2020 Dignity Workshop 300.1: Bishop Desmod Tutu Explains Ubuntu
Channel: Evelin Lindner
Date: 26/12/2020

We thank Desmond Tutu for explaining Ubuntu.
Thank you, dear Linda Hartling, for having recorded Desmond Tutu's words in 2014!

The African ubuntu philosophy says "I am because of you, we are because of each other," "Umunthu ngamunthu ngabantu": "A person is a person through other people"!

Thank you so much, dear Emmanuel Ndahimana for your message to the participants of 17th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict at Columbia University in New York City, December 10 – 12, 2020. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this conference had to take place online. See https://youtu.be/mToYinSKbJk . 

You wrote: "The theme of the conference is very inspiring. Indeed transforming humiliation into a pandemic of dignity for every one should be a mission of all of us. As someone said, we are one, united by our essence, by our humanity, our Ubuntu. We are also different by our forms, the circumstances of our developments, our experiences, our colors, talents. These differences make the creation even more artistic, beautiful in the Planet garden. That perspective should lead us to more admiration and respect rather than humiliation and conflicts. Not easy!! Felicité is among the few who have reached that level of maturity and understanding. She has left to all of us a living example that even big challenges can be overcome. Making this known is a good contribution to the world. We are grateful to Father Jean D'Amour who has offered this example, grateful to HDHS for making Felicité an example of humanity, dignity and compassion!" (See https://youtu.be/XiD-8lq71b8 to learn more about Felicité.)

We are grateful to both Emmanuel Ndahimana and Bishop Desmond Tutu for their wonderful support to our dignity work! Bishop Tutu kindly contributed with the Foreword to Evelin Lindner's book on love in 2010, and Emmanuel Ndahimana hosted the 2015 Dignity Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, June 2–5, 2015, that was held as a tribute to Felicitas Niyitegeka in the spirit of the United Nations agenda towards "A Life of Dignity for All," and in the spirit of umuganda, "coming together in common purpose" (the traditional practice of communities self-solving their problems). See www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/25.php

We thank, furthermore, scholar Joy Ndwandwe for explaining ubuntu on 26th April 2013 in our 2013 Annual Dignity Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, that was titled ‘Search for dignity’, April 24–27, 2013. See http://youtu.be/usyyqVdnDgI

See more on: 
- www.humiliationstudies.org
- www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/35.php
- www.worlddignityuniversity.org