Barciela Fernández.SergioLorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco JavierMartínez Herrero, María Inés2024-12-172024-12-172023Barciela Fernández, S., Lorenzo Gilsanz, F. J. d., & Martínez Herrero, I. (2025). The theory of Rupture Frames: A new map for social work education and practice to understand, explain and address urban conflicts in vulnerable neighborhoods with high socio-cultural diversity in contemporary democracies. En Social welfare programs and social work education at a crossroads: new approaches for a post-pandemic society (pp. 11-23). Routledge Reino Unido.978-1-032-62303-0https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24962Conflicts linked to immigration and ethnic minorities—especially those settled in the poorest neighborhoods of large cities— are frequent in contemporary democracies and are expected to continue to gain notoriety worldwide. The prevalence and complexity of these conflicts lead to the need for a solid analytical framework to accurately address these. This chapter presents and argues for the adequacy of a macro theoretical proposal, the Theory of Rupture Frames (TRF), for guiding social work analysis and intervention facing the specific events of urban conflicts in vulnerable neighborhoods with high socio-cultural diversity. After offering a synthesis of the main lines of contemporary research on social conflict, the chapter will argue that the TRF provides solidarity to the social work approach in these contexts and is well aligned with the Ethical Principles of Social Work (IFSW, 2018). The chapter will also highlight the importance of social work’s contribution to knowledge development and to society as an applied discipline capable of putting scientific knowledge into action and returning critical assessments of the different theories’ adequacy to explain and improve life in society.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derechoartículo