Issue No. 2, June 2014

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Conferences and Events
3. Recent Publications
4. Call for Papers
5. Academic Programs
6. Internet Resources


1. INTRODUCTION

The Just War Newsletter is an electronic newsletter published four times annually to announce new developments in the study of the ethics of war. Written and published by Michael Kocsis, it is designed for anyone working in academia, public service, or non-governmental organizations whose research touches on the just war tradition and its related topics and disciplines.

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2. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

A conference on the topic “War Powers: Judging Constitutional Authority” was held at the University of Michigan this past January 23rd. Organized by Mariah Zeisberg, the event focused on armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea, which posed serious questions about the power to declare war found in the US Constitution. The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (University of Ottawa) were among the organizers. Details are posted on the following website: http://cips.uottawa.ca/event/war-powers-judging-constitutional-authority/

A conference entitled “Individual, Community and Society: Conflict, Resolution and Synergy” was held as the Inaugural European Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy organized by the International Academic Forum (IAFOR). The event was held from March 27-30 at the Rihga Royal Hotel & the adjoining Osaka International Conference Center, Osaka, Japan. Details are posted on this PhilEvents website: http://philevents.org/event/show/11816

Allegheny College (Meadville, PA) held a two-day undergraduate conference on March 28-29 on legacies of the Civil Rights Movement. Entitled “Democracy Realized? The Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement,” the event brought nationally recognized scholars and activists together with students to investigate the past, present, and future of civil rights. Keynote speakers included James Lawson, Lucius Outlaw, Susan Burch, Ellen Armour, and Matthew Fletcher. Event information is posted on the following website: http://allegheny.edu/democracy2014

On April 7th the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics held a one-day book symposium on Allen Buchanan's The Heart of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2013) at LUISS Guido Carli, Aula polivalente. Participants included: Allen Buchanan (Duke), Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS), Raffaele Bifulco (LUISS), Diletta Tega (Milano-Bicocca), Francesco Cherubini (LUISS) and Gianfranco Pellegrino (LUISS).

On April 16th the Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDA) and the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa organized a special workshop on “Russia: Current and Future Security Environment” by Dr. Fiona Hill (Brookings Institution). The event was held at the University of Ottawa.

An International Conference called “Uncovering the Humanitarian Discourse: Media, Migration, and International Organizations” was held at Ege University in Izmir (Turkey) on May 21-22. The event considered migration as a complex and multi-layered phenomenon linked to both global issues and local and regional ones. The organizers were Pierluigi Musaró, (Bologna, Italy), Lülüfer Körükmez, (Ege University) and İlkay Südaş (Ege University). Information is posted here: http://sosyoloji.ege.edu.tr/duyurular/4

The Inaugural Conference of the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace was held May 24-25 on the theme “The Ethics of War in the 21st Century”. Preceded by a public lecture given by Jeff McMahan, the speakers at this important event included Frances Kamm, Seth Lazar, Gustaf Arrhenius, Cheyney Ryan and Christopher Heath Wellman. The Conference website is posted at: http://stockholmcentre.weebly.com/conference-ethics-of-war-in-the-21st-century.html

The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the University of Birmingham held a one-day conference on “Ethics, War, and Intervention” on May 30th. The keynote speaker was Jeff McMahan.

A conference on “Justice in a Global Age” took place on June 2nd and 3rd at University College Durham. The aim was to provide an in-depth discussion of relevant aspects of global political morality. Themes included: global health, global distributive justice, just war theory, sustainability, the moral psychology of global duties, and non-western perspectives on global justice. Conference speakers included: David Held (Durham University), Leif Wenar (Kings College London), Judith Lichtenberg (Georgetown University), Ted Schrecker (Durham University), Julian Reiss (Durham University), Dale Jamieson (NYU), Laura Valentini (LSE), Thom Brooks (Durham University) and Pietro Maffettone (Durham University). Information is posted on the following website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/gpi/newsandevents/?eventno=19639

The Human Rights sections of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and the International Studies Association (ISA), are coordinating the 3rd Joint International Conference on Human Rights on the theme “Human Rights and Change”. The conference will take place from June 16-18, 2014 at Kadir Has Üniversitesi in Istanbul (Turkey). To access the conference program and find information on how to register, visit the following website: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/HRIstanbul2014/Program.aspx .

The Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics are organizing the 21st Annual Conference on the theme “Conscience, Leadership and the Problem of Dirty Hands.” The Conference will take place from June 22-24 at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney (Australia). Key themes will include: military ethics & supreme emergency, policing ethics, sports ethics, medical ethics, and conscientious objection. Keynote speakers will include: Raimond Gaita, Dr. Kath Albury (University of New South Wales) and Dr. Aden Ridgeway (Cox Inall Ridgeway) John Kleinig (City University of New York), and Dr. Stephen Coleman (Australian Defence Force Association). For details on the conference, go to the following website: http://aapae2014.com or contact the conference organizer (Matthew Beard) by email: matthew.beard@nd.edu.au

The 25th International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Conference will be organized around the theme “Uniting for Peace: Building Peace through Universal Values.” The event will take place from August 10-14, 2014, at Sakarya University in Istanbul (Turkey). Keynote speakers will include: Nursultan Nazarbayev (Head of State, Kazakhstan), Johan Galtung Nkosazana C. Dlamini Zuma (Secretary, African Union) and Lakhdor Brahimi (UN Envoy to Syria). For more information, visit the following website: http://www.ipra2014.org The Peace Theories Commission of the IRPA will also host an event on “Peace Theories beyond the State of Nature: Philosophical and Global Perspectives” as part of the 25th IPRA General Conference in Istanbul. For information, contact Drs. Michael Deckard (michael.deckard@lr.edu) or Neven Bondokji (nevenbond@yahoo.com).

