just war theory

Orend's works focus on just war theory and human rights.

"The whole thing for us has to do with something called the 'just war theory."'

The Church's moral theology has generally emphasised just war theory.

By no means does everyone accept "just war theory."

A defence of an updated form of just war theory.

Such debates have led to concepts such as just war theory.

In particular, his writings on freedom of the seas and just war theory directly appealed to natural law.

Offers an annotated bibliography of current writings on just war theory.

His books include works on just war theory and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Discusses the contemporary relevance of just war theory.

He has been credited with re-introducing just war theory into Protestant ethical reflection.

This doctrine is argued to be contrary to the just war theory and would constitute a war of aggression.

But it remains a central point in "just war theory," the tradition that tries to distinguish between just and unjust warfare.

To me the 'meaningful interpersonal relations' is just as phony a piece of morality as the just war theory.

While Just war theory is generally seen to set the background terms of moral debate, individual countries have more specific methods of upholding these ethical principles.

Oderberg supports just war theory, and believes that civilians who do not contribute to the war effort should not be targeted.

Her work specializes in gendered interpretations of just war theory, Feminist Security Studies, and women's violence in global politics.

Geisler believes the American Revolution was not justified by the standards of either the Bible or Just war theory.

Others contend that just war theory emerged in a very different world - the medieval world - and the nature of war has changed dramatically since then.

Many modern nations' views on the ethics of civilian casualties align with the Just War theory, which advocates a system of proportionality.

Other scholars of the just war theory asserted that war with Iraq could be justified on the grounds of defense of a "helpless other."

Once war has begun, just war theory (Jus in bello) also directs how combatants are to act or should act:

Ben Salmon was an American Catholic pacifist and outspoken critic of just war theory, as he believed all war to be unjust.

Several argued that in an age of biological warfare and nuclear weapons, the traditional understanding of just war theory had grown obsolete and was due for revision.

Much of Grotius's content drew from the Bible and from classical history (just war theory of Augustine of Hippo).