Browsing by Author "McKeogh, Colm"
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After the Civilian: Compassion in a changing politico-military context
(2017)This paper looks at political, military and technological challenges to the rule against targeting civilians in war. Neither the concept nor the reality of the civilian offer the clarity once assumed. The paper argues that ... -
Are the citizens of a democracy a just target for terrorists?
(Routledge, 2011)This article investigates how issues of political responsibility connect to the combatant/civilian distinction in armed conflict. It does so by looking at an attempted moral justification of terrorism in a democracy by a ... -
Quaker Peace Testimony and Pacifism
(2017)This paper looks at the Peace Testimony of Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) and argues that, although Quakerism is commonly seen as pacifist (in some sense of that term) by many both within and without the Society, ... -
Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism/ Christian idealism
(Louisiana State University Press, 2007)The foregoing quip captures a realization that came to the young Reinhold Niebuhr in the 192os and that turned the liberal Christian pastor away from pacifism and toward a more realist ethic of politics. From then until ...
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Faith, politics and reconciliation: the Roman Catholic Church, New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australians
(The University of Waikato, 2003)The Roman Catholic Church claims from Jesus Christ a mission to teach consistently religious ideals in accordance with its understanding of God’s constant truth. These ideals include the belief that human creation in the ... -
Can Justice be Traded for Democracy?
(The University of Waikato, 2017)For much of the Twentieth Century, the transition processes of democratizing states have followed a familiar pattern. Outgoing authoritarian regimes relinquished power after extracting the promise of amnesty from the ...
