Mother and children meditating
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The Journey of Mindfulness into Action

This course is held by Mariana Vergara at Teacher's College, New York. A prior version was given together with the World Dignity University. See details of this course at the Academia.org website. Here is an article describing the course.

Women standing in front of her destroyed home after a storm
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction

The World Dignity University initiative is based on multiple educational activities from people around the world. One of those projects was the online course at the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Adenrele Awotona is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

See this short introductory video, published on Jan 12, 2014:

 

The syllabus for this course can be found here.

Quotes

Portrait photo of Olof Palme
Von Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo (from Wikimedia)

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Olof Palme