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British Journal of Social Work (2002) 32, 723-737
© 2002 British Association of Social Workers
Social Work and Social Justice in Northern Ireland: Towards a New Occupational Space
Dr John Pinkerton is Head of the School of Social Work at the Queen's University of Belfast, in Northern Ireland where he is involved with post-professional qualification training and research in the areas of family support and care leaving.
Dr Jim Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Queen's where he is primarily involved with professional qualifying training and research into mental health social work and social policy.
Correspondence to: Dr John Pinkerton, School of Social Work, Queens University Belfast, 7 Lennoxvale, Belfast BT9 5BY, Northern Ireland. E-mail j.pinkerton{at}qub.ac.uk
Summary
This article considers the concept of social justice by reference to the experience of social work in Northern Ireland during the past forty years of communal, paramilitary and state violence. It notes the contested nature of the concept and its chequered history within the professional ideology of social work generally and its absence as a significant explanatory and motivational concept for social workers in Northern Ireland to date. It argues that in the emerging post-conflict situation social work as a profession needs to operationalize a view of social justice that acknowledges social and cultural diversity in order to redefine the profession itself and direct its relationship to both the state and civil society.
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