Global Social Work Midterm 2024 Question 3

 3. Choose a problem of acute poverty in your country and describe a global social work intervention you could create (assume you have plenty of resources) to remedy that problem. Briefly summarize the poverty-correcting intervention and then describe how you would apply it. For examples, you can use:

a.     the human rights cooperatives led by community members supported by social workers and lawyers described by Grodofsky;

b.     the response of Muhammad Yunus to remedying acute poverty and homelessness in Bangladesh;

c.     Bianco’s paper about encouraging female entrepreneurship;

d.     Onwuegbuchulam’s paper about a capability approach in KwaZulu Natal.

 Global Social Work Midterm Question 2

2.   Now imagine you are a Global social worker working as a leader with the U.N. like Professor Ruskus and Professor Leinarte, or working for an NGO like “Fight for Rights” for persons with disabilities in Ukraine. Apply the many lessons you learned from the multi-media campaign for the liberation of Vieques from the U.S. Navy using the town as a bombing trial site. What would be your strategic plan to remedy the dehumanization you described in your answer to “1” above?

Global Social Work 2024 Midterm Question 1

 

1.     Consider the readings and youtubes about dehumanization and Mr. Ayalew’s presentation about dehumanization and compliance with authority as presented in Zimbardo’s work. Now choose one of the following problems and apply Zimbardo’s ideas about dehumanization to ONE of the following populations you are concerned about. Describe how dehumanization of that population occurs and remember the concepts of “deindividuation” and “moral accountability” to describe what happens when people dehumanize others.

a.     The dehumanization of women, as evidenced by using them as objects of war crimes, only for child bearing and male pleasure (Memory Banda’s TED talk and global sex trafficking as described by Kristof and Wudun in Half the Sky),

b.     The dehumanization of persons on the basis of race, as evidenced in the Youtube about racism and the global problem of discrimination, genocide, and robbing of resources such as metals, land and forests against persons who are indigenous and of color,

c.     The dehumanization of persons on the basis of religion, nationality, or tribal affiliation, as is the justification for the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and other acts of genocide and imperialist aggression;

d.     The dehumanization of persons with disabilities, as occurred during the Holocaust and as occurs worldwide in the deprivation of rights to de-institutionalization and supported decision-making.