The MME Workshop usually held a the Forum Lilienberg will be held as an online only workshop in 2021 as we expect that travel restrictions due to COVID-19 will not allow to gather a workshop group in Switzerland as usual. We plan to be back in Ermatingen for the 11th workshop in 2022.

Date

The workshop will take place from 26-28 April 2021 as an online workshop, hosted via zoom from the University of Zurich. Please find more information in the program below.

The questions according to which rules patients are admitted for treatment and which (potential) patient gets what kind of treatment in situations when medical resources are insufficient is a major source of ethical challenges – both for military and humanitarian health care providers. First, because resource scarcity is a feature common to many environments they are working in and ethical challenges related to it therefore often occur. Second, not being able to treat everybody in need necessarily leads to selecting one patient in favor of another one who will not get (a potentially life-saving) treatment. Being forced to not accept patients or even to send them away obviously causes ethical worries.

Even though resource scarcity is frequently encountered practical issue (hardly avoidable in many contexts) and dealing with it leads to ethical problems, there is no universal or generally satisfactory solution to it. We therefore propose to analyze different aspects of the topic and to exchange on experiences and regulations of different organizations, cultures, and contexts with the aim of better understanding the reasons for ethical troubles and to avoid (some of) them in the future.

To shed light at the topic from a variety of perspectives we equally encourage field reports (e.g. case studies, experienc briefings, policy analyes) as well as philosophical papers and legal background analyses. In line with the tradition of the workshop series, we invite presentations that take the perspectives of both military and humanitarian health care providers.

The program has been be published on the website of the ICMM Center of Reference for Education on IHL and Ethics and can be downloaded at https://melac.ch/images/PDF/Lili2021/Lili2021-Program.pdf

Information about participation and registration can be found on the website of the ICMM Center of Reference for Education on IHL and Ethics:

https://melac.ch/courses-workshops/ethics-workshop/2021-online-workshop-mme

Registration form (please read info above first)