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• Society: Issues: Peace  (656)
• Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict  (4,192)
• Society: Philosophy: Ethics: Nonviolence  (3)

Abelard - The Just War - - Short paper discussing the notion of 'just war' in historic context and with reference to current affairs (2002).

BBC Religion & Ethics: Ethics of War - - Explains the fundamental ethical problems of warfare: the doctrine of just war, pacifism, and religious views of war.

Carnegie Council - Ethics and the Use of Force Program - - Promotes research and discourse on the role of ethics in armed conflict.

Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics - - Working to promote and enhance the ethical development of current and future military leaders through education, research, and reflection.

The Chronicle - When Teaching the Ethics of War Is Not Academic - - By Shannon E. French. Ethics instructor discusses teaching what makes professional soldiers different than terrorists.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Philosophy of War - - Introductory article covering war, what causes war, human nature and war, and war and political and moral Philosophy.

The Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics (JSCOPE) - - An organization of military professionals, academics and others formed to discuss ethical issues relevant to the military. The Conference meets each year in Washington, D.C. to present and discuss academic papers.

JustWarTheory.com - - Devoted to public education in just war theory and its application in international law and foreign policy.

Military Ethics - - Videos of lectures, links for resources and problems for case studies.

Terrorism and Response: A Moral Inquiry into the Killing of Noncombatants - - An essay arguing that to kill noncombatants in a terrorist attack or during a "collaterally violent" response to such an attack is morally equivalent, that both are morally wrong, and neither are acts of war, but murder.

War - - Article on the ethics of war and peace, the Just War theory, and pacificsm. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Brian D. Orend.

BBC NEWS - UK troops told: Be just and strong - - British troops waiting to attack Iraq are told to be ferocious in battle, but magnanimous in victory. (March, 2003)