- The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- The Ethics of War
- Method in the Morality of War
- The Just War Framework
- Historiography of Just War Theory
- Deep Morality and the Laws of War
- The Ethics of War up to Thomas Aquinas
- Late Scholastic Just War Theory
- Early Modern Sources of the Regular War Tradition
- A Richer Jus ad Bellum
- Knowing When Not to Fight
- National Defence and Political Independence
- Humanitarian Intervention and the Modern State System
- Territorial Rights and National Defence
- Last Resort and Proportionality
- Pacifism
- Legitimate Authority in War
- Civil War and Revolution
- The Moral Equality of Combatants
- Noncombatant Immunity and War-Profiteering
- Human Shields
- Dimensions of Intentions: Ways of Killing in War
- Proportionality and Necessity in Jus in Bello
- Terrorism
- Torture: Rescue, Prevention, and Punishment
- Drones and Robots: On the Changing Practice of Warfare
- Ending Wars
- War’s Aftermath and the Ethics of War
- Justice After War
- Reconciliation and Reparations
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The vast majority of work on the ethics of war focuses on traditional wars between states. This chapter aims to show that this is an oversight worth rectifying. The strategy is largely comparative, assessing whether certain claims often defended in discussions of interstate wars stand up in the context of civil conflicts and whether there are principled moral differences between the two types of case. Firstly, the chapter argues that thinking about intrastate wars may help us make progress on important theoretical debates in recent just war theory. Secondly, it considers whether certain kinds of civil wars are subject to a more demanding standard of just cause, compared to interstate wars of national defence. Finally, it assesses the extent to which having popular support is an independent requirement of permissible war and whether this renders insurgencies harder to justify than wars fought by functioning states.
Keywords: civil war, revolution, insurgencies, Cecile Fabre, intrastate conflict, consent
Jonathan Parry, The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Stockholm University, Sweden
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- The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- The Ethics of War
- Method in the Morality of War
- The Just War Framework
- Historiography of Just War Theory
- Deep Morality and the Laws of War
- The Ethics of War up to Thomas Aquinas
- Late Scholastic Just War Theory
- Early Modern Sources of the Regular War Tradition
- A Richer Jus ad Bellum
- Knowing When Not to Fight
- National Defence and Political Independence
- Humanitarian Intervention and the Modern State System
- Territorial Rights and National Defence
- Last Resort and Proportionality
- Pacifism
- Legitimate Authority in War
- Civil War and Revolution
- The Moral Equality of Combatants
- Noncombatant Immunity and War-Profiteering
- Human Shields
- Dimensions of Intentions: Ways of Killing in War
- Proportionality and Necessity in Jus in Bello
- Terrorism
- Torture: Rescue, Prevention, and Punishment
- Drones and Robots: On the Changing Practice of Warfare
- Ending Wars
- War’s Aftermath and the Ethics of War
- Justice After War
- Reconciliation and Reparations
- Index
