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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Victims of War"”.
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War and Return
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>WAR AND RETURN</p> <p>By</p> <p>Alexander Vartan Gubbins</p> <p><em>War and Return</em> is a collection of poetry that pivots on the conflict between loss of human life, sometimes even whole cities, and reinvention of cultural identity. In these poems, I search for and shape my …
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The ethics of humanitarian aid in conflict situations
The plight of people suffering from the violence and deprivation of conflict attracts a great deal of aid. Such aid is often inspired by the thought that we have some responsibility to protect or assist innocent victims of war. However, this humanitarian response is vulnerable to abuse. Combatants …
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The Outcomes of Just War: An Empirical Study of the Outcomes Associated with Adherence to Just War Theory, 1960-2000
<p>Just war theory developed over more than 1,500 years with a normative, rather than empirical focus. Originally, it grew in the Christian context to ensure the salvation of war makers. Over time, it came to include humanist principles, focusing on the wellbeing of the victims of war. In …
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
… violence in world politics are an outgrowth of Western liberal modernity. Indeed, humanitarian norms such as the Geneva Conventions are comparatively recent in world politics, and many political scientists claim that they are a manifestation of new norms of appropriateness in international …
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Representaciones de la Guerra Civil Espanola en la novela y el cine: Hacia una comprension del pasado y una reconciliacion con la realidad actual
The Spanish Civil War took place between 1936 and 1939 and exhibited the nations division in terms of class, religion, politics and ideology. Throughout the post-war years of repression and Francoist dictatorship, many people elected to forget about the war or were censured in their attempts to …