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International Symposium on Social
Work and Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Plan & Management Held
PKU NEWS 2009--05—24
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=243228579
Peking University, May 24th, 2009: Sichuan earthquake saw its first anniversary.
"International Symposium on Social Work and Post-Disaster Reconstruction Plan &
Management‖ was held jointly by PKU China Social Work Research Center, China
Association for Social Work Education, International Association of Schools of Social
Work, American Social Work Education Committee and PKU China Social Work
Journal Editorial Committee. The theme of the symposium is the role and status of
social work in the reconstruction and post-disaster assistance.
Zhang Guoyou, PKU Vice President, Liu Zheng, Deputy Director of Ministry of Civil
Affairs Social Work Office, Zeng Yuanqi, Chairman of International Association of
Schools of Social Work and Director of Peking university-Hong Kong Polytechnic
University China Social Work Research Center, Wang Sibin, Chairman of China
Social Work Education Association, Director of Peking University-Hong Kong Poly
University China Social Work Research Center, Professor of PKU Department and
the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Prof. Jin Sheng‘er, Chairman of Asia
Pacific Social Work Education Association, Prof. Kensaku Ohashi, Chairman of
Japan Association of Schools of Social Work, Principal of Japan College of Social
Work attended and addressed the meeting.
Well known experts and scholars from the United States, United Kingdom, Slovenia,
Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Pakistan, Mongolia and more than
10 countries, as well as from China Hong Kong and the mainland were invited.
Topics of this meeting include: a broader understanding of post-disaster planning,
management and response to disasters; to improve social work professionals'
concern towards various interest groups in global; various disaster response
strategy; to add post-disaster response into areas of social work courses.
The meeting lasted one and a half days. The participating scholars shared their
experience of participation in disaster reconstruction, and fully discussed the
meaning and useful way of social work from the perspective of social work values,
intervention, the residents‘ need, to the power of the non-government power 's
relation with the government etc.
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