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The ways in which the great Mexican artist is kept alive in popular memory through countless souvenirs, images and mementos is unprecedented in the world of art... did Frida herself lay some of these trails?

This anthology collects the writings of international Social Work col-leagues and friends who came together at the Coburg International Sum-mer School and Conference on Peacebuilding, Gender and Social Work in May 2015, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Women’s Peace Congress in The Hague, 1915. One hundred years ago, over a thousand women gathered in The Hague to protest against the atrocities of the First World War. Their demands remain as compelling as they were at the time in a world that today is getting incrementally less peaceful every year. Taking into account historical as well as current examples, the structure of this anthology follows the main topics of the Summer School. In four chapters, “Herstory” – Current and Historical Perspectives on Women and Peacebuilding; Theoretical Approaches to International Co-operation, Humanitarian Aid and Social Work; Education, Conflict Reso-lution and Refugee Empowerment and Dealing with the Past – Creative Practices and Memorial Work, the authors explore the manifold links be-tween women’s movements and Social Work, ask for the role Social Workers might play in post-conflict and peacebuilding processes, document and analyze social work in fields like refugee rights, post-conflict and trauma work or human–rights-based sex education and show creative approaches in the context of peacebuilding.

Roma Rights and Discrimination: The Pursuit of Reflective Social and Educational Work is the result of a joint learning project involving students, lecturers and professionals from seven European countries. It compiles reflection and analysis as a result of seminars in the respective universities, as well as experiences with two European Intensive Programs in Cluj and Budapest in 2013 and 2014. In three chapters “Remembering”, “Pathways of Exclusion embedded in Social Inclusion Policies” and “Approaches to a Rights-Based Work” this publication provides students with methodological approaches to confront anti-Ciganism, anti-Semitism, racism and social exclusion in Europe. Furthermore, this publication also serves as a contribution to relate Human Rights principles with historical approaches, and gives a basis to reflect upon, and to argue in the field of social work and social pedagogic education.

International Perspectives on Challenges of Social Work in a Globalised World: Human Rights, Inclusion and Social Justice is one of the main outcomes of a summer school at Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, focusing on themes and issues surrounding Social Work as a Human Rights Profession. For two weeks, social work students and lecturers from Chile, Colombia, Germany, India, Namibia, Russia, and the United States of America participated in the summer school to learn and exchange about human rights in the past and present in their respective countries. The articles in this volume document and reflect on the contents and experiences of the summer school, as well as on research and practices of the partner universities, striving to understand, and further develop the fundamental links between social work and human rights.