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“Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster” International Partnership Research Team Met in Vienna, Austria, July 11-12, 2015

The members of the “Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster” research team met in Vienna, Austria from July 11-12, 2015. This international partnership research project, concentrating on rebuilding people’s lives in the post-disaster scenario, will be concluded by the end of March 2016. This project has ongoing post-disaster reconstruction and recovery research activities conducted in seven countries (Canada, Australia, China, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, and the USA).

Rebuilding Lives Post-disaster

During the two-day meeting, the multi-country team members discoursed on their research findings and distinguished prospective research directions:

  • To share research findings through journals, books, conferences, websites and other related media;
  • To strengthen and extend international cooperation by recruiting more country teams;
  • To pursue funding resources to support on-going research activities.

After this two-day research meeting, the research team presented their findings in two symposia sessions at the 2016 International Congress of Law and Mental Health at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria. The research team is planning to facilitate a symposia at the 2016 World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development, in June, Seoul, Korea.