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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"just war tradition"”.
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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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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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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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How do middle class Pakistani young people construct contemporary international conflicts?
… This thesis draws on literature about the just war tradition – what are the just causes of war or jus ad bellum and how ethical warfare must be conducted or jus in bello. The theoretical framework used is that of social constructionism, especially drawing on the ideas of Jonathan Potter, …
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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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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 …