Just Cause Competent Authority Comparative Justice Right Intention Last Resort Probability of Success Proportionality

Discrimination Proportionality

According to Just War Thinking:Good consequences cannot make an otherwise bad (i.e., indiscriminate) act good; but ...

Bad consequences can make an otherwise good (i.e., discriminate) act bad.

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What’s your reaction to Major Kilner’s statement from the video: “You can’t say that you believe in human dignity or human rights if you’re not willing to defend them”? Work into your response your understanding of what the Church means in The Challenge of Peace about the ‘already, but not yet’ dimension of the Kingdom of God.

review the two main categories of just war norms and how they originated,

examine what the Church sees as the relationship between the tradition of justified violence and the tradition of Christian pacifism, and

evaluate the application of these norms to specific contemporary conflicts.

I. The Just War CriteriaA. Pacifism vs. Just War Thought

1. “Already, but not yet” (§ 58)2. Pacifism | Just War (2 traditions, §§ 62, 73)

How are they related? (§§ 73-74, 120-121)

B. Two Sets of Criteria

II. Some cases applying these criteria.

Jus ad bellumJus ad bellum

Jus in belloJus in bello