Quo Vadis? On the role of just peace within just war

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Theory Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI:10.1017/S1752971921000270

C. Braun

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Abstract

Abstract This article contributes to the debate about the future of just war thinking, which has been challenged by the emerging school of just peace. Just peace thinkers hope that by foregrounding nonviolent means just war reasoning will become obsolete. Recently, the German Catholic Bishops have argued that the traditional understanding of just war contributed to their predecessors' silence on the Second World War. Grounded in just peace thinking, their argument implies that had the new framework been in place at the time, it would have been easier for their predecessors to oppose Hitler's war. In this article, I defend traditional just war thinking as encountered in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas, just war thinking was part of an encompassing ethics of war and peace. In fact, peace was the primary goal. Grounded in Aquinas's understanding of virtue, I argue that there is a place for just peace scholarship within the just war framework. The tools of nonviolence should be seen as an important complement to the justifiable use of armed force.

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库瓦迪斯？论公正和平在公正战争中的作用

摘要本文旨在探讨正义战争思想的未来，这一思想受到了新兴的正义和平学派的挑战。正义的和平思想家希望，通过强调非暴力手段，正义的战争推理将会过时。最近，德国天主教主教们认为，对正义战争的传统理解导致了他们的前任对第二次世界大战的沉默。基于和平思想，他们的论点暗示，如果当时有新的框架，他们的前辈就会更容易反对希特勒的战争。在这篇文章中，我为托马斯·阿奎那思想中遇到的传统正义战争思想辩护。对阿奎那来说，正义战争思想是战争与和平伦理的一部分。事实上，和平是首要目标。基于阿奎那对美德的理解，我认为在正义的战争框架内，正义的和平学术也有一席之地。非暴力手段应被视为对合理使用武力的重要补充。

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International Theory Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Editorial board International Theory (IT) is a peer reviewed journal which promotes theoretical scholarship about the positive, legal, and normative aspects of world politics respectively. IT is open to theory of absolutely all varieties and from all disciplines, provided it addresses problems of politics, broadly defined and pertains to the international. IT welcomes scholarship that uses evidence from the real world to advance theoretical arguments. However, IT is intended as a forum where scholars can develop theoretical arguments in depth without an expectation of extensive empirical analysis. IT’s over-arching goal is to promote communication and engagement across theoretical and disciplinary traditions. IT puts a premium on contributors’ ability to reach as broad an audience as possible, both in the questions they engage and in their accessibility to other approaches. This might be done by addressing problems that can only be understood by combining multiple disciplinary discourses, like institutional design, or practical ethics; or by addressing phenomena that have broad ramifications, like civilizing processes in world politics, or the evolution of environmental norms. IT is also open to work that remains within one scholarly tradition, although in that case authors must make clear the horizon of their arguments in relation to other theoretical approaches.