New Book!



Towards a World Order of Dignity:

Conflict-Related Sexual Violence as a Lens on Humiliation

By Evelin Lindner, M.D., Ph.D.s

Written in response to a 2024 invitation from UN Special Representative Pramila Patten, Evelin Lindner’s book examines how conflict-related sexual violence weaponizes humiliation against survivors and communities. Drawing on decades of research, it connects these violations to wider inequalities and offers an ethical framework for restoring dignity and transforming cycles of violence. Foreword by Pramila Patten.

USD 21.90; 18.90 €

This publication and many others are available through Dignity Press, as well as a variety of book distributors.

Vulnerability Protected:

Visions of a Dancing Mind

By Carol Smaldino, LCSW



In this thoughtful and encouraging publication, Carol Smaldino explores how vulnerability is a central ingredient in empathy — for ourselves, for each other, and even for the natural world. When we allow ourselves to feel deeply into our own experience, we become more able to extend that same depth of understanding outward, bridging the gaps that so often divide us.

• Paperback: $18.00
• Audiobook: $14.99
• EPub: $9.99

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The Right to Be Seen and Unseen

On dignity, exposure, and the refusal to become an episode



By Raïs Neza Boneza 

In this remarkable article, Raïs Neza Boneza emphasizes that dignity means being recognized as fully human without being reduced to suffering, public scandal, data, or geopolitical interests. Drawing on his experiences in Congo and Norway, he contrasts privacy and communal belonging, warning that digital culture often preserves surveillance while abandoning responsibility and care. He connects technology’s exploitation of intimate lives with the extraction of minerals and human labor in Congo, while presenting poetry and humor as ways to affirm that people are more than their wounds.

Drawing lessons from African traditions of mutual responsibility and Switzerland’s accommodation of difference, he advocates independent moral judgment, dialogue across divisions, and participatory political structures that resist domination. Ultimately, Raïs Neza Boneza maintains that dignity requires both everyday acts of solidarity and institutions that protect people’s right to belong, shape their futures, and decide what parts of their lives remain private. Please read the entire article here...

Raïs Neza Boneza is a writer, poet, and peace practitioner exploring geopolitics, displacement, memory, and human dignity. He uncovers the human stories buried beneath headlines, conflict, and the legacies of power, giving voice to those history too often leaves behind.

Interview with Jordan's Prince El Hassan bin Talal —

"We are surrounded by frenemies."

In this interview with Yalda Hakim, His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan describes himself as a “radical centrist” in a region surrounded by “frenemies.” He stresses the importance of dialogue and human dignity in the face of regional conflict.

HRH urges constructive engagement with adversaries, rejects religious extremism, and advocates regional cooperation centered on the dignity of all people, rather than resources, military strategy, or geopolitical rivalry, envisioning a future grounded in plurality and mutual respect.

Collective Reflections on a Dignified Future —

An exchange on the essay "Toward an Ecocivilization"

The Great Transition Campaign (GTC) invited Jeremy Lent to write an essay titled "Toward an Ecocivilization" and then invited the GTC members to comment on that essay. Among others, you can read the beginning of Evelin Lindner's comment below:

"Equal dignity for all is an essential grounding principle for collaborative global governance."

"Jeremy Lent’s essay offers a compelling and much needed systemic perspective on the civilizational crossroads we face. I would like to add a brief reflection from my own work on dignity, humiliation, and global transformation.

In my book A Dignity Economy (2012), I argue that our prevailing economic systems are structurally rooted in systemic humiliation: they reward domination, extraction, and competitive individualism while eroding the relational foundations of human and planetary wellbeing. Any ecocivilizational shift must therefore replace this humiliation-based architecture with an economy grounded in equal dignity, mutual care, and shared stewardship."

Please also read the comments of other distinguished scholars and thinkers here...

Poetry

By Bonnie Selterman

No nukes on the moon

Leave our moon alone

Please

Don’t want tech bros

Controlling war

Or peace

Please.

We’re letting them know

From way down here

In the shrieking caverns

Of old time human dignity

We are here.