Just War Just Peace
FAL Co-leads Contact Information
Name: Eli S. McCarthy, Ph.D., Justice and Peace Studies, Georgetown University (Focus Area Co-Lead)
Email: esm52@georgetown.edu
Phone:
Name: Mark Moitoza, Th.D., Vice Chancellor for Evangelization, Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (Focus Area Co-Lead)
Email: mmoitoza@me.com
Phone: 202.360.7483
RESOURCES
Books
Braun, III, William G., Stéfanie von Hlatky, and Kim Richard Nossal, eds., Engagement Between Peace and War: How Soldiers and Military Institutions Adapt, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Queen’s University Press, 2016.
Camp, Lee C., Who Is My Enemy?: Questions American Christians Must Face About Islam - And Themselves, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2011.
Cook, Martin L., The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S. Military, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2004.
Dubik, James M., Just War Reconsidered: Strategy, Ethics, Theory, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Feaver, Peter and Christopher Gelpi, Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Relations and the Use of Force, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Hall, Mark D. and Charles, Daryl J., America and the Just War Tradition: A History of U.S. Conflicts, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
McCarthy, Eli S., Editor, A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2020.
McCarthy, Eli S., Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy, Eugene Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2012.
Orend, Brian, The Morality of War, Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 2006.
Plato, Plato's Republic, Translated by B Jowett, New York: Modern Library, 1982.
Reichberg, Gregory M., Henrik Syse, and Endre Begby, eds., The Ethics of War: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Shaw, Jonathan E., The Role of Religion in National Security Policy Since September 11, 2001, Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2011.
Sherman, Nancy, Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Wakin, Malham M., ed., War, Morality, and the Military Profession, 2nd ed., Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.
Walzer, Michael, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1977, 2015.
Articles
Cahill, Lisa Sowle, “The Changing Vision of Just Peace in Catholic Social Teaching,” Schlabach, Gerald, “A Manual for Escaping our Vicious Cycles,” and McCarthy, Eli, “A Virtue-Based Just Peace Ethic,” in Journal of Moral Theology, v.7 no.2 (June 2018), p. 86-108.
Cusimano Love, Maryann, “Building a Better Peace: A Future Worthy of Our Faith,” in America Magazine, July 21, 2015.
McCarthy, Eli, “Iran: Break the Cycle of Violence with a Just Peace Framework,” in The Hill, July 11, 2019.
McCarthy, Eli, “Religious Leaders Urge a Just Peace Response to ISIS,” in Huffington Post, Sept. 19, 2014.
Saxon, Michael and Christopher Korpela, “Killing with Autonomous Weapons Systems,” War Room Online Journal: United States Army War College website, January 17, 2018.
Shaw, Jonathan E., “Moral Warriors: A Contradiction in Terms?” Concordia Theological Quarterly 82, nos. 3-4 (2018), linked at “Download,” 247-280.
Solomon, Norman, “Judaism and the Ethics of War,” International Review of the Red Cross, Vol 87, Number 858, June 2005.
Audio/Video
Do Ethics Matter in Warfare?, War Room Online Journal Podcast with Dr. Pauline Shanks-Kaurin, May 29, 2018.
Michael Walzer on Just War Theory, Big Think, August 29, 2011
Professor Joseph Cappizzi on Just War Theory, Catholic Military Life Podcast, Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, 2020
Teaching the Western Just War Tradition, Dr. Chris Eberle presentation at the 2015 McCain Conference, 16-17 April 2015, U.S. Naval Academy.
Toward a Post-Nuclear Just Peace, September 1, 2020, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University.
Websites
Apostolat Militaire International (AMI)
Excerpts from Catechism of the Catholic Church - Safeguarding Peace, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Just War Theory
Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference - Rome, 2016