THE
JUST WAR NEWSLETTER
Issue No. 6 June 2016
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Conferences and Events
3. Recent Publications
4. Call for Papers
5. Academic Programs
6. Internet Resources
1. INTRODUCTION
The Just War Newsletter is an
electronic publication for announcements and new developments for researchers,
teachers and practitioners whose work involves the doctrine of just war.
Written and published by Michael Kocsis, it is meant to serve anyone working in
academia, the public service, non-governmental organizations, and the military.
If you wish to be added to the mailing list, contact us at msk3@queensu.ca Back-issues
are posted on the WWW at: http://thejustwarnewsletter.blogspot.ca/
2. CONFERENCES AND
EVENTS
In April 2015, Queen’s University’s Bader International Study Centre (BISC) at Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex (UK) hosted a conference on “Canada and the Great War”. The conference marked 100 years since the first use of poison gas at the Second Battle of Ypres. The event considered a broad range of subjects; established scholars, graduate students and professionals presented on numerous aspects of Canada’s WWI experiences. Information on the conference is still posted on the BISC website: http://www.queensu.ca/bisc/call-papers-canada-and-great-war
Villanova
University recently hosted a major conference in collaboration with the U.S.
Military Academy (April 8-9th). Distinguished speakers included
Claire Finkelstein, Mark Juergensmeyer, Francis Kamm and Dominic Tierney. Details
are posted on the following conference website: http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/ethics/conference.html
A conference by the Polish Association
for Canadian Studies is taking place at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,
Poland from May 19-21, 2016. This is the 7th Congress of Polish
Canadianists, and its topic is “Canada and War”. The event will explore war
traumas and their consequences for identity and community; Canada’s
participation in conflicts and geopolitical rivalries; Canada’s war against
terrorism, reintegration of war veterans, and several other issues. Speakers
include Donna Coates, Robert Dion, Petr Kyloušek, and Martin Löschnig. For
further details, visit the following CFP poster: http://www.csn-rec.ca/images/docs/todeleteonceperyearonJanuary1/Canadaandwar.pdf
A workshop on “Justice and
Legitimate Expectations” will take place in Graz, Austria from June 29-July 1
at the University of Graz. The aim is to advance
understanding of the concept of legitimate expectations and its relation to
concepts of justice. Organized by the Dept. of Philosophy at the University of
Graz, the workshop’s participants will include: Adriana Placani (University of Graz),
Alexander Brown (University of East Anglia), Arthur Applbaum (Harvard
University), David Miller (University of Oxford), Margaret Moore (Queen’s
University), Martin O’Neill (University of York), Matthew Matravers (University
of York), Stefan Arnold (University of Graz), Tim Waligore (Pace University),
Wilfried Hinsch (University of Cologne). The CFP deadline is long past, but
anyone with questions about the workshop should send them via email to: kanita.kovacevic@uni-graz.at
An upcoming MANCEPT Panel
on the topic of “Risk and Uncertainty” is being organized for Sept. 7-Sept. 9,
2016 at the University of Manchester (UK). The MANCEPT series is organized by
the Manchester Centre for Political Theory, and this event will examine issues
such as Social Risk, Risk and Harm, and Unfairness and Uncertainty. Those
interested in participating should send an abstract of
500w to Chris Marshall (c.j.marshall@lse.ac.uk) and Thomas Rowe
(t.rowe@lse.ac.uk) prior to May 27th.
For additional information, check for updates on the MANCEPT Workshops website:
http://www.mancept.com/mancept-workshops/mancept-workshops-2016/panels-r-z/
The First Annual ‘Archive of Modern American Warfare’ Symposium will
take place at Texas Tech University’s International Cultural Center on Thursday
Sept. 15th, 2016. The topic is “ISIS and the Global War on
Terrorism”. Symposium organizers welcome both individual presentation proposals as
well as pre-organized panel proposals that include multiple presentations.
Those interested in presenting should send proposals of roughly 500w to Andrew
Hinton at the following email address: andrew.hinton@ttu.edu
A Conference on the U.S. Civil
War will be held at the University of Mississippi from October 6-8, 2016.
