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Course Goals and Student Responses Course Goals and Student Responses
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Main Concerns of the Just War Tradition Main Concerns of the Just War Tradition
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Diverse Teachings on War and Peace: The Case of Christianity Diverse Teachings on War and Peace: The Case of Christianity
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Modern Weapons Advances and the Restraint of War Modern Weapons Advances and the Restraint of War
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The Psychology of Aggression and the “Religion” of Nationalism The Psychology of Aggression and the “Religion” of Nationalism
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Gandhi on the Shared Community of Humanity Gandhi on the Shared Community of Humanity
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The Ethics of Bombing: The Importance of Thick Description The Ethics of Bombing: The Importance of Thick Description
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Nationalist Discounting of the Lives of Foreigners and the Problem of Collateral Damage Nationalist Discounting of the Lives of Foreigners and the Problem of Collateral Damage
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Modern Challenges: Nuclear Weapons, Counterinsurgency, Humanitarian Intervention, and Terrorism Modern Challenges: Nuclear Weapons, Counterinsurgency, Humanitarian Intervention, and Terrorism
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Nuclear Weapons and Cold War Nuclear Weapons and Cold War
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The Challenge of Guerrilla War and Counterinsurgency Operations The Challenge of Guerrilla War and Counterinsurgency Operations
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Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention Cases Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention Cases
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9/11, Terrorism, and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 9/11, Terrorism, and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Recent Developments in Just War Theory: Just Peacemaking and Nation Building Recent Developments in Just War Theory: Just Peacemaking and Nation Building
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Cosmopolitan Education for Global Citizenship Cosmopolitan Education for Global Citizenship
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Appendix Helpful Instructor Resources Appendix Helpful Instructor Resources
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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12 Teaching the Just War Tradition
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Published:May 2012
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Abstract
This essay describes strategies developed by the author for teaching a course on the Just War theory. The most prominent of the western religious traditions to articulate the conditions necessary for the moral use of armed force, the Just War tradition, with its roots in the medieval Catholic theology of Augustine and Aquinas, stipulates two sets of criteria, jus ad bellum (the discernment of the moral reasons for going to war), and jus in bello (the morality of the execution of the war itself). His course trains students in critical thinking about violence by emphasizing the careful analysis of wartime logic and the restraint of violence that this theological tradition has demanded. Students become empowered to exercise creative moral reasoning by exploring the possible expansion of the theory’s criteria, on the basis of the planet’s accumulated experience of 100 years of modern and nuclear warfare, to include a consideration of jus post bellum, the justice of a post-war circumstances, as part of the assessment of an action’s moral status.
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