Issue No. 8, January 2017




THE JUST WAR NEWSLETTER
Issue No. 8 January 2017



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.

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2. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

A Workshop on “Extended Responsibility” was held at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) on November 24th. Hosted by the Practical Justice Initiative, this one day event brought Australian and American philosophers together to discuss current work on extended dimensions of responsibility, focusing on interpersonal, social, and political dimensions of responsible agency, and interdisciplinary findings that contradict common assumptions of individualism. 

Cian O'Driscoll of Glasgow University delivered a presentation on “Victory in the Just War Tradition” at the Political Theory Research Group, Edinburgh University, on January 25th 2017.

A Panel on “Political Violence and Legitimate Authority” will take place in April as part of the APA Pacific meetings (April 12-15th 2017). Speakers will include: Helen Frowe (Stockholm) Jonathan Quong (USC) Massimo Renzo (King’s College London).   

The 111th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) will focus on the theme “What International Law Values”. The event will take place from April 12-15th, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and it will explore a wide variety of questions about international law in the 21st century, including questions about human rights, migration, labor, and criminal law, territorial rights, use of armed force, armed conflict, national security, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, military technology, conflict resolution, and many others. Full details about the event and registration can be found on the ASIL website: https://www.asil.org/annualmeeting

The International Committee for Military Medicine and the Swiss Armed Forces Medical Services Directorate are hosting the 7th Annual ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics. Held from May 4th-6th at the Forum Lilienberg in Ermatingen (Switzerland), the workshop theme this year is “End of Life Care: Ethical Issues in Military and Humanitarian Missions”. Full details on the event, including the topic, grants to attend, workshop organizers, and how to register, can be found on the following website: https://melac.ch/79-workshop-announcement-and-call-for-contributions

The 3rd Annual Conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham will take place on June 1-2nd, 2017. The theme will be “Humanitarian Ethics and Action”, and keynote speakers will include Simon Caney, Cecile Fabre, Hugo Slim and Helen Frowe. Those interested in participating should send abstracts of 500w for presentations of 20 minutes prior to March 1st to the email address below. The Call for Papers is posted here: http://globalethics2017.weebly.com/call-for-papers.html. Details can be found on this website: http://globalethics2017.weebly.com/ or by sending questions to conference organizers at the following email address: globalethics2017@gmail.com   

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) will host a conference entitled “Realizing Rights 2017: Human Rights and Constitutionalism” from June 8-10 at the University of Ottawa. The plan is to bring together a broad range of scholars, practitioners and advocates of human rights from Canada and the wider world to discuss challenges and opportunities for the realization of human rights. The event coincides with Canada’s 150th Anniversary. Parallel meetings, sessions, workshops, and social events will be organized in conjunction with the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA), the International Commission of Jurists Canadian Section (ICJC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL), and the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child (LRIDE). Proposals for presentations/panels will be accepted until February 15, and proposals can be submitted on the conference website: http://realizingrights2017.com/  For questions, contact the Conference Secretary-General Janine Lespérance at this email address: jlesper2@uottawa.ca

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) will hold its thirteenth conference in Brisbane from July 9-13th, at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. Organized jointly by the T.C. Beirne School of Law and the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the conference theme will be “Justice and the Prevention of Genocide”. Full details on the event, including Keynote Speakers, the venue, and the Call for Papers, can be viewed at the following website: https://law.uq.edu.au/iags2017  Proposals for presentations will be received until March 16th, and should be sent electronically to Andrew Woodford at this email address: Andrew.Woolford@umanitoba.ca

