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Carey, John N. "War and justice." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9826.

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Pousao-Lopes, Cecilia. "The mind values meaning above knowledge : narrative and moral education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0004/MQ43935.pdf.

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Mahallati, Mohammad Jafar. "Ethics of War in Muslim Cultures: a Critical and Comparative Perspective." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102679.

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Rules of engagement, ethics of war, and codes of chivalry are all phrases which remind one of human attempts to rein in and regulate what is perhaps the most anarchic and illogical of all human activities: organized war. The role of the great religions of the world both in propagating war through crusades and jihads as well as their attempts at transcending its savagery through images of miles Christianus or the pious ghazi has also been much discussed. The aim of this thesis is to study the ethics of war in the context of Islamic societies in the Early Middle Ages from several complementary p

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Davies, Christopher. "'Carrying the fire' : Cormac McCarthy's moral philosophy." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002260.

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In this thesis, I argue that the question of ethics, despite claims to the contrary, is a central concern in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction. My principal contention, in this regard, is that an approach that is not reliant on conventional systems of meaning is needed if one is to engage effectively with the moral value of this writer’s oeuvre. In devising such an approach, I draw heavily on the ‘immoralist’ writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The first chapter of the study contends that good and evil, terms central to conventional morality, do not occupy easily definable positions in McCarthy’s work. I

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Stephenson, Henry Alan. "The justice of preventive war." Thesis, Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/1183.

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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>In response to the 9/11 attacks and continuing threats of mass-casualty terrorism, the United States has adopted a new security strategy that emphasizes anticipatory actions including preventive war. Prevention, undertaken in the absence of an act of aggression or an imminent threat, is prohibited by modern conceptions of just war and international law. Many critics of the strategy fear that any legitimization of preventive war would endanger international stability. But an examination of the relevant ethical issues from the perspective

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Hoeylandt, Pierre van. "Is there a duty of humanitarian intervention? : an empirical study with moral implications." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3289e232-2d4e-4878-8e2f-ba7e667f5b77.

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Large-scale humanitarian crises in foreign countries raise the question of whether or not other countries have a duty to alleviate that suffering. In extreme cases, humanitarian intervention, that is: military intervention for the purpose of alleviating human suffering, is sometimes advocated as the morally required course of action. This thesis suggests that while the international community has a general moral responsibility to prevent and ameliorate humanitarian crises there is no simple duty of military humanitarian intervention. Hitherto, the question has typically been treated as a matte

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Kraybill, Ronald Sherer. "An Anabaptist paradigm for conflict transformation : critical reflections on peacemaking in Zimbabwe." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16126.

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Bibliography: pages 264-277.<br>This thesis outlines a proposal from an explicitly religious standpoint of the key dimensions of peacebuilding, focusing particularly on mediation and facilitation as a primary task. What is the value of such a study? My initial responses in the paragraphs which follow are made at the broadest possible level: the desperate need for effective peacebuilders in a world torn by violence and the potential for religiously-based peacebuilders to fill that need. I then support this response by examining other reasons for the study: the current inadequacy of religious re

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Hadley, Travis Stuart. "Thucydides’ Sparta: Law, Piety, and the Regime." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699880/.

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My dissertation investigates Thucydides’ presentation of Sparta. By viewing the war through Sparta, one is confronted with debates on the moral dimensions of war. Sparta decries the imperialism of Athens as unjust and while the Athenians imply that such claims are merely Spartan ‘hypocrisy’ and therefore that Sparta does not truly take justice seriously, my study contends that the Spartan concern with justice and piety is genuine. While the Athenians present a sophisticated and enlightened view of what they believe guides all political actions (a view most scholars treat as Thucydides’ own) my

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Mok, Man Hong Nicholas. "Negotiating the self with the unspeakable :holocaust representation as double universals." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953589.

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Ashfaq, Muhammad. "The crime of aggression : a critical historical inquiry of the just war tradition." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13671.

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Why has international society been unable to develop political and judicial collective-security arrangements to limit external aggression? The thesis argues that efforts to limit aggression in moral and legal theory have created an unjust order in which great powers have used these theoretical traditions to reinforce their power in the global order. The thesis argues that is not a new development but can be found in one of the oldest traditions of moral reflection on war, the just war tradition. To substantiate this point, the thesis critically surveys the philosophers of the ancient Greek, Ro

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Baum, Chris W. "Nationalism in United States Foreign Policy in the Post 9/11 Era." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2531.

