War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing A Reader

by Jokic, Aleksandar; Ellis, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780631225058
• ISBN10: 0631225056
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This timely volume addresses urgent questions about the nature of war crimes, nationalism, ethnic cleansing and collective responsibility from a variety of moral, political and legal perspectives.

Author Biography

Aleksandar Jokic is Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Resolution in the Graduate Program at Portland State University. He is Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education, founding editor of STOA - International Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy - and co-founder of the International Law and Ethics Conference Series. He is the author of Aspects of Scientific Discovery (1996), editor of the forthcoming From History to Justice (2000), and co-editor with Quentin Smith of Time, Tense, and Reference (2000) and Consciousness: New Philosophical Essays (2001).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction	1	(26)
Anthony Ellis
Part One What are War Crimes?	27	(48)
Unchosen Evil and Moral Responsibility	29	(19)
Peter A. French
War Crimes and Human Rights	48	(9)
Alan Gewirth
War Crimes: Moral, Legal, or Simply Political?	57	(18)
Jovan Babic
Afterword	72	(2)
Further Reading	74	(1)
Part Two Trials for War Crimes	75	(66)
War Crimes and Virtue Ethics	77	(8)
Michael Slote
Whose Trials? Whose Reconciliation?	85	(12)
Burleigh T. Wilkins
What Should We Do With War Criminals?	97	(16)
Anthony Ellis
Accountability for War Crimes and the Legacy of Nuremberg	113	(28)
Richard Falk
Afterword	137	(2)
Further Reading	139	(2)
Part Three Nationalism and Collective Wrongdoing	141	(62)
Nationalist Morality and Crimes Against Humanity	143	(20)
Richard W. Miller
Moral Dimensions of Four Ways of Getting Rid of Groups	163	(13)
James W. Nickel
Secession and Self-Determination: A Legal, Moral, and Political Analysis	176	(27)
Alfred P. Rubin
Afterword	198	(2)
Further Reading	200	(3)
Part Four The Aftermath of Collective Wrongdoing	203	(102)
Collective Responsibility, ``Moral Luck,'' and Reconciliation	205	(11)
David Cooper
Collective Remorse	216	(20)
Margaret Gilbert
Reparations to Native Americans?	236	(34)
J. Angelo Corlett
Transitional Justice and International Civil Society	270	(35)
David A. Crocker
Afterword	301	(2)
Further Reading	303	(2)
Index	305