Just war theory concerns the morality of engaging in warfare, the
conduct in war and justice – including democratization and
reconstruction – in the aftermath to end war. The morality of war
can be measured from a variety of military and philosophical ethics
that include theological, consequentialist and realist schools of
thought. Various military interventions, such as Bosnia, Afghanistan
and Iraq, have been analyzed and evaluated and criticized from a
Western and, especially, liberal point of view. In this book, Danny
Singh addresses foreign interventions from a different normative
paradigm. Namely, he addresses the morality of foreign military
interventions in light of Afro-communitarianism, a dominant
philosophical approach in sub-Saharan Africa. According to
Afro-communitarianism, positive communal relationships/social harmony
are the greatest good that can be achieved to form friendship (which
can be understood as the combination of shared identity and goodwill).
Even though Afro-communitarianism prioritizes peaceful communal
relations, enmity-behavior and violence are morally permissible if it
either leads to a less disharmonious state of affairs or to a
harmonious state of affairs or there are no friendly alternatives to
achieve any of both desired outcomes but the initiator of conflict
desires to promote them. Moreover, Afro-communitarianism prescribes
dialogue as a guiding action to avoid military conflict. The book
provides an alternative, and non-Western, approach to the morality of
war and efforts to promote sustainable peace in the aftermath of
conflict between warring belligerent parties.
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ISBN
9783031641107
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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