{"id":2969,"date":"2025-04-09T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/?post_type=bc_event&#038;p=2969"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:45:58","slug":"norwel-symposium-2026","status":"publish","type":"bc_event","link":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/arrangementer\/norwel-symposium-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NORWEL Symposium 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-42c7e50e-7512-4ad6-be49-542d1a44a66d\"><strong>Social work in times of conflicts and war &#8211; how&nbsp;do&nbsp;geopolitics&nbsp;impact&nbsp;social problems,&nbsp;practice&nbsp;and research?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Welcome to the&nbsp;third&nbsp;NORWEL symposium,&nbsp;22. \u2013 23. October 2026&nbsp;at UiT&nbsp;in Troms\u00f8!<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Geopolitics&nbsp;determine&nbsp;our life on&nbsp;many&nbsp;levels &#8211;&nbsp;from transnational relations, down to&nbsp;our individual&nbsp;existence.&nbsp;Currently, we&nbsp;witness&nbsp;an unprecedented erosion of international relations, where international law,&nbsp;long standing&nbsp;alliances&nbsp;and trust&nbsp;erode&nbsp;from one day to the next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does this&nbsp;mean for&nbsp;the profession of social work, which&nbsp;serves people suffering&nbsp;from the consequences of personal and structural crises,&nbsp;and&nbsp;which&nbsp;aims at&nbsp;building&nbsp;interpersonal&nbsp;trust and positive relations?&nbsp;And what&nbsp;are the consequences of&nbsp;destabilized&nbsp;and destabilizing geopolitics&nbsp;for social work research?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are&nbsp;the questions&nbsp;we ask&nbsp;on&nbsp;day one of the third NORWEL-symposium.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Department of&nbsp;Child Welfare and Social Work at&nbsp;UiT&nbsp;The&nbsp;Arctic University of Norway is&nbsp;proud to be the host for this event&nbsp;which&nbsp;is open to everyone interested in research and researcher education in social work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-42c7e50e-7512-4ad6-be49-542d1a44a66d\"><strong>For more information about the program, keynote speakers, and registration:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-norwel wp-block-embed-norwel\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LGJpZByNPE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/norwel.no\/norwel-symposium-2026-social-work-in-times-of-conflicts-and-war-how-do-geopolitics-impact-social-problems-practice-and-research\/\">NORWEL Symposium 2026: Social work in times of conflicts and war &#8211; how\u00a0do\u00a0geopolitics\u00a0impact\u00a0social problems,\u00a0practice\u00a0and research?\u00a0<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&laquo;NORWEL Symposium 2026: Social work in times of conflicts and war &#8211; how\u00a0do\u00a0geopolitics\u00a0impact\u00a0social problems,\u00a0practice\u00a0and research?\u00a0&raquo; &#8212; NORWEL\" src=\"https:\/\/norwel.no\/norwel-symposium-2026-social-work-in-times-of-conflicts-and-war-how-do-geopolitics-impact-social-problems-practice-and-research\/embed\/#?secret=y1pYfHFmXF#?secret=LGJpZByNPE\" data-secret=\"LGJpZByNPE\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","bc_tax_category":[],"class_list":["post-2969","bc_event","type-bc_event","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_event\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bc_event"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_event\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_event\/2969\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bc_tax_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwel.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bc_tax_category?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}