Organized by the Center for Civil War Research and the Arch Dalrymple III
Department of History, the event is entitled “A Just and Lasting Peace:
Reconstructions and the Making of Postwar America”. Many dimensions of
Reconstruction and its aftermath will be explored, and Heather Cox Richardson
(Boston College) will deliver the keynote address. Submissions from all levels
of academia are welcome; to submit a proposal, send a 600w abstract with a
brief CV prior to August 1st to: civilwar@olemiss.edu. Questions and other inquiries should be sent
to the conference organizers at the same email address. For further information,
visit: http://www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/Conference2016.shtml
3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books (US$)
Back, Irit
(2015) Intervention and Sovereignty in Africa: Conflict Resolution and
International Organizations in Darfur (I.B. Tauris) $73.08
Blake,
Michael (2013) Justice and Foreign Policy (Oxford UP) $49.95
Cannon,
Martin (2015) Conflict and Intervention: IB History Course Book (Oxford UP)
$38.00
Carter
Hallward, Maia & Julie M. Norman (2015) Understanding Nonviolence (Polity)
$26.95
Center of
Military History (2015) The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins,
Planning, and Crisis Management (US Army/CreateSpace Publishing) $19.95
Coleman,
Stephen (2012) Military Ethics: An Introduction with Case Studies (Oxford UP)
$39.95
Corey,
David and Daryl Charles (2012) The Just War Tradition: An Introduction (Intercollegiate
Studies Institute) $22.48
Coverdale,
John F. (2015) Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War (Princeton UP)
$61.49
Crossley,
Noële (2016) Evaluating the Responsibility to Protect: Mass Atrocity Prevention
as a Consolidating Norm in International Society (Routledge) $145.00
Department
of Defense/Office of General Council (2015) Department of Defense Law of War
Manuel (Lieber & Sons) $74.95
Department
of the Army (2015) Humanitarian Intervention: Assisting the Iraqi Kurds in
Operation Provide Comfort, 1991 (CreateSpace Independent Publishing) $19.95
Dieck,
Helene and Richard J. Finneran (2015) The Influence of Public Opinion on Post-Cold
War US Military Interventions (Palgrave Macmillan) $105.00
Dilbeck,
D.H. (2016) A More Civil War: How the Union Waged a Just War (University of
North Carolina Press) $34.95
Dubik,
James M. (2016) Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics and Theory (University
Press of Kentucky) $59.00
Engelbrekt,
Kjell, Marcus Mohlin and Charlotte Wagnsson (eds) (2015) The NATO Intervention
in Libya: Lessons Learned from the Campaign (Routledge) $44.76
Engler,
Mark and Paul Engler (2016) This is an Uprising (Nation Books) $15.86
Erasmus
(2016) The Complaint of Peace (CreateSpace Independent Publishing) $4.95
Fasulo,
Linda (2015) An Insider’s Guide to the UN (Third Edition) (Yale UP) $14.70
Ferris,
Jesse (2015) Nasser’s Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War
and the Decline of Egypt (Princeton UP) $27.95
Fraenkel,
Carlos (2015) Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
(Forward by Michael Walzer) (Princeton UP) $19.95
Gross,
Michael (2015) The Ethics of Insurgency: A Critical Guide to Just Guerrilla
Warfare (Cambridge UP) $32.99
Harris, Sam
and Maajid Nawaz (2015) Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue (Harvard
UP) $11.38
Himes,
Kenneth R. (2015) Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing (Rowman &
Littlefield) $24.95
Gormally,
Luke, David Albert Jones and Roger Teichmann (eds) (2016) The Moral Philosophy
of Elizabeth Anscombe (Imprint Academic) $39.90
Grossman,
Dave (2009) On Killing: The Psychological Costs of Learning to Kill in War and
Society (Back Bay Books) $11.15
Kissane,
Bill (2016) Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War (Oxford UP)
$34.59
Lo, Ping-Cheung
& Summer B. Twiss (eds) (2015) Chinese Just War Ethics: Origin, Development
and Dissent (Routledge) $133.28
Mason,
David and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell (eds) (2016) What Do We Know About Civil
Wars? (Rowman & Littlefield) $39.00
May, Todd
(2015) Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction (Polity) $15.58
McDonough,
James Lee (2016) William Tecumseh Sherman (Norton & Co.) $28.24
Meierhenrich,
Jens (2014) Genocide: A Reader (Oxford UP) $33.47
Moore,
Margaret (2015) A Political Theory of Territory (Oxford UP) $74.00
Murray, Williamson
and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh (2016) A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil
War (Princeton UP) $35.00
O’Callaghan,
Ronan (2015) Walzer, Just War and Iraq: Ethics as Response (Routledge) $137.83
Philpott,
Daniel (2015) Just an Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
(Oxford UP) $24.95
Scheid,
Anna Floerke (2015) Just Revolution: A Christian Ethic of Political Resistance
and Social Transformation (Lexington Books) $80.00
Schock,
Kurt (2015) Civil Resistance Today (Polity) $23.73
Sensini,
Paolo (2016) Sowing Chaos: Libya in the Wake of Humanitarian Intervention
(Clarity Press) $23.95
Snow,
Donald M. (2015) The Case against Military Intervention: Why We Do It and Why It
Fails (Routledge) $44.95
Tsagourias,
Nicholas and Tarcisio Gazzini (2016) The Use of Force in International Law
(Routledge) $375.00
Twiss,
Sumner B., Marian Simion and Rodney Petersen (eds) (2015) Religion and Public
Policy: Human Rights, Conflict and Ethics (Cambridge UP) $99.00
Vinthagen,
Stellan (2015) A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works (Zed
Books) $29.95
Walling,
Carrie Booth (2016) All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian
Intervention (University of Pennsylvania Press) $24.95
Weber,
Theadore R. (2015) War, Peace and Reconciliation: A Theological Inquiry
(Cascade Books) $21.00
Weiss,
Thomas G. (2016) Humanitarian Intervention (Third Edition) (Polity) $19.95
Wittor,
Linda (2016) Democracy as an International Obligation of States and Right of
the People (Peter Lang) $75.95
Winright,
Tobias and Laurie Johnston (eds) (2015) Can War be Just in the 21st
Century? Ethicists Engage the Tradition (Orbis) $30.59
Wood,
Houston (2015) Invitation to Peace Studies (Oxford UP) $44.95
Journal Special Issues
The May 2016 issue of The Journal of Peace Research is a special issue on “Networked International Politics” (Vol. 53, No. 3). Guest Edited by Han Dorussen, Erik Gartzke and Oliver Westerwinter, the issue includes essays various types of international networks and agreements. Articles by Zeev Maoz and Kyle Joyce, Max Gallop, Erik Gartzke and Oliver Westerwinter, Yonatan Lupu and Paul Poast, Brandon Kinne and Tobias Böhmelt are included.
