PROTECTING CIVILIANS DURING VIOLENT CONFLICT
Military and Defence Ethics
Series Editors
Don Carrick Project Director of the Military Ethics Education Network based in the Institute of Applied Ethics at the University of Hull, UK.
James Connelly Professor of Politics and International Studies, Director of the Institute of Applied Ethics, and Project Leader of the Military Ethics Education Network at the University of Hull, UK.
Paul Robinson Professor in Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
George Lucas Professor of Philosophy and Director of Navy and National Programs in the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis MD, USA.
There is an urgent and growing need for all those involved in matters of national defence from policy makers to armaments manufacturers to members of the armed forces to behave, and to be seen to behave, ethically. The ethical dimensions of making decisions and taking action in the defence arena are the subject of intense and ongoing media interest and public scrutiny. It is vital that all those involved be given the benefit of the finest possible advice and support. Such advice is best sought from those who have great practical experience or theoretical wisdom (or both) in their particular field and publication of their work in this series will ensure that it is readily accessible to all who need it.
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Empowering Our Military Conscience
Roger Wertheimer
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Kantian Thinking about Military Ethics
J. Carl Ficarrotta
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7992-9
New Wars and New Soldiers
Edited by Paolo Tripodi and Jessica Wolfendale
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0105-6
Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict
Theoretical and Practical Issues for the 21st Century
Edited by
DAVID W. LOVELL
University of New South Wales at The Australian
Defence Force Academy, Australia
IGOR PRIMORATZ
Charles Sturt University, Australia
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Protecting civilians during violent conflict : theoretical and practical issues for the 21st century. (Military and defence ethics)
1. WarProtection of civilians. 2. WarMoral and ethical aspects. 3. Combatants and noncombatants (International law) 4. Humanitarian law. 5. War victimsLegal status, laws, etc.
I. Series II. Lovell, David W., 1956 III. Primoratz, Igor.
172.42dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Protecting civilians during violent conflict : theoretical and practical issues for the 21st century / edited by David W. Lovell and Igor Primoratz.
p. cm. (Military and defence ethics)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-3125-1 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3156-0266-0 (ebook)
1. WarProtection of civilians. 2. WarMoral and ethical aspects. 3. War victimsLegal status, laws, etc. I. Lovell, David W., 1956 II. Primoratz, Igor.
KZ6515.P758 2012
172.42dc23
2011046423
ISBN 9781409431251 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315602660 (ebk)
ISBN 9781317074342 (ebk-ePUB)
Contents
David W. Lovell
Stephen Nathanson
Igor Primoratz
Dean Cocking
Hitoshi Nasu
Michael N. Schmitt
Helen Durham and Eve Massingham
Rob McLaughlin
David W. Lovell
Penelope Mathew
Andrew Alexandra
David Whetham
Stephen Coleman
William Maley
Richard D. Rosen
Susan Breau
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
The idea for this volume originated in discussions between the editors late in 2009. We invited a number of scholars and practitioners to submit papers on the central theme which have been robustly discussed on a number of occasions among the contributors, with revised versions now appearing as the chapters herein. The opportunities for these discussions were provided by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and the Centre of Military Law and Justice of the College of Law at The Australian National University; we thank them for their support. The organizational details of this volume were handled professionally by the College Outreach and Support Team of the ANU College of Law. And lastly, we thank the production team at Ashgate Publishing, particularly Margaret Younger and Kirstin Howgate, who have been characteristically efficient and helpful.
David W. Lovell
Igor Primoratz
List of Contributors
Andrew Alexandra
University of Melbourne
After graduate study at Oxford University, Andrew Alexandra taught at Swinburne, Deakin, Melbourne, Queensland and Charles Sturt universities. Since 2000, he has worked in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Andrew has research interests in the areas of the ethics of war and peace, professional and applied ethics, political philosophy, the history of philosophy and issues in intellectual property. He has undertaken collaborative research and consultancies for a range of organizations, including Victoria Police, the Professional Standards Council, the Australian Association of Social Workers, the Australian Anthropological Society, the International Baccalaureate Organization (UK) and the Safety Institute of Australia. Two of his most recent books are: co-authored with Seumas Miller, Integrity Systems for Occupational Groups (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010); and co-authored with Seumas Miller, Ethics in Practice: Moral Theory and the Professions (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2009).
Susan Breau
Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide
Susan Breau joined the law school in 2010 as Professor of International Law. Her immediate past appointment was as Reader in International Law and Assistant Associate Dean for Research at the School of Law, University of Surrey. Prior to that post, she was the Dorset Fellow in International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Her first academic post was as a lecturer in International Law at Queens University, Belfast. Prior to attending the London School of Economics in 1999, where she obtained her Masters in Law and PhD, Susan was a Barrister and Solicitor in Kingston, Canada, where she practised family, criminal and child law for 18 years. Her most recent book is (with Kerim Yildiz)