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

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