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Evelin Lindner 2017

About the Author

Howard Richards is one of the deepest thinkers of our time. He is a professor philosopher of social science who is based in Chile and often teaches in South Africa. His focus is philosophical and scientific support for an ethic of care. He holds the title of Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, USA, a Quaker school where he taught for thirty-five years. He was the founder of the Peace and Global Studies Program there and co-founder of the Business and Nonprofit Management program.

Howard Richards was born in Pasadena, California in 1938. He holds a doctorate in education with mention in moral education from the University of Toronto, a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a law degree from Stanford and an advanced certificate in education (with honours) from Oxford. As an undergraduate at Yale, he won the New York Yale Club prize for outstanding scholarship.

Howard served as a volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta when they organized farm workers in California's Central Valley in the 1960s. Later he worked in popular education at the Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de la Educacion in Santiago, Chile. He taught for thirty years (1974-2004) at Earlham College. His many earlier works include The Evaluation of Cultural Action (1985) and, with Joanna Swanger, The Dilemmas of Social Democracies (2006). He and his wife, Caroline, now live in Chile. He continues to teach one course a year at the Graduate Business School at the University of Cape Town.

2021 HumanDHS Lifetime Commitment Award

Howard was the honored recipient of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Lifetime Commitment Award presented at the 2021 Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, "Toward a New Global Normal: Dignity Through Solidarity!" December 9 – 11, 2021, co-hosted by The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
(MD-ICCCR) at Columbia University, Teachers College (TC), New York City. Please see his acceptance video here.

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Contributing Assistance

Gavin Andersson grew up in Botswana. While studying in Johannesburg he became active in restarting the black trade union movement and was banned by the Apartheid government in 1976. After five years working as a carpenter, he returned to Botswana and cofounded CORDE, which strengthened cooperatives and grassroots business enterprises.

In South Africa, after it became a democratic country, he led organizations focused on community development and multi-stakeholder development initiatives. His use of the Moraisean Organization Workshop (OW) has enabled community actors to tackle social, environmental and economic issues collectively. Gavin was cocreator of Kwanda, a reality TV show on community transformation. He was a pioneer of the Community Work Programme, facilitating development processes at its earliest sites. He holds a doctorate in Development Studies from the Open University in the UK, writes on unbounded organizing and teaches in the Executive MBA programme at the University of Cape Town.