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dc.contributor.authorBARRY, Christian
dc.contributor.authorCHRISTIE, Lars
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T08:08:10Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T08:08:10Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationSeth LAZAR and Helen FROWE (eds), The Oxford handbook of ethics of war, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017, Oxford handbooks, pp. 339-358en
dc.identifier.isbn9780199943418
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/61245
dc.descriptionFirst published: March 2017en
dc.description.abstractThe doctrine of the moral equality of combatants holds that combatants on either side of a war have equal moral status even if one side is fighting a just war while the other is not. This chapter examines arguments that have been offered for and against this doctrine, including the collectivist position famously articulated by Walzer and McMahan’s influential individualist critique. We also explore collectivist positions that have rejected the moral equality doctrine and arguments that some individualists have offered in its favor. We defend a noncategorical version of the moral equality doctrine, according to which combatants on either side of a just war sometimes (but not always) have equal moral status. On our view nonculpable combatants are not liable to attack even when they fight for an unjust cause.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement No 340956 - IOW - The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict.
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dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/340956/EU
dc.relation.ispartofseries[IOW]en
dc.titleThe moral equality of combatantsen
dc.typeContribution to booken
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199943418.013.28
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