Social Work in Post-War and Political Conflict Areas (eBook)

Examples from Iraqi-Kurdistan and beyond

Kristin Sonnenberg, Cinur Ghaderi (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1st ed. 2021
XI, 159 Seiten
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (Verlag)
978-3-658-32060-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

 

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 7
Contributors 9
1 Framing the Topic—A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Social Work in Post-War and Political Conflict Areas 12
1 Introduction 13
2 Embedding the Topic as the Subject of an International Conference 15
3 Embedding the Topic as a Theoretical and Practical Field of Intervention in an International Context 16
4 Embedding the Topic in Discourses on Knowledge Production 24
5 Embedding (International) Social Work in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq 26
6 Embedding the Topic as a Reference—Overview of the Contributions in This Book 29
2 Social Work, Armed Conflict and Post-War Reconstruction 36
1 War and Armed Conflicts 37
2 Social Work, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and ‘Liberal Peace’ 39
3 Liberal Peace, Social Work and the Transformation of Subjectivities 43
4 The Political Side of Trauma 45
5 The ‘local turn’—A Way Out? 47
6 Outlook 51
3 International Social Work and the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles 55
1 Introduction 56
2 Frameworks that May Strengthen the Social Work Profession 57
3 A Historical Approach to Associations of International Social Work 58
4 Current Topics and Status of International Social Work Associations 60
5 Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles – Code of Ethics 64
5.1 Members of IFSW and their Connection with the Code of Ethics 66
5.2 Social Work in Iraqi-Kurdistan – Ethical principles 67
6 Implications for International Social Work 68
6.1 The Meaning of Value-Based Action 69
6.2 Social Justice and Responsibility as Core Values of (International) Social Work 70
6.3 Final remarks 71
4 Knowledge Production in International Social Work – Postcolonial Perspectives 75
Nausikaa Schirilla 75
5 There Are Many Roads to a School of Social Work. Importance of the International for Modern Social Work 83
1 International Social Work: History and Associations 84
2 A Colorblind Need for Professionalization 85
3 Disciplinization of Knowledge in Social Work Then and Now 87
4 Discussion 94
5 Demarcations of the Roads to a School of Social Work 97
6 Systematising Local Knowledge: Hierarchies, Power Relations and Decontextualisation in West–East Knowledge Transfer 101
Karin Mlodoch 101
1 What is Knowledge? 102
2 Example of Travelling Knowledge – the MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Services) Focus in International Aid and Development Cooperation and the Concepts of Trauma and Resilience 103
3 Which Knowledge? – The Example of Western Transfer of Trauma and Psychosocial Knowledge in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq 106
4 Local Practices, Example 1: Local Strategies in Dealing with Mass Violence and Trauma – Women Anfal Survivors in the Germian Region 109
5 Local Practices, Example 2: Family Mediation Strategies in Psychosocial Work with Women Survivors of Gender-Based Violence 111
6 Institutional and Social Barriers to Local Practices 114
7 The Dichotomy of International/Global and Local/Indigenous Knowledge 115
8 Conclusion 117
7 Community-Based Psychosocial Work to Change the Cycle of Violence in Post Conflict Areas 120
1 Background to the Recent Conflict 121
2 Model of Restorative Justice 121
3 Violence and the Breakdown of Social Fabric 123
4 Cycle of Violence 123
5 SINANI’s Emerging Model of Social Work in a Conflict Area 124
6 Fragmentation Disempowerment Model 126
7 Ubuntu—A Concept Relevant to Social Work 127
8 Children Born of Wartime Rapes – an Analysis from a Gender-Sensitive and Psychosocial Perspective 133
1 Introduction 134
2 Wartime Rape: Prevalence, Statistics, Definitions 134
3 Explanations for Wartime Rape and Sexual Violence 136
4 Analysis of the Multiple Consequences 139
4.1 Consequences for Women Mothers as Victims of CRSV/WTR
4.2 Psychosocial Consequences of Children Born of Wartime Rape 141
4.3 Transgenerational Transmission and Continuity of Violence 145
5 Conclusion for Psychosocial Interventions: Reflection on Psychosocial and Professional Interventions 146
9 The Refugee as a Stigmatized Individual – Spoiled Identities, Possible Causes and Courses of Action for Social Work 150
1 Stigma – a Social Relationship 151
2 The Stigma of Being a Refugee 154
3 Initial Conclusions 155
4 Consequences of the Stigmatization of Refugees: Spoiled Identities 156
5 Dealing with Stigmatization: Obstinacy, Passing and Techniques of Information Control 157
6 Critical Self-Reflection of Professional Help 159
7 The Social Justice- and Diversity-Concept – an Opportunity to Decouple Monologic Modes of Thought 160
8 Consequences 164

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2021
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 159 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Schlagworte: Gender-based violence • International social work • Post-conflict Societies • post-war societies • Research • Social Work
• ISBN-10: 3-658-32060-5 / 3658320605
• ISBN-13: 978-3-658-32060-7 / 9783658320607