Coping strategies among female Zimbabwean refugees at the central Methodist church in Johannesburg : a conflict management perspective

This treatise represents an investigation into the coping strategies of female Zimbabwean refugees at the Central Methodist Church (CMC) in Johannesburg. The CMC in Johannesburg includes a non-profit organisation called Ray of Hope that has functioned as a provider of accommodation and emergency refuge at the church since 1997. A vast number of Zimbabweans are moving to adjacent countries as a consequence of the conflict in Zimbabwe and approximately 85 percent of the people that have sought refuge in the CMC in Johannesburg are Zimbabweans that have fled the economic and political conflict in Zimbabwe. Using an interviewing strategy of a sample of 20 female Zimbabwean refugees, conducted at the CMC, the researcher gathered data, indicating that they face various conflicts on a daily basis inside as well as outside the refugee community in the CMC in Johannesburg. An extensive literature review and researcher‟s own observations during hours spent in the refugee community have also contributed to the collection of data. The findings suggest that coping mechanisms have been adopted by the female refugees to deal with the conflicts. Analysis of data was guided by grounded theory approach which allowed key findings about coping mechanisms to surface which encouraged recommendations presented in the conclusion of the treatise

DilemmaZ: dilemmas for benchmarking ethical decision-making by artificial intelligence systems.

This page is created as a component of a course given by the University of Bergen. It is a collection of ethical dilemmas mainly created to improve the research on machine ethics. The collection of these dilemmas is not complete with all existing dilemmas but contains what we have managed to find. We have therefore not only created this page to display dilemmas but also so that dilemmas could be added