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Author | : D. Chan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137263415 |
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Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?'
Author | : Eric Patterson |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1589018974 |
Download Ethics Beyond War's End Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused new attention on a perennial problem: how to end wars well. What ethical considerations should guide war’s settlement and its aftermath? In cases of protracted conflicts, recurring war, failed or failing states, or genocide and war crimes, is there a framework for establishing an enduring peace that is pragmatic and moral? Ethics Beyond War’s End provides answers to these questions from the just war tradition. Just war thinking engages the difficult decisions of going to war and how war is fought. But from this point forward just war theory must also take into account what happens after war ends, and the critical issues that follow: establishing an enduring order, employing political forms of justice, and cultivating collective forms of conciliation. Top thinkers in the field—including Michael Walzer, Jean Bethke Elshtain, James Turner Johnson, and Brian Orend—offer powerful contributions to our understanding of the vital issues associated with late- and post conflict in tough, real-world scenarios that range from the US Civil War to contemporary quagmires in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Congo.
Author | : Douglas P. Fry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009-04-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199725055 |
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A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-gatherer groups, egalitarian bands where warfare was a rarity. Drawing on archaeology and fascinating recent fieldwork on hunter-gatherer bands from around the world, Fry debunks the idea that war is ancient and inevitable. For instance, among Aboriginal Australians, warfare was an extreme anomaly. Fry also points out that even today, when war seems ever present, the vast majority of us live peaceful, nonviolent lives. We are not as warlike as we think, and if we can learn from our ancestors, we may be able to move beyond war to provide real justice and security for the world.
Author | : Daniel M. Jr. Bell |
Publisher | : Brazos Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781441206817 |
Download Just War as Christian Discipleship Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This provocative and timely primer on the just war tradition connects just war to the concrete practices and challenges of the Christian life. Daniel Bell explains that the point is not simply to know the just war tradition but to live it even in the face of the tremendous difficulties associated with war. He shows how just war practice, if it is to be understood as a faithful form of Christian discipleship, must be rooted in and shaped by the fundamental convictions and confessions of the faith. The book includes a foreword by an Army chaplain who has served in Iraq and study questions for group use.
Author | : Mark Evans |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0748680888 |
Download Just War Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.
Author | : Todd Burkhardt |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1438464045 |
Download Just War and Human Rights Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights. Warfare in the twenty-first century presents significant challenges to the modern state. Serious questions have arisen about the use of drones, target selection, civilian exposure to harm, intervening for humanitarian reasons, and war as a means of forcing regime change. In Just War and Human Rights Todd Burkhardt argues that updating the laws of war and reforming just war theory is needed. A twenty-year veteran of the US Army, Burkhardt claims that war is impermissible unless it is engaged, fought, and concluded with right intention. A state must not only have a just cause and limit its war-making activity in order to vindicate the just cause, but it must also seek to vindicate its just cause in a way that yields a just and lasting peace. A just and lasting peace is motivated by the just war tenet of right intention and predicated on the realization of human rights. Therefore, human rights should not only dictate how a state treats its own people but also how a state treats the people of other countries, insulating them and protecting innocent civilians from the harms of war. Todd Burkhardt is Professor of Military Science at Indiana University at Bloomington.
Author | : Rosemary Kellison |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108473148 |
Download Expanding Responsibility for the Just War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This feminist critique of just war reasoning argues for an expansion of responsibility for harms inflicted on civilians in war.
Author | : Winright, Tobias |
Publisher | : Orbis Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1608336247 |
Download Can War Be Just In The 21st Century? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brian Orend |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006-06-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1770481923 |
Download The Morality of War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Brian Orend's The Morality of War promises to become the single most comprehensive and important book on just war for this generation. It moves far beyond the review of the standard just war categories to deal comprehensively with the new challenges of the conflict with terrorism. It thoughtfully reviews every major military conflict of the past few decades, mining them for implications of the evolving tradition of just war thinking. It concludes with a critical engagement with the major alternatives to just war thinking: pacifism and 'realism.' It is, in short, the most comprehensive and thoughtful assessment of all aspects of just war since Michael Walzer's classic Just and Unjust Wars." - Martin L. Cook, United States Air Force Academy
Author | : Winslow Myers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781570758270 |
Download Living Beyond War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After thousands of years, the dream of a world without war may seem hopelessly unrealistic. But, as Winslow Myers shows in this concise, eloquent primer, what is truly unrealistic is the notion that war remains a reasonable solution to the conflicts on our planet. He begins by showing why war has become obsolete (though obviously not extinct): it doesn't solve the problems that ostensibly justify it; its costs are unacceptably high; the destructiveness of modern weapons could lead to human extinction; and there are better alternatives. After elaborating on these points, he outlines a new way of thinking that will be necessary if we are to move beyond war, in particular a recognition of our "oneness" and global interdependence. Finally, he outlines practical alternatives and inspiring examples that anticipate the goal of a world "beyond war."