BISA 2023 Conference

Global Perspectives on the Ethics of War, Violence and International Law

Jun 22, 2023, 10:45 AM

1h 30m

Spey, Hilton

Ethics and World Politics Working Group

Description

This panel addresses the ethics of war, violence and international law, from various theoretical, geographical and empirical perspectives. It offers competing worldviews on matters related to: the responsibility to protect, the just war tradition and international law.

Subcontributions

• Hegel’s Critique of International Law
• The West’s Politics of Aggression and the Global South
• The Responsibility to Protect and Southern Agency: Decolonisation or Dewesternization?
• The ethics of gun control policy: Mapping actor coalitions and policy frames
• A "Just Vengeance" or just a vengeance? Analyzing the use of revenge as a just cause by jihadist terrorist groups