Massacres and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Massacres and Morality write by Alex J. Bellamy. This book was released on 2012-09-27. Massacres and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime or war, is prohibited. This is the norm of civilian immunity, widely considered to be a fundamental moral and legal principle. Yet despite this fact, the deliberate killing of large numbers of civilians remains a persistent feature of global political life. What is more, the perpetrators have often avoided criticism and punishment. Examining dozens of episodes of mass killing perpetrated by states since the French Revolution late eighteenth century, this book attempts to explain this paradox. It studies the role that civilian immunity has played in shaping the behaviour of perpetrators and how international society has responded to mass killing. The book argues that although the world has made impressive progress in legislating against the intentional killing of civilians and in constructing institutions to give meaning to that prohibition, the norm's history in practice suggests that the ascendancy of civilian immunity is both more recent and more fragile than might otherwise be thought. In practice, decisions to violate a norm are shaped by factors relating to the norm and the situation at hand, so too is the manner in which international society and individual states respond to norm violations. Responses to norm violations are not simply matters of normative obligation or calculations of self-interest but are instead guided by a combination of these logics as well as perceptions about the situation at hand, existing relations with the actors involved, and power relations between actors holding different accounts of the situation. Thus, whilst civilian immunity has for the time being prevailed over 'anti-civilian ideologies' which seek to justify mass killing, it remains challenged by these ideologies and its implementation shaped by individual circumstances. As a result, whilst it has become much more difficult for states to get away with mass murder, it is still not entirely impossible for them to do so.
Massacres and Morality
Massacres and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Massacres and Morality write by Alex J. Bellamy. This book was released on 2012-09-27. Massacres and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime or war, is prohibited. Yet despite this fact, the deliberate killing of large numbers of civilians remains a persistent feature of global political life.
Massacres and Morality
Massacres and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Massacres and Morality write by Alex J. Bellamy. This book was released on 2012. Massacres and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Killing Civilians
Killing Civilians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Killing Civilians write by Hugo Slim. This book was released on 2010-11. Killing Civilians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed. They are policies in war. In meetings or on mobile phones, political and military leaders decide that civilians are appropriate or inevitable targets. The principle that unarmed and innocent people should be protected in war is an ancient, precious but fragile idea. Today, the principle of civilian immunity is enshrined in modern international law and cherished by many. But, in practice, leaders in most wars reject the principle. Using detailed historical and contemporary examples, Killing Civilians looks at the many ways in which civilians suffer in wars and analyses the main anti-civilian ideologies which insist upon such suffering. It also exposes the very real ambiguity in much civilian identity which is used to justify extreme hostility. But this is also, above all, a book about why civilians should be protected. Throughout its pages, Killing Civilians argues for a morality of limited warfare in which tolerance, mercy and restraint are used to draw boundaries to violence. At the heart of the book are important new frameworks for understanding patterns of civilian suffering, ideologies of violence and strategies for promoting the protection of civilians. This is the first major treatment of the hard questions of civilian identity and protection in war for many years. Written by one of the humanitarian world's leading thinkers and former aid worker, it provides a unique and accessible text on the subject for professional and public readerships alike.
Why Not Kill Them All?
Why Not Kill Them All? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Not Kill Them All? write by Daniel Chirot. This book was released on 2006-08-06. Why Not Kill Them All? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
