Civil Peace

Eight percent of recorded human history is peaceful, it is worth asking how much of unrecorded human history was peaceful. Since the creation of man, humans have been at war with one another. Our wars have been violent and quiet, however, almost always present. Conflict is observable within every niche of humanity, even within the walls of a classroom it is possible to find evidence of conflict, yet humans have not found a way to deal with it better than war. The history of conflict…

Challenging the Democratic Peace Thesis, which claims that democratic regimes are “peaceful” and do not fight, Duncan Bell’s Before the democratic peace: Racial utopianism, empire and the abolition of war calls attention to the shortcomings of democratic regimes’ ability to provide an egalitarian and peaceful society, even going as far to mark democracies as war prone. Furthermore, the article engages with various strands of political theories, such as radical liberalism and socialism, which…

the last resort, reasonable hope for success, proportional, and dignifies just means. There is also a moral basis of rules for war that should be followed ­ a prudential basis, which would mean to provide restoration after the war to provide just peace, a reciprocity basis, which is treating all humanity with dignity and respect (which goes along with what Colonel Tim Collins states in his inspirational speech to his command before war), and the virtue of professional arms basis, which includes…

War is a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country. People go to war for different reasons like power which means that someone would go to war so that if they win they can claim territory or take over land that belonged to the opponents. A country might also go to war because they want to defend themselves as another country could be trying to invade them; they need to protect their country and the people in it. I think that war is wrong…

Despite a lack of any explicit mention of peacekeeping in the UN Charter, the powers given to the UNSC in Chapter VI of the Charter to take collective action to maintain international peace and security, have led the international system to look to the UNSC to authorise peacekeeping operations. As the UNSC has this primary responsibility, and has explicitly remained “seized of the matter”, any peacekeeping operation in Libya must be…

To assess the validity of U.S involvement in the Vietnam War, the Just War Theory is used as a brief framework coupled with major scholarly discussions concerning the Vietnam War. Philosophers and historians over the centuries have shaped the Just War Theory to help give a clear cut guide to justifying International Wars with a significant formulation contributed by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his work Summa Theologicae. According to the theory, the moral justification of every international war is…

some specific circumstances that the church explains may make the war justifiable. According to the Catholic Church, “governments cannot be denied the right of lawful self-defense once all peace efforts have failed” (CCC 2308). The church insists that legitimate efforts should be made to avoid a war and bring peace, but the church also recognizes that this may not work in every case. Because of this, the Catholic Church explains that there are conditions that make a war just such as, “all other…

creating peace or the consequences of lighting the fire of warfare within a nation. These obstacles of pushing to bargain for what one side desires is just human nature, anywhere from nationwide conflicts to mere bickering between two people at a swap meet. While there are a million prospective directions of where a settlement can go, one thing is certain that in politics and warfare is that there will either be peace or there will be war due to the nature of politics. The politics of peace and…

Cube is a science fiction film that depicts the imprisonment of seven people, all of whom are complete strangers, in a labyrinth filled with different traps that are designed to kill the members of the newly formed group. In order to survive, the strangers must move room to room, all while avoiding traps, to try and find the exit of the labyrinth they have been imprisoned in. The situation that the seven strangers find themselves in proves to be an interesting case study for philosophers. Cube…

In the glare of an ever-present and far-reaching news cycle, decisions to engage in war are of paramount concern to a state. Given this greater accountability, there is perhaps an even stronger emphasis for states to have sound moral reasoning in its actions leading to and during war. Some would argue that there is no room for justice in war. According to realists, wars are fought on the basis of power and security issues; “the pursuit of lesser national interests rarely justifies war”…