THE JUST WAR NEWSLETTER
Issue No. 12, October 2018
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Conferences
and Events 3. Recent Publications
4. Calls for Papers
5. Academic Programs and Projects
6. Internet Resources
1. INTRODUCTION
The Just War Newsletter is an electronic
publication to announce new developments for scholars, teachers and
practitioners whose work involves just war theory. 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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2. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
An event
entitled “The Intellectual Lives of Hugo Grotius: Texts, Contexts and
Controversies across the Disciplines” took place from May 4-6th at
Princeton University. The organizers were Russ Leo and Mogens Lærke.
Participants included Sarah Rivett, Steven Nadler, Feisal Mohamed, Yaacob
Dweck, Henk Nellen, Sarah Mortimer, Rhodri Lewis. Eric Nelson, Julie Saada,
Nigel Smith, Jan Bloemendal, Jane Raisch, Frédéric Gabriel, Sophie Gee, Mary
Nyquist and Sharon Achinstein.
An
international workshop on “Democratic Institutions and Future Generations” took
place on May 10th at the Centre for the Study of Democracy
(CSD), University of Westminster. The event was based on scholarly papers
by Simon Caney, Henrike Knappe, Michael Mackenzie, Maija Setälä and Graham
Smith, each exploring the theory or practice of democratic traditions and
institutions over intergenerational time.
The Tarello
Institute for Legal Philosophy hosted a seminar on “Justice and International
Law” at the University of Genoa on May 18th. Timothy Endicott
and Mario Krešić were primary speakers, and Riccardo Guastini, Pierluigi
Chiassoni, Giovanni Ratti, Cristina Redondo and Mauro Barberis were
discussants.
From August
22-25th, the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
General Conference took place at the University of Hamburg. The topic was “Kant
on Political Change: Global Challenges” and the convenors were Howard Williams
and Sorin Baiasu.
A
workshop on “Modern Warfare and the Just War Tradition” was held on September
10th in Manchester as part of the MANCEPT Workshops in Political
Theory series. The organizer was
Joseph Tarquin Foulkes Roberts. The workshop explored a range of contemporary
themes including remote and autonomous weapons, cyber-warfare, insurgencies,
political and legal “fighting”, targeted killings, revolutions, rebellions,
terrorism, and guerrilla warfare.
A workshop on
“Legitimate Injustice and Just Resistance” was held from September 10-12th
at the University of Manchester, also as part of the MANCEPT series. Its
convenor was Aart van Gils.
Questions like the following were on the agenda: Can a state or society commit
legitimate injustices? What is the appropriate response to perpetrated
legitimate injustices? Does “structural legitimate injustice” render a state
unjust? What are necessary or sufficient conditions for illegitimacy and
injustice?
The 31st
Annual Conference of Concerned
Philosophers for Peace will take place at the University of Colorado,
Boulder from October 18-20th. The event is supported by the
University of Colorado’s Center for Values and Social Policy and its keynote
speaker will be Alison Jaggar. This year’s theme will be “Economic Justice and
Positive Peace”. Questions about the event can be sent to David Boersema at boersema@pacificu.edu.
