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Just War Theory Primer - no author - Coggle Diagram
Just War Theory Primer - no author
Jus ad Bellum: Justification for the decision to go to war:
Legitimate authority
Public declaration: cause and intentions must be publicly stated
Last resort: all peaceful methods have failed
Proportionality: Means employed (what you're going to do with the war) must be proportional to ends sought
Just intent: goal = return to peace, not conquest/self-aggrandizing
Reasonable hope of success: expect to win, although war based on principled stand, also happens.
Just cause: response to evil
Jus in Bello: just conduct in war
Discrimination
Respect for enemy fighters and civilians IOT prevent atrocities/war crimes
Proportionality
Inflicted damage/casualties must be proportionate to trigger of violence
Strategic Example of Jus in Bellow: Humane treatment of enemy fighters/civlians ensures humane treatment (or at least increases the likelihood) that our fighters/civilians will be cared for humanely when the situation is reversed (and we're not there to directly intervene.
Foundational documents
Historical
The Writings of Augustine
Roman Law
Summae of Thomas Acquinis
Canon law
The Bible (Deut 20:10-20)
Modern Laws of War
Additional Protocol I of 1977
Civilians deserve respectufl treatment by combatnats
The 1949 Geneva Convention: take care of wounded and sick
Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals
The Geneva Conventions of 1929: Sick and wounded in land war; POW's treated humanely)
The Geneva Protocol on Gas Warfare, 1925)
The Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
Jus Post Bellum
Conduct at the end of the war is equally important