Collateral Damage Or Unlawful Killings?
Author | : Ken Coates |
Publisher | : Spokesman Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Jugoslavien |
ISBN | : 9780851246413 |
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Author | : Ken Coates |
Publisher | : Spokesman Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Jugoslavien |
ISBN | : 9780851246413 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bombing, Aerial |
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Author | : Amnesty International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Yugoslavia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederik Rosén |
Publisher | : Critical War Studies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781849044073 |
The dilemmas precipitated by the unintentional killing of civilians in war, or 'collateral damage', shape many aspects of military conduct, yet noticeable by its absence has been a methodical examination of the place and role of this phenomenon in modern warfare. This book offers a fresh perspective on a distressing consequence of conflict. Rosén explains how collateral damage is linked to ideas of authority, thereby anchoring it to the existential riddles of our individual and collective lives, and that this peculiar form of death constitutes an image of what it means to be human. His investigation of collateral damage is notable too for how the death of non-combatants sheds light on some of today's critical challenges to war and global governance, such as the growing role of non-state actors, mercenary contractors and the impact of military privatization. In the ethical realm those who successfully prove that collateral damage has occurred also enter the debate about which institutions may exert authority and thus how a truly decentralized world might be organized. This is why the in many ways underrepresented victims of collateral damage appear on closer inspection to have experienced a most significant form of death.
Author | : Nils Melzer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199533164 |
This title examines the international lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings in military and police operations. Analysing recent state practice and jurisprudence, it establishes when targeted killing may be considered lawful, and what legal restraints are imposed on the practice in times of war and peace.
Author | : Philip Alston |
Publisher | : Pretoria University Law Press |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
This book provides a detailed overview of the law and policy related to unlawful killings and the right to life. It is organized into the key thematic issues and types of killings that arose during the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions between 2004-2016. Each chapter contains an introductory overview and selected extracts from UN Special Rapporteur reports to the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council and other normative work, and covers the applicable international law, policy considerations, and common fact scenarios. Philip Alston held the mandate of United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions between 2004 and 2010; Christof Heyns did so from 2010 to 2016. This book was created to provide easy access to the work of the Special Rapporteurs, and to be a useful guide for those studying and working to promote respect for human rights. The book was edited by the two rapporteurs, together with their main advisors during their tenure as mandate holders, Sarah Knuckey and Thomas Probert.
Author | : Neta C. Crawford |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199981744 |
The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have been a regular feature of the United States' wars after 9/11. In Accountability for Killing, Neta C. Crawford focuses on the causes of these many episodes of foreseeable collateral damage and the moral responsibility for them. The dominant paradigm of legal and moral responsibility in war today stresses both intention and individual accountability. Deliberate killing of civilians is outlawed and international law blames individual soldiers and commanders for such killing. An individual soldier may be sentenced life in prison or death for deliberately killing even a small number of civilians, but the large scale killing of dozens or even hundreds of civilians may be forgiven if it was unintentional--"incidental"--to a military operation. The very law that protects noncombatants from deliberate killing may allow many episodes of unintended killing. Under international law, civilian killing may be forgiven if it was unintended and incidental to a militarily necessary operation. Given the nature of contemporary war, where military organizations-training, and the choice of weapons, doctrine, and tactics-create the conditions for systemic collateral damage, Crawford contends that placing moral responsibility for systemic collateral damage on individuals is misplaced. She develops a new theory of organizational moral agency and responsibility, and shows how the US military exercised moral agency and moral responsibility to reduce the incidence of collateral damage in America's most recent wars. Indeed, when the U.S. military and its allies saw that the perception of collateral damage killing was causing it to lose support in the war zones, it moved to a "population centric" doctrine, putting civilian protection at the heart of its strategy. Trenchant, original, and ranging across security studies, international law, ethics, and international relations, Accountability for Killing will reshape our understanding of the ethics of contemporary war.
Author | : Ian Henderson |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 900417480X |
This book provides an analysis of the law of targeting during an armed conflict; focusing on what is a lawful target, what is proportional collateral damage, and describing a process by which legal responsibility for targeting decisions can be assessed.
Author | : Claire Finkelstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199646473 |
The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers and philosophers grappling with the moral and legal limits of the war on terror. This text examines the legal and philosophical issues raised by government efforts to target suspected terrorists.
Author | : Brian D. Lepard |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2015-08-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0271073322 |
Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of "unity in diversity." A special feature of the book, which avoids the charge of ethnocentricity brought against other approaches, is that Lepard shows how passages from the revered texts of seven world religions may be interpreted as supporting these ethical principles. In connecting law with ethics and religion in this way, he takes a major step forward in the effort to formulate a normative basis for international law in our multicultural world.