This axis aims to address the tensions, challenges and controversies faced in the relationship between violence/s and Human Rights, where the latter emerges as a disputed field, with the presence of different actors who resist, confront, affirm, or seek to redefine their validity and their relationship with democracy.

In the presence of precarious states concerning the protection of rights but strong regarding the dimension of control/discipline of their populations, forms of transversal violence become visible, questioning the real exercise of rights. In this context, normative, ethical, and political questions arise regarding the state’s role in respecting, promoting and guaranteeing human rights and the priority and hierarchy it grants to certain rights over others.

The impunity regarding the actions of the state and other actors in matters of political violence happened during the military dictatorships of the region during the ’70s and 80’s; and the omissions, and in some cases, the connivance of the state in the face of crimes perpetrated by para-state actors, produce favourable conditions for the naturalisation and concealment of violence to which different social groups are systematically subjected, preventing the exercise and enjoyment of rights. Similar processes are happening in other parts of the globe.

The context of uncertainty regarding the viability of life for large sectors of the population, exacerbated by the current crisis both locally and globally, has revealed the violence that operates and the fragility of the regulatory frameworks and public policies to deal with them. In Latin America, as in other regions, groups and social movements arise from sectors that have seen their rights violated. At the same time, we found the presence of historical and emerging actors that press for the expansion and collective understanding of rights in the fight to eradicate violence burst forth. In the current pandemic scenario and confinement, the exercise of rights has been checked. The exercise of violence has intensified, revealing faults, fissures, fragilities, and contradictions that strain relations between the state and social and political actors.

In this scenario, multi inter and transdisciplinary challenges emerge for social work, which must attempt to face obstacles, needs and uncertainties of the population related to respecting rights and the exercise of violence. For this reason, you are invited to reflect on and discuss the theoretical, ethical, political, and methodological dimensions related to the work of social work in its different fields of action, distinguishing challenges, potentialities, critical knots and strategies, considering the possibilities to resist, confront or reproduce the violence/s that jeopardise the exercise of rights and the viability of life.

1. Social actors and disputes over new rights
2. Inter, trans and multidisciplinary challenges in social work’s theoretical, ethical, political and methodological dimensions.
3. State violence: normative, ethical, and political questions.

Chilean or foreign research social workers. Research professionals with proposals and data to develop presentations aligned with the congress axes and sub-axes.

Social workers and social science professionals working in public institutions and/or non-profit organisations: professionals who have developed research projects and public policies with meaningful impact or replicable good practices related to some of the congress axes.

Undergraduate or postgraduate students developing their final research projects (thesis): students from all types of higher education institutions developing or finishing research projects in areas related to the congress axes.

Leaders from communities, indigenous groups and social organisations, and public policy actors: to be invited by the congress organisers.

Those interested in presenting papers must send the abstracts through the congress platform with an extension of between 800 to 1000 words. Abstracts have to be sent through the congress website.

The deadline for sending the abstracts is between June 15 and September 9, 2022.

Abstracts will be evaluated by the congress academic commission, accepting proposals with different degrees of progress (i.e., research projects at the beginning, middle or end-stage) but associated with the five congress axes.

The abstracts must contain the following information located at the top of the document:

• Thematic axis where the paper proposal is inscribed
• Level of progress (for research or intervention projects (ongoing investigation, research results, experiences systematizations, among others)).
• Name and last names of authors (maximum 2)
• Position (if applicable)
• Organisation or institution (if applicable)
• Country and city of residency
• E-mail
• Phone number

In order to develop a proper evaluation of proposals, we recommend that abstracts be clear regarding the following elements:

1. 1. The argument, object, phenomenon, or problem to be exposed
   2. The theoretical, methodological, and empirical fundamentals
   3. The relevance and originality of the topic
   4. The knowledge contribution made by the proposal

Abstracts must be sent in Word format, Calibri or Arial fonts, word-size 11, 1.15 spacing, and justified text. Presentation titles in bold and centred. Subtitles in bold and right justified. Citation style APA, 7 edition.

• The proposal is inscribed in one of the congress axes
• The argument is clear
• Theoretical, methodological, and empirical fundamentals
• Topic originality and appropriateness
• Contribution to professional and disciplinary knowledge

The results will be known on September 30, 2022.

Enrolment and payments will be available on the congress website based on the following categories and prices:

• • Presentations: $ 25.000 (USD 30.25)
  • Professionals and general public: $ 30.000 (USD 36.3)
  • Postgraduate students: $ 15.000 (USD 18.15)
  • Undergraduate students : $ 5.000 (USD 6.05)

Gloria Cáceres, Natalia Castillo y Sara Salum.
Responsible contacts of the axis.
consultas@congresointernacionalts.cl