A conference on “The Ethics of War and Peace” will take place in Maribor, Slovenia from August 21-24, 2014. Parallel sessions will address major moral questions related to war and peace, including the following: the roots of war in human aggression or social life; theories of just war; questions about humanitarian intervention; rules of war; new forms of warfare; war for profit; and pacifism. For details, visit the following website: http://www.societasethica.info

A Panel on “Imperfect Duties and Political Theory” will be held from September 3-6. Chaired by Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCl) and Chiara Cordelli (Exeter), the panel will discuss various ways in which the concept of imperfect (vs. perfect) duty functions in political philosophy. Can imperfect duties serve a political role, rather than just fit into personal or private morality? Can imperfect duties also apply to collective agents? There are a number of conceptual questions about the definition of imperfect duties and their distinction from perfect duties, and their role if any in political theory, and this panel invites participants to explore these and related questions.
For further details, contact the Panel Chairs via email: s.meckled-garcia@ucl.ac.uk

A Seminar called “Everyday Nationhood: A One-Day Symposium to Examine the Contribution of Michael Billig’s Study of Banal Nationalism” will take place on Monday September 8th at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Organized by the Association for the Study of Ethnicity & Nationalism (ASEN) and the School of Political, Social & International Studies, University of East Anglia, the event will be a detailed exploration of Michael Billig’s (1995) Banal Nationalism and an assessment of the influence of the “Banal Nationalism thesis” across disciplines and settings. Prof. Craig Calhoun will deliver a keynote presentation on nationalism, cosmopolitanism and social identity in the contemporary era. Proposals for 20 min. papers from established scholars and post-graduate students in any discipline relating to the Banal Nationalism thesis should be forwarded by email to Michael Skey (m.skey@uea.ac.uk) by Friday June 13th.

A MANCEPT Workshop on the topic “Conceptualizing Legitimacy in Political Philosophy” will take place in Manchester from September 8-10. The workshop organizers call for papers in political philosophy on the following questions surrounding legitimacy: what do different traditions of political philosophy mean by "legitimacy"? What are the main competing normative conceptions of political legitimacy? Can the new political realism re-establish the importance of legitimacy vis-à-vis justice? Do various conceptions of legitimacy have a shared meaning, or do we only find a family resemblance? Is the concept of legitimacy essentially contested, and if so, how? Is legitimacy a useful concept in normative political philosophy, or does it create more confusion than clarity? Potential participants should send abstracts (300-500w) in a Word document containing contact details to one of the conveners prior to June 15th. Conveners are: Silje Langvatn (s.a.langvatn@jus.uio.no) and Enzo Rossi (e.rossi@uva.nl). For further information, go to the following website: http://www.mancept.com/conceptualizing-legitimacy-in-political-philosophy/

A Workshop entitled “The War of Ethics in the Ethics of War” will take place at the MANCEPT Conference from September 8-10. The event will focus on the central distinction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which has come under sustained scrutiny from theorists like Jeff McMahan and David Rodin who argue it is incoherent and unsubstantiated. The workshop will attempt to engage such debates through the idea of the moral equality of combatants. For further information, contact Workship organizers by email: Ewan E. Mellor (ewan.mellor@eui.eu) or Milla Vaha (mevaha@utu.fi).

The International Studies Journal (ISJ) and the UN Information Center in Iran are organizing the 3rd Model UN Security Council Conference; a Security Council “simulation” that will include 45 Senior Advisors, Resident Diplomats NGO representatives, Profs. of Law and International Relations, and graduate students. The Program will focus on: international law and human rights; simulation methods and research workshops; and global and regional initiatives to protect peace and human rights. The event will take place in Tehran (Iran) on September 18th. For details about how to apply and how to obtain visas through the ISJ, send an email to the following address: info@isjq.net The deadline for registration is July 10th.

The University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Subjectivity Research is organizing an International Conference entitled “Thinking (about) Groups.” The event will take place from October 8-10, and will try to summarize and discuss ongoing debates about “social ontology” by examining the theoretical and practical uses of groups in philosophy, social science, psychology, and biology. The organizers are Alessandro Salice and John Michael, and confirmed speakers include: Trine Bilde (University of Aarhus), Michael Bratman (Stanford University), Brian Epstein (Tufts University), Marion Godman (Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences), Margaret Gilbert (University of California Irvine), Arto Laitinen (University of Tampere), Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), Josef Parnas (University of Copenhagen), Carol Rovane (Columbia University), Axel Seeman (Bentley University), Andras Szigeti (University of Tromsø) Deborah Tollefsen (University of Memphis) and Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen). The event is open to all. For details, contact Adele-France Jourdain by email: bsr342@hum.ku.dk

The British Society for the History of Philosophy and the Netherlands Defense Academy will host an event on October 14th on “War in the History of Ideas.” A confirmed keynote speaker will be Azar Gat, author of A History of Military Thought (2001) and War in Human Civilization (2006). For further information, contact the conference organizers via email: Paul Schuurman (schuurman@fwb.eur.nl) or Paul Donker (P.Donker.02@NLDA.NL).

