What is it about?
This editorial introduces a special issue of the journal International Social Work, focused on the involvement of social workers in humanitarian interventions. The introduction focuses on social relations of power and inequality that influence the impact of 'disasters', and the responses offered by social work.
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Why is it important?
Social work has played an important role in humanitarian interventions for a long time, but this has often gone unrecognised. This special issue and its introduction addresses this important gap in knowledge.
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This introduction, and the special issue it accompanies, came out of a project that examined some of the international responses to the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka. It was a real pleasure to work with the authors of the articles collected in the special issue, and I hope I have done their work justice in the introduction.
Dr Tom Vickers
Nottingham Trent University
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This page is a summary of: Grappling with power and inequality in humanitarian interventions, International Social Work, August 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0020872815597417.
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