IUC

INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE DUBROVNIK
SCHOOL OF
SOCIAL WORK THEORY AND PRACTICE

Dubrovnik, June 2007/2008

 

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

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The Inter-University Center (IUC) Dubrovnik is an independent international institution for advanced studies. It is a meeting ground for learning and scholarship which is co-sponsored by almost two hundred member universities and higher education institutions around the world. Founded in 1971 at the height of the Cold War, the IUC quickly become one of the most important venues for the exchange of ideas by scholars from the East and West, North and South alike. Over the years more than 40.000 scholars and students participated in a variety of courses and conferences.

Based in Dubrovnik, Croatia, formerly a self governing Mediterranean city-state, at the crossroads of various cultural and political influences, the IUC is currently building on its past achievements and traditions under a new set of challenging circumstances. It is maintaining high standards of independent scholarship, open at the same time to different opportunities to promote peace and pluralism in the region and around the world.

IUC academic program consists of international and multidisciplinary courses and conferences. Courses were offered during the war despite the fact that the IUC building was bombed and almost completely destroyed in 1991. The IUC has survived due to the persistent backing and support of many member universities, several organizations, and long-term friends of the IUC and Dubrovnik. The IUC will become increasingly relevant in bringing together scholars and students from different backgrounds and cultures to both discuss scientific progress, and persevere in the creation of a culture of peace through direct exchange and dialogue.

Relatively early in its history the IUC had courses related to social work. In 1985 Dr. Dada M. Maglajlic' and Dr. Burt Galaway met in Zagreb, Croatia to explore possibility of establishing a set of courses that will devote equal attention to the exploration of social work ideas (theory) and direct experience (practice). The original idea was to develop with time a set of eight postgraduate level courses. At this point School offers seven courses. The language of the School is English. IUC provides official certificate of attendance and/or completion. Those interested in taking any of the courses may register with the IUC Secretariat, School Organizing Director, Course Organizing Director and/or any of the Course Directors by providing name, address, academic standing and affiliation. If a candidate is an undergraduate student a brief recommendation by at least one of the professors is required.

Fee per course/symposium:

• EU 75 for faculty and practitioners, and
• EU 55 for students.

Participation by researchers, university professors, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students and practitioners is welcomed. Accommodation in Dubrovnik is available from EU 35. Information regarding travel and accommodation may be obtained from the IUC partner - Gulliver Travel Agency in Dubrovnik (O.S. Radica 32); contact person Ms. Ivona Sokol
E-mail: Ivona.sokol@gulliver.hr  Phone: +385 20 313 321

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Course Description:

Social work services are becoming increasingly specialised in respect to different targets, service user groups, etc. Therefore social workers have both to be able to create, manage and evaluate various concepts and methods as well as to ground them in professional expertise, theoretical inquiry and research. Requirements from social work providers, and those who contract social work services, contribute to strengthening such development. The aim of the 2007 Symposium is therefore to compare different social work concepts and methods, to explore the strength of the knowledge base and degree of "autonomy" which social work is allowed to claim in different countries.

Within the course/symposium participants are invited to present examples of best/evidence/research based practice with different groups and communities, new and/or developing strategies and methods within various services, and results from original research studies.

Lectures & Resource Persons (stated alphabetically):

Byers Carmel (UK): Has the involvement of people using services in social work education made a
difference: an Evaluation of initiatives undertaken on social work programmes at
the University of Hertfordshire

Chytil Oldrich (CZ): Utilizing Research and Practice to Design SW Courses

Davis Ann, Glynn Tony (UK): Designing Social Work in Partnership: Transforming Research

Erath Peter (G): Designing, shapping and evaluationg social work services

Gilchrist Jackie (UK): Social work and postmodernism. A Natural Alliance

Grebenc Vera (SLO): Voices of the Community

Littlechild Brian (UK): Introductory lecture on The nature of knowledge for effective social work

Nordstrand Marie (NOR): Introducing social workers to reflective practice

Pagany Simon, Fritishing Marion, Losch Sabine (G): Is "excellent" social work possible?
Students searching for Exciting practice

Pawalek Katarzyna (PL): System of social support to families in need;
the case of lone-mother families

Prestini Mireille (F): Adult's decision to undertake training: a connection
with the biographical event?

Sramata Miriam, Mrazva Alzbeta (SL): Social Work Interventions with psychiatric clients

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Course Description:

Social work develops both theory and practice in a given context. Changes in needs, expectations, paradigms, systems, and welfare models all influence discussions and directions chosen for the growth and improvement of social work. In this course interaction between social work and social policies is discussed and problematized. Presentations have a theoretical as well as empirical base.

