Sentences with phrase «just war theory»

But it was an attack on a legitimate military target and defensible under Just War Theory, an attack intended to save lives by deterring other major powers from beginning conflicts of their own.

This lesson explores the Just War theory and looks at several case studies to consider whether or not the War was justified (e.g. WW2, Vietnam, Gulf War etc.) It challenges pupils to apply the criteria set out to determin whether or not these wars (or any war) is justified.

It focuses on the teachings of Jesus, Just War theory...

Lesson 5 - The Islamic just war theory.

This mind map includes a range of topics, which are; Peace, Peacemaking, Conflict, Pacifism, The Just War theory, Holy War, Weapons of mass destruction and Issues surrounding conflict.

This leads on to a creative activity where students create a poster, poem or rap to exemplify the Just War Theory's 7 aspects.

Designed to coincide with the study of Just war Theory at GCSE, but not exclusive.

Closer to «righteous struggle» this lesson aims to draw comparison with the Just War Theory and help to see how in some ways it is more progressive than the JWT (avoids hurting plants and animals) and in others more religious (must be ordered by a religious leader).

holy war, just war theory, pacifism, liberation theology, non violent direct action, crime and punishment, death penalty

Lesson designed for use with GCSE class studying Just War Theory.

Having reflected on just reasons for going to war (and just actions during war), and decided on their own criteria for acceptable war, students are introduced to Just War theory.

They then decide whether the atomic - bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified according to Just War theory.

Differentiated learning outcomes included, which evaluate why Christians may or may not agree with the Just War Theory.

GCSE lesson on Just War Theory.

For me, The Hunger Games Trilogy is part of a larger goal to introduce the ideas of just war theory to young audiences, but how much wider and more varied an audience came with the films, and the credit for that goes to all of you who contributed so much to this project.

Unlike the seven jus ad bellum criteria of just war theory, I believe there are three key political tests which give a good indication of whether a population will tolerate overseas intervention.

The tradition of just war theory has attempted to formulate such constraints in one how and when states can go to war.

Just war theory provides us with several principles that limit what is morally permissible in war.

He recently brought together several member of the Oxford faculty who specialize in humanitarian ethics and just war theory with twelve humanitarian agencies to try to understand the moral problems these agencies face and give them ethical frameworks that can be applied in the field.

However, using a mixture of traditional Just War theory and the big four crimes, R2P has, at least, spelt out a threshold for international action.

Neuhaus meant his essay to be a serious, detailed application of just war theory to our current circumstances.

For example, in the essay's section on «defining success,» Father Neuhaus writes, «Finally, success will be if, three or thirty years from now, Afghanistan and Iraq have reasonably decent and stable governments, operating under something believably like the rule of law...» This lacks the specificity to qualify as a serious application of just war theory.

The video criticizes the Obama administration, stating that the use of war does not follow Just War Theory, which has Roman and Catholic influences.

August 2011 — The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD — a theory long - taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).

More than thirty years after that letter, Ramsey's achievements included pioneering work in medical ethics and an almost singlehanded (at least among Protestants) renewal of just war theory.

In response, he called for rigorous retrieval of «classic» just war theory.

Yet the soft just war theory of the Catholic bishops and others lays claim to the same intellectual inheritance.

Even then, just war theory's primary function is to «restrict and reduce» war's horrors.

The gravest flaw of recent discussions of just war theory has been their ahistorical and acontextual quality.

For Pavlischek, the foundational presumption of just war theory is the government's mandate to pursue justice, order and peace.

But a chorus of dissatisfaction with just war theory is gaining strength in the U.S., and not just from pacifists and others who dissent from the tradition on principle.

The 20th - century development of just war theory is clearly an evolution of the historic tradition in response to the carnage of the era.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

The American Christian debate about just war theory is in a sense nothing other than a debate about America's role in the world, a debate little changed since, say, 1968.

Ron Mock suggests that I confuse justice and order in my rendering of just war theory.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

In the end, competing perceptions of our national moral virtue lie at the heart of the division between soft and hard just war theory.

Whereas «The Challenge of Peace» offered an extensive discussion of conscientious citizen objection to unjust uses of government power, Pavlischek instead emphasized the role of just war theory in statecraft and military planning.

Pavlischek's hard just war theory reflects no yearning for the establishment of an international governing authority.

Just War theory was originally developed by Augustine to defend the Empire's actions of arresting and killing the Donatists.

Finally, Pavlischek has no use for pacifism and what he considers a «crypto - pacifist» corruption of just war theory.

Oakes appears to think that the American Catholic populace - at - large (including, presumably, him and me) is relieved from having opinions or making judgments about the justness of a particular act of war contemplated by our country because the classical just war theory permits those judgments only to statesmen and generals.

A struggle against groups that fly jetliners into buildings requires the steely resolve that hard just war theory contributes.

It is no coincidence that the origins of American soft just war theory can be traced to the nuclear arms race and the turn against the Vietnam War.

The section on just war theory closed with a warm affirmation of the value of a pacifist witness within the Catholic Church, claiming that it shares with just war theory «a common presumption against the use of force as a means of settling disputes.»

How we construe just war theory must bear good fruit or that construal must be altered or the theory abandoned.

Pacifism nearly converged with a chastened just war approach to yield soft just war theory.

I come from this position from both having served in the military and considered «just war theory» at masters level.

In the herein God orders conduct that is clearly condemned by the proponents of the just war theory, let alone by those who believe that Jesus taught nonviolence.

Neither real politics nor the just war theory can provide a legitimate basis for their existence or use.