reconciliation is a peace method that function to end wars in multiple countries. That said, Michael Wessel(2005) “Community Reconciliation and Post-Conflict Reconstruction for Peace" perspective of reconciliation is the dynamic change from the culture of war to peace. Wessel (2005) further explains that in order to prevent future conflicts one must understanding the hardships of war to build and maintain peace. In support, Carolyn M. Stephenson(2009) “Gender Equality and a Culture of Peace ”…
deserves justice and peace (Thesis). Several non-religious organisations and societies throughout Australia share this opinion – they believe in the prevention of wars, as well as Catholic Church – they promote justice and peace throughout the world. The issue of War impacts on Australian soldiers who fight in countries overseas, such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Many people in Australia suffer from the loss of people during wars…
A Review of Fearon’s “Rationalist Explanations for War” War and peace have played the central role in the field of international relations. In the paper “Rationalist Explanations for War”, Fearon provides three coherent rationalist explanations for the central puzzle about war, namely, why war occurs and recurs albeit war is inefficient ex post. Fearon first refutes five rationalist arguments that accepted as tenable in previous literature. These arguments are: 1) anarchy; 2) expected benefits…
The resolution ceased the hostilities between NATO’s Kosovo Force and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The results of the conflict included the UN Security Resolution 1244 which authorized international and civil military presence in Kosovo to ensure peaceful relations. This resolution to the conflict was initially seen as a success of NATO by the international community but has since caused controversy. The essay served to prove the unjust humanitarian…
The Just War Tradition is like any other known tradition, this one has been passed down but it isn't just some hand-me-downs or grandpa's watch but a continuous argument for decades now. The article gives the long historical background on where the tradition originated from. Just War Tradition is also known as the Just War Theory meaning before the government could even demand soldiers to fight and survive for their lives there has to be justification. The theory goes far as the B.C. era and…
Pacifism is defined as “opposition to war or violence of any kind”. In theory, pacifism is an abstraction that would make the world an idyllic place, but when several parties are on the opposites side of the spectrum and decide to take what they want from others by using brute force, is pacifism plausible if one wants to survive? Over the past nine centuries, empires from all over the world have been invading countries, slaughtering thousands to claim land and anything else that they felt is…
Assess the contemporary coherence of the just war tradition. Realists describe war as an inevitable outcome of the anarchical international system in which states interact with each other. Based on this premise, throughout the centuries, has been witnessed the flourishing of a tradition of thought focusing on the ethics of war: The Just War Tradition. Its central hypothesis is that the use of force can be morally justified, or in other words that war can be morally right. This view differs from…
War has been an ongoing thing for many centuries that we have become far accustomed to. From the very first World War to the present day, the world has not gone a day without a break of violence somewhere in the world. War is seen as the ugliest thing in the face of mankind and yet “Most of us have been conditioned to regard military combat as exciting and glamorous- an opportunity for men to prove their competence and courage.” (Lama). Many young men see the opportunity of going to war as the…
The basic requirement of jus ad bellum is possessing just cause. The clearest example of just cause would be the right of self-defense: if a nation is attacked it has the right to defend itself. By extension, this also means the right to defend other nations from aggression to meet treaty obligations or under the direction of an international regime such as the United Nations. By further extrapolation, the right of self-defense allows for preemptive action if an attack is imminent.5 This does…
I heard the sirens as I ran upstairs. My old dog was found dead in my grandparents backyard in his doghouse. My grandfather told me people beat the dog up because he was always howling at night. Is killing another justifiable? No, because killing one another is not a justifiable act. Killing is a sin, which can be a terrible emotion that always makes us feel guilty about ourselves. There are other more moral solutions. In the case of military ethics, It is Very unethical To knowing kill…