THE
JUST WAR NEWSLETTER
Issue No. 5 January 2016
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 publication for announcements and new developments for researchers
and practitioners interested in the doctrine of just war. Written and published
by Michael Kocsis, it is meant to serve anyone working in academia, the public
service, non-governmental organizations, and the military.
If you wish to be added to the mailing list, contact us at msk3@queensu.ca Back-issues
are posted on the WWW at: http://thejustwarnewsletter.blogspot.ca/
2. CONFERENCES AND
EVENTS
The 9th
Annual Pan-European Conference on International Relations was about “The Worlds
of Violence.” The event took place in Giardini Naxos (Sicily, Italy) from Sept.
23-26th 2015. Info is still available on the conference website: http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2015/
A conference on “The
Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges” was held at the
United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey (California) Oct. 7-9th,
2015. Its aim was to explore issues in the ethics
of war, just war theory, and the moral implications of the
future and changing nature of warfare. Conference info is still posted here: https://jwtconference.wordpress.com/
An international
conference on “The Theory of Just War: Behind the Jurisprudential Defense of
(Abstaining from) Military Action” was held on October 13th and 14th
2015 at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
Michael Walzer was the Keynote Speaker. An overview of the event is posted on
the following website: http://www.saevientibus2015.pl/
The
International Society for Military Ethics (ISME) is holding its 2016 Annual
Conference on “Women Serving in the Armed Forces: Shaping Modern Values and
Beyond”. The event will take place from Jan. 29-30th at Loew’s Annapolis
Hotel in Annapolis Maryland, and it will explore the de facto transition of women in the armed forces from non-combat to
combat roles. For further information, contact Richard
Schoonhoven at the following email address: richard.schoonhoven@usma.edu For a conference program, visit the event
website:
An conference
called “Normative Interventions” is being organized for February 18-19th
at University College London. Organized by Jeffery Howard (UCL), the aim is to
consider the possibilities and potential for impact by political philosophers on
real-world political events. For further information, contact
organizers by email at: jeffrey.howard@ucl.ac.uk
The
International Studies Association (ISA) is holding its 57th Annual
Convention in Atlanta, Georgia from March 16-19th, 2016. Hosted at
the Headquarters Hilton Hotel, the Convention will investigate the topic of
“Exploring Peace” throughvalues such as human rights, justice, and equity,
which are essential to virtually all conceptions of peace and yet are poorly
represented in mainstream academic discussions about military conflict
resolution and the right to deploy armed force. Details are posted here: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/Atlanta-2016
A two-day
event called “Just War Theory in an African Context” will take place from April
4-5th of this year at the University of
Johannesburg. Organized by Thaddeus Metz, the objective is to explore traditional just war categories and
arguments through the lens of characteristically “sub-Saharan” values and
norms. Further information is posted on this PhilEvents conference webpage: http://philevents.org/event/show/18335
The Third
Annual Conference on the Ethics of War, a collaboration between the United
States Military Academy and Villanova University, will be hosted at Villanova
from April 8-9th, 2016. Distinguished speakers at the event will
include Claire Finkelstein, Mark Juergensmeyer, Francis Kamm and Dominic
Tierney. For further details, contact Mark Wilson at the following email
address: mark.wilson@villanova.edu or watch for updates on this website: http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/ethics/conference.html
The British
Branch section of the International Law Association (ILA) will host its spring
2016 conference on the theme of “Non-State Actors and Changing Relations in
International Law”. The event will take place at the Lancaster House Hotel near
Lancaster University from April 8-9th. The conference will examine how non-state
actors (individual citizens, minorities, indigenous groups, NGOs, businesses,
international organizations) raise issues and create particular relationships in
international law. Those interested in presenting papers should send abstracts
of under 500w to j.summers@lancaster.ac.uk prior to January 31st.
Details are posted on the Lancaster Law School website:
The 24th
World Conference of Political Science (organized by the International Political
Science Association) will explore the topic of “Everyday Humanitarianism:
Ethics, Affects and Practices.” Organized by Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE) and Lisa Ann
Richey (Roskilde University, Denmark) and hosted at the London School of
Economics (LSE) from April 14-16th 2016, the event will include
Keynote Addresses by Craig Calhoun and Miriam
Ticktin. For full details, visit the conference website: http://www.ipsa.org/news/event/everyday-humanitarianism-ethics-affects-and-practices#.Vhkz0rjxkbE.twitter
The European
Society of International Law will hold its 12th Annual Conference
this year in Riga (Latvia) from Sept. 8-10th, 2016. The theme will
be “How International Law Works in Times of Crisis”, and the conference will
consider topics such as new forms of armed conflict, the European human rights
architecture, minority rights, human security, and the challenges of illiberal
states. Those interested in submitting a presentation should consult the
following Conference website: http://www.esil-sedi.eu/node/1060 or download this PDF version of the
call for papers: http://www.esil-sedi.eu/sites/default/files/RGSL_ESIL_Call_for_Papers_2016.pdf . The deadline for submissions is
January 31st.
3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books (CDN$)
Barela, Steven J. (ed) (2015) Legitimacy and Drones: Investigating the Legality,
Morality and Efficacy of UVACs (Ashgate) $163.73
Bentwich, Norman (2015) The Religious Foundations of Internationalism: A
Study of International Relations Through the Ages (Routledge) $214.27
Bianchi, Andrea, Daniel Peat et.al. (eds) (2015) Interpretation in
International Law (Oxford UP) $147.00
Biggar, Nigel (2014) In Defense of War (Oxford UP Reprint Edition)
$39.95
Bjorge, Eirik (2014) The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (Oxford
UP) $126.00
Boaks, Jacqueline and Michael P. Levine (eds) (2015) Leadership and
Ethics (Bloomsbury Academic) $145.95
Bryant, Michael (2015) A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to
the Present (Bloomsbury Academic) $150.00
Calhoun, Laurie (2015) We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to
Assassination in the Drone Age (Zed Books) $31.95
Cavarero, Adriana, Angelo Scola et.al. (2015) Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Political
and Theological Dialogue (Fordham UP) $103.83
Clapham, Andrew and Paola Gaeta (eds) (2015) The Oxford Handbook of
International Law in Armed Conflict (Oxford UP) $84.00
Collins, Victoria E. (2015) State Crime, Women and Gender (Routledge)
$200.45
Donelan, Michael (ed) (2015) The Reason of States: A Study of
International Political Theory (Routledge) $193.54
Draper, Kai (2015) War and Individual Rights: The Foundations of Just
War Theory (Oxford UP) $71.50
Eckert, Amy E. (2016) Outsourcing War: The Just War Tradition in the Age
of Military Privatization (Cornell UP) $39.95
Escriba-Folch, Abel and Joseph Wright (2015) Foreign Pressure and the
Politics of Autocratic Survival (Oxford UP) $115.50
Fassbender, Bardo, Anne Peters et.al. (eds) (2014) The Oxford Handbook
of the History of Internaitonal Law (Oxford UP) $136.36
Finlay, Christopher J. (2015) Terrorism and the Right to Resist: A
Theory of Just Revolutionary War (Cambridge UP) $114.95
Fisher, David (2012) Morality and War: Can War be Just in the
Twenty-First Century? (Oxford UP) $35.95
Fleck, Dieter (2014) The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law
(Oxford UP) $94.50
Gentry, Caron E. and Laura Sjoberg (2015) Beyond Mothers, Monsters,
Whores: Thinking about Women’s Violence in Global Politics (Zed Books) $35.95
Goodin, Robert and James S. Fishkin (2015) Political Theory without
Borders (Wiley-Blackwell) $109.95
Gray, Peter (2015) Air Warfare: History, Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury
Academic) $145.95
Guth, Karen (2015) Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and
Theologies of Public Life (Fortress Press) $50.00
Harris, Shane (2015) @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
(Eamon Dolan) $18.64
Hedges, Chris (2014) War is a Force that Gives us Meaning
(PublicAffairs/First Trade) $16.46
Hensel, Howard M. (ed) (2015) The Legitimate Use of Military Force: The
Just War Tradition and the Customary Law of Armed Conflict (Ashgate) $64.47
Hicks, Robert Michael (2016) Few Call it War: Religious Terrorism; Then
and Now (Morgan James Publishing) $26.07
Hulas, Maciej and Stanislaw Fel (eds) (2015) Intricacies of Patriotism
(Peter Lang) $92.65
Kastner, Philipp (2015) Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal
Armed Conflict (Cambridge UP) $114.95
Keen, Maurice (2015) The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge)
$206.82
Klose, Fabian (ed) (2015) The Emergence of Hmanitarian Intervention:
Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Cambridge UP)
$137.95
Kutz,
Christopher (2016) On War and Democracy (Princeton UP) $49.95
Laoutides,
Costas (2015) Self-Determination and Collective Responsibility in the Age of
Secessionist Struggle (Ashgate) $165.00
Lomasky,
Loren and Fernando Tesón (2015) Justice at a Distance: Extending Freedom
Globally (Cambridge UP) $114.95
MacNair,
Rachel M. (2015) Religions and Nonviolence: The Rise of Effective Advocacy for
Peace (Praeger) $75.95
May, Larry
(2015) Contingent Pacifism: Revisiting Just War Theory (Cambridge UP) $114.95
Menon,
Rajan (2016) The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Oxford UP) $39.12
Neff,
Stephen C. (2014) Justice among Nations: A History of International Law
(Harvard UP) $56.68
Nolan,
Cathal J. (ed) (2015) Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of
International Affairs [Third Edition] (Praeger) $63.86
O’Callaghan,
Ronan (2015) Walzer, Just War and Iraq: Ethics as Response (Routledge) $202.94
Pitman,
George R. (2015) Why War? An Inquiry into the Genetic and Social Foundations of
Human Warfare (Dog Ear Publishing) $21.04
Rengger,
Nick (2016) The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International
