The book opens up the possibility to deal with international social work theoretically and practically, using the example of a regionthat is in a pioneering phase in the teaching of social work and at the same time is in a highly explosive situation in global politics. The socio-political challenges such as violence, traumatisation, (Islamic) fundamentalism, ethnicisation, changed gender relations, flight and migration are forcing the necessity of a professional examination of social work as a human rights profession.

Cinur Ghaderi, PhD, is Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum. She is Vice-President for Research, Transfer and Internationalization.

Kristin Sonnenberg, PhD, is Professor of Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum. She is Head of the BA Program in Social Work Studies.

Luqman Saleh Karim, PhD, is Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, College of Humanities, University of Sulaimani (UoS), Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Niyan Namiq Sabir, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Social Work, College of Humanities, University of Sulaimani (UoS), Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Zhiya Abbas Qader, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, College of Humanities, University of Sulaimani (UoS), Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Lisa-Marie Dünnebacke, M.A., was Scientific Associate within the CoBoSUnin project in the Department of Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum.