THE JUST WAR NEWSLETTER
Issue No. 9 June 2017
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 to announce new developments for researchers, teachers
and practitioners whose work involves the doctrine of just war. Written and
published by Michael Kocsis, it serves anyone working in academia, the public
service, non-governmental organizations, and the military.
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Back-issues can be found on the WWW at: http://thejustwarnewsletter.blogspot.ca/
2. CONFERENCES AND
EVENTS
Last
March 17, the Faculty of Philosophy of the Dominican University
College in Ottawa held its Eleventh Annual Symposium on War. Themes included
the nature of war in our time and the relevance of just war theory for
justifying military actions today. The symposium was organized by Eduardo
Andújar of Dominican University College.
An event entitled “Peace
beyond Justice: Compromise and modus
vivendi” was hosted by the Facoltà di Filosofia and
Centro Studi di Etica e Politica at
the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan) from March
20-21. A number of scholars from the Universities of Milan,
Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Hamburg and Eastern Piedmont presented papers and
fielded questions in discussion.
A two day interdisciplinary
workshop on “Hugo Grotius’s Place in the History of Moral and Political
Philosophy” was held on April 5 and 6 at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven (Belgium). The keynote
lecture was delivered by Annabel Brett
(Cambridge). Erik De Bom and Johan Olsthoorn organized the event. The
conference webpage can be viewed here: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/ned/events/workshop-grotius.
A workshop on Culture and
Diversity in the Canadian Armed Forces was held on May 4 in
Ottawa. The event was organized by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran
Health Research (CIMVHR) and the Center for International and
Defense Policy (CIDP) in a joint initiative for the advancement
of research in this emerging area of research.
A workshop on “Forgiveness,
Apology and Reconciliation” was hosted by the University of Manchester’s
Philosophy Department on May 25-26. The two-day interdisciplinary event
explored interpersonal and political aspects of apology and forgiveness. The organizers
were Paula Satne (University of Manchester) and Cristina Roadevin (University
of Sheffield). The conference website is still viewable at: http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:d2v-iy1m3rhy-93rv1m
A workshop on “Democracy in
Practice” took place on May 26 at the University of Geneva. Hosted
by the Departments of Classics and History, the event explored questions about
democratic epistemology, democratic morality, deliberative democracy, and multilingual
democracy.
The 3rd Annual
Conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics at the University of
Birmingham was on the topic Humanitarian Ethics and Action. The event took
place June 1-2 at the Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham. Keynote speakers included Simon
Caney, Cecile Fabre, Helen Frowe and Hugo Slim. The
lineup of speakers is posted on the following website: http://globalethics2017.weebly.com
A two-day workshop held from June 13-14 examined arguments for and against world government from theoretical and
empirical perspectives. The first day was spent in the Collegium
Helveticum (Zurich) and the second in the Zukunftskolleg (Konstanz Germany). Speakers
included Marco Cellini, Daniele Archibugi, Luiss Guido, Eva Erman, Henning
Hahn, Raffaele Marchetti, András Miklós, Attila Tanyi, Alice Pinheiro Walla,
Timothy Sinclair, Torbjörn Tännsjö, and Joachim Wündisch. It was organizaed by Attila
Tanyi (University of Liverpool & Collegium Helveticum). You can find further
information and audio from day one talks here: http://www.attilatanyi.com/past-events.html
An international conference
on “The Future of
Republicanism: Liberal, Critical, Radical?” was held at the University of York
(UK) on June 26-27. The event considered recent revivals of civic
republican political philosophy and distinct and arguably antagonistic
tendencies within republican thought. Cécile Laborde and Philip Pettit delivered
keynotes. Details are posted here: http://futureofrepublicanism.weebly.com
An International Symposium on
“Strengthening Peace through Education” will take place from August 9-11
in conjunction with the 72nd
Nagasaki Peace Memorial and Remembrance Ceremony. The event will take place at
the ANA Crowne Plaza (Nagasaki), 1-18 Minamiyamatemachi, Nagasaki City, Japan,
and it will allow participants the opportunity to visit the Nagasaki Peace Park
which has been nominated as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Extensive information
and details on how to attend are available on this conference website: http://intesda.org/humanities-arts-peace-symposium/
A panel on
“Historic Injustice, Trust and Moral Repair” will take place from September 6-9th
at the University of Oslo as part of the Standing Group on Political Theory on
Forms of Injustice (a division of the European Consortium for Political
research (ECPR)). The panel will explore questions about collective distrust,
obligation, legitimacy, culpability, and “moral repair”. For details and access
to papers already submitted, visit the website below or contact the panel organizer
Nikolas Kirby at the following email address: nikolas.kirby@bsg.ox.ac.uk
An event on “Collectivism
and the Morality of War” will be hosted at the University of Manchester as part
of the MANCEPT 2017 series of Workshops in Political Theory. Taking place from
September 11-13th, the event’s convener is Saba
Bazargan-Forward (UC San Diego). Papers in philosophy addressing group agency,
collective responsibility, and complicity as these apply to the morality of war
are invited. The workshop will help explore “anti-revisionist” alternatives to
reductive individualism. http://www.mancept.com/mancept-workshops/mancept-workshops-2017/
The
Peace and Conflict Studies Association of Canada (PACS-Can) will host a
workshop from September 21-22 on “Canadian Peacekeeping: Where Have We Been?
Where Should We Go?” in collaboration with Waterloo’s Balsillie School of
International Affairs. Proposals are invited for formal paper presentations, a
number of which will appear in an edited volume or special issue of Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of
Peace and Conflict Studies. The event’s purpose is to examine the
transformation of peacekeeping, dilemmas facing Canadian policy-makers, and
ways in which Canada might contribute to current and future UN peace support
operations. For further information on how to submit an abstract or attend the
event, contact co-organizers Timothy Donais (tdonais@wlu.ca) or Edmund Pries (epries@wlu.ca) or visit this PACS-Can workshop
website: http://pacscan.ca/en/pacs-can-peacekeeping-workshop/
The 8th Annual conference of the Canadian
Institute for Military and Veteran Health Forum (CIMVHR) will take place in Toronto
from September 25th to 27th in conjunction with the
Invictus Games. Those interested in attending should send an inquiry to the
CIMVHR office at cimvhr@queensu.ca or connect by telephone at: (613) 533-3329.
The
2017 Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership’s Philosophy of Law Conference will
take place from September 28 to October 1 in Burlington (Ontario).
This year’s theme is “Governance, Legality and Political Morality beyond the
State”, and its purpose is to raise and explore many legal and philosophical
questions arising in the realm of global governance. A range of prominent experts
in philosophy of law will present keynote papers. Conference organizers are
Claudia Emerson, Michael Giudice, Violetta Igneski, Stefan Sciaraffa, Francois
Tanhguay-Renaud, and Wil Waluchow. Additional information is posted on this
conference website: http://philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/olpp/
The annual meeting of the International Society for Military Ethics (ISME)
will take place in Cleveland at Case Western Reserve University on January 25-26,
2018. The event’s theme is “Culture, Diversity, and Military Ethics: Intersections
of Military and Civilian Culture at a Time of International Political Upheaval”
and it will focus on three
main research axes: the application of just war theory in asymmetrical
contexts, military ethics and politics (both international and domestic), and
cultural integration, diversity, and globalization. The deadline for
submissions is October 2, 2017. Further information and a call for papers can
be found at the ISME’s conference website or by sending questions to lead
organizer Stephanie Belanger at the following email address: stephanie.belanger@rmc.ca
The XXIV World Congress of Philosophy will take place August 13-20 (2018) in Beijing (China) on
the theme “Learning to be Human”. This major event
will be hosted by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies
(FISP) The aims of the 2018 Congress include exploring dimensions of the human
and considering challenges facing humanity as a whole. Those wishing to
participate should consult the congress website submit an abstract or paper to
one of the 99 sections: http://wcp2018.pku.edu.cn Other questions can be sent to
the Chinese Organizing Committee of the 24th World Congress of
Philosophy Secretariat, Department of Philosophy, Peking University; No.5
Yiheyuan Road Haidian District, Beijing; P.R.China, 100871.
3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books (CDN$)
Beneyto, José
Maria (ed.) (2017) At the Origins of Modernity: Francisco de Vitoria and the
Discovery of International Law (Springer) $180.84
Brunstetter, Daniel R. and Cian O’Driscoll (eds.) (2017) Just War
Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (Routledge) $60.47
Carnahan, Kevin (2017) From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War
Rationality (Routledge) $195.06
Courtland, Shane D. (ed.) (2017) Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public
Policy (Routledge) $185.39
Demont-Biaggi, Florian (ed.) (2017) The Nature of Peace and the Morality
of Armed Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan) $105.58
Dinstein, Yoram (2017) War, Aggression and Self-Defense / 6th
Edition (Cambridge UP) $81.02
Falk, Richard (2017) Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (Pluto
Press) $102.38
Gould, Jeremy (2017) Postcolonial Legality: Law,
Politics and State Formation in Africa since the End of the Cold War
(Routledge) $185.75
Gross, Michael L. and Tamar Meisels (eds.) (2017) Soft War: The Ethics
of Unarmed Conflict (Cambridge UP) $39.95
Hawksley, Charles and Nichole Georgeou (2017) Police-Building and the
Responsibility to Protect: Civil Society, Gender and Human Rights Culture in
Oceania (Routledge) $206.21
Hoock, Holger (2017) Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth (Crown)
$30.55
Ikenberry, G. John (2017) After Victory: Institutions, Restraint, and
the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton UP) $21.98
Koposov, Nikolay (2017) Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the
Past in Europe and Russia (Cambridge UP) $33.95
Lo, Ping-Cheung and Sumner B. Twiss (eds.) Chinese Just War Ethics:
Origins, Development and Dissent (Routledge) $73.27
May, Larry (ed) (2017) The Cambridge Handbook of the Just War (Cambridge
UP) $48.10
Meisels, Tamar (2017) Contemporary Just War: Theory and Practice
(Routledge) $59.42
Mipham, Jamgon (2017) The Just King: The Tibetan Buddhist Classic on
Living the Ethical Life (Snow Lion) $29.91
Morkevičius, Valerie (2017) Realist Ethics: Just War Traditions as Power
Politics (Cambridge UP) $45.50
Neu, Michael (2017) Just Liberal Violence: Sweatshops, Torture, War
(Rowman & Littlefield) $42.95
Newman,Tom (2017) Just War: A Soldier’s Revelation (CreateSpace
Independent Publishing Platform) $13.23
Primoratz, Igor (author) and C.A.J. Coady (editor) (2017) Military
Ethics: The International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics
(Routledge) $500.03
Ranny, James T. (2017) Securing World Peace through Law: Replacing War
with the Global Rule of Law (Routledge) $90.75
Reichberg, Gregory M. (2016) Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace (Cambridge
UP) $114.95
Sanahuja, Lorena Cebolla (2017) Toward Kantian Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave
Macmillan) $132.43
Schulzke, Marcus (2017) Just War Theory and Civilian Casualties:
Protecting the Victims of War (Cambridge UP) $114.95
Strawser, Bradley J., Ryan
Jenkins and Michael Robillard (eds.) (2017) Who Should Die? The Ethics of Killing
in War (Oxford UP) $80.19
Journal Special Issues
The journal
Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric
recently published an issue on the theme “Global Justice: Radical Perspectives”
(Vol. 9, No. 1). An introductory article by Maeve McKeown and Alasia Nuti
precedes essays by Angie Pepper, Christiaan Boonen and Nicolas Brando, Maeve
McKeown, Magali Bessone and Nora Wittmann. Essay abstracts can be viewed
on-line at:
4. CALL FOR PAPERS
The Britain and Ireland
Association for Political Thought welcomes doctoral students in the UK or the
Republic of Ireland to submit original research papers in any area of political
theory. One paper will be chosen as the foundation for a presentation at the
Political Thought Conference 2018 held in Oxford (UK) on January 4-6 2018.