Relations: Dealing in Darkness (Routledge) $59.06
Richards,
Anthony (2015) Conceptualizing Terrorism (Oxford UP) $105.00
Schabas,
William (2014) Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics and Rights at the War
Crimes Tribunals (Oxford UP) $27.95
Swift,
Christopher, Mark Cobb et.al. (eds) (2015) A Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies:
Understanding Spiritual Care in Public Places (Ashgate) $62.14
Thakur,
Ramesh and William Maley (eds) (2015) Theorising the Responsibility to Protect
(Cambridge UP) $ 114.95
Thirlway,
Hugh (2014) The Sources of International Law (Oxford UP) $157.44
Turner,
Mandy and Florian Kuhn (eds) (2015) The Politics of International Intervention:
The Tyranny of Peace (Routledge) $214.27
Vanderhaar,
Gerard (2015) Personal Nonviolence: A Practical Spirituality for Peacemakers
(Wipf & Stock) $23.92
Weller,
Marc (ed) (2015) The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law
(Oxford UP) $344.79
Witt, John
Fabian (2013) Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press)
$21.00
Journal Special Issues
The current issue of the Journal
of Military Ethics is on the theme of “The Just Soldier: Who is It?” (Vol. 14,
Issue 3-4, 2015). Edited by Henrik Syse and Martin L. Cook, the issue contains
articles by Jesse Kirkpatrick, Robert Sparrow, and Michelle Schut & René Moelker. The same issue contains a Book Symposium on
Michael Gross’s recent book “The Ethics of Insurgency: A Brief Overview”.
The winter 2015 issue of Ethics
and International Affairs (Vol. 29, Issue 4) contains a Roundtable on the topic
of “Change and Continuity in Global Governance” and a feature article entitled
“The Ethics of Arming Rebels”, written by James Pattison.
4. CALL FOR PAPERS
The Stockholm
Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace welcomes submissions for its 3rd
Annual Graduate Reading Retreat, which will take place this year in Venice (Italy).
As many as six doctoral students working on the ethics of war and peace will be
selected to present their work in Venice from Sept. 10-11, 2016. This year’s event has been broadened to include
work on collective responsibility, causation, authority, moral responsibility,
or other areas of philosophy touching on the ethics of war and peace. Those
interested in participating should email their essay to Helen Frowe, Director
of the Stockhom Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, via email (helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se) prior to May 1st.
Essays should be under 10000w (excluding references) and should be prepared for
blind review. Submitted essays should be unpublished and not under review by
the time of the retreat; should include the author’s name, email address and
affiliation; and should be accompanied by a one-page CV and a letter from the
student’s supervisor or department head confirming graduate student registration.
5. ACADEMIC
PROGRAMS
A Graduate
Cource on the “Ethics and Technologies of War” is being offered by the National
Security College at Australian National University (ANU). This course examines
ethical norms on the use of armed force for political purposes and it includes
a particular focus on the relationship between those norms and military
technologies. It’s primary focus is Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars. For full details, visit the ANU website: http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/course/NSPO8014
6. INTERNET RESOURCES
The website of the Aspen Ideas Festival now includes
a streamed lecture by Yale University Law Professor Stephen L. Carter, entitled
“The Tragedy of Just War Theory”. Combining examples of armed
conflict from history with contemporary events,
Carter discusses; “How our distorted ethics of
warfare makes it easy to fight wars which we should not, and difficult to fight
wars that we should?”
Now available on CBC Radio’s renowned Ideas podcast website is an extensive audio
documentary about the just war tradition entitled “Just War Theory: So what?”
The documentary was produced by Frank Faulk and is based on interviews with
just war theorists such as Brian Orend and Stephanie Belanger.
The Washington Post’s website recently published a section called “Just
War Theory: A Primer”. Written by Christine Emba, the section links to a host
of opinion pieces and interviews touching on issues of justice and war.
The following document is
available on the website called “Catholic Answers”, which provides a series of
Biblical references and Old Testament quotations purported to be the ancient
Christian roots of the just war tradition.
Announcements
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research project, call for papers, conference, workshop, or other event, simply
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