Evelin Lindner is a transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities. She holds two doctorates, one in medicine, and the other in psychology. Her research focuses on human dignity, and she believes that the humiliation of honor and dignity may be among the strongest obstacles on the way to a decent world community. She is the Founding 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. Her parents were displaced from Silesia in 1946, and she therefore grew up in West Germany. She has since confirmed that her familys traumatic experiences have formed the background of her work. In 1994, she obtained her first doctorate, in Medicine (dr. med.), from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and in 2001, her second doctorate, in Psychology (dr. psychol.), from the University of Oslo, Norway. She graduated in Psychology in 1978, and in Medicine in 1984, both from the University of Hamburg and Heidelberg University. She has also studied law and sinology at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, philosophy at the University of Hamburg, and has participated in the Norwegian Research Councils Ethics Programme under philosopher Dagfinn Føllesdal. Since 1977, Lindner often spends time in Norway, following her marriage to a Norwegian. From 1984 to 1991, she also lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt, where she was a clinical psychologist and psychological counselor at theAmerican University in Cairo for 3 years, and had her own practice for 4 years. She also lived, studied, and did research in Asia (Japan 3 years, China, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand), in Africa (West Africa, Somalia, Kenya,Rwanda, Burundi), in the Middle East, USA, and in Europe (mostly in France, Belgium and Switzerland). In 1993, she founded the NGO Better Global Understanding and organized an important peace festival in Hamburg, and in 1994, she was a candidate in the European Parliament election, 1994. She speaks English, French, German, Norwegian and Egyptian Arabic fluently and is familiar with a number of other languages, among others, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, and modern Hebrew.
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