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Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1997. She is the chairwoman of the Nobel Women's Initiative, which was established by the sister Nobel Peace Laureates in 2006. Williams is also the first Nobel Laureate since Jane Addams to teach social work. As a longtime grassroots activist, she urges individuals to take action for a better world. This article includes excerpts from an interview in which Williams shares her insights with social workers, students, and educators about activism, social work, and justice and equality for women.

Rebecca Salti is a pioneer of women's empowerment in Jordan. In 1985, she established the Bani Hamida Weaving Project as country director of Save the Children in Jordan. The project became a model income-generation project throughout the developing world and is internationally known. It continues today with the participation of three generations of rural Bedouin women of the Bani Hamida Tribe. Rebecca's skills, energy, and vision led her to establish other income-generation programs in Jordan. This article includes excerpts of an interview with Rebecca, a U.S. native, which presents her insights about the project and women's empowerment.

In 1958, a social revolution was started by Sattareh Farman Farmaian, who established the social work profession in Iran. Sattareh's far-reaching work had tremendous effects on the people of her country, even after she was forced into exile during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Sattareh was the founder and director of the Tehran School of Social Work, as well as the founder and executive director of both the Family Planning Association and Community Welfare Centers of Iran. This article includes excerpts from an interview with her that focus on her life work and lessons for contemporary international social work practice.

In this article we reflect on the relatively recent emphasis onPalestinian children's mental health and well‐being in the context of exposure to chronic warlike conditions, as we position this trend within the larger framework of the generations‐long history of political turmoil and suffering. We describe how a process that started with no attention to psychosocial health of children in relation to exposure to dispossession, expulsion, occupation, repression and military attacks, proceeded with a focus on presumed mental disorders, and the more recent approach of designing context appropriate and community‐based psychosocial interventions.