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Just Peace: An Elusive Ideal
Mark Evans
Ethics beyond War's End
Swansea University Author: Mark Evans
Abstract
This chapter explores two aspects in which the concept of a just peace, with specific respect to its place in the theory of jus post bellum, is "elusive": (a) with respect to the indeterminacy, or essential contesttability, of certain key concepts which comprise it; (b) with respect to the...
| Published in: | Ethics beyond War's End |
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| Published: |
Washington DC
Georgetown University Press
2012
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13385 |
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This chapter explores two aspects in which the concept of a just peace, with specific respect to its place in the theory of jus post bellum, is "elusive": (a) with respect to the indeterminacy, or essential contesttability, of certain key concepts which comprise it; (b) with respect to the problems in actually achieving what is held to constitute a just peace. |
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| Keywords: |
Just peace, jus post bellum, essential contestability |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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220 |