A conference on the theme “Negotiating Borders: Comparing the Experience of Canada, Europe, and Ukraine” is being hosted from October 16-18, 2014 by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton (CAN). The aim is to explore reasons why established state borders are all-too-easily challenged by pressures of globalization and ideas of imperial expansion. Themes will include: negotiating and settling border disputes, cross-border transactions, management of relations between greater and lesser powers, the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Policy, “Frozen Conflicts”, the ‘Finlandization’ of Ukraine, or Russia’s doctrine of ‘Eurasianism.’ Possible contributors should send an essay title and an abstract of 250w, plus a one-paragraph biographical statement, to: Bohdan Harasymiw, Conference Convenor (bharasym@ucalgary.ca) and Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, Editor-in-Chief of East-West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, (oleh.ilnytzkyj@ualbera.ca).

The 4th Global Conference on Genocide will be held from December 4-7 2014 at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Organized by the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), the theme of this year’s event will be “Genocide and Mass Trauma: Rising to the Challenges of Comprehension, Intervention, Prevention and Restitution.” The organizers invite proposals for papers, panels and roundtables on any aspect of genocide and mass trauma, and participation is not restricted to INoGS members. Interdisciplinary and theoretical approaches, and submissions from postgraduate students, practitioners and researchers in government, are welcome. Prospective presenters should submit abstracts of under 250w prior to August 31st through the conference website at http://inogsconference2014.org/ with a short biographical sketch. Questions should be sent to admin@inogsconference2014.org or to conference organizers: Mohamed Adhikari (mohamed.adhikari@uct.ac.za) or Volker Langbehn (langbehn@sfsu.edu).


3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books (CDN$)

Aiken, Nevin (2013) Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice: Overcoming Intractability in Divided Societies (Routledge) $105.01

Bayrant, Michael (2014) Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966 (Tennessee University Press) $68.88

Boothby, William H. (2012) The Law of Targeting (Oxford UP) $175.83

Bosco, David (2013) Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics (Oxford UP) $47.95

Buzan, Barry (2014) An Introduction to the English School of International Relations: The Societal Approach (Polity Press) $61.56

Casey-Maslen, Stuart (2014) The War Report: 2012 (Oxford UP) $33.18

Clapham, Andrew and Paola Gaeta (2014) The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict (Oxford Handbooks in Law) (Oxford UP) $218.58

Cochran, David Carroll, (2014) Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War (Orbis) $21.11

Cole, Darrell (2014) Just War and the Ethics of Espionage (Routledge) $109.00

Fabre, Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar (2014) The Morality of Defensive War (Oxford UP) $62.25

Grayling, A.C. (2014) Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? (Bloomsbury Academic) $16.70

Gentry, Caron E. and Amy E. Eckert (2014) The Future of Just War: New Critical Essays (University of Georgia Press) $24.16

Gorringe, T.J. (2014) The Common Good and the Global Emergency: God and the Built Environment (Cambridge UP) $87.52

Jenkins, David, Amanda Jacobson and Anders Henriksen (2014) The Long Decade: How 9/11 Changed the Law (Oxford UP) $117.20

Jones, Adam (2010) Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction 2E (Routledge) $49.66

Legg, Andrew (2012) The Margin of Appreciation in International Human Rights Law: Deference and Proportionality (Oxford UP) $117.60

Morrow, James D. (2014) Order within Anarchy: The Laws of War as an International Institution (Cambridge UP) $28.64

Murphy, James G. (2104) War's Ends: Human Rights, International Order, and the Ethics of Peace (Georgetown UP) $30.00

Newton, Michael and Larry May (2014) Proportionality in International Law (Oxford UP) $96.77

Provost-Smith, Patrick (2015) Holy War, Just War: Early Modern Christianity, Religious Ethics and the Rhetoric of Empire (I.B.Tauris) $33.08

Reichberg, Gregory, Henrik Syse and Nicole M. Hartwell (2014) Religion, War, and Ethics: A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions (Cambridge UP) $41.56

Reisman, Michael W and Christina Skinner (2014) Fraudulent Evidence before Public International Tribunals: The Dirty Stories of International Law (Cambridge UP) $78.69

Rengger, Nick (2015) The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations: Dealing in Darkness (Routledge) $40.39

Sarat, Austin, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Humphry (eds) (2014) Law and War (Stanford Law Books) $81.44

Schabas, William (2012) Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals (Oxford UP) $27.95

Scheid, Don E. (2014) The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge UP) $27.15

Sivakumaran, Sandesh (2014) The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict (Oxford UP) $75.51

Smith, Charles Anthony (2012) The Rise and Fall of War Crimes Trials: From Charles I to Bush II (Cambridge UP) $30.14

Strachan, Hew and Sibylle Scheipers (2013) The Changing Character of War (Oxford UP) $53.70

Sriram, Chandra Lekha, Olga Martin-Ortega and Johanna Herman (2009) War, Conflict and Human Rights: Theory and Practice (Routledge) $48.75

Szamuely, George (2014) Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia (Amsterdam University Press) $81.40