An international workshop on “Infrastructures of Injustice: Law and
Conflict” will take place October 26-27th at St Edmund's College
(University of Cambridge) as part of the Cambridge-Singapore-Princeton Network
Workshop series. The workshop’s purpose is to explore interrelationships
between social structures and injustice through material, conceptual, ethical,
and affective relationships. For detailed information, contact Sandra
Brunnegger, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom;
email: b529@cam.ac.uk
A workshop on “Honour and Admiration after War and Conflict” will take place at Stockholm University from January 30-31, 2019. The organizers are Alfred Archer and Benjamin Matheson. The event is funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy and the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Questions such as the following will be explored: What are the moral objections to admiring political leaders who have committed wrongful acts? Do morally wrong actions undermine a leader’s “admirability”? Must honouring express admiration? Do statues and other artefacts necessarily express admiration for those they depict? How should we represent controversial historical figures? What are the norms that govern expressions of the positive emotions? Questions should be sent via email to Benjamin Matheson at the following email address: benjamin.matheson@philosophy.su.se
A workshop on “Honour and Admiration after War and Conflict” will take place at Stockholm University from January 30-31, 2019. The organizers are Alfred Archer and Benjamin Matheson. The event is funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy and the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Questions such as the following will be explored: What are the moral objections to admiring political leaders who have committed wrongful acts? Do morally wrong actions undermine a leader’s “admirability”? Must honouring express admiration? Do statues and other artefacts necessarily express admiration for those they depict? How should we represent controversial historical figures? What are the norms that govern expressions of the positive emotions? Questions should be sent via email to Benjamin Matheson at the following email address: benjamin.matheson@philosophy.su.se
An
International Conference on “Peace and Reconciliation in Global Times” will be
hosted from July 30-31st, 2019 at Pakistan’s University of Karachi. Those interested in participating
should send a 300w summary of the proposed presentation and a C.V. to Abdul
Rashid [hazara9@yahoo.com] before March 30. Completed papers will be
considered for inclusion in the publication series “Cultural Heritage and
Contemporary Change”. Questions about the event should be sent to: Abdul Rashid
at the email address above, and Zeenat Haroon, Department of Qur’aan and
Sunnah, University of Karachi, zeenatharoon@yahoo.com Conference information is posted on the
following event website: http://www.crvp.org/conferences/2019/Karachi.html
The Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics will host a conference from April 11-12th 2019 at Georgia State University on “Humanistic Perspectives on Moral Injury”. On some accounts, moral injury is a form of personal trauma one may suffer after participating in, or witnessing, acts that challenge deep values. This event will be a venue for research by humanities scholars whose work attempts to theorize this understanding of moral injury. Scheduled speakers include Ed Barrett, Saba Bazargan-Forward, Rita Nakashima Brock, Neta C. Crawford, Joseph Galloway, Linda Radzik, Nancy Sherman and David Rodin. Those interested in participating should send an email containing the names, contact information and paper titles for all proposed session speakers; a pdf or MS Word file (suitable for blind review) with a title and 250-500w abstract. Send the submission to Lauren Michelle Cooper at lcooper14@gsu.edu prior to November 6th. For other inquiries, contact Andrew I. Cohen aicohen@gsu.edu or visit the following website: https://ethics.gsu.edu/2018/09/07/call-for-papers-conference-on-moral-injury/
An upcoming
conference entitled “Francisco Suárez: Predecessors & Successors” will be
held from April 26-27th 2019 at Loyola University Chicago’s Water
Tower campus downtown. The two-day event will bring together worldwide scholars
to examine how Suárez revives elements of scholasticism and anticipates the
work of later philosophers. Confirmed participants include Brian Embry, Helen
Hattab, Sydney Penner, Kara Richardson, Tad Schmaltz, and Christopher Shields.
Peter Hartman and Kristen Irwin are the conference co-organizers. Visit the
following conference website http://suarezconference2019.sites.luc.edu to obtain current information.
The 9th
Workshop on Military Medical Ethics, organized by the International Committee
for Medical Medicine (ICMM) Center of Reference for Education on International
Humanitarian Law and Ethics, the Medical Services Directorate of the Swiss
Armed Forces, and the Zurich Center for Military Medical Ethics, will take
place from May 19-24th in Basel (Switzerland) at the Congress Center
Basel. The topic is “Ethics of Dealing with Risks in Military Medicine”.
Presentations, including reports from the field, case studies, philosophical
papers and legal analyses, will cover numerous dimensions of the workshop’s
topic. The deadline for submissions has passed, but information about the event
and how one might register can be found in the following CFP document: https://melac.ch/images/PDF/Lili2019/LILI2019-CfP_RISK.pdf
A conference
entitled “War Machine, Conflict, Coexistence” will be held as the 7th
International Conference on Deleuze/Guattari Studies in Asia. The event
will take place at the University of Tokyo from June 21-23 2019 and will
explore the dynamics of the concept of “war machine”. Keynote speakers will
include Ian Buchanan, Anne Sauvagnargues, Gregory Flaxman, Alfonso Lingis,
Alexander Galloway and Felicity Colman. Those interested in presenting at the
conference should submit an abstract between 150-200w prior to Dec 31st
to the following mail address: deleuzetokyo2019@gmail.com
A workshop organized by PluriCourts in 2019 will focus on “The Political and Legal Theory
of International Courts and Tribunals: Multilevel Separation of Authority” from
June 24-26th at the University of Oslo. The workshop will bring
together scholars of philosophy, political theory and legal theory whose research
encompasses one or more regional or international courts and tribunals. A major
topic will be multi-level ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ separation of authority
and questions concerning individual autonomy. Scholars interested in
participating should submit an abstract of less than 400w to the website below.
