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Leading legal, political and moral theorists discuss the normative issues that arise when war concludes and when a society strives to regain peace.
List of contents
1. Post-conflict truth telling: exploring extended territory Margaret Walker; 2. Reparations, restitution, and transitional justice Larry May; 3. Addressing atrocity at the local level: community based approaches to transitional justice in Central Africa Phil Clark; 4. Timor-Leste and transitional justice: should we pursue international prosecutions for the crimes committed in East Timor in 1999? Jovana Davidovic; 5. Justice after war: economic actors, economic crimes, and the moral imperative for accountability after war Joanna Kyriakakis; 6. Child soldiers, transitional justice, and the architecture of post bellum settlements Mark A. Drumbl; 7. Our soldiers, right or wrong: the postwar treatment of troops C. A. J. Coady; 8. Democratization and just cause Robert Talisse; 9. Skepticism about jus post bellum Seth Lazar; 10. Law and the jus post bellum: counseling caution Robert Cryer; 11. Conclusion Andrew Forcehimes and Larry May.
About the author
Larry May is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, as well as Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt and Australian National Universities. He is the author of Crimes against Humanity: A Normative Account (Cambridge University Press, 2005), War Crimes and Just War (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Aggression and Crimes against Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Genocide: A Normative Account (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Global Justice and Due Process (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is also the editor of International Criminal Law and Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).Andrew T. Forcehimes is currently working on his Ph.D. in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He has published articles on deliberative democracy, multiculturalism and decision theory.
Summary
This collection of essays brings together some of the leading legal, political and moral theorists to discuss normative issues that arise when war concludes and when a society strives to regain peace. The volume questions whether jus post bellum itself should be a distinct field of inquiry.
