War and Justice in the 21st Century

War and Justice in the 21st Century
Author: Luis Moreno Ocampo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2022
Genre: Prosecution (International law)
ISBN: 0197628974

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"This book is a case study of my nine-year practice as the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It presents the functioning of the autonomous criminal justice system created by the Rome Statute. The book depicts the Rome Statute operations, its interaction with the War on Terror, and their relationship with national legal systems and the UN Security Council. It comments on regional organizations, including the mechanisms to protect human rights established during the fifties in Europe, after in the Americas, and more recently in Africa"--

Justice After War

Justice After War
Author: David Chiwon Kwon
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-05-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0813236517

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Justice After War is aimed especially to both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the general audience who want to understand the significance of a recent development within the just war tradition, namely, the increasing attention given to the category of jus post bellum (postwar justice and peace). While examining the interrelated challenges of moral and social norms in both political and legal domains, as well as church practices, this work proposes an innovative methodology for linking theology, ethics, and social science so that the ideal and the real can inform each other in the ethics of war and peacebuilding. The main task of this project, then, is to identify what the author views as three key themes of jus post bellum, and three practices that are essential to implementing jus post bellum immediately after a war: just policing, just punishment, and just political participation. David Kwon endeavors to challenge the view of those who suggest that reconciliation, mainly political reconciliation, is the foremost ambition of jus post bellum. Instead, he attempts to justify the proposition that achieving just policing, just punishment, and just political participation are essential to building a just peace, a peace in which the fundamental characteristic must be human security. It thus demonstrates that human security is an oft-neglected theme in the recent discourse of moral theologians and that a more balanced understanding of jus post bellum will direct attention to the elements composing human security in a postwar context.

Can War Be Just In The 21st Century?

Can War Be Just In The 21st Century?
Author: Winright, Tobias
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608336247

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War Crimes and Realpolitik

War Crimes and Realpolitik
Author: Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781588262769

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Exploring the evolution and operation of the international criminal justice system and highlighting the influences of politics, this book takes the reader behind the scenes of the conflict between justice and realpolitik.

Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars

Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars
Author: Richard A. Falk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9780415815178

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Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century. As well as analysing the theoretical and conceptual basis of the responsibility to protect, the book also contains a number of case studies looking at Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Libya. The final section explores when humanitarian intervention can succeed and the changing nature of international political legitimacy in countries such as India, Tibet, South Africa and Palestine.

Just War Thinkers

Just War Thinkers
Author: Daniel R. Brunstetter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317307119

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This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition. In what, if any, circumstances are political communities justified in going to war? And what limits should apply to the conduct of any such war? The just war tradition is a body of thought that helps us think through these very questions. Its core ideas have been subject to fierce debate for over 2,000 years. Yet they continue to play a prominent role in how political and military leaders address the challenges posed by the use of force in international society. Until now there has been no text that offers concise and accessible introductions to the key figures associated with the tradition. Stepping into this breach, Just War Thinkers provides a set of clear but detailed essays by leading experts on nineteen seminal thinkers, from Cicero to Jeff McMahan. This volume challenges the reader to think about how traditions are constituted—who is included and excluded, and how that is determined—and how they serve to enable, constrain, and indeed channel subsequent thought, debate, and exchange. This book will be of much interest to students of just war tradition and theory, ethics and war, philosophy, security studies and IR.

Morality and War

Morality and War
Author: David Fisher
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019161582X

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With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty-first century security concerns? David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. His in-depth study examines philosophical challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morality; and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide practical guidance not just to politicians and generals but to ordinary service people. The complexity and difficulty of moral decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here characterised as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the importance of both the internal quality and external effects of agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, Fisher uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention. He concludes that the just war tradition provides not only a robust but an indispensable guide to resolve the security challenges of the twenty-first century.

Race, Wrongs, and Remedies

Race, Wrongs, and Remedies
Author: Amy L. Wax
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2009-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442200278

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Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law of remedies to show that the conventional wisdom is mistaken. She argues that effectively addressing today's persistent racial disparities requires dispelling the confusion surrounding blacks' own role in achieving equality. The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that discrimination against blacks has dramatically abated. The most important factors now impeding black progress are behavioral: low educational attainment, poor socialization and work habits, drug use, criminality, paternal abandonment, and non-marital childbearing. Although these maladaptive patterns are largely the outgrowth of past discrimination and oppression, they now largely resist correction by government programs or outside interventions. Wax asserts that the black community must solve these problems from within. Self-help, changed habits, and a new cultural outlook are, in fact, the only effective tactics for eliminating the present vestiges of our nation's racist past. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution

Civilian Or Combatant?

Civilian Or Combatant?
Author: Anisseh van Engeland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-03-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019974324X

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This title describes how the practice and evolution of warfare have turned international humanitarian law into an enigmatic law that is complex to understand, interpret, and enforce. It identifies the challenges that advocates of international humanitarian law face, which range from genocide, asymmetrical warfare, and terrorism to rape as a weapon. The author demonstrates that this branch of international law is in constant evolution.

Women, War and Peace

Women, War and Peace
Author: Noeleen Heyzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2004
Genre: Peace-building
ISBN:

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