Send other questions via email to: Victoria Skeie (victoria.skeie@jus.uio.no).
https://www.jus.uio.no/pluricourts/english/news-and-events/news/2018/workshop-on-the-political-and-legal-theory-of-inte.html
An event on
“Cultural Heritage and the Ethics of War” will take place at Homerton College,
Cambridge, from September 18-19th, 2019. The event will explore the
moral value of cultural heritage and how one ought to conceptualize such values
in the broader context of the ethics of war. Keynote papers will be given by
Simon Blackburn, Ruth Chang, and Victor Tadros. Paper proposals (in the form of
800w abstracts) are welcome and should be sent via email to Joshua Thomas
(joshua.thomas@open.ac.uk) before January 14th. Full details can be
found on the following conference website: https://www.heritageinwar.com/conference-on
3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books (US$)
Armitage, David
(2017) Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
(Knopf) $17.96
Brunstetter,
Daniel R. and Cian O’Driscoll (eds) (2017) Just
War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (Routledge)
$42.70
Carnahan, Kevin
(2017) From Presumption to Prudence in
Just-War Rationality (Routledge) $107.20
Cohen, Eliot A.
(2017) The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft
Power and the Necessity of Military Force (Basic Books) $17.99
Cole, Darrell
(2018) Just War and the Ethics of
Espionage (Routledge) $49.95
Dubik, James M.
(2016) Just War Reconsidered: Strategy,
Ethics and Theory (University Press of Kentucky) $23.31
Fazal, Tanisha
M. (2018) Wars of Law: Unintended
Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Cornell UP) $39.95
Finlay,
Christopher J. (2017) Terrorism and the
Right to Resist: A Theory of Just Revolutionary War (Cambridge UP) $33.12
Finlay,
Christopher (2018) Is Just War Possible?
(Polity Press) $12.95
Freedman,
Lawrence (2017) The Future of War: A
History (PublicAffairs Press) $20.40
Gaddis, John
Lewis (2018) On Grand Strategy
(Penguin) $17.71
Gross, Michael
L. and Tamar Meisels (eds) (2017) Soft
War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict (Cambridge UP) $69.01
Jensen, Wollom
A. and James M. Childs, Jr. (2016) Moral
Warriors, Moral Wounds: The Ministry of the Christian Ethic (Wipf &
Stock) $35.70
Kingsbury,
Johnathan (2018) History’s Bloodiest
Revolutions (Rodger & Laz Publishing) $13.99
Klose, Fabian
(2018) The Emergence of Humanitarian
Intervention: Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
(Cambridge UP) $31.99
Lazar, Seth
(2016) Sparing Civilians (Oxford UP)
$44.95
Lucas, George
(2016) Military Ethics: What Everyone
Needs to Know (Oxford UP) $15.21
May, Larry
(2018) Contingent Pacifism: Revisiting
Just War Theory (Cambridge UP) $29.99
Meisels, Tamar
(2017) Contemporary Just War: Theory and
Practice (Routledge) $42.99
Menon, Rajan
(2018) The Conceit of Humanitarian
Intervention (Oxford UP) $19.95
Newman, Tom
(2017) Just War: A Soldier’s Revelation
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) $9.99
Reiner, J. Toby
(2018) New Directions in Just War Theory
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) $12.95
Roberts, Anthea
(2017) Is International Law
International? (Oxford UP) $39.95
Schadlow, Nadia
(2017) War and the Art of Governance:
Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory (Georgetown UP) $32.95
Schulzke,
Marcus (2017) Just War Theory and
Civilian Casualties: Protecting the Victims of War (Cambridge UP)
$99.99
Tesón, Fernando
R. and Bas van der Vossen (2017) Debating
Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers? (Oxford UP)
$24.95
Journal Special Issues
A special issue
of the Vanderbilt Journal of
Transnational Law is dedicated to “The Law of Armed Conflict” (Vol. 51, No.
3, May 2018). An introductory article by Ben Wahlhaus and Hannah Lidicker
precedes essays by Sharon Afek, Eran Shamir-Borer, Knut Dormann, Michael Wood,
plus a keynote address given by Yoram Dinstein.
