The Nature of Peace and the Morality of Armed Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Florian Demont-Biaggi

   Pages 1-16

3. Kantian Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Recognition Theory and Kantian Cosmopolitanism

      • Paul Giladi

      Pages 19-38

   3. Pax Kantiana and Res Militaris: Kant’s Views on Peace, War and Military Affairs Revisited

      • Franz Kernic

      Pages 39-61

4. Just War Debates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Standards of Risk in War and Civil Life

      • Saba Bazargan-Forward

      Pages 65-82Open Access

   3. Military Necessity Through Peace?

      • Florian Demont-Biaggi

      Pages 83-104

   4. Just War Thought and the Notion of Peace

      • James G. Murphy

      Pages 105-122Open Access

   5. Terrorism, jus post bellum and the Prospect of Peace

      • Anne Schwenkenbecher

      Pages 123-140

5. Religious Perspectives on Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Peace, Justice and Religious Humanism: A Jewish Perspective

      • Noam Zohar

      Pages 143-158

   3. Once the Buddha Was a Warrior: Buddhist Pragmatism in the Ethics of Peace and Armed Conflict

      • Stephen Jenkins

      Pages 159-178

6. Technology, War and Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Civic Virtue and Cybersecurity

      • Don Howard

      Pages 181-201Open Access

   3. Weapons for Pacifism: Reconciling Ideas in Conflict

      • Adam Henschke

      Pages 203-222

   4. Virtues for Peace: What Soldiers Can Do and Where Military Robotics Fails

      • Bernhard Koch

      Pages 223-242

   5. Is Cyberpeace Possible?

      • Markus Christen, Endre Bangerter

      Pages 243-263

7. Peace in the Real World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265

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   2. Psychological Contributions to Philosophy: The Cases of Just War Theory and Nonviolence

      • Levi Adelman, Bernhard Leidner, Seyed Nima Orazani

      Pages 267-291

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework. Whilst war and peace have traditionally been viewed through the lens of philosophical enquiry, political issues and theological ideas - as well as common sense - have also influenced people’s understanding of armed conflicts with regards to both the moral issues they raise and the policies and actions they require. Comprised of fourteen essays on the role and application of peace, the book places emphasis on it’s philosophical, moral, theological, technological, and practical implications. Starting with an overview of Kantian perspectives on peace, it moves to discussions of the Just War debates, religious conceptualizations of peace, and the role of peace in modern war technology and cyber-security. Finally concluding with discussions of the psychological and medical impacts of war and peace on both the individual and the larger society, this collection offers a contribution to the field and will be of interest to a wide audience.



Chapters 4, 6 and 10 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

• military ethics
• security policy
• just war
• philosophy
• ethics
• peace
• war
• diplomacy
• terrorism
• cybersecurity
• nonviolence
• politics
• pacifism
• theology
• deontology
• Kant’s cosmopolitanism

• MILAK at ETH Zurich, Aarau, Switzerland

  Florian Demont-Biaggi

Florian Demont-Biaggi has studied in Basel, Birmingham, London and Zurich. In 2013, he received his PhD from the University of Zurich and is currently working on military and leadership leadership ethics at the Military Academy (MILAK) at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland. He is the author of Rules and Dispositions in Language Use (2014).

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