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One year after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the administration of President George W. Bush introduced a revolutionary foreign policy strategy--the Bush Doctrine. Proponents of this strategy advocated the use of American 'hard power' as a tool to promote freedom and democracy, beginning with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Opponents of the doctrine saw it as dangerously nationalistic, with the potential to entangle the United States in a myriad of protracted international conflicts. This thesis will identify aspects of nationalism within post-9/11 American foreign policy and

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Hough, Gys. "The systemic analysis of the establishment of torture as foreign policy measure in modern democratic institutions with special reference to the use of torture during the “War on Terror”." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4284.

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Thesis (MPhil (Political Science))--University 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation’s primary focus is why torture is used when torture is not an effective means of gathering intelligence. To answer this question the argument for the use of torture, commonly known as the ticking time bomb argument, is discussed. Due to psychological and physiological processes during torture interrogation it was found that torture cannot be relied upon to deliver truthful information. Torture was also found to adversely affect the institutions that are needed for its establishment. After torture

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Harland, Michael Ian. "Democratic Vanguardism: Modernity, Intervention and the making of the Bush Doctrine." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10365.

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 transformed the way in which Americans and their leaders viewed the world. The tragic events of that day helped give rise to a foreign policy strategy commonly referred to as the “Bush Doctrine.” At the heart of this doctrine lay a series of propositions about the need to foster liberal democracy as the antidote to terrorism. President George W. Bush proclaimed in a variety of addresses that democracy now represented the “single surviving model” of political life to which all people aspired. In the course of making this argument, President Bush seeme

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Santos, Phillip. "Representing conflict: an analysis of The Chronicle's coverage of the Gukurahundi conflict in Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1986." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002936.

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This research is premised on the understanding that media texts are discourses and that all discourses are functional, that is, they refer to things, issues and events, in meaningful and goal oriented ways. Nine articles are analysed to explicate the sorts of discourses that were promoted by The Chronicle during the Gukurahundi conflict in Zimbabwe between 1982 and 1986. It is argued that discourses in the news media are shaped by the role(s), the type(s) of journalism assumed by such media, and by the political environment in which the news media operate. The interplay between the roles, type

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Parent, Sabrina. ""Poéthiques" de l'événement dans les oeuvres de Claude Simon, Jean Rouaud, Jean Follain, Jacques Réda, François Jacqmin et Eugène Savitzkaya." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210813.

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Dans le cadre des études littéraires, la notion d’événement a le plus souvent été abordée sous l’angle narratif. Cette étude ne rejette pas cette perspective, mais elle considère que l’on ne peut s’y limiter. L’événement est ainsi appréhendé dans le champ élargi des sciences humaines (historiographie, philosophie analytique, phénoménologie, etc.) afin de mieux saisir sa spécificité dans le texte littéraire. Les questions relatives à l’événement –qu’il soit historique, naturel ou quotidien– sont abordées dans les textes narratifs et poétiques :qu’est-ce qu’un événement pour l’écrivain –romancie

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MELLOR, Ewan Edward. "Just and unjust distributions in war : the moral equality of combatants and the normative structure of war." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/46006.

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Defence date: 5 April 2017<br>Examining Board: Professor Chris Reus-Smit, The University of Queensland, formerly EUI, (Supervisor); Professor Jennifer Welsh, EUI; Professor James Pattison, The University of Manchester; Professor Peter Sutch, Cardiff University<br>This develops a defence of the principle of the moral equality of combatants against recent revisionist critiques. It does this by developing an interpretive and hermeneutical approach to the study of war and the just war tradition. This approach allows the meanings of war and of actions within war to be explored and it is on the basi

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"Just war and the Confucian classics: an analysis of Gongyangzhuan." 2007. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896539.

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Ou Antony.<br>Thesis submitted in: October 2006.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-173).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>List of Appendices and Tables --- p.5<br>Preface and Acknowledgements --- p.6<br>Notes on Translations and References --- p.9<br>Abstract --- p.11<br>中文摘要(Abstract in Chinese) --- p.12<br>Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.13<br>Chapter Chapter 2: --- "War, Confucianism and Ren: The Definitions" --- p.17<br>Chapter Chapter 2.1: --- The Definition of War --- p.17<br>Chapter Cha

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de, la Paz Alexander. "The Problem of Human Shields in War." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-03bh-eg81.

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For as long as humans have waged war, they have distinguished between combatant persons that are liable to attack, and protected persons that should enjoy immunity from attack. And for just as long, combatants have exploited such protected persons as "human shields." They have moved protected persons to military targets, and military targets to protected persons with designs as grand as thwarting the outbreak of war itself, and as narrow as deterring attacks within war. This dissertation explores two sets of questions about these strategies and tactics of "interposition," as I call them, at th

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Zupanec, Nives. "Uncovering the (ethno)gendered dimensions of ’unconventional’ state war and its effect on non-combatants/(ethno)nationalist ’women’." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9824.