Each year a special topic is chosen for examination. For the year 2006 'social justice' - a fundamental principle in social work as well as in social policy was chosen for examination. We plan to explore it further during the 2007 Symposium for which we selected the following guiding question: What is social justice in social work?

Lectures & Resource Persons (stated alphabetically):

Calosevic Aleksandra (SR): Social Innovation Fund
- The work on the transformation of institutions

Collin-Hansen Ragnhild (NOR): Equal Rights to Education as a Means of
Social Justice for Children

Hanssen Helene (NOR): Abuse and Neglect in Orphanages in the Past - Implications
for Social Work and Social Policy Today

Harrison W. David (USA): From Reflective Community Practice to Prescriptive Social Control:
An Interpretive Research Report

Peder Martin Lysestol (NOR): Neo-Classical Economic Policy and Social Justice

Redzovic Skender Elez (NOR): Globalization and Social Justice Through Income Redistribution
- Opportunities And Challenges

Sing Dorit (G): The Economic Model of the "Unconditional Basic Income" as Tool for Social Work
for new Production of New Insights in the Current "Crisis of the Welfare State

Sing Horst (G): What is Social Justice in Social Work? - What is Social Justice of Social Work?
What is the Difference - And why it is useful to reflect on it?

Venola Ilona (FIN): Values and Ethical Principles Guiding Social Work in Child Welfare

Zahl Mari-Anne, Erickson Hans Goran (NOR): Social Justice in Social Policies: case analysis

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Course Description:

Participants examine the implementation of the UN convention of the rights of children (specifically articles 19, and 34-38), and related documents. Equal attention is given to all age subgroups, with special reference to policy and planning, as well as to different facets of SW theory and practice. Growing violence all over the world calls for our exploration and action. Children experience violence before they are born and right after it. It is omnipresent: we find it within the family, school/s, in the streets (neighborhoods and communities), media, in the most intimate relationships. Participants will continue to explore violence at the child/young person, family, peers group, and society level, looking at its etiology and phenomena, possible prevention, and different interventions.

Lectures & Resource Persons (stated alphabetically):

Bempah Kwame Owusu (UK): Twenty-first Century Children and Their Mental Well-being
- Importance of Socio-genealogical Connectedness

Bacurin Iva (Cro): Velika Gorica Center for Children, Youth and Family
- A Place of Support, Learning and Creativity

Lurie James (NOR): Violence against children in the family: Current Norwegian efforts to
understand and combat Violence and other forms of abuse against
children in the family

Maglajlic' Dada M. (Cro/USA): 21st Century Youth Culture - Price of Being Cool

Masar Martin (USA/CO): The Seeds of Aggression

Radoman Dragana (CG): Community Youth Work in Montenegro
- Case Study: Education Youth Camps

Suljak Blazenka, Fruk Katarina (CRO): Children and Youth in Croatia
- The National Program and Plan of Action

Vrank Mirta (Cro): Youth Center for Creative Activities Zapresic'

Guest Presenter: Professor Paul de Heer
Coordinator Master Pedagogiek
Beleidsmedewerker Pedagogiek
Holland

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Course Description:

Participants will examine contemporary trends and issues in the field. Social work centers more and more on 'clinical interventions with individuals' than on community work and/or community organizing. One of the common statements we encounter in different countries/societies is that children are our future. If we review the "state of their world" we may conclude that we do not have the future. Neighborhoods and communities as known at the beginning of the 20th century are disappearing for multiple reasons. The 2007 Symposium participants will explore some of the reasons, in particular the gap between proclamations such as "leave no child behind" and day-to-day reality.

Lectures & Resource Persons (stated alphabetically):

Bock Marlene (G): The Role of Family and Social Environment in the Professional Work
with Alcohol Addicted Persons

Frank Monika, Fiegler Tilo (G): Forgotten, Neglected, Stigmatized: Child Poverty in Germany
- Symptoms, Background, Community Based Interventions

Keglevic' Davor (Cro): Use of Poetry as a Preventative and Developmental Tool

Odilia Rojnic' Von Manen (Holl/Cro): "Improving Through Crisis
- From Pioneer Phase to Professionalisation

Udo Okokon (USA): Re-Envisioning Community - It Takes a Village

Wittig Anne (G): Community Support and Mental Health
- Practical Experience in Germany and Canada

Xharavina Gezim (Kosova): Community Development
- Public Involvement (Process & Participation)

Guest Facilitator/Course Evaluator: Mark Lawrence (MN, USA)

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Course Description:

This Course brings together academics in the field of youth justice and postgraduate practitioners from the international community working in youth justice system. The 2007 Symposium will explore the important role critical research plays in understanding the development and management of youth justice systems. Contributors are encouraged to critically explore the processes by which criminological research and knowledge is constructed and the extent to which it is meaningfully employed to inform practice within youth justice system. Participants are encouraged to pay particular attention to issues of power, ethics and children's rights. The international nature of the Symposium offers an excellent opportunity for colleagues from the international academic and practice communities to exchange their ideas (theory) and experience (practice) within broadly defined social work.

