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International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza. [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics
ABSTRACT 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.
europepmc   +2 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

Jus Post Bellum [PDF]

open access: yesEthical Perspectives, 2014
Abstract The successful transition from armed conflict to peace is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary warfare. The laws and principles governing transitions from conflict to peace (jus post bellum) have only recently gained attention in legal scholarship.
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Fighting with words: humanitarian security and the changing role of law in contemporary armed conflict

open access: yesDisasters, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Assisting Rebels Abroad: The Ethics of Violence at the Limits of the Defensive Paradigm

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

New dilemmas of the «just war» theory

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Political Science, 2023
Referring to the classical tenets of the “just war” theory, the author also analyses its modern versions. While the research the author arrives at the conclusion that some political scientists have modernized the theory of “a just war” according to the ...
Ekaterina P. Shanchenko
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge of, attitudes toward and practices of ethics of war of the officers and soldiers of the Zambia Army

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2022
Since the end of the world wars, the demise of the Cold War and the end of liberation wars in Africa, the changing character of warfare has given birth to uncertainties about how states will respond to acts of aggression in the face of ethics of war, or ...
William Sikazwe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Jus Post Bellum and the Decision to Withdraw from Afghanistan

open access: yesThe Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2023
This article makes moral sense of the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. It does so by applying classical just war thinking. The classical bellum justum, it argues, can make a distinctive contribution toward evaluating the decision to leave ...
C. Braun
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Post-Intervention Reconstruction and the Responsibility to Rebuild

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
This article examines the relationship between the responsibility to rebuild and post-intervention reconstruction. It aims to determine whether the current interpretation of the responsibility to rebuild is the appropriate framework for attaining the ...
Athanasios Stathopoulos
doaj   +1 more source

Justice After War In Just War Tradition (Jus Post Bellum)

open access: yesKırklareli Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari bilimler fakültesi dergisi, 2022
Savaş ve etik konularını ele alan haklı savaş kuramı, savaşın yıkıcılığını kısıtlamak, sivillere verilen zararı en aza indirmek, mülklere ve çevreye gereksiz zararı önlemek ve muhariplere karşı şiddeti sınırlamak için savaşın başlatılmasına ve ...
Erdi Özdemi̇r
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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