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The irony of just war? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
By claiming that “just war is just war,” critics suggest that just war theory both distracts from and sanitizes the horror of modern warfare by dressing it up in the language of moral principles. However, the phrase can also be taken as a reminder of why
O'Driscoll, Cian
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It's just another war! [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article describes the increasing use of private military corporations (PMCs) and the implications for International Humanitarian Law (IHL). After considering the development of the laws of war alongside the rise of corporations the author questions ...
Collins, Pauline
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Keeping tradition alive: just war and historical imagination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The just war tradition is one of the key constituencies of international political theory, and its vocabulary plays a prominent role in how political and military leaders frame contemporary conflicts.
Aeschylus   +92 more
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Just war? War games, war crimes, and game design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Military shooters have explored both historical and modern settings and remain one of the most popular game genres. While the violence of these games has been explored in multiple studies, the study of how war and the rules of war are represented is ...
Donald, Iain
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The just war tradition in Zimbabwean historiography : Dis/entangling the Gordian knot between religion and morality of war

open access: yesMissionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2019
Three wars stand out In Zimbabwean historiography with regards to the use and application of the just war tradition. The first was occasioned by the murder of Fr Gonzalo Da Silveira, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, in 1560.
Gundani, Paul
doaj   +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
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Revisiting Ruddick: Feminism, pacifism and non-violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores feminist contentions over pacifism and non-violence in the contextof the Greenham Common Peace Camp in the 1980s and later developments offeminist Just War Theory.
Cameron D   +20 more
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ARGUING THE JUST WAR IN ISLAM

open access: yesAl-Albab, 2013
One of the magnitude effect of the horrific 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent war against terror campaign is a political rhetoric that divides the international world into two rigid poles,” the evil terrorist” in one side and
John Kelsay   +1 more
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Proportionality in cyberwar and just war theory

open access: yesEthics & Global Politics, 2023
Which harms and benefits should be viewed as relevant when considering whether to launch cyber-measures? In this article, we consider this question, which matters because it is central to determining whether cyber-measures should be launched.
Fredrik D. Hjorthen, James Pattison
doaj   +1 more source

Arguing the Just War in Islam

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2010
Jihad has become a normal English word, a term to describe irrational violence, “holy war,” terrorism, and the generally rather nasty things that “bad Muslims do.” John Kelsay, in this wonderfully succinct and accessible work, wants to argue that the ...
Sajjad H. Rizvi
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