Human Rights Education for Psychologists

Polli Hagenaars is a licensed psychotherapist and trainer for diversity policy with her own institute, C5, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Diversity and non-discrimination have been major themes throughout her professional career, including combating racism in the educational system, and teaching transcultural pedagogy at university colleges. Marlena Plavsic started her psychological career dealing with the consequences of human rights violations while working with refugees and displaced persons from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. She teaches at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia and takes part in various community projects. Nora Sveaass is professor emeritaat the University of Oslo, Norway with research focusing on refugees, rehabilitation of victims of torture and transitional justice. She was Chair of the Human Rights Committee in the Norwegian Psychological Association from 1998 to 2018 and currently is amember of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture.Ulrich Wagner is a professor emeritus of social psychology at the Philipps-University Marburg in Germany. His research focuses on the improvement of intergroup relations. It is especiallyconcerned with the reduction of ethnic prejudice, discrimination and violence as well as the promotion of intergroup acceptance and tolerance. Tony Wainwright is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests are ethics, human rights, climate change and psychology. He is concerned with the effect that human activity has environmentally, and its impact on human rights and the lives of the plants and animals with which we share the world.