U.S. Army War College (2013) How the Army Runs: A Senior Leader Reference Handbook, 2013-2014 (Military Bookshop) $55.58

Webster, Alexander (2004) Virtue Of War: Reclaiming the Classic Christian Traditions East and West (Regina Orthodox Press) $21.70

Weller, Marc (2014) The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (Oxford UP) $304.50

Wilcox, Lt. Col. Raymond H. (2013) The Ethics Of Bombing Dresden (Biblioscholar) $79.63

Yoo, John (2014) Point of Attack: Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare (Oxford UP) $38.41



4. CALL FOR PAPERS

Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on “Social Ontology, Culture and Institutions.” The Guest Editors are Filip Buekens (Leuven, Tilburg) and Alessandro Salice (Copenhagen). Over the last two decades, “social facts” have been investigated by a rapidly growing community of scholars who have contributed to the field from different disciplinary approaches. Concepts like collectives, cultures and institutions have been analyzed with conceptual tools from philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, social philosophy and from formal disciplines like game theory. It is generally agreed that social facts and particularly “institutional facts” exist due to the collective acceptance of a social group. Few efforts have been made, however, to bring together social ontology and empirically informed theories of culture (as developed in philosophy of biology, theories of “animal culture,” or cognitive sciences). This Special Issue seeks contributions that connect conceptual accounts with more naturalist approaches and evolutionary thinking about culture. For further information, contact Filip Buekens via email: (Filip.Buekens@hiw.kuleuven.be). Submissions should be prepared for double-blind review and sent through Topoi’s Editorial Manager: http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/default.asp

Contributions are invited for a dedicated issue of Theoria, A Journal of Social and Political Theory will focus on the theme “Is the Idea of Peace Relevant for the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare?” The special issue will be Guest-Edited by Nir Eisikovits of Suffolk University, and will ask questions such as the following; is the idea of peace in the classic cosmopolitan formulation still relevant? Does it make sense to talk about a conflict with the Taliban or Al Qaeda terminating in a state of peace? If our idea of peace needs to be revised, how should we revise it? Does it need to be supplemented by other ideas? Can the concept of peace serve as a useful ideal even as it becomes further removed from how wars are conducted? Papers less than 9000w should be submitted to theoriasa@gmail.com prior to July 1, 2014. Papers should be formatted for blind review and should follow Theoria's formatting rules, available at the following website: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/_uploads/th/th_style_guide.pdf

The editors of Genocide Studies International welcome submissions for their third issue, which is a special issue on the Ottoman Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2014. All submissions and editorial inquiries should be addressed to genstudintl@outlook.com. For information on Genocide Studies International, visit the following website: http://www.utpjournals.com/Genocide-Studies-International.html

Intrepid: The Professional Journal of the Canadian Military Intelligence Association welcomes submissions for this November’s Annual issue. Manuscripts are invited on topics of broad significance to Canadian military intelligence, including national security, strategic intelligence issues, doctrine, intelligence capabilities, technology, history, education, training and military ethics. Submissions that develop “new approaches to old problems” are especially welcome. Manuscripts received until October 1st will be considered, and should be 3000-5000w, including references, in either official language, but shorter pieces may also be considered. Manuscripts should conform to standard academic style with endnotes (not footnotes). Abstracts and bibliographies are not required. Submissions should be accompanied by a one paragraph biography of the author, his or her institutional affiliation, and telephone number, e-mail address, and mailing address. Send manuscripts to: vpap@cmia-acrm.ca.

De Ethica: A Journal of Philosophical, Theological, and Applied Ethics welcomes submissions for a Special Issue on The Ethics of War and Peace (2005). De Ethica publishes scholarly work at the intersections of philosophical, theological and applied ethics in an open-access publication aimed at a wide audience. The list of possible topics includes: roots of war, theories of just war, rules of war, new forms of warfare, war and profit, ending war, and pacifism. The deadline for this Special Issue is November 15, 2014. Submissions should be 4000-6000w, appropriately anonymized, and accompanied by a separate abstract of 150-200w with contact information. De Ethica is committed to speedy and author-friendly reviews and in most cases the editors will notify authors in three months. Send submissions only to the Assistant Editor, Heidi Jokinen (submissions@de-ethica.com). Information about layout, style, submission and review are posted on these Instructions for Authors: http://www.de-ethica.com/instructions_for_authors/default.asp

Submissions are invited for a Special Issue of Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism dedicated to the topic “Humanism, Pluralism and Cosmopolitanism.” This journal, which is sponsored by the American Humanist Association and the Institute for Humanist Studies, is entering its twenty-second year of publication. The deadline for submissions is January 1st 2015. Visit the journal website to view the contents of past issues and obtain details about submission:
http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/EPH For other inquiries, contact the John Shook, c/o the American Humanist Association, 1777 T Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009-7125; email: jshook@americanhumanist.org


5. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

The Balkan Institute’s 2014 Sarajevo Summer Program in War and Peace will be held this year in conjunction with the 100th Anniversary of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. This two-week academic Summer Program will be held between June 16-28 and is open to undergraduates, graduate students, practitioners, and professionals. Three courses will be offered: The Outbreak of the Great War taught by Dr. Ivo Banac; The Bosnian War at the End of the 20th Century by Drs. Colum Murphy and Obrad Savic; and The Lessons of Bosnia in Global Context by Dr. Bill Wechsler. Several distinguished scholars, diplomats, journalists, and representatives of IGO/NGOs will participate. Full information can be found on the Balkan Institute website: http://www.balkaninstitute.com/sarajevo.html