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The exploitation and extermination of people in the context of internal conflict in the former Yugoslavia is a grave injustice and the result of a systematic policy of war by an unconventional state. Internal conflict requires investigation by international relations scholars because it is evidence of the changing nature of war. Given that both the methods of violence (ethnic cleansing, systematic/genocidal rape, and sexual torture) and (ethno)nationalism are gendered, a 'new' approach to war is needed. Traditional international relations theoretical approaches to the state, anarchy, and

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Motta, Francesco Pietro Alessandro. "The legal protection of civilians in armed conflict and military occupation : international humanitarian, human rights, and criminal laws, and the protection of civilians in the Israeli occupied Palestinian Territory, Afghanistan and Iraq." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156329.

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This thesis examines the international legal framework for the protection of civilians in military occupation and armed conflict, and whether it sufficiently provides for appropriate legal (and factual) protection to civilians. The situations of Palestinians living in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territory (oPt - Palestine) and civilians subject to the armed conflicts and military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the legal protections offered to them by International Humanitarian Law (IHL), international human rights law (IHRL), and accountability mechanisms under international cri

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Reddy, Venita-Sherryl. "Improving compliance with the law prohibiting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity : recalling the human factor." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12211.

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International humanitarian law, international criminal law and international human rights law all share the common goal of seeking to regulate the behavior of international actors in relation to the three most serious offences under international law - genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. International legal rules, processes and institutions within these three areas of law represent the international community's ongoing quest to address and prevent the commission of these crimes - to create "a more humane world under law." International law has therefore been relied upon as

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Matisonn, Lynn Joy. "Human cloning : separating science from fiction : the ethics and legality of human cloning." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5208.

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Swartz, Scott E. "American ideology and the atomic bomb." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/34291.

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On August 6, 1945 the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The events that led up to the United States' decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese cities is extensive, historical and political. President Roosevelt died, and Harry S. Truman took his place as President of the United States in April. The atomic bombs were being developed at this time as well, and in July the first one was successfully tested. It was necessary for the United States to publicly justify its

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Matsinhe, David Mário. "Pitfalls of national development and reconstruction : an ethical appraisal of socio-economic transformation in post-war Mozambique." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18173.

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Mozambique is undergoing intensive socio-economic reforms to reconstruct war damages and develop the nation. The reforms consist of economic liberalisation through structural adjustment and monetarist economic stabilisation, e.g. government withdrawal from economic activities, privatisation, deregulation, reduction of tariff levels on imports and tax on investments, cuts of expenditure on social services, restrictive credit system, focus on monetarism, increased taxation on individual income, etc. The nature of these reforms, on the surface, leads to morally questionab

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Kramer, Karen Etresia Helena. "The imagery of nature in the prose works of K. Paustovsky." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8472.

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1 online resource (181 leaves)<br>This study relies on ecocriticism as the discipline benefitting the analysis of the imagery of nature in Konstantin Paustovsky’s prose. The objective of this approach is to demonstrate that Paustovsky’s prose goes beyond of what was expected from a Soviet writer by the socialist realist dogma. This thesis attempts to prove that an ecocritical approach validates his prose as being universal in its message and thus relevant to contemporary readers. Scholars of ecocriticism ask the following questions when analysing a nature-orientated prose: what values are e

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Kalule, Michel Kabunga. "Kant et L'Afrique. sur le projet de paix perpétuelle : contribution a la problématique irénologique en terre Africaine (kant and Africa. Upon the perpetual peace project. A contribution to the irenelogic issue on the African soil)." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25358.

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Manawalia, Mehek. "The practice of extraordinary rendition : increasing accountability and oversight." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2847.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States has transferred close to a hundred individuals suspected of terrorism to foreign jurisdictions through a process known as extraordinary rendition. This is an infamous program that allows for the transfer of individuals to a foreign jurisdiction for interrogation, detention, or trial. While the use of extraordinary rendition attracts widespread controversy regarding its use and legality, it remains a vital tool for combating international terrorism. Evidence in this thesis lends s

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Martini, Allesandro. "Norms for the evaluation of literature focusing primarily on the Frankfurt School." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18637.

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Critical Theory, as posited by members of The Frankfurt School, was evaluated with the objective of attaching an implied ethical dimension. This was discovered in their privileging of a particular type of aesthetic, as evinced in their analysis of certain works of autonomous High Modernism. This implied ethic, which is one based around the concept of enlightenment as potential for emancipation, was then applied as a norm for the evaluation of art. This ethic, however, does not seek to impose a particular reading on (specifically) literary production: Rather, it seeks to impart the import

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