Challenges of Violence Worldwide

A Curriculum Module, An Educational Resource

Jane Crosby is director of the Violence and Development Project for the National Association of Social Workers. She received her master's of social work degree from Boston University in 1991. She previously worked at Oxfam America, an international development agency, where she directed the national education and fundraising hunger campaign, Fast for a World Harvest.

Dorothy Van Soest, DSW, is associate dean and associate professor at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin. She has authored several articles and chapters on issues related to violence, peace, social justice, and development, as well as the book Incorporating Peace and Social Justice into the Social Work Curriculum (NASW, 1992). Her forthcoming book, The Global Crisis of Violence: Common Problems, Universal Conse-quences, Shared Solutions, will be published by the NASW Press in 1997. She is former director of the NASW Violence and Development Project.