A Summer School on “Dilemmas and Dirty Hands” is being organized by the Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the Netherlands from August 25-29, 2014. The location will be the Woordbroke Hotel, Barchum (NL), the School will analyze the structure of certain difficult dilemmas of politics and war, including presentations by Stefan Gosepath, Susan Mendus, Ingrid Robeyns, Hans Bernard Schmid, Stephen de Wijze, and Lea Ypi. The course is coordinated by Gijs van Donselaar (University of Amsterdam) and the Philosophy and Public Affairs group at the University of Amsterdam. For full information, contact the coordinator at the following e-mail address: g.vandonselaar@uva.nl or contact Dr. Ilse Oosterlaken via email at: secretariaat@ozsw.nl

The Tocqueville Postdoctoral Fellowship in Security Studies is designed to give junior researchers in International Relations new opportunities to a consolidate research profile and build a teaching dossier. Hosted by the University of Namur, in the capital of the French-speaking region of Belgium, the Fellow will be assigned one undergraduate course per semester (in English) on either EU integration or IR. Candidates are eligible if they completed a PhD within the past 3 years. Potential candidates should email a CV, two letters of recommendation, a sample of written material of about 10 000 words (preferably published), and a summary of their proposed postdoctoral research (4 pages max.) to Prof. Thierry Balzacq (thierry.braspenning@unamur.be) or post their application package to: Thierry Balzacq, Tocqueville Chair on Security Policies, Rempart de la Vierge 8. B-5000 Namur, Belgium.

The annual Canadian Disaster and Humanitarian Response Training Program (CCHT) will be Using content that has been developed over the last 15 years, the CCHT is able to offer participants a comprehensive and evidence-based curriculum that includes classroom lectures with a variety of learning activities and a 3-day field-based disaster simulation exercise. This training program advances humanitarian practice by improving core competencies in emergency response and the lives of people most affected by war and disaster around the world. Potential applicants should send a completed application form via email to the following email address: melanie@humanitariantraininginitiative.org Additional information is available on this website: http://www.humanitariantraininginitiative.org/canadian-disaster-and-humanitarian-response-training-program/

The Balkans Peace Program (BPP) Summer Program is entitled “International Development, Politics, and Post-Conflict Societies: Kosovo and the Balkans.” The objective is to provide students outside the region with an opportunity to spend roughly three weeks in Kosovo, studying and learning about post-conflict reconstruction. Participants will visit three Balkan countries and study by way of three components: an academic course on International Development, Politics, and Post-Conflict Societies: Kosovo and the Balkans; a tour of historic and tourist sites of Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, and Macedonia; and cultural immersion, whereby students stay with host families and learn about Albanian culture and Kosovo’s famous hospitality. The program runs from August 2 to 23 August, 2014 and participants will stay with host families in Gjilan, the fourth largest city in Kosovo with a population of about 95,000, located on the southeast corner of Kosovo. For more information, visit: http://www.bislimi.org/balkansprogram.htm and send other inquiries to the following email address: bpp@bislimi.org


6. INTERNET RESOURCES

http://www.democraticaudit.com
The Democracy Research Network is an informal, multi-disciplinary, international grouping for researchers looking at democracy, human rights and constitutional issues established by Democratic Audit, a research organisation based at the London School of Economics (UK).

http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/training-ethics/index.page
This set of Ethics and Training Tools is made available by the Canadian Armed Forces for purposes of ethical training in the CAF. Short on-line courses, case studies and learning scenarios, and other useful tools and background readings are included.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/education/teacher-resources/
The “Teacher Resources” section of the website of the Canadian War Museum contains an astounding selection of teaching materials on military conflict in Canadian history, including curricula, games and activities, and on-line resources such as digitized newspaper clippings and official announcements out of Canadian and allied publications.

http://www.justwartheory.com/
JustWarTheory.com is an extensive resource for the philosophical study of warfare. It gathers together a large and varied selection of internet resources related to the just war tradition, including links to topical articles, academic publications, book reviews, and a range of other links divided into the major just war categories. It is maintained by Mark Rigstad of Oakland University.

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Issue No. 1, March 2014

CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Upcoming Events

3. Recent Publications

4. Call for Papers

5. Academic Programs   

6. Internet Resources

1. INTRODUCTION

The Just War Newsletter is an electronic newsletter published three times annually to announce new developments in the study of the ethics of war. Written and published by Michael Kocsis, it is designed for anyone working in academia, public service, or non-governmental organizations whose research touches on the just war tradition and its related topics and disciplines. 

