War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-631-22505-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

This timely volume addresses urgent questions about the nature of war crimes, nationalism, ethnic cleansing and collective responsibility from a variety of moral, political and legal perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jokic, Aleksandar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ellis, Anthony

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgements xiv

Introduction 1

Anthony Ellis

Part One What are War Crimes? 27

1 Unchosen Evil and Moral Responsibility 29
Peter A. French

2 War Crimes and Human Rights 48
Alan Gewirth

3 War Crimes: Moral, Legal, or Simply Political? 57
Jovan Babic

Afterword 72

Further Reading 74

Part Two Trials for War Crimes 75

4 War Crimes and Virtue Ethics 77
Michael Slote

5 Whose Trials? Whose Reconciliation? 85
Burleigh T. Wilkins

6 What Should We Do With War Criminals? 97
Anthony Ellis

7 Accountability for War Crimes and the Legacy Nuremberg 113
Richard Falk

Afterword 137

Further Reading 139

Part Three Nationalism and Collective Wrongdoing 141

8 Nationalist Morality and Crimes Against Humanity 143
Richard W. Miller

9 Moral Dimensions of Four Ways of Getting Rid of Groups 163
James W. Nickel

10 Secession and Self-Determination: A Legal, Moral, and Political Analysis 176
Alfred P. Rubin

Afterword 198

Further Reading 200

Part Four The Aftermath of Collective Wrongdoing 203

11 Collective Responsibility. “Moral Luck,” and Reconciliation 205
David Cooper

12 Collective Remorse 216
Margaret Gilbert

13 Reparations to Native Americans? 236
J. Angelo Corlett

14 Transitional Justice and International Civil Society 270
David A. Crocker

Afterword 301

Further Reading 303

Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Aleksandar Jokic is Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Resolution in the Graduate Program at Portland State University. He is Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education, founding editor of STOA - International Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy - and co-founder of the International Law and Ethics Conference Series. He is the author of Aspects of Scientific Discovery (1996), editor of the forthcoming From History to Justice (2000), and co-editor with Quentin Smith of Time, Tense, and Reference (2000) and Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays (2001).