does raise the possibly tragic question of how her sexuality, addictions, and eventual death are entwined.

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/12/whitney-houston-anatomy-of-a-lesbian-rumor.html

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The Exercise Set | New Health and Fitness

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Maintaining a thin body figure and keeping fit is a healthy undertaking which many individuals strive tough to practice and maintain. Aside from eating healthy meals, avoiding sicknesses by having regular checks at the surgery and staying in healthy environments free from disease causing organisms and pathogenic parasites, physical coaching thru programmes like the sand bag training are advocated by doctors for healthful body working.

Many younger people and old people alike can actively be concerned in working out sessions for fitness, either by joining fitness centers and aerobics centers or by taking up the duty of continually flexing in open fields, rear yards or on tracks along the roads. The 50kg weight set is one of the most efficient methods of working out at the rear yard of your home for the experienced and amateurs in working out. The set comprises of among others, 2 dumbbells and a barbell with the associated hardware to permit you to tailor your coaching at a pace that's appropriate for you. As with the ordinary gym or aerobicize class, make sure you observe stringent safety cares including not taking up more weights than you can find a way to control readily on your own as well as not training too much in one session as to hurt your muscles.

Always ensure that you use the weights locks to secure the weights on the metal bars to avoid accidents and other bad occurrences while coaching. Furthermore, after you complete your training program make sure that you organize the weights properly and keep the training area clean and freed from obstructions. When using sand bag coaching, it is recommended to begin with lightweights that you can unreservedly lift on your own before heading off to the bigger weights as the training advances.

Alongside training using the 50kg weight set and the sand bag training, there are more types of training which you can do from your back garden at home without needing to get guidance and assistance from an instructor. Among such is the employment of a freestanding punch bag, jogging, selfdefense skills and basic aerobics for which you can regulate your activity without having complex kit with you.

The freestanding punch bag is very useful for individuals targeting at losing weight while hardening and gaining substantial self-defence strategies. Nonetheless it is advisable always to have a training partner with you if feasible, since accidents may happen while you are coaching or experience serious conditions like coronaries and fainting from excessive straining of vital muscles could have devastating consequences. Of course, if you have fitness training centre close by, it is useful to find your way there and have consultation with the coach for a little fee to give you a guide into how it's possible for you to get the most from coaching in your back garden at home. If you can get a hold of pamphlets and publications on fitness, then you can get tips on how to employ the 50kg weight set as well as the easy way to use correctly the sand bag-training program.

Aside from eating good meals, avoiding illnesses by having regular checks at the infirmary and staying in healthy environments free from disease causing organisms and pathogenic parasites, physical coaching thru programmes like the sand bag training are endorsed by doctors for fit body working. Alongside coaching utilising the 50kg weight set and the sand bag training, there are more sorts of training which you can undertake from your yard at home with no need to get guidance and help from an instructor.

Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/02/13/the-exercise-set/

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Online Event Registration with Eventbrite - Small Business Trends

At first glance, Eventbrite does not appear to be a small business tool. Most small business owners are not planning events, right? Let?s redefine what an event is and then we?ll see if this tool can help you grow your small business and marketing presence.?Events are the secret sauce to good marketing and Eventbrite can help you manage and promote your business.?This review is for the small business owner or team member who handles marketing tasks.

I?m defining the term ?event? broadly ? if you are a small business owner who is meeting with customers or prospects online or in real life (IRL); you are probably managing events or could shift your approach to include more people and make your ?event? more productive and profitable. You can produce micro-events, business networking events, or social events, but the best ones are educational and not sales heavy (or sales-y at all).

Tyler Garns (fellow contributor here on Small Business Trends) and I planned a well-attended marketing event last summer and used a combination of Eventbrite and Biznik to pack the room. Biznik has an awesome event ?do and don?t? list that includes some advice to leverage Eventbrite when you plan an event as well.

Event management is no easy task, that?s why you need a tool like Eventbrite. Here?s what I really like about it:

• You can create a customized event page (with its own distinct URL).
• If your event is recurring, you can manage that easily.
• The tool generates name badges automatically. A time saver, for sure.
• You can poll your attendees as they register to learn more about their likes, dislikes, shirt size.
• I love that you get a big SEO (search engine optimization) boost from listing your event properly.

Some of the things I?d like to see:

• You can link to Facebook and Twitter, but I?d like the option to link to LinkedIn, too, as that?s where a ton of my (and probably your) business contacts reside. And while it is part of the ?My Profile? section, linking to your social profiles is not as obvious as I think it could be. Again, a small point for an otherwise terrific service to small business owners. Once your event is created, they do make it easy to share your event.

If your marketing efforts do not include events because of the logistical hassle, then Eventbrite is worth a close look. The service makes it easy to create, promote, and manage free and paid events.

The pricing is pretty simple: 2.5% plus $0.99 per ticket. Now that might seem a little steep at first glance, but let?s do some fast math: a $10 event will cost you $1.24 to use Eventbrite. Most important, if your event is free, well, then there?s no charge by Eventbrite. That?s pretty hard to beat.

Learn more about Eventbrite.

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Source: http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/02/online-event-registration-with-eventbrite.html

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