Date: 2024
Type: Thesis
Sufficiently just peace : bridging the normative gap between an ideal conception of justice and a non-ideal reality in Ukraine
Florence : European University Institute, 2024, EUI, STG, Master Thesis, 2024
HARJU, Sami James, Sufficiently just peace : bridging the normative gap between an ideal conception of justice and a non-ideal reality in Ukraine, Florence : European University Institute, 2024, EUI, STG, Master Thesis, 2024 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77140
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The following attempts to determine the extent to which formulating a rational endgame in Ukraine might benefit from the presented conceptual framing of a sufficiently just peace. While Ukraine must be supported in dictating the terms of its own future in the face of malevolence, the current trajectory of the conflict forbodes no good outcome for anyone. The gulf between the generally held maximal conception of an ideal justice and any pragmatic outlook of peace presents a dangerously incompatible normative contrast. The proposed framework utilises relevant principles from both just war and just peace theory, bringing them back to reality through an enhanced utility in contextualisation. The proposed paradigm subsequently facilitates conflicting narratives, intersubjectivity, and compromise, with the added scope of treating both peace and justice as relative conditions. The sufficient condition that guide the use of the framework, while informed by context, are largely subjective and open to interpretation. The analysis serves as a dialectical summary of the historical context causes, and potential consequences of the war, upon which the framework can be utilised by the reader to determine their own 'sufficiently just peac'.
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Award date: 14 June 2024; Supervisor: Prof. Trine Flockhart, European University Institute
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77140
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/1112935
Series/Number: EUI; STG; Master Thesis; 2024
Publisher: European University Institute
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