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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"just war"”.
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Just War Theory in the Nuclear Age
Justice in the recourse to war and in the conduct of war can be measured. Some of the world's greatest philosophers, ethicists, and theologians contributed to the debate of faith and force to ensure the justice of warfare. The principles which have evolved from centuries of study are encompassed …
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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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Just war, legitimate authority and non-State actors
In the classical just war tradition, legitimate authority is central to the just use of force. This tradition is consistent with the argument, as posited by Augustine and Aquinas, that legitimate authority is the guiding principle through which all standards of justice flow. With its exclusive …
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The ethics of war, protest, and South African state-sanctioned violence
… moral grounds for the initial resort to war? These kinds of questions have formed part of the broad basis of Just War Theory (JWT) in moral and political philosophy. However, while a considerable number of philosophers have attempted to tackle the question of when, if ever, war is morally …
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Just or unjust war? : unilateral use of armed force by states at the turn of the 20th century
… law as indicated by the International Court of Justice in its decision in the Nicaragua Case and the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons. It is also included by many writers in the commanding principles of international law (Jus Cogens). In spite of this restriction and deep …
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Responding Morally to Terrorism
Terrorism poses intellectual challenges for just war theory. In my thesis, I argue that states who have experienced a terrorist attack should not declare war immediately because a moral state response should be proportionate to the severity of the attack. I offer a terrorism response scale that …
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Just Not Enough: Reframing Just Peace in an Era of Persistent Conflict
Just peace is the proper end of an offensive just war. An ideally just peace is impossible must not be abandoned as a goal. This thesis argues peace is best viewed through a peace prism creating a six-level spectrum from war to ideally just peace. Levels 2 and 3 (marginally effective and …
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Why not preempt?: an analysis of the impact of legal and normative constraints on the use of anticipatory military activities
… international law and normative issues, such as just war tradition, contribute to our understanding of the use, or non-use, of preventive or preemptive actions by states. Using both logistic regression and comparative case studies, numerous hypotheses were tested to determine if the legal and …
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When War is Our Daily Bread: Congo, Theology, and the Ethics of Contemporary Conflict
<p>This dissertation approaches the problem of war in Christian ethics through the lens of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drawing upon memoirs, letters, sermons, and fieldwork, it shifts the focus of moral inquiry from theoretical positions on war (e.g., just war theory and pacifism) to the …
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The Gun in US American Life: An Ethnographic Christian Ethics
… response in its aftermath. In dialogue with the just war tradition, just peacemaking theory, and other theoretical frameworks of analysis, I draw upon this account to develop my Christian ethical proposals. </p><p>Chapter one gives an account of why just war and Christian pacifism are …
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The Right to Resist: A Theological Investigation of the Moral Legitimacy of Maximalist Campaigns
… isomorphic with the doctrinal criteria for just war. Accordingly, it examines legitimate reasons for resistance to a government, as well as legitimate means of resistance – corresponding to the jus ad bellum and jus in bello categories of the just war tradition. It then discusses a doctrinal …
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Humanitarian intervention: legality, legitimacy and the search for solutions
… of sovereignty. This argument draws from the just war doctrine as postulated by Grotius and other early just war theorists. The need to allow for unilateral intervention is pertinent given the rise in the abuse of power by some governments. Sovereignty should not be an umbrella that shields …
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Making the Case for War: The War Rhetoric of Presidents George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush
… and George W. Bush) shows a clear pattern of “war propaganda” in their speeches. By evoking the “Just War Theory” and the concept of the “Rogue State”, each president made a moral justification for military intervention. An examination of the situation in each country before, during, and after …
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Combatant moral equality in historical and practical context.
Enemy soldiers in war are permitted to kill one another without moral blame. This permission, though, is limited by rules specifically constructed for war. These rules apply symmetrically to both sides of war and independently of the justice of their causes. This feature of the morality of war is …
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A Theological critique of the Christian pacifist perspective with special reference to the position of John Howard Yoder
… of the Christian pacifist position of John Howard Yoder, with a view to engaging in the theological debate on violence and non-violence. Given the wide ranging nature of this debate it is, however, necessary to ground such a discussion in a given context. South Africa has been chosen for this …
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The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
… be directed by partly-altruistic intentions, and just war theorists should resist the emerging trend that discards right intention as a central requirement in favour of a more consequentialist analysis. I argue that interventions must be conducted in a manner that is consistent with the …
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Aquinas on justice, judgment, and the unity of peace.
… writing by exploring Aquinas's teaching on law, just war, punishment, and republican government, and their place in Aquinas's political thought. Aquinas argues that the human being is naturally and truly political—that is, the individual is ordered towards the goals of the city. The central …
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O conceito de Jus Post Bellum e o caso da MINUSTAH: reflexões sobrea responsabilidade brasileira na operação de paz
… dichotomy amongst the concepts of Peace and War. Under this spectrum, the United Nation (UN) aims to show juridical/legal mechanisms so that it maintains the peace on a lasting way. The organization proposes a series of measures that regulate the use of force in the international scene. So …
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Soldiers, Self-Defense, and Killing in War
Just-Warists and War-Pacifists disagree on whether soldiers are morally justified in killing each other in wartime combat. Many of their respective arguments, and their contradictory conclusions, are based upon principles of self-defense. In this thesis, I examine the role that principles of …
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