Lectures & Resource Persons (stated alphabetically):

Maglajlic' Dada M. (Cro/USA): Meeting MH needs of the Youth in Juvenile Justice System
- HR & Ethical Issues Introduced to Participants by Dr. Joe Yates

Stout Brian (SAR & UK): Children's Rights
- Restorative Justice and South African Youth Justice Law Reform

Yates Joe (England): Critical Research in Youth Justice: Power, Knowledge, Ethics, Rights

NOTE: for two days Course had joined sessions with the Course SW and Clinical Interventions

Course SW & Deinstitutionalization

was introduced with three lectures presented on June 8, 2007

(Lecturers stated alphabetically)

Flaker Vito (SLO): From Institutional Logic to the Common Knowledge:
Power action, context and reflection

Magljalic' Holicek Rea A. (Cro): Deinstitutionalization within Child Protection
in the South-Eastern Europe

Shula Ramon (UK): The Impact of Neoliberalism on Social Work

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Course Description:

The course "Social Work and Clinical Interventions" (SWCI) is dedicated to searching for, and promoting interventions which draw from essential values and concepts of social work and highlight the uniqueness of the mission and authenticity of social work theory and practice. The course will cherish highest professional, ethical and multicultural standards and promote the holistic-integral, positive - strength oriented interventions which are both evidence-based and innovative-creative all the way along the continuum of care spectrum.

Participants of the 2007 Symposium will explore different modalities that can be found in day-to-day practice as well as definitions provided by the latest research.

Lectures & Resource Persons (stated alphabetically):

Bodiroza Aleksandar (UNFPA, USA): Use of Methodologies for Strategic Communication for
Behavior Change and Development on Work with Most
At-Risk-Youth

Colin Tatjana (Sr/Moldova): Study of Child Abandonment in Moldova

Denkove Frosina, Arnaudova Sofia (Mac): Understanding and Assisting to the Victims
of Human Trafficking

Fox Darill James (UK): Family Group Conferences and Mental Health - Squaring the Circle

Masar Martin (USA): Healthy Environment in Child/Adolescent Care Setting

Rakovic' Maria (Sr): What is An Advocacy Campaign?

Rankin Pedro (SAR): The Use of Life Maps in SW Clinical Interventions

Rano Jaspal (UK): Structured Case Discussion Model for Exploration of the Interpersonal and
Inter-Subjective Impact of Problem Situation

Stakic' Djuka (USA/PA): Four Faces of Collaboration in a Team

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Course Description:

This course seeks to expand our knowledge of the diverse philosophical, humanistic and spiritual resources which guide us in our attempt to create a more just and peaceful communities. Participants explore the spiritual, ethical, cultural and professional values which inform our thinking and direct service. The 2007 Symposium will focus on spiritual, faith and religious traditions. These traditions may be inclusive, positive, enabling, the ones that promote human development and joint ventures. They also may be something that separates individuals, groups, communities and societies, from intolerance and hate speech to open violence and war.

We plan to learn about history and power dynamics associated with different religious institutions. We also plan to learn about available human and spiritual resources that enable people to overcome historic disputes, develop favorable life condition/s, overcome disagreements, and create a spirit of belonging to global human family.

Lectures & Resource Persons (stated alphabetically):

Bilopavlovic Mirjana(Cro): Interfaith Dialogue - Local NGO Peacemaking Model

Bogdanic' Ana (Cro): Peace and Peace Making Traditions among Roma People

Maglajlic' Dada M. (Cro/USA): Peace Starts With-In Me

Mikic'-Zeitoun Mirjana (Cro): Clash of Ignorance: East Is East

Napan Ksenija (NZ): Spirituality and Social Practice
- Integrative Science and Spirituality through Cooperative Inquiry

Nedeljkovic' Yves R. (Sr): Understanding Fear

Trbojevic' Svetlana (MAC): Macedonia Between Old and New Denominations

Visinski Silvija ((Cro): Memories of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
- True Story about Non-Violence and Peace

