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Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 2012
Unlike the wide swath of ‘realists’ who claim Just War Theory (JWT) serves little purpose as political agents simply act from or only have an obligation to act from either their individual or group interests, this paper begins with the assumption that the development of the concepts, principles, and arguments of JWT can provide useful critical tools ...
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Unlike the wide swath of ‘realists’ who claim Just War Theory (JWT) serves little purpose as political agents simply act from or only have an obligation to act from either their individual or group interests, this paper begins with the assumption that the development of the concepts, principles, and arguments of JWT can provide useful critical tools ...
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2014
Rawls characterizes just war theory as part of the nonideal component of a reasonable Law of Peoples. Speciically, it serves to guide well-ordered peoples in their interactions with what Rawls labels outlaw states. Such states, or the regimes that rule them, fail to honor the human rights of individuals belonging to other societies by launching ...
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Rawls characterizes just war theory as part of the nonideal component of a reasonable Law of Peoples. Speciically, it serves to guide well-ordered peoples in their interactions with what Rawls labels outlaw states. Such states, or the regimes that rule them, fail to honor the human rights of individuals belonging to other societies by launching ...
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Is War Just and Legal? An Ethical Review of the ‘Just War’ Theory
FWU Journal of Social Sciences, 2022The history of mankind is beleaguered with periodic wars between nations and groups that resulted in massive devastation of human lives, property, environment and civilizations. The Second World War, for one, was the most destructive war ever recorded.
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Just war theory and the war on terror
Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2011Almost a decade after the horrific events of September 11 it is timely to reflect on some of the lessons learned from the global ‘war on terror’. The evolution of a more sophisticated understanding of the threat posed by contemporary terrorism has cast doubt on the value and accuracy of using a war metaphor to define an effective global response ...
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Proportionality, Just War Theory and Weapons Innovation
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2008Just wars are supposed to be proportional responses to aggression: the costs of war must not greatly exceed the benefits. This proportionality principle raises a corresponding 'interpretation problem': what are the costs and benefits of war, how are they to be determined, and a 'measurement problem': how are costs and benefits to be balanced?
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War Crimes and Just War Theory
2019Revisionist just war theory has gained considerable traction in recent years, debunking long-standing principles in the morality of war. This development cannot be ignored by war crimes lawyers. Philosophers on both sides of these debates as well as many lawyers understand the attacked principles to provide the moral underpinning of the contemporary ...
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The Gulf War and the Theory of Just War
1992Abstract : Of all the creatures of the earth, only two--ants and men-- make war, and only man feels the need to justify it. Over the last two thousand years, a set of criteria for judging whether a war is just or not has emerged, first in the Christian West but then with the spread of European culture and secularization, throughout much of the world ...
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2020
This article provides an overview of Just War Theory, examining the ethical justifications for armed conflict. The author distinguishes between the two primary pillars of the theory: jus ad bellum (the right to go to war) and jus in bello (right conduct within war). The discussion explores the historical and philosophical foundations of these concepts,
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This article provides an overview of Just War Theory, examining the ethical justifications for armed conflict. The author distinguishes between the two primary pillars of the theory: jus ad bellum (the right to go to war) and jus in bello (right conduct within war). The discussion explores the historical and philosophical foundations of these concepts,
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Conclusion In Defence of Just War Theory
2005With varying degrees of sympathy and criticism, the chapters in this book have scrutinised some of the key elements of just war theory and have thereby demonstrated how central they have been in arguments about the justification of war and its conduct. Even where they have found serious flaws, one might see from them how the elements in question could ...
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This work constitutes a full analysis of Just War Theory in each of its aspects, representing a complete exposition of the corpus of International Law,Jus ad Bellum, and exploring Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict,Jus in Bello. This comprises the rules that should govern armed conflict, and is called humanitarian precisely because it aims at ...
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