Ethics Beyond War's End

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.--pub. Desc. Introduction / Eric Patterson -- Moral Responsibility After Conflict : The Idea Of Jus Post Bellum For The Twenty-first Century / James Turner Johnson -- Aftermath Of War : Reflections On Jus Post Bellum / Michael Walzer -- Jus Ante And Post Bellum : Completing The Circle, Breaking The Cycle / George R. Lucas Jr. -- In My Beginning Is My End / Robert Royal -- More Perfect Peace : Jus Post Bellum And The Quest For Stable Peace / Robert E. Williams Jr. -- Ethics In The Times Of War / Pauletta Otis -- Just War And An Ethics Of Responsibility / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Ending The Us Civil War Well : Reconciliation And Transitional Justice / David A. Crocker -- Justice After War : Toward A New Geneva Convention / Brian Orend -- Just Peace : An Elusive Ideal / Mark Evans -- Conclusion: Toward A Twenty-first Century Jus Post Bellum / Eric Patterson. Eric Patterson, Editor. Rev. Essays From A Conference Held In Apr. 2010 At Georgetown University. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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.

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. 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."--De l'éditeur