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You have been tasked with incorporating an ethical theory with your discussion of health applications supporting the BidiBidi Refugee Camp.

Background sources

Library Search (Books, Reference Sources types)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Current events sources

Factiva: Bidibidi AND refugee*

Data / statistics sources

Stastista: Refugees AND Uganda

Opinion / analysis

SEE: Research, Current events sources. 

Research

PubMed: Medical database

EI Compendex: Engineering database

ACM Digital Library: Computing Science database

Examples of articles on philosophical approaches to refugee crises

Database: Academic Search Premier 

search Refugee* AND kant*

Knowles, A. (2017). Hospitality’s Downfall: Kant, Cosmopolitanism, and Refugees. Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 31(3), 347–357. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.5325/jspecphil.31.3.0347

This article applies Kant's conceptions of cosmopolitanism and hospitality to analyze the current refugee crisis. Focusing on Kant's mandate that a nation must allow foreigners entry if sending them away would lead to their downfall, and by interpreting downfall in the broadest sense as the opposite of human flourishing, the article argues that the ethical demand put on a host nation by refugees is a duty to create hospitable spaces. Drawing on Kant's concern with the blending of war and peace in modern nation-states, the essay concludes by questioning whether the earth itself has been rendered inhospitable in the neoliberal age. 

Refugee* AND virtue ethics

Meiches, B. (2019). Non-human humanitarians. Review of International Studies, 45(1), 1–19. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1017/S0260210518000281

The study of humanitarian intervention typically focuses on the human victims and saviours in armed conflict and natural disasters. Moreover, explanations of the virtues of humanitarian norms and ethics emphasise the importance of the university of suffering and the empathic nature of humanitarian efforts. In contrast, this article explores the neglected world of 'non-human humanitarians'. Specifically, the article outlines three cases of non-human actors that expand and complicate international humanitarian practices: dogs, drones, and diagrams. Drawing on new materialist and posthuman literatures, the article argues that non-humans possess distinct capacities that vastly expand and transform humanitarian efforts in ranging from relief, to medicine, to conflict resolution. Highlighting non-human humanitarians thus offers a new perspective on the resources available for redressing mass violence and conflict, but also complicates existing definitions of humanitarian norms. To the contrary, the article demonstrates that non-humans often maximise humanitarian services to a degree greater than their human counterparts, but have also introduced changes into humanitarian practices that have problematic unintended consequences. Non-human humanitarians reveals previously discounted participants in international politics and the key roles they play in various international interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]