A recent issue
of the Journal of Peace Research is
dedicated to “New Findings from the Conflict Archives” (Vol. 55, Issue 2, March
2018). Guest Edited by Laia Balcells and Christopher M. Sullivan, the issue
includes articles on policing institutions, accountability in the wake of violence,
resistance, civil war, ideology and re-settlement during and after war.
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice welcomes submissions of essays of
various lengths, review articles, and proposals for special issues. Papers
should not exceed 8000w including bibliography and footnotes, and should be
accompanied by a 250w abstract. Extended papers, with a maximum word count of
15000w, will be considered in exceptional cases. Comments (i.e., responses to
papers previously published in ETMP),
should be less than 2500w including bibliography and footnotes. Review
essays on a particular topic should be under 3000w. Reviews of current books
within the scope of Ethical Theory and
Moral Practice should include a brief description and critical assessment
of the book’s argument and should be between 800 and 1100w. Scholars interested
in writing book reviews should contact the review editors (Alexa Zellentin (alexa.zellentin@ucd.ie) and Ezio Di Nucci (ezio@sund.ku.dk). All submissions (except book
reviews) should be submitted via the journal’s website: https://www.springer.com/10677 Special Issues are collections of 6-9
original papers, accompanied by an introduction by one or more Guest Editors.
Proposals for special issues should be under 2000w and should include detailed
information about the editors, the topic and its rationale, anticipated authors,
short abstracts of planned contributions, and an explanation of the importance
of the topic and authors. The ETMP
editorial team will evaluate and select proposals twice each year on October 1
and April 1. Send special issue proposals to Editors-in-Chief Marcus Düwell (m.duwell@uu.nl) and Thomas Schramme (t.schramme@liverpool.ac.uk).
An upcoming issue of the Journal
of Applied Philosophy will be a special issue dedicated to “Collective
Agents and Global Structural Injustice”. The Guest Editors will be Christina
Friedlaender and Leonie Smith, and the deadline for submissions is December 1st
2018. Essays that focus on the production of structural injustice in the
absence of clear individual causal or moral responsibility are especially
welcome, as are essays that consider the following questions: What is the role
of collective agents in producing and rectifying specific cases of global
structural injustice? Is collective responsibility backward looking, forward
looking, or both? What is the relationship between global structural injustice
and collective agency? Articles should be under 8000w and should be prepared in
accordance with the JAP formatting guidelines, which are posted here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14685930/homepage/forauthors.html Other inquiries or questions should be
sent to the Editors, Christina Friedlaender (cwarne@memphis.edu) and Leonie Smith (l.smith@manchester.ac.uk.edu).
An upcoming
Special Issue of the journal Humanities
is dedicated to: “War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy”. The Guest
Editor will be Rachel McCoppin, and the issue will specifically consider literary texts dealing with the topic of commiseration
with “enemies” in the broader area of war literature. Essays on commiseration,
moral responsibility, and propaganda in war literature are welcome, and should
be submitted before January 11th 2019. The Call for Papers and other
details can be found on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/war_literature#info
Global Justice: Theory
Practice Rhetoric, a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for original
research in international political theory, is seeking reviews. Themes of
past and upcoming issues include humanitarian intervention,
migration, historical injustice, development, gender, and climate change.
Scholars interested in reviewing a recently published book on global
justice should email the Editors at the following email address: bbuckinx@princeton.edu, including a brief bio and the
title of the proposed book. Completed reviews will normally be under 2000w
including title, section titles, and footnotes, and are generally due 3
months after receipt of the book under review. Proposals for Review Essays
of greater length on 3-4 books are also invited. Information about the journal
can be found here: https://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/global/index.php/gjn/pages/view/about-the-journal
https://globalethicsday.org/
October 17th
is Global Ethics Day. Inspired by
Earth Day, and founded by Carnegie Council in 2014, Global Ethics Day is an opportunity for organizations around the
world to host activities of various kinds to celebrate and raise awareness
about international ethics. The website above provides ideas for activities as
well as posters for downloading.
This lecture by
Paul Scharre on ethical implications of autonomous weapons is posted on-line by
the Carnegie Council. Entitled “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future
of War”, the lecture is accompanied by a contextual introduction by Joanne
Myers and a transcript of the proceedings.
Announcements
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