Academic convenors for the conference (Iseult Honohan and Humeira Iqtidar) will
select one original paper for inclusion in the conference programme and the
successful doctoral student will be awarded free conference registration,
accommodation, meals and travel expenses. Submissions should be in MS Word and
should be approximately 5000w not including citations and bibliography. A cover
sheet should include author’s name and contact details, estimated term of
dissertation submission, name(s) and contact details of your supervisor(s),
title of the paper, and abstract. Names and affiliations should not appear in
the essay. The deadline is July 24, 2017 and papers should be submitted by
email to: conference@associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk
Polity (the journal of the Northeastern
Political Science Association) invites essays in political theory for
publication as regular research articles. Essays are especially welcome if they
work from a variety of approaches in political theory (critical, comparative,
analytic, historical), bring normative, interpretive or conceptual clarity to
key concepts of contemporary political life, bridge sub-field boundaries, and/or
address the politics and ethics of human rights advocacy. Manuscripts will be promptly
assessed and processed through a standard double-blind peer review process. Manuscripts, inquiries and questions about
the journal should be sent via email to: polity@hunter.cuny.edu Polity’s website contains detailed
information about formatting and submission: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/pol/cfp-pt
5. ACADEMIC
PROGRAMS
The Third
Annual International Law Summer Institute took place from May 15-19
at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. The program was designed
to provide graduate students studying global governance with a grounding in
public international law and associated processes and institutions. Details are
still posted on this CIGI summer institute website: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/3rd-annual-international-law-summer-institute
The Fourth International Summer School in
Peace and Conflict Studies, hosted by the Department of Social and Political
Sciences, University of Cyprus, the International Association of Peace and
Conflict Studies, and the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
will take place in Nicosia (Cyprus) from July 9-21. This year’s
theme is “Co-opted Peace and the Pursuit of Justice. Subtitle: Hidden
Conflicts, Concealed Violence and New Rights”. Those interested in the Summer
School should send questions to Maria Hadjimichael, Peace and Conflict Studies
Summer School, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of
Cyprus; P.O. Box 20537, CY-1678 Nicosia (Cyprus); email: mhadji46@ucy.ac.cy; web: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/isspeaceconflict/
The Utrecht
University Summer School for 2017 will explore questions of “Value
Pluralism”. Taking place from August 14-18,
at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, will discuss value pluralism and implications
for other normative domains such as epistemology, aesthetics and metaethics. For
more information, application instructions, and the complete syllabus visit the
following website: https://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/culture/value-pluralism
An Annual Summer Course on “The Diversity of
Human Rights: Human Rights under Pressure” will take place from September 3-9
at the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik in Dubrovnik (Croatia). The course will
explore problems within the human rights discourse and participants will be
drawn from various countries and disciplines. For further information, contact:
Swaantje Siebke at the Institute for Philosophy und Political Science, Technical
University of Dortmund; Emil-Figge-Str. 50; 44227 Dortmund, Germany or send an
email to the following address: swaantje.siebke@tu-dortmund.de
6. INTERNET RESOURCES
1. Ethics and
Justification of War
2. Just War Theory
3. Military Ethics
Three sections of the PhilPapers database are being overhauled. PhilPapers provides a listing and links to academic publications in
a vast range of philosophical fields. Scholars get access to categorized journal
articles, book chapters and other writings gathered by specialist editors.
Sections on “Ethics and Justification of War”, “Just War Theory” and “Military Ethics” are in the process of expansion and refinement. Newsletter
readers with suggestions about literature that should be included in these
topic areas should check the links below and/or offer suggestions to the Editor
at this email address: msk3@queensu.ca
The International Law
Summer Institute at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
posts a series of lectures on the theory and practice of international law.
Lectures by prominent scholars of international law discuss topics like gender,
arbitration, research in international law, and other theoretical questions.
Announcements
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