IUC Dubrovnik School of SW Theory & Practice

FUTURE EVENT: the 8th Course and the 20th Anniversary Conference

ANCIENT CITY OF DUBROVNIK & the IUC Dubrovnik, Croatia

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Inter-University Center for Postgraduate Studies, the IUC Dubrovnik has been founded by the famous Praxis group more than 30 years ago. Founding meeting took place in Montreal Quebec, Canada. At its peak, before the recent war in the region, Center had over 200 university members from all over the world, and every year IUC is getting closer to its pre-war membership status. At this point the IUC has over 170 member-institutions mostly from Europe and USA. City of Dubrovnik, the I.U.C, and many other higher education institutions are diligently working on revitalizing all known programs, as well as adding the new ones. So, several years ago D.I.S.E.C. was formally established: Dubrovnik International Science and Education Center! Rochester Institute of Technology is offering M.B.A. program in Dubrovnik, while Yale University offers an M.A. in social studies at the IUC! We are planning to expand our existing program by adding more courses, as well as by introducing "Back to the Roots" series of courses envisioned as collaborative liberal education program to be offered by a network of universities in the Mediterranean Region and interested higher education institutions from all over the world.

The ancient city of Dubrovnik is a very special classroom in itself, and probably the most beautiful one! Place, which G.B. Shaw called the “Paradise on Earth”! Famous Marco Polo was born on the island of Korcula located northwest of Dubrovnik. For over seven centuries Republic of Dubrovnik was an independent city-state! At its peak Dubrovnik Republic had diplomatic relations with over 200 states all over the world! There is a lot to be learned from the ancient Republic, such as for example:

• governance of the Republic: not as power, rather as a public service with very egalitarian approach to the “noble” and “common” people;
• LIBERTAS (freedom) as the symbol, flag and the anthem of the Republic;
• first ‘state’ to make a public statement regarding slavery, and abolish it in 1416, long before any other European state;
• high quality education for all, promoting knowledge about, and respect for, human condition and human diversity;
• high quality health care and social services: one of the oldest quarantines in Europe; one of the oldest European pharmacies which is still in function; one of the oldest orphanages in Europe, and the like;
• one of the oldest modern time theaters in Europe (the island of Hvar);
• great understanding of human condition and great respect for it, with special emphasis on being humble – there are only two public statues in the whole ancient city, one of the ‘noble man’ (Gundulic'), and one of the 'common man' (Pracat);
• long tradition of “religious tolerance” and “joint life”: close to 500 years of organized worship and peaceful coexistence of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim religious institutions and programs, and much, much more.

The IUC is well known for its principles, which follow the best traditions of the ancient Republic of Dubrovnik. To learn more about the ancient City of Dubrovnik please visit the Dubrovnik Pages on the web. To learn more about the IUC and our School within the IUC, please visit www.IUC.hr. Over the years the IUC Dubrovnik School of SW Theory and Practice published four books: one in the USA, Canada, Croatia, and one as a collaborative effort between the IUC and the University of Goteborg, Sweden. Than in 1997, we introduced the electronic journal. As of Spring 2003, one issue is prepared at BSU, Bemidji, MN, USA and one at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology - NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The journal address is www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/publications/social_work_journal

INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER MISSION STATEMENT

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The Inter-University Center (IUC) Dubrovnik is an independent

international institution for advanced studies. It is a meeting ground

for learning and scholarship which is co-sponsored by almost two

hundred member universities and institutions of higher learning

around the world.

Founded in 1971, at the height of the Cold War, the IUC became one

of the most important venues for the exchange of ideas by scholars from

both, the East and West. Over the years more than 40,000 scholars and

students have participated in the Center’s courses and conferences.

Based in Dubrovnik, Croatia, formerly a self-governing Mediterranean

City-state, at the crossroads of various cultural and political influences,

the IUC is currently building on its past achievement and traditions under

a new set of challenging circumstances. The goal of the IUC is to maintain

high standards of independent scholarship, and at the same time explore

opportunities for bridge-building within the region and the world that must

continue to rededicate itself to pluralism.

The IUC is now particularly keen on promoting specialized postgraduate

education that will take into account both, the regional issues and the

overarching challenges of globalization.

Our international agenda in various disciplines, notably in the social

sciences and in the humanities, will certainly be informed by the issues

of post communism and European integration, with an emphasis on

further promoting stabilization within the region.

2008 COURSES

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June 1-7, 2008

Social Work Theories and Methodologies

Social Work and Deinstitutionalization

June 8 - 14, 2008

Social Work and Social Policies

Social Work with Juvenile Offenders

June 15 - 21, 2008

Social Work with Children and Youth

Developing Neighborhood & Community Support Systems

June 22 - 28, 2008

Social Work and Spirituality

Social Work and Clinical Interventions

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Please visit our websites at:
www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/publications/social_work_journal &
www.spirituality-and-social-work.com

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