World peace

second criteria for just war is that there must be a just cause for the war to be fought. This means that the enemy must deserve to be punished for something that they have done wrong. The last criteria for just war is that the end goal should be peace and not destruction. The nation waging war must “intend the advancement of good or the avoidance of evil” in order for the war to be just.…

Was American imperialism of Cuba morally justifiable? I say it wasn’t because America went to Cuba to help them fight for freedom against the Spanish rule. But once the America and Cuba beat Spain soon after America took over Cuba. Hawaii another example of American imperialism. America basically annexed Hawaii just for expansion of U.S. businesses and the resources of Hawaii. Now we get to the purchase of Alaska. Which in my opinion was morally justifiable because Russia basically offered…

Conflict theorists Pruitt, Rubin and Kim (2003) list five changes that occur as a conflict escalates. First, parties move from light tactics to heavy tactics. Light tactics include such things as persuasive arguments, promises, and efforts to please the other side, while heavy tactics include threats, power plays, and even violence. Second, the conflict grows in size. The numbers of issues in contention expands, and parties devote more resources to the struggle. Third, issues move from specific…

self-gain, with peace as the central purpose. With multilateral and bilateral agreements at the forefront of war, we must consider what the study of international relations brings forth to us, that is, the empirical law of the “democratic peace theory”. The theory suggests that democracies are reluctant to engage in armed conflict with other formally identified democracies as a way to discourage state-sponsored violence. Immanuel Kant’s work, “Perceptual Peace”, tells us that peace is a…

The sun is high in the sky and it seemed the hours ceased to pass underneath stifling heat of the day. Through the ringing sounds of axes and saws can be heard over the normal sounds of the wooded forest. The men walk silently, afraid the sound of the warning bell would be lost to them and their enemy would find them unaware and unprepared. Throughout their history the Vytakans have preyed upon the skills the Eustia woodsmen have learned and perfected over many centuries, through secrets passed…

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…

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…

The “Just War” theory was created with the intent of helping determine whether someone could justify war ( jus ad bellum), what the conduct during war should be (jus in bello), and if the end goal was for peace or termination of the war (jus post bellum). Before the Crusades, Pope Urban II gave speeches to rally up support for war against Muslims who had taken control of Christian land. Although Urban II’s ideas seem reasonable, they actually contradict the “just war” theory. He uses any means…

These Christians would have raised the cross as a banner against Saddam, Hitler, or Mao. There are church members who wanted to use preventative war to stop communist china from making atomic weapons before they could use them to endanger the United States. They would also advocate landing marines in Iraq before the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) got a strong foothold. Such anticipatory actions are based on the notion that our cause is consistently good, while that of our enemies is…