Just war or pacifism? The just war tradition has enjoyed a near monopoly within the Christian moral tradition. However, in recent decades pacifism has emerged as a serious contender within the Christian moral tradition. Both of these traditions cannot be right, but how do we cho…
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The term War on Terror is compared to the language of criminal justice in both theory and practice, using just war theory, semiotics, and empirical research on how terrorism is effectively defeated. The phrase War on Terror raises false public expectations that the problem of te…
Somalia is known for its anarchy and dysfunction. With the absence of government, security and rule of law, Somalia has been left to its own devices and has been consumed by violence and civil unrest. This has led to its vulnerability to religious extremism and a potential breed…
During World War II the British Royal Air Force undertook a campaign of area bombing of German cities, resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. The debate over the ethics of this policy began at the time and has continued to the present. Area bombing clearly vi…
The last fifteen years have been a time of upheaval for Iraq: the end of the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War, a twelve-year sanctions regime, a repressive government, and the United States-led takeover have been sources social, political, and economic distress. This project seeks a …
The jus post bellum tenets of Just War Theory serve as a nation’s guide as the tedious task of returning to peace begins. However, one should not presume that the concepts associated with justice and order hold normative value to all human persons in societies. Time and again, p…
In the early fifteenth century, a great debate took place at the Council of Constance (1414-1418) over the morality, legality and propriety of crusades against non-Christians. This debate was not merely theoretical or abstract for it was the intellectual theater in a multi-theat…
This thesis surveys, critiques, and synthesizes recent efforts to develop and define jus post bellum criteria. More than merely a set of post-conflict tactics, post bellum guidance delineates moral obligations imposed upon, at a minimum, parties to conflict. Furthermore, jus pos…
The opacity of Iran's nuclear program has kept the Bush Administration on alert, afraid of facing the reality of a nuclear-armed Iran. In the wake of 9-11 the Bush Administration created a revised national security strategy that clearly placed nuclear proliferation as a vital th…
Power, while often ignored, permeates the Christian, Islamic and Hindu just war traditions. First, because all three rely on a stable order in which to pursue their visions of the good life, the just war traditions seek to preserve order and stability both vertically among actor…
The final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States offers this statement on its analysis of the September 11, 2001 attack by foreign terrorists: We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined and lethal.1 The results of …
This project is an examination of the War against al-Qaeda from the field of religious ethics. In response to September Eleventh, the United States has spent the last decade fighting a war against a diffuse and elusive network of militant Islamists. These events have not been ne…