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Dignity Press and World Dignity University Press

are projects of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS) is a global transdisciplinary network and collaborative community of concerned scholars, researchers, educators, practitioners, creative artists, and others. We wish to stimulate systemic change, globally and locally, to open space for dignity, mutual respect and esteem to take root and grow. HumanDHS is also the founding organizer of the World Dignity University initiative.

Since 2012, we publish books related to the work of our affiliates. As indicated by our logo, we look at human dignity from a global perspective. Our authors are from all over the world, and our books address human dignity and humiliation from a variety of perspectives.

Recently published:

From Humiliation to Dignity

For a Future of Global Solidarity

by Evelin Lindner, M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D.

The book widens the concept of academic work by combining what usually is separate, namely, scholarly work and lived experience. The book came into being as part of the author’s many decades of working with dignity in all parts of the world.

Evelin Lindner was born into a family that was deeply affected by war and displacement, and therefore "never again" became the motto of her life. She considers the world her "university" and looks back on almost fifty years of living globally as a lifelong sense-making project, at home on all continents, always embedded in families and family-like contexts. For the past twenty years, she has helped gather a global community of academics and practitioners dedicated to furthering dignity in the world.

Through her global life, the author has developed a big history view on the human condition, a view that embeds the current historical moment in the entire journey of our species Homo sapiens sapiens on planet Earth and extrapolates from there what we need to create a dignified future. This book therefore takes a step back to evaluate humanity’s situation in its larger historical context, and, equipped with the insights from this evaluation, makes suggestions for a roadmap into a future of global dignity in solidarity.

This book offers a complex analysis that summarizes where we stand and what is needed to create a dignified future.