To be added to the mailing list, contact us at 9msk@queensu.ca Back-issues will be posted at the following (temporary) location: http://militaryinterventionnewslog.blogspot.com

2. UPCOMING EVENTS

The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Brighton was held on the theme of “Conflict, Revolt and Democracy in the Neoliberal World” from November 7-8, 2013 at the Grand Parade, University of Brighton. The keynote speaker was Wendy Brown. The conference website: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/cappe/conferences,-seminars,-events/calendar/conflict,-revolt-and-democracy-in-the-neoliberal-world2

An international conference called “Why War? Peace Studies in the 21st Century” is being held as part of the 40th Anniversary Celebrations of the Division of Peace Studies & Humanities at the University of Bradford. The conference will be held from May 1-3, 2014 at the Campus of the University of Bradford (UK). The keynote speaker will be Helen Frowe, Director of the Stockholm Centre for Ethics of War and Peace at the University of Stockholm. Essay abstracts under 250W should be submitted to the organizing committee prior to February 14, including the essay title, author’s name and affiliation, and the relevant thematic stream. Accepted applicants will be notified before Feb. 28th. For all inquiries and for abstract submission, contact the conference organizers at the following email address: peacestudies40@bradford.ac.uk For details visit the conference website: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/ssis/events-and-podcasts/events/peace-events/peace-studies-international-conference-may-2014.php

A conference on “The Grounding of Human Rights” will be held on April 18-19, 2014 at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Campus in Fort Wayne Indiana. The event will be organized by Clark Butler, Director of the Human Rights Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. It will seek to determine if a reasonable and universally acceptable general consensus may be possible behind international human rights law. Invited speakers will include James Sterba, Mark Gibney and David Marshall, Chief of the Global Issues Section at the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The deadline for submissions was February 15. Questions received by email or voice mail at 1 260 481 6364 will receive a reply if a telephone number and time frame is left.
 
The Inaugural Conference of the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
will take place May 24-25, 2014 on the theme “The Ethics of War in the 21st Century”. The event will be preceded by a special public lecture on The Ethics of War and Peace by Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University) on May 23rd. Invited speakers will include Frances Kamm, Seth Lazar, Gustaf Arrhenius, Cheyney Ryan and Christopher Heath Wellman. Additionally, a special panel on War and International Law will include presentations by Adil Ahmad Haque, François Tenguay-Renaud, and Massimo Renzo. Inquiries should be sent to Dr. Helen Frowe at: helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se
 
The Human Rights sections of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and the International Studies Association (ISA), are coordinating the 3rd Joint International Conference on Human Rights on the theme “Human Rights and Change”. The conference will take place from June 16-18, 2014 at Kadir Has Üniversitesi in Istanbul (Turkey). To access the conference program and to find information about how to register, visit the following website: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/HRIstanbul2014/Program.aspx .

An event entitled “Emergencies and Affected Peoples: Philosophy, Policy and Practice” will be held in July 2014 at the University of Birmingham. The conference is meant for theorists and practitioners working on improving the lives of those people affected by an emergency (conflicts, wars, humanitarian natural disasters. Questions such as the following will be addressed: what is an emergency? Who are the affected people? What problem do emergencies create for and how do they manifest themselves? Questions about the conference and abstracts less than 500W should be sent by February 15 to Lauren Traczykowski at the following email address: lxt837@bham.ac.uk
 
The Peace Theories Commission of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) will host an event entitled “Peace Theories beyond the State of Nature: Philosophical and Global Perspectives” in Istanbul, Turkey from August 10-14, 2014. The event is being organized as the 25thIPRA General Conference to mark the occasion of the 50thAnniversary of the IPRA. Paper and panel proposals from researchers and practitioners related to the conference theme should be submitted along with the application found at the following website: http://ipra2014.org/ prior to February 15. For further details, contact Michael Deckard (michael.deckard@lr.edu) or Neven Bondokji (nevenbond@yahoo.com).
 
A conference on “The Ethics of War and Peace”, organized by the Societas Ethica, will take place in Maribor, Slovenia from August 21-24, 2014. Parallel sessions will address major moral questions related to war and peace, including the following: the roots of war in human aggression or social life; theories of just war; questions about humanitarian intervention; rules of war; new forms of warfare; war for profit; and pacifism. Essay proposals of less than 800W (excluding bibliographies) in English, German, or French should be sent by March 31 as Word attachments to
johanna.romare@liu.se For full details, visit the following website: http://www.societasethica.info
 
The 4th Global Conference on Genocide will be held from December 4-7, 2014 at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Organized by the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), the theme of this year’s event will be ‘Genocide and Mass Trauma: Rising to the Challenges of Comprehension, Intervention, Prevention and Restitution’. The organizers invite proposals for papers, panels and roundtables on any aspect of genocide and mass trauma, and participation is not restricted to INoGS members. Interdisciplinary and theoretical approaches, and submissions from postgraduate students, practitioners and researchers in government, are welcome. Prospective presenters should submit abstracts of under 250W prior to August 31st through the conference website at http://inogsconference2014.org/ with a short biographical sketch. Questions should be sent to admin@inogsconference2014.org or to conference organizers: Mohamed Adhikari (mohamed.adhikari@uct.ac.za) or Volker Langbehn (langbehn@sfsu.edu).
 

