Expanding Responsibility for the Just War: A Feminist Critique

Rosemary Kellison

doi:10.1017/9781108642798

As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms to innocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. In this book, Rosemary Kellison presents a feminist critique of just war reasoning, with particular focus on the issue of responsibility for harm to noncombatants. Contemporary just war reasoning denies the violence of war by suggesting that many of the harms caused by war are necessary, though regrettable, injuries for which inflicting agents bear no responsibility. She challenges this narrow understanding of responsibility through a feminist ethical approach that emphasizes the relationality of humans and the resulting asymmetries in their relative power and vulnerability. According to this approach, the powerful individual and collective agents who inflict harm during war are responsible for recognizing and responding to the vulnerable persons they harm, and thereby reducing the likelihood of future violence. Kellison's volume goes beyond abstract theoretical work to consider the real implications of an important ethical problem.

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Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
pp i-ii

Expanding Responsibility for the Just War - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgments
pp viii-x

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - Feminist Ethics
pp 9-38

2 - Necessity and the Evasion of Responsibility
pp 39-73

3 - Relational Personhood and the Violence of War
pp 74-101

4 - Intention Matters
pp 102-148

5 - From Evading to Expanding Responsibility
pp 149-180

6 - Taking Responsibility for Harmdoing in War
pp 181-221

Conclusion
pp 222-230

References
pp 231-250

Index
pp 251-256

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