Just War

ETHICS OF WAR & PEACE The ethics of war and peace are governed by three theories: Realism, Pacifism and Just war theory. Just war theory proposes that sometimes states can have moral justification for fighting war. War can be morally right too. War can be thought of as an ethical and appropriate use of mass political violence. According to Realism, morality and justice isn’t actually applied while considering a country’s foreign policy. That is to say that a country will indifferently think solely

The Christian “just-war’ doctrine originally was conceived by Saint Augustine and later was updated by Saint Thomas Aquinas and other schools of thought. The just-war doctrine provided a middle ground between the pacifist views of the early church and the unchecked use of force in God’s name, such as the Crusades. St. Augustine personally did not approve of war, however, claimed that God had given people the power to do battle for a good reason. He argued that Christians should not be ashamed to

The Vietnam War: Just the Facts The war in Vietnam was an extremely controversial war, involving a wide range of ideas and opinions surrounding its importance and validity. The purpose of this war was to contain Communism in Asia and prevent in from spreading to Western culture. Many Americans were in agreement with this idea and believed that bringing the evils of Communism down was imperative. However, a larger group, the anti-war movement, were completely opposed to American intervention in Vietnam

The Just War Theory is a doctrine founded by Saint Augustine which has helped bring much discussion and debate to wars and the morality to fight in them. Wars and fights between people have gone on forever and are not perceived to stop anytime soon so it is important that some people thought about when and why they should ever fight. For many years Christians never part toke in this fighting due to teachings of the Bible and Jesus' teaching on 'turning the other cheek' and 'live by the sword, die

The Just War Theory The Just war theory is and interesting one simply because the phrase just war is an oxymoron. War is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations. Implicit in this definition of war is the result of death and since justice is right action towards other death is the most unjust of things. Thus war is unjust. Although there is the case where one country goes to war with another because

viewed using the just war theory lens by different scholars who have offered contrasting analysis. In what started as pro-democracy protests following the Arab spring uprisings in 2011, the ensuing unrest escalated to a civil war between government forces and rebel forces with the UN reporting that 90000 had been killed as of June 2013 and 250000 as of 2015 (Rodgers, 2016). The question raised is whether the intended United States military intervention is justified or not from a just war theory perspective

Recent struggles of war left roughly 60 to 70% of deaths left to civilians, more than 50,000,000 innocent lives taken away wars. Each decision comes with certain prices, no decision is more difficult to use military force for such reason. These reasons rely on one thing, the just war theory. As a result, countries still follow these rules that are beneficial to things like the economy, soldiers, citizens and the policymakers (etc. Government) war is started for different causes and reasons, money

The first criteria of Just War Theory is jus ad bellum, the just initiation of a war. Because the US is responding to an attack initiated by ISIS that places American institutions and Americans at harm, they are retaliating with the intention of self defense as opposed to acting out of aggression. This serves as a just cause of war. Additionally, failure to combat ISIS could potentially escalate the boomerang effect, a phenomenon in which citizens of the United States travel to Syria and Iraq and

Aquinas’ just causes for war are derived from the ideas of philosophers before him, primarily Augustine and Aristotle. Aquinas’s just causes for war are if it is “declared by the authority of a head of a state for good reason and with a morally good aim” (Christopher 50). This statement can be broken down into three key conditions; proper authority, just cause and right intentions. The first component; proper authority, states that only the highest of authority can declare war. If the person

been killed by war. That’s 150 million families at least who have had their loved ones ripped from their grasp. This is far too many. War is unnecessary and barbaric. In “just and unjust war” by Howard Zinn the complexities of whether or not a war can be called just or unjust are debated. Peace can be achieved. the three crucial steps toward making world peace are education, open communication, and human rights laws must be strictly enforced. Education is necessary to prevent wars. Zinn highlights