ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the idea that human-created disasters stemming from war represent an equally important dimension of a disaster. The ideas of the 'green social work' model are based on structural and interdisciplinary approaches whereby social workers can deal with the consequences of disasters. The chapter explores the support provided to war-affected populations in Ukraine. It discusses existing challenges for social work interventions in the context of mass displacement caused by human-made disasters. It focuses on social work interventions for internally displaced persons undertaken in 2014–2016. The chapter also examines lessons from the post-Chornobyl displacement of populations. Guerrilla warfare, including the use of heavy weaponry and indiscriminate shelling in populated areas, was combined with economic, propaganda and cyber war, so the conflict turned into the 'hybrid war'. Ukraine, a former Soviet country, with current population of 45.5 million people, lies at the bottom threshold of middle-income jurisdictions.
