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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

Jesse Kirkpatrick
Affiliation:
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States (jkirkpat@gmu.edu)
Daniel Rothenberg
Affiliation:
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States (Daniel.Rothenberg@asu.edu)

Extract

In August 2021, the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, ending a twenty year war—the longest in American history. The past two decades of armed conflict, fought in complex environments among civilian populations, provided daily reminders of the ethical complexities of warfare. One concept that provides a promising path for reflection on such complexities is moral injury.

Type
Roundtable: Moral Injury, Trauma, and War
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

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Footnotes

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Development of this roundtable was supported by National Endowment for the Humanities award number AV-26061518.