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Autonomous weapon systems and jus ad bellum
AI & 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 ...
Alexander Blanchard, Mariarosaria Taddeo
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“In Defence of Jus Ad Bellum Criteria”
Philosophia, 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
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European 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 ...
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International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT International Humanitarian Law (IHL), specifically Article 18 of the IV Geneva Convention, affords special protection to civilian hospitals. This special protection is waived, however, under certain circumstances specified in Article 19. Such conditions to waive the special protection of hospitals are now being used by Israel to justify the ...
Lederman Z.
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Disasters, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 870-890, October 2023., 2023 Violence against humanitarians is a commonplace phenomenon in contemporary armed conflict. This paper examines how the manipulation of international legal principles for political or military purposes, a practice known as ‘lawfare’, impacts humanitarian security in conflict‐affected areas.
Iida‐Maria Tammi
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Should Autonomous Weapons Need a Reason to Kill?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 886-900, November 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Purves et al. argue against deploying automated weapons because they fail to act for the right reason. Given that soldiers do not necessarily act in an ideal way, I argue that it is morally preferable to deploy autonomous weapons that are incapable of acting for the wrong reason over combatants that are likely (although not guaranteed) to act ...
Garry Young
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Assisting Rebels Abroad: The Ethics of Violence at the Limits of the Defensive Paradigm
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 38-55, February 2022., 2022 Abstract In this article, I analyse the theory and practice of interventions in foreign civil wars to assist rebels fighting against violently oppressive government. I argue that the indirect nature of this kind of intervention gives rise to political complications that are either absent from or less obvious in humanitarian interventions aimed chiefly ...
Christopher J. Finlay
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Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles, and International Law
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 612-633, July 2021., 2021 Abstract What informs ordinary citizens' attitudes toward the use of force? Previous research identifies several key concerns in public opinion toward war, but does not directly evaluate the relative importance of these considerations. We articulate three distinct logics of war support—moral, legal, and instrumental—and use an experimental survey with ...
Janina Dill, Livia I. Schubiger
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Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 159-187, March 2021., 2021 Abstract In light of recent reevaluations of the work of Hugo Grotius, this essay analyzes the respective roles of Francisco de Vitoria and Grotius in the construction of the “Grotian tradition” of international law and human rights. In contrast to conventional accounts which understand the two within a progression, this essay argues that Vitoria and ...
John E. Carter
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, 2023 Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 33-59, Winter 2023.
David J. Clark
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