The May 2016 issue of The Journal
of Military Ethics is on the theme of “Intentions” (Volume 15, Issue 1). An
Editor’s Introduction by Henrik Syse and Martin L. Cook precedes essays by
August Immel, Duncan Purves and Ryan Jenkins, Greg Janzen, John Choo and George
Wilkes, and Paul Lushenko.
4. CALL FOR PAPERS
The Journal of War and Culture Studies welcomes submissions for
an upcoming special issue on “Re-Conceptualizing Cultures of Remote Warfare”. The
issue will analyze the concept of violence-at-a-distance through essays on
topics like the following; what are the cultural preconditions for remote
warfare? How does remote warfare transform cultures? What sites of
cultural production capture or obscure the experiences of remote
warfare? How might cultural productions enable or critique remote
violence? The JWACS promotes a critical study of connections between war
and cultural production in the arts, popular culture, journalism, documentary,
and other media. Successful proposals will indicate clearly how the paper aims
to contribute to the journal’s objectives. Interested scholars and artists
should submit a 500w abstract with a short CV before May 15 to the issue’s
editors, Rebecca A. Adelman (adelman@umbc.edu) and David Kieran (dkieran@washjeff.edu).
The International Bibliography of
Military History, a publication by the International Commission on Military
History, is seeking articles of a historical nature covering any period from
antiquity to contemporary times. Published by Brill (Leiden/Boston), the
journal is interested in articles
based extensively on primary research, not published elsewhere, and not currently
under consideration. Articles should be between 8,000 and 10,000w (including
footnotes) and be thoroughly referenced. Those interested should submit an
article to the project’s Scientific Editor, Marco Wyss, at the following email
address: m.wyss@chi.ac.uk The journal’s website includes contact info
and additional submission details: http://www.brill.com/international-bibliography-military-history
The Council on America’s Military Past (CAMP) welcomes submissions to
its flagship publication The Journal of
America’s Military Past. CAMP is a non-profit educational association representing
historians, archeologists, architects, engineers, authors and archivists. The
length of articles varies between 2500 and 7500w, and authors are responsible
for obtaining permission for copyrighted material. Interested authors should
refer to the CAMP website or contact the Editor, Vincent Rospond, directly via email: EditorJamp@yahoo.com or visit the Journal’s website: http://www.campjamp.org/The%20Journal.htm Other
inquires can be sent to Editors here: Council
on America’s Military Past, PO Box 4209, Charlottesville, VA 22905.
5. ACADEMIC
PROGRAMS
The School
of International Service at American University (Washington D.C.) offers a Master’s
Degree Program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs. The program is decidedly
interdisciplinary and seeks to incorporate aspects of philosophical education
with international relations. Students are trained for practical careers
with studies in ethical theory, policy, and the dynamics of war,
peace and conflict studies. 
For information on admission, curriculum, or the School of International
Service, go to:
For information on admission, curriculum, or the School of International
Service, go to:
Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies will host one of
its Summer Programs for High School Students on the topic “Debating the Ethics
of War and Political Violence”, in New York City from July 19th-August
5th. The Program will explore many facets of just war theory and the
ethics of war, and will be taught by Ashraf Ahmed.
6. INTERNET RESOURCES
National Catholic
Reporter, an independent news magazine for Catholics
designed to promote tolerance and differing perspectives, is now regularly
updating its “Just War Theory” section. Recent inclusions focus on the changing
direction of the Catholic Church regarding just war theory, global peace, and
pacifism. In particular, an article by Joshua McElwee discusses the first-ever
conference on just war theory held at the Vatican on April 5, 2016, which
brought together 80 scholars and experts on just war. http://ncronline.org/social-tags/just-war-theory
Crisis
Magazine, a publication for faithful Catholic Laity,
recently published an article on just war theory by Andrew Latham entitled “Is
Just War Theory Obsolete”? Latham goes into some detail regarding the
limitations of just war arguments and the traditional conception of the
doctrine of double effect (DDE).
The following link is to a website at Mount Holyoke
College containing a short summary of the just war tradition and a short
bibliography of essays and articles on just war in U.S. foreign policy.
Announcements
To subscribe, or to use this newsletter to announce a new publication,
research project, call for papers, conference, workshop, or other event related
to the just war tradition, simply forward the relevant details to the following
email address: msk3@queensu.ca
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