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The book offers unique access to theoretical approaches and practical examples of international social work in the context of war and conflicts. The reader gains knowledge about the competences and role of social work, which contributes to mitigating the effects of war and conflict. The book raises the question of how to connect international social work with local approaches and offers suggestions for a development of social work with respect to exchanging knowledge and experiences between the West and the East, the Global North and the Global South. It furthermore discusses the role of social work in reducing the problem of gender-based violence and in the methods of peacebuilding processes in post-war and post-conflict societies.
List of contents
Social Work, Armed Conflict and Post-war Reconstruction.- International Social Work and the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles.- Knowledge production in International Social work - Postcolonial Perspectives.- There are many roads to a school of social work: Importance of the International for Modern Social Work.- Systematising Local Knowledge: Hierarchies, Power Relations and Decontextualisation in West-East Knowledge Transfer.- Community-based psychosocial work to change the cycle of violence in post conflict areas.- Children born of Wartime Rapes: An Analysis from a Gender-Sensitive and Psychosocial Perspective.- The refugee as a stigmatized individual: Spoiled identities, possible causes and courses of action for Social Work.
About the author
Kristin Sonnenberg, PhD, is Professor of Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences (EvH RWL Bochum). She is Head of the BA Social Work Studies.
Cinur Ghaderi, PhD, is Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences (EvH RWL Bochum). She is Vice-President for Research, Transfer and Internationalization.
Report
"The strengths of the book are the various examples from practice, as well as the encouragement of including local knowledge into the decision-making process concerning the intervention. Politics, diversity, and ethics are topics transversally addressed in the book. I consider that this volume is of particular interest for students, practitioners and academics focused on international social work." (Anca Mihai, European Journal of Social Work, Vol. 27 (5), 2024)
