Sa pojavom savremenih, najčešće asimetričnih sukoba, u kojima pobeda ne igra ni konstitutivnu ni regulativnu ulogu, u kojima se ne može govoriti o jasno definisanoj strani pobednika i strani gubitnika, javlja se i potreba za ponovnim propitivanjem koncepta okončanja rata. Držeći se okvira legalističke paradigme teorije pravednog rata, autorka rada polazi od osnovne postavke etike okončanja rata: da se okolnosti tokom rata menjaju, pa se stoga promišljanje ad bellum kriterijuma ex ante u novostečenim okolnostima može pokazati netačnim. Namera članka je da ispita i ustanovi da li i na koji način etika okončanja rata predstavlja zasebno polje u okviru teorije pravednog rata, šta tačno ona podrazumeva i prema kojim kriterijumima se procenjuje moralna opravdanost okončanja, odnosno produženja, rata.

In this symposium, Alessandro Ferrara’s recent book The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism – an attempt to expand the framework of Rawls’ political liberalism in order to enable it to meet the challenge of today’s hyperpluralism – is discussed from a variety of angles by four contributors. Among the themes addressed are the potential of political liberalism for grounding a critical attitude; the different potential for accommodation offered by political liberalism for religious and moral, as opposed to economic, pluralism; Rawls’ implicit understanding of truth; the prospects of true democracy in ethnically divided societies that embrace consociationalist and particularly consensualist forms of governance; and the proper role of human rights in paths from decency to democracy from the perspective of an expanded political liberalism. In the final section, Alessandro Ferrara replies to his critics and accepts some of their suggestions.