3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books (CDN$)

Allhoff, Fritz, Nicholas G. Evans and Adam Henschke (eds) (2013) Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War: Just War Theory in the 21st Century (Routledge) $118.53

Beneyto, José María (2013) New Approaches to International Law: The European and the American Experiences (T. M. C. Asser Press). $114.24

Behrens, Paul and Ralph Henham (eds) (2012) The Elements of Genocide (Routledge). $44.58

Breen-Smyth, Marie (ed) (2013) The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence (Ashgate). $162.98

Contreras, Francisco José (2012) The Threads of Natural Law: Unravelling a Philosophical Tradition (Springer). $105.88

Dallmayr, Fred. (2013) Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis (University Press of Kentucky Press). $54.84

Detter, Ingrid (2013) The Law of War (Stanford Law Books). $82.57

Everill, Bronwen (ed) (2013) The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan). $83.20

Fiala, Andrew. (2013) Against Religion, Wars, and States: The Case for Enlightenment Atheism, Just War Pacifism, and Liberal-Democratic Anarchism (Rowman & Littlefield). $59.54

Forge, John (2013) Designed to Kill: The Case Against Weapons Research (Springer). $114.84

Gillespie, Alexander (2013) The Causes Of War, Volume 1: 3000 BCE to 1000 CE (Hart). $68.00

Gow, James, Rachel Kerr and Zorna Pajic (eds) (2013) Prosecuting War Crimes: Lessons and legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Routledge). $109.39

Hill, Christopher (2013) The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies (Oxford University Press). $90.51

Hoffmann, Julia and André Nollkaemper (eds) (2012) Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice (Amsterdam University Press). $65.47

Holmes, Robert L. (2013) The Ethics of Nonviolence: Essays Predrag Cicovacki (ed) (Bloomsbury Academic). $32.37

Huppes-Cluysenaer, Liesbeth (eds) (2013) Aristotle and the Philosophy of Law: Theory, Practice and Justice (Springer). $113.85

Ish-Shalom, Piki (2013) Democratic Peace: A Political Biography (University of Michigan Press). $67.98

Janzekovic, John and Daniel Silander (2013) Responsibility to Protect and Prevent: Principles, Promises and Practicalities (Anthem Press) $109.59

Klabbers, Jan and Touko Piiparinen (eds) (2013) Normative Pluralism and International Law: Exploring Global Governance (Cambridge University Press) $85.91

Krieg, Andreas (2013) Motivations for Humanitarian Intervention: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations (Springer Press). $44.23

Lamb, Antony (2013) Ethics and the Laws of War: The Moral Justification of Legal Norms (Routledge) $119.14

MacLachlan, Alice and Allen Speight (eds) (2012) Justice, Responsibility and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict (Springer). $28.09
 
Malley-Morrison, Kathleen, Sherri McCarthy and Denise Hines (eds) (2012) International Handbook of War, Torture, and Terrorism (Springer). $246.23

Malley-Morrison, Kathleen, Andrea Mercurio and Gabriel Twose (eds) (2013) International Handbook of Peace and Reconciliation (Springer). $201.12

Marsden, Lee (ed) (2012) The Ashgate Research Companion to Religion and Conflict Resolution (Ashgate). $157.15

May, Larry and Elizabeth Edenberg (eds) (2013) Jus post bellum and Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press). $85.91

May, Larry and Andrew Forcehimes (eds) (2012) Morality, Jus Post Bellum, and International Law (Cambridge University Press) $83.51

May, Larry (2012) After War Ends: A Philosophical Perspective (Cambridge University Press) $27.15

McBride, Julie. (2013) The War Crime of Child Soldier Recruitment (T.M.C. Asser). $94.44

Messitte, Zach P and Suzette Grillot (eds) (2013) Understanding the Global Community (University of Oklahoma Press). $29.29

Nettlefield, Lara J. and Sarah Wagner (2013) Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide (Cambridge University Press) $95.53

Porpora, Douglas V., Julia Hagemann et.al. (2013) Post-Ethical Society : The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular ( University of Chicago Press). $47.90

Posner, Eric A. and Alan O. Sykes (2013) Economic Foundations of International Law (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). $61.88

Stahn, Carsten, Jennifer Easterday and Jens Iverson (eds) (2014) Jus Post Bellum (Oxford University Press) $159.60

Swistek, Goran (2013) The Responsibility to Protect and the Obligations for a Jus Post Bellum (Grin Verlag) $13.52

Ţuţuianu, Simona (2012) Towards Global Justice: Sovereignty in an Interdependent World: Sovereignty in an Interdependent World (T. M. C. Asser Press). $113.98

White, Nigel and Christian Henderson (eds) (2013) Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law: Jus Ad Bellum, Jus in Bello, and Jus Post Bellum (Edward Elgar Publishing) $255.56

Zeisberg, Mariah (2013) War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority (Princeton University Press). $21.00

Zyberi, Gentian (ed) (2013) An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press) $128.40
 

Journal Special Issues

A recent issue of the Journal of Military Ethics is dedicated to the theme ‘Cyberwar and Ethics’ (Vol. 12, Issue 1, 2013). An introductory article by the Guest Editor Bradley Strawser precedes essays by Edward Barrett, David Danks & Joseph Danks, Randall Dipert, Christoper Eberle, Ryan Jenkins and John Arquilla.

The latest issue of Ethics and International Affairs contains a roundtable discussion of ‘The Ethics of Rebellion” with articles by James Turner Johnson, John Kelsay, Nigel Biggar and Valerie Morkevicius, plus a feature article by Margaret Moore; ‘On Rights to Land, Expulsions and Corrective Justice’ (Winter 2013, Volume 27, Issue 4).

The Spring 2013 issue of Ethics and International Affairs contains a special section on the theme ‘Just War and its Critics’ (Spring 2013, Vol. 27, Issue 1). Articles by Cian O’Driscoll, John Kelsay, James Turner Johnson and Daniel Brunstetter & Megan Braun are included.
 

4. CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributions are invited for a dedicated issue of Theoria, A Journal of Social and Political Theory will focus on the theme “Is the Idea of Peace Relevant for the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare?” The special issue will be Guest-Edited by Nir Eisikovits of Suffolk University, and will ask questions such as the following; Is the idea of peace in its classic cosmopolitan formulation still relevant? Does it make sense to talk about a conflict with the Taliban or Al Qaeda terminating in a state of peace? If our idea of peace needs to be revised, how should we revise it? Does it need to be supplemented by other ideas? Which ideas? Can the concept of peace still serve as a useful regulative ideal even when it becomes further and further removed from how wars actually wind down? Papers less than 9000W should be submitted to theoriasa@gmail.com prior to July 1, 2014. Papers should be formatted for blind review and should follow Theoria's formatting rules, which are available at the following website: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/_uploads/th/th_style_guide.pdf

The deadline for apply for a Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates from Universities in the United States, Canada and Israel researching the Holocaust has been extended to March 10th, 2014. This is the Second USC/Yad Vashem workshop, and full information about it can be obtained by visiting the website below. Applicants must be registered PhD students in the United States, Canada or Israel and should be past course work and in an advanced stage of research. For further information or for questions, please contact Eliot Nidam Orvieto (eliot.nidam@yadvashem.org.il) or Wolf Gruner (gruner@usc.edu). Website: http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/institute/index.asp

The editors of Genocide Studies International welcome submissions for their third issue, which is a special issue on the Ottoman Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2014. All submissions and editorial inquiries should be addressed to genstudintl@outlook.com. For information on Genocide Studies International, visit the following website: http://www.utpjournals.com/Genocide-Studies-International.html
 

5. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS 
 
A new seminar in Philosophy at Rutgers University entitled “Normative Dimensions of War” was designed to give future civilian leaders and officers in the US military a new understanding of war’s moral complexities. Cadets from West Point Academy and Rutgers University undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy gathered May 28-June 12 to discuss the ethics, law and effectiveness of organized political violence. Major Ian Fishback of West Point developed the three-week pilot program in conjunction with Rutgers philosophy professor Jeff McMahan.

A Graduate Reading Retreat is being organized by the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace from September 19-20, 2014 in Menorca. The Retreat is designed for graduate students and those who have recently obtained PhDs in the field of the ethics of war and peace. Students will enjoy a two-hour session (with a 30 minute presentation) on submitted papers, which will be pre-circulated. Students will also be assigned a respondent from among invited faculty to provide written comments and a response. Participants will receive generous contributions towards travel, meals and accommodation. The event will take place at the Sol Gavilanes hotel in Cala Galdana, Menorca. Invited faculty include David Rodin, David Mapel, Laura Valentini, Helen Frowe , Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, and Massimo Renzo. Students wishing to submit should email papers to Helen Frowe (helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se) prior to March 1st. Papers should be under 10000W excluding references and should be suitable for blind review, with the author’s name, email address, affiliation and a one-page CV included in the email. A note from the author’s supervisor or department head confirming registration as a graduate student and/or the author’s viva in the last six months, should also be included.

The Balkans Peace Program (BPP) will host its Summer School for 2014 on “International Development, Politics, and Post-Conflict Societies: Kosovo and the Balkans”. The program will provide students with the opportunity to spend three weeks in Kosovo studying development in practice in a post-conflict zone in middle-Europe. Participants will visit three Balkans countries; Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. The curriculum will consist of three key components: an academic course, a tour of historic and tourist sites, and activities of cultural immersion, whereby students live with host families in Gjilan, Kosovo’s fourth largest city, located 5km southeast of Prishtina. The course runs from August 2-23. Partial scholarships are available. For more information, visit the following website: http://www.bislimi.org/balkansprogram.htm or direct questions to: bpp@bislimi.org
 

 6. INTERNET RESOURCES 

 http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/training-ethics/index.page
This set of Ethics and Training Tools is made available by the Canadian Armed Forces for purposes of ethical training in the CAF. Short on-line courses, case studies and learning scenarios, and other useful tools and background readings are included.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/education/teacher-resources/
The “Teacher Resources” section of the website of the Canadian War Museum contains an astounding selection of teaching materials on military conflict in Canadian history, including curricula, games and activities, and on-line resources such as digitized newspaper clippings and official announcements out of Canadian and allied publications. 

http://www.justwartheory.com/
JustWarTheory.com is an extensive resource for the philosophical study of warfare. It gathers together a large and varied selection of internet resources related to the just war tradition, including links to topical articles, academic publications, book reviews, and a range of other links divided into the major just war categories. It is maintained by Mark Rigstad of Oakland University.  
http://www.ethicsonline.net/pages/war_peace.html
The link above connects to Ethics Online, a website offering insightful films and documentaries (for purchase) to assist teachers of philosophy and ethics. Their section on “War and Peace” contains sample clips on just war theory, holy war, and conscientious objection, as well as teaching notes, scripts and classroom exercises.  

http://www-tc.pbs.org/thewar/downloads/just_war.pdf
The link above connects you to a short lesson plan for teaching just war theory at a very introductory level, in conjunction with the PBS documentary “The WAR” by Ken Burns. The lesson plan analyzes the US Declaration of war against Japan in 1941 with the traditional just war constraints using clips from the documentary.
 


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