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The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict

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Editors:
  1. Florian Demont-Biaggi

    1. MILAK at ETH Zurich, Aarau, Switzerland

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  • Addresses critical issues for researchers and graduate students in normative issues and armed conflict
  • Examines on the nature of peace and its practical reflections on how the concept affects policy decisions
  • Combines philosophical analyses of the concept of peace with results from other fields, explaining how this is relevant for policy making
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Florian Demont-Biaggi
    Pages 1-16

  4. Just War Debates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Standards of Risk in War and Civil Life

      • Saba Bazargan-Forward
      Pages 65-82Open Access

    3. Military Necessity Through Peace?

      • Florian Demont-Biaggi
      Pages 83-104

    4. Just War Thought and the Notion of Peace

      • James G. Murphy
      Pages 105-122Open Access

    5. Terrorism, jus post bellum and the Prospect of Peace

      • Anne Schwenkenbecher
      Pages 123-140

  5. Religious Perspectives on Peace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Peace, Justice and Religious Humanism: A Jewish Perspective

      • Noam Zohar
      Pages 143-158

    3. Once the Buddha Was a Warrior: Buddhist Pragmatism in the Ethics of Peace and Armed Conflict

      • Stephen Jenkins
      Pages 159-178

  6. Technology, War and Peace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Civic Virtue and Cybersecurity

      • Don Howard
      Pages 181-201Open Access

    3. Weapons for Pacifism: Reconciling Ideas in Conflict

      • Adam Henschke
      Pages 203-222

    4. Virtues for Peace: What Soldiers Can Do and Where Military Robotics Fails

      • Bernhard Koch
      Pages 223-242

    5. Is Cyberpeace Possible?

      • Markus Christen, Endre Bangerter
      Pages 243-263

  7. Peace in the Real World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265
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    2. Psychological Contributions to Philosophy: The Cases of Just War Theory and Nonviolence

      • Levi Adelman, Bernhard Leidner, Seyed Nima Orazani
      Pages 267-291
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About this book

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework. Whilst war and peace have traditionally been viewed through the lens of philosophical enquiry, political issues and theological ideas - as well as common sense - have also influenced people’s understanding of armed conflicts with regards to both the moral issues they raise and the policies and actions they require. Comprised of fourteen essays on the role and application of peace, the book places emphasis on it’s philosophical, moral, theological, technological, and practical implications. Starting with an overview of Kantian perspectives on peace, it moves to discussions of the Just War debates, religious conceptualizations of peace, and the role of peace in modern war technology and cyber-security. Finally concluding with discussions of the psychological and medical impacts of war and peace on both the individual and the larger society, this collection offers a contribution to the field and will be of interest to a wide audience.



Chapters 4, 6 and 10 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • MILAK at ETH Zurich, Aarau, Switzerland

    Florian Demont-Biaggi

About the editor

Florian Demont-Biaggi has studied in Basel, Birmingham, London and Zurich. In 2013, he received his PhD from the University of Zurich and is currently working on military and leadership leadership ethics at the Military Academy (MILAK) at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland. He is the author of Rules and Dispositions in Language Use (2014).

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