Caring for Ghada

Providing healthcare in conflict settings is a morally complex endeavour. Classical forms of ethics suggest that general principles, such as respecting autonomy, can offer guidance. Yet, principle-based ethics fails to adequately address power inequalities, experiences of moral distress, and conflict dynamics. As a young, innovative discipline, care ethics starts normative reflection with studying actual care practices and the moral challenges people experience. This project examines the potential of care ethics to research and normatively reflect on how healthcare workers in conflict settings negotiate the moral complexity in their work, and the capacity of this approach to provide context-sensitive moral guidance.