What Is a Just Peace?

✍ Scribed by Pierre Allan, Alexis Keller

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Including contributions from some of the world's leading scholars, this ground-breaking book provides a carefully considered analysis of what constitutes a just peace. A cross-section of conflicting viewpoints from political, historical, and legal perspectives are brought together in this book to demonstrate how just peace has to be a mediated peace.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 6
Contributors......Page 11
1. Introduction: Rethinking Peace and Justice Conceptually......Page 14
2. Peace and Justice: A Prologue......Page 25
3. Justice, Peace, and History: A Reappraisal......Page 32
4. Just Peace: A Cause Worth Fighting For......Page 65
5. Measuring International Ethics: A Moral Scale of War, Peace, Justice, and Global Care......Page 103
6. Just Peace: A Dangerous Objective......Page 143
7. Peace, Justice, and Religion......Page 162
8. A Method for Thinking about Just Peace......Page 189
9. The Concept of a Just Peace, or Achieving Peace Through Recognition, Renouncement, and Rule......Page 208
Suggested Readings......Page 229
C......Page 236
E......Page 237
I......Page 238
L......Page 240
O......Page 241
P......Page 242
S......Page 243
V......Page 244
Z......Page 245