A conference on “Revolutions” will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba from September 29th to October 1st, 2017 at the University of Manitoba. The event will mark the 100th anniversary year of the Russian Revolutions, and will explore the causes, contexts, conditions and consequences of modern revolutions. Those interested in presenting papers, panels, or streams, are welcome to submit proposals. Paper proposals should include a title, abstract (~350w) and brief CVs or bio.Panel proposals should include a title, a bio of the organiser, and paper titles, abstracts (~350w) and CVs/bios of the contributors. Proposals for a stream of panels must include the stream title, name of the organiser, bio of the organiser and a brief call for papers. Proposals should be sent to: contact@gergconference.ca prior to March 15th. Details about the event can be found on the following CFP: http://geopoliticaleconomy.org/revolutions-conference-2017/call-for-papers/

An important event on the ethics of war will take place from October 26-28th (2017) at the United States Military Academy, West Point (New York). Entitled “Re-examining Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars on the 40th Anniversary of its Publication”, prominent speakers will include Lisa Cahill, Lieutenant General (ret.) James Dubik, Judith Leichtenberg, David Luban, Lietuenant General H. R. McMaster, Margaret Moore, Henry Shue and Jeremy Waldron.


3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books (CDN$)

Albrecht, Holger, Aurel Croissant and Fred H. Lawson (2016) Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring (University of Kansas Press) $104.00

Allen, Hubert (2016) British Bombing Policy during the Second World War (Fonthill Media) $35.72

Altınay, Ayşe Gül and Andrea Pető (eds) (2016) Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on WAR, Genocide and Political Violence (Routledge) $132.81

Anais, Seantel (2015) Disarming Intervention: A Critical History of Non-Lethality (UBC Press) $32.95

Bacevich, Andrew J. (2016) America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House) $32.44

Bachrach, Bernard S. and David Bachrach (2016) Warfare in Medieval Europe: c.400-c.1453 (Routledge) $201.41

Bargazan, Saba and Samuel C. Rickless (eds) (2017) The Ethics of War: Essays (Oxford UP) $81.50

Bélanger, Stéphanie A.H. and Daniel Legacé-Roy (eds) (2016) Military Operations and the Mind: War Ethics and Soldiers' Well-being (McGill-Queen's University Press) $29.95 

Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2016) Inequality and Violence: A Re-appraisal of Man, the State and War (Routledge) $72.96

Black, Jeremy (2016) Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History (Rowman & Littlefield) $116.00  

Bourke, Joanna (2016) Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade Our Lives (Virago) $6.26

Briscoe, Charles H. (2016) Weapon of Choice: U.S. Army Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan (St. John’s Press) $30.38

Cozzens, Peter (2016) The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Knopf) $36.52

Dickinson, Harry (2016) Wisdom and War: The Royal Naval College Greenwich, 1873-1998 (Routledge) $73.86

Dyer, Gwynne (2016) War: The New Edition (Vintage Canada) $29.03

Firnhaber-Baker, Justice and Dirk Schoenaers (eds) (2016) The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Revolt (Routledge) $80.00

Fleming, Colin M. (2016) Clausewitz’s Timeless Trinity: A Framework for Modern War (Routledge) $72.08

Glenn, Russell W. (2016) Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Post-Colonial Conflict (Routledge) $58.56

Greenstock, Sir Jeremy (2016) Iraq: The Cost of War (William Heinemann) $24.73

Guevera, Ernesto (2016) Guerilla Warfare (Stellar Editions) $9.31  

Herro, Annie (2016) U.N. Emergency Peace Service and the Responsibility to Protect (Routledge) $58.56

Hippler, Thomas and David Fernbach (2017) Governing from the Skies: A Global History of Aerial Bombing (Verso) $29.73

Jacobson, David/John C. Torpey (ed) (2016) Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World (Temple UP) $37.76

Jensen, Geoffrey (ed) 2016) The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military (Routledge) $273.90

Johnson, James Turner (2016) Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry (Princeton UP) $188.00

Jones, Ian (2016) Malice Aforethought: A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam (Frontline Books) $21.91

Jones, Seth G. (2016) Waging Insurgent Warfare: lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State (Oxford UP) $30.95

Joseph, Paul (ed) (2016) The Sage Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (Sage Publications) $846.95

