SICSW - Society for International Cooperation in Social Work
"No one country in the cultural sphere of mankind today is self-sufficient and can exist without relations to others. The countries are dependent on each other, in economic, social, and mental-moral ways. The world has become smaller. Individuals and nations have become closer, in a good and in a bad sense. In a new dimension, they can destruct and ruin themselves or fight with each other or fight against poverty, ignorance, illness and death. This is because the causes of adversity lie often besides the national boarders, within which they occur and the effects of adversity reach beyond national borders. Hence, every country has an interest in other countries, developing a well-regulated welfare system, and therefore the joint measures to combat adversity are indispensable." (Alice Salomon 1930)