The Just War Tradition: Translating the Ethics of Human Dignity into Political Practices

Hypatia 23 (2):72-94 (2008)
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This essay argues that the ambiguities of the just war tradition, sifted through a feminist critique, provides the best framework currently available for translating the ethical entitlement to human dignity into concrete feminist political practices. It offers a gendered critique of war that pursues the just war distinction between legitimate and illegitimate targets of wartime violence and provides a gendered analysis of the peace which the just war tradition obliges us to preserve and pursue.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01187.x

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