Kamali, Masoud (2016) War, Violence and Social Justice: Theories for Social Work (Routledge) $145.98

Kersten, Mark (2016) Justice in Conflict: The Effects of the International Criminal Court’s Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace (Oxford UP) $47.25

Kurlantzick, Joshua (2017) A Great Place to have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA (Simon and Schuster) $30.35

Lantis, Jeffery (2016) Arms and Influence: U.S. Technology Innovations and the Evolution of International Security Norms (Stanford Security Studies) $115.60

Lucas, George (2016) Ethics and Cyberwarfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare (Oxford UP) $38.50

Miller, Benjamin (2016) International and Regional Security: The Causes of War and Peace (Routledge) $61.16

Olmastroni, Francesco (2016) Framing War: Public Opinion and Decision-Making in Comparative Perspective (Routledge) $54.74

O’Sullivan, Pat (2016) The Geography of Warfare (Routledge) $54.59

Peifer, Douglas Carl (2016) Choosing War: Presidential Decisions in the Maine, Lusitania and Panay Incidents (Oxford UP) $45.61

Primoratz, Igor and David W. Lovell (eds) (2016) Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict: Theoretical and Practical Issues for the 21st Century (Routledge) $72.96

Sandberg, Brian (2016) War and Conflict in the Early Modern World: 1500-1700 (Polity) $34.56

Sedra, Mark (2016) Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Evolution of a Model (Routledge) $152.32

Shaw, William (2016) Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War (Routledge) $36.21 

Taylor, William A. (2016) Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (University Press of Kansas) $56.00

Wittmann, Anna M. (2016) Talking Conflict: The Loaded Language of Genocide, Political Violence, Terrorism and Warfare (ABC-CLIO) $115.97

Yoneyama, Lisa (2016) Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of America Justice and Japanese War Crimes (Duke UP) $34.13


Journal Special Issues  

The current issue of the journal Daedalus is a special issue on “The Changing Rules of War” (Vol. 146, No. 1, winter 2017). Edited by Scott D. Sagan, the essays in this volume explore the past, present and future of the laws of war and the challenges now emerging around efforts to enforce and strengthen them. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/daed/current  

A recent issue of The Journal of Military Ethics contained a series of articles on the challenges to traditional military virtues in this era of automated warfare (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2016). An Editor’s Introduction written by Henrik Syse and Martin L. Cook precedes essays by Joseph O. Chapa and David J. Blair, Marcus Schulzke, Ariel Colonomos and Mohammad Hossein Sabouri.
  
A special issue of The Journal of International Criminal Justice (published May 2016) was dedicated to “Slavery and the Limits of International Criminal Justice” (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2016). The issue was guest edited by James Cockayne, and essays by Harmen van der Wilt, Karen L. Corrie, Cécile Aptel, Florian Jeßberger, Beate Andrees, Urmila Bhoola and Kari Panaccione, Helen Duffy, Nicole Siller and several others were included.  

A special issue of The International Journal of Transitional Justice (published March 2016) was dedicated to “Reconsidering Appropriate Responses to Victims of Conflict” (Vol. 10, No. 1, 2016). The guest editor was Juan E. Méndez, and essays by Pilar Riaño Alcalá and María Victoria Uribe,  Tazreena Sajjad, Julie Bernath, Janine Natalya Clark, Peter J. Dixon, Margaret Urban Walker, Emily L. Camins and Luke Moffett were included.  


4. CALL FOR PAPERS

Apeiron is a Student Journal of Philosophy published at the University of Minho (Portugal) to give future scholars opportunities to publish their writings on a variety of philosophical subjects. Essays in English from students at all levels are welcome, and an upcoming issue will focus on the theme "Philosophy, War and Democracy". The issue will contain a contribution by Noam Chomsky. The deadline for submissions is February 12th, and authors should send submissions and inquiries to one of these email addresses: stevensequeira92@hotmail.com or id6232@alunos.uminho.pt    For further information, visit the following PhilEvents entry: https://philevents.org/event/show/24426
   
An upcoming Special Issue of The International Journal of Transitional Justice will be dedicated to “Transitional Justice from the Margins: Intersections of Identities, Power and Human Rights” (2018). Guest edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Eilish Rooney, the issue will recognize the IJTJ’s 10th Anniversary. The deadline for submissions is July 1st, 2017. Details will appear shortly under “Special Issues” on the journal’s website: https://academic.oup.com/ijtj  

The editors of St Antony’s International Review (STAIR), a peer-reviewed journal of global affairs based at St. Antony’s College (Oxford) invite authors to submit original papers on issues of contemporary importance in international affairs for its May 2017 issues. Submissions in international relations, political science, area studies, development studies, international history and associated fields will all be considered, and articles may stem from theoretical or policy-oriented approaches. Manuscripts should be original, previously unpublished, and up to 6,000 words in length (including endnotes and bibliography), and an abstract of less than 300 words. Information on style, formatting and the submission process can be found at the STAIR website: http://www.stairjournal.com/call-for-papers/  The deadline for submissions is February 24th.


5. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS  

A course on Ethics of War and Peace is being offered in the first term of 2017 by the Australian National University (ANU)’s Dept. of International Relations. Taught by Dr. Luke Glanville, this advanced seminar will explore key writings on the ethics of war by authors like Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria, Rousseau, Kant, and Walzer, along with major contemporary issues such as terrorism, humanitarian intervention, and preventive war. For more information, visit the following course website:   http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/course/INTR8053

The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is now offering a winter 2017 course on War, Peace and Justice. This 15-week course is designed for part-time studies and will consider whether there is any defensible basis to apply legal and ethical standards to armed conflict by and within nation-states. Full information on the course, tuition fees, schedule, content and how to reserve spots in future classes, can be found on the following BCIT website: http://www.bcit.ca/study/courses/libs7011


6. INTERNET RESOURCES

A free online course on Military Ethics begins February 6th on the MOOC platform “FutureLearn”. Taught by Deane-Peter Baker and sponsored by the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the course will be based on just war theory and the dilemmas faced by military professionals. Six topics will be explored: Foundations in Ethical Theory; Ethics in the Military Profession; Going to War; the Conduct of War; Military and Society; and Ethics, Technology and War. Those interested in taking the course can register starting Feb. 6th on the following FutureLearn course website: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/military-ethics

Two essays posted on the website of the website of the Catholic magazine Crux consider the Catholic Church’s new debate on the status of just war theory. The first, from an issue last year, discusses the implications of Pope Francis’s imminent rejection of medieval doctrines of just war. The second gives reasons why the Catholic Church ought to maintain them.

This posting by Graham Parsons on The Ethical War Blog, entitled “Patriarchal War”, explores the complex relationship between gender, sexuality and participation in war.

A January 2017 posting by Fernando Tesón from The Ethical War Blog, entitled “Intervention and Revolution”, considers the value of national self-determination and its usages in discussions about humanitarian intervention and political revolution.  

A project at The Hague Institute for Global Justice called the Peace-Justice Nexus aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the effects of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on conflict and peace processes using normative and quantitative and methods to assess the ICC’s impact on governmental actors and non-state entities. Information on project researchers and project outputs, including the innovative Mass Atrocity Prevention Toolkit, can be found at the website below:

The Hague Institute’s Mass Atrocity Prevention Toolkit has also received new funding to establish a new wing of the project on “The Effectiveness and Ethics of Mass Atrocity Prevention Policies with Case Studies of Syria and Kenya”. The aim is to assess the probability of success of policies of prevention and mitigation of mass atrocities such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing, using Syria and Kenya as case studies. Details on the project and its outputs can be found on THI’s website: http://www.thehagueinstituteforglobaljustice.org/latest-insights/latest-insights/press-release/the-hague-institute-and-partners-win-nwo-wotro-grant/


Announcements
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