Evelin Lindner

Evelin Gerda Lindner is a social scientist and Founding Director and President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners, who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation. HumanDHS currently comprises around 1000 personally invited members, and the website is being accessed by ca. 40 000 people from more than 180 countries per year. The network is anchored globally, among others at the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, New York, the University of Oslo, the [http://www.msh-paris.fr/ Maison des Sciences de l'Homme] in Paris, and numerous other institutions around the world. HumanDHS aims to be global, and therefore builds institutional ties in many places globally.

Lindner is M.D. and holds two Ph.D.s in medicine and psychology. She has spent the last three decades living globally. Her global citizenship helps her create the above mentioned network of international researchers and practitioners dealing with the phenomena of dignity and humiliation. Furthermore, she is affiliated with at the University of Oslo, the [http://www.msh-paris.fr/ Maison des Sciences de l'Homme] in Paris, and a visiting professor in South East Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and other places globally.

Her book [http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C9109.aspx "Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict"] has been honored as "Outstanding Academic Title" by the journal "Choice" for 2007 in the USA.

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* [http://www.humiliationstudies.org/index.shtm Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies]