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just war theory Tag

21 Oct

[R. Scott Adams is a PhD candidate at Adelaide University.] Jus contra bellum is the raison d’être of modern international law. When that regulation becomes impotent, prescriptions of conduct within war, jus in bello, emerge to meet the purpose of the law. Jus ad bellum and jus in bello seek two complementary goals: First to prevent war; second to reduce suffering...

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04 May

[Nicolás Zambrana Tévar LLM (LSE) PhD (Navarra) is Associate Professor at KIMEP University School of Law] In recent weeks, a remarkable public dispute has captured global attention. Pope Leo XIV—the first American-born pontiff, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar named Robert Prevost—and President Donald Trump have exchanged unusually sharp statements over the United States and Israel’s war against Iran. The Pope called Trump’s...

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