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Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ubuntu and COVID-19 in South Africa: Surviving the Pandemic through Community Solidarity

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2022
This article investigates the relevance of the African philosophy of ubuntu in the South African context during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data is drawn from the available academic literature and analysed using the elements of ubuntu as a theoretical lens ...
Nompumelelo Thabethe, Venkat Rao Pulla
doaj  

The Role of Faith‐Based Organisations in ‘Secular’ International Development Education: Theorising Religions and Development With an Exploratory Case Study

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Faith‐based organisations (FBOs) are recognised by the development community as key organisations and partners in development cooperation. Yet commitments to secularism underlying international development cooperation in policy and practice have—to a certain extent—restricted theoretical and empirical study of the involvement and contribution ...
Tessa DeLaquil   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boundaries of Work: Elite Black African Identities and Place of “(Re)productive” Labor in Kenya's Extractive Industries

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1947-1958, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the positioning of elite Black African women in extractive labor spaces, arguing that their experiences are shaped by interrelated feminist concepts of care, time, experience, equality, and difference. Using an African feminist theoretical framework, the study recenters African epistemologies of work and embodiment to ...
Nerea Amisi Okong'o
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying Perovskite Solar Cell Degradation via Machine Learning From Spatially Resolved Multimodal Luminescence Time Series

open access: yesSolar RRL, Volume 10, Issue 15, 17 August 2026.
LumPerNet combines automated aging, multimodal luminescence imaging, and leakage‐aware deep learning to predict perovskite solar cell efficiency retention. By combining PLoc, PLsc, EL images, and device‐specific reference states, the framework captures degradation‐relevant optical signatures and shows that global luminescence evolution, complemented by
Giulio Barletta   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A holistic ubuntu artificial intelligence ethics approach in South Africa

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most spoken-about topics in the media, academia, government and other platforms. One of the aspects that is often discussed is the ethical implications of AI and approaches to mitigate the risks.
Katleho K. Mokoena
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Delphi Participant as an Ancestor: Introducing the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer for Mitigating Future Discounting Bias in Southern Africa Collectivist Culture

open access: yesFUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the Ubuntu Intergenerational Primer (UIP), a culturally grounded cognitive debiasing intervention designed to mitigate future discounting bias among Real‐Time Delphi (RTD) participants in Southern Africa. Learning from prior research engagements and informed by the region's cultural settings, we innovated around the Rip ...
Simbarashe Nhokovedzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Mining: An Integrated Institutional and Agency Theory Perspective

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 4591-4606, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining is one of the foundations of economic development but has historically been associated with severe socioenvironmental impacts, such as ecosystem degradation, displacement of traditional communities, and large‐scale disasters. In this context, corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays a central role as a mechanism for legitimizing ...
Felipe Moura Oliveira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indianapolis Consensus Recommendations for Promoting Diversity and Equity in Cancer Clinical Trials: “The Indianapolis Black Paper”

open access: yesDiversity &Inclusion Research, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Cancer mortality is inequitably distributed across the U.S. and globally, with historically marginalized groups, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, being disproportionately affected. Disproportionate representation in clinical cancer research is a consequence of inequitable access as well as a central factor contributing to outcome ...
Maya N. Birhiray   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radical Healing in Three Marginalised South African Communities: Practices and Places of Healing

open access: yesJournal of Community Psychology, Volume 54, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The ongoing system of coloniality, sustained through dehumanisation, racialised violence, oppression, war, and genocidal acts of violence, has left many from the Global South socially divided, economically depleted, wounded, materially impoverished, socially precarious and politically vulnerable.
Jade Morkel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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