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Autonomous weapon systems and jus ad bellum

open access: yesAI and Society, 2022
AbstractIn this article, we focus on the scholarly and policy debate on autonomous weapon systems (AWS) and particularly on the objections to the use of these weapons which rest on jus ad bellum principles of proportionality and last resort. Both objections rest on the idea that AWS may increase the incidence of war by reducing the costs for going to ...
Mariarosaria Taddeo
exaly   +3 more sources

Just preparation for war and AI-enabled weapons [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Big Data, 2023
This paper maintains that the just war tradition provides a useful framework for analyzing ethical issues related to the development of weapons that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), or “AI-enabled weapons.” While development of any weapon ...
Mitt Regan, Jovana Davidovic
doaj   +2 more sources

Three Questions about “Informal Regulation” [PDF]

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2018
In the grand debates of international law, the jus ad bellum is often proclaimed dead, and just as often praised as the “cornerstone” of the contemporary legal order.
Christian J. Tams
doaj   +3 more sources

Post War Justice: Jus Post Bellum for Just War and Peace [PDF]

open access: yesEthics in Progress, 2023
This paper aims to address a key topic of speculation within political philosophy, namely the Just War Theory. The Just War Theory works to ethically restrain wars based on principles listed out in jus ad bellum (reasons to go to war) and jus in bello ...
Mansi Rathour
doaj   +4 more sources

Self-defence in outer space: Anti-satellite weapons and the jus ad bellum

open access: yesLeiden Journal of International Law
Space is an increasingly militarized domain, with the potential to be a source and place of armed conflict. Tests of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons capable of neutralizing civilian and military satellites have fuelled fears of warfare in that domain ...
Chris O’Meara
doaj   +2 more sources

“In Defence of Jus Ad Bellum Criteria”

open access: yesPhilosophia, 2023
AbstractIn this contribution, I defend the standard list of jus ad bellum principles. In The Ethics of War and the Force of Law: A Modern Just War Theory, Uwe Steinhoff endorses only three principles of jus ad bellum (right intention, just cause, and proportionality) and claims that the others are redundant. I argue that, although fundamentally all jus
James Pattison
openaire   +2 more sources

Identifying the Jus Cogens Norm in the Jus Ad Bellum

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
AbstractThis article argues that if there is a jus cogens norm in the jus ad bellum, it must be the customary norm which prohibits non-consensual uses of force that are neither validly authorised under the UN Charter nor lawful exercises of self-defence.
Katie A Johnston
openaire   +2 more sources

Arguing about the Jus ad Bellum [PDF]

open access: yesTalking International Law, 2021
Quite a bit of research suggests that international law’s argumentative practice has value insofar as it leads to or affirms some kind of normative settlement. This chapter uses the argumentative practice in the jus ad bellum to counter that view.
Monica Hakimi
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

'Jus ad bellum', 'jus in bello' . . . 'jus post bellum'? -Rethinking the Conception of the Law of Armed Force

open access: yesEuropean Journal of International Law, 2006
Since Grotius' De Jure Belli ac Pacis, the architecture of the international legal system has been founded upon a distinction between the states of war and peace. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was taken for granted that "the law recognizes a state of peace and a state of war, but that it knows nothing of an intermediate state which is ...
exaly   +4 more sources

African Ethics, Personhood, and War

open access: yesEtikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2023
In this article, I look at the African theory that the formation of personhood is relevant to the morality of war. I start by justifying the project of decolonizing the ethics of war.
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
doaj   +1 more source

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