The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics

Johnson, James Turner; Patterson, Eric D.

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“…The codes of this meta-physical war are woven into the narratives of popular epics. Entrenched within these epics are deeply held notions of sacrifice, honour and heroism (16,17). African oral traditions, which have largely been neglected by the dominant colonial narrative around war ethics, are replete with accounts of the just war theory, nonviolent conflict resolution and the philosophy of ubuntu ("I am because we are") (18,19).…”

Section: The Philosophy Of War Metaphors In Pandemicsmentioning

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Moral philosophy, pragmatism, and the larger cause: why “war” metaphors are needed during pandemics

Bhaumik

Dash

Kakkar

2020

IJME

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Coronavirus disease , which originated in China, is now a full-blown pandemic which has thrown governments and societies off-track in an unprecedented manner. War metaphors have been used widely to describe the scenario, but many critics decry them as harmful narratives. In this piece, we discuss the utility of the war metaphor to build solidarity and fraternity, which will be essential to get through the crisis. We also explain how concerns regarding increased authoritarianism and state excesses due to the use of these narratives are misplaced. We then tease out the colonial era concept of war that guides the arguments against the use of war metaphors in pandemics. We argue that in the post-modern world and in South Asian and African philosophies, wars are seen through the prism of the larger cause of dharma or ubuntu and that individual losses or gains in these contexts are part of a larger cause. The use of war metaphors reflects the need to get together for a societal cause. These metaphors are largely understood across societies while other alternatives are exclusionary, poetic and tangential in nature.

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Section: The Philosophy Of War Metaphors In Pandemicsmentioning

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Moral philosophy, pragmatism, and the larger cause: why “war” metaphors are needed during pandemics

Bhaumik

Dash

Kakkar

2020

IJME

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“…Above all else, the Snowden revelations seemedagain framed in often conspiratorial waysto convey a notion new to the public: that intelligence gathering was not simply about the enemy but anyone, not only about known enemy targets but unexpected future ones, anyone that is and everything (Harding 2014;Johnson et al 2014;Leigh and Harding 2011;Wright and Kreissl 2013). Yet the ethical implications of military, security and intelligence agency operational impacts on civilian populations, within and beyond the field of conflict, combat and war has received a considerable degree of attention in the research literature of security and intelligence studies as well as in the direct field of security-intelligence and military operations themselves (Baker 2015; Lucas 2015Lucas , 2016Goldman 2009Goldman , 2011Johnson and Patterrson 2015;Omand and Phythian 2013).…”

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Research Ethics in the Securitised University

Gearon

Parsons

2018

J Acad Ethics

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Addressing the complex and longstanding relationship between universities and security and intelligence agencies, this article provides a tentative, working conceptual framework for research ethics in a global higher education environment. The article does so in the light of intensified threats of international terrorism which have brought this historic relationship to the contemporary foreground of academic life. Seeing higher education environments as part of a broader process of enhanced security in societies worldwide, we use securitization theory to provide an analytical framework specifically for understanding a complex of historical-contemporary relationships between universities and security and intelligence agencies. As the basis for framing the ethical issues which arise for researchers across all disciplines, the intention is to raise awareness of a relationship which by its very, especially historical, nature, has been secret. The article suggests identify a threefold analytical framework were structural, operational and ethical considerations are interwoven in complex ways. At the structural level we identify three modus operandi (covert, overt, covert-overt); and four academic ethical principles (standards; freedom; engagement; conduct). While the conceptual framework presented makes no pretence of offering a complete or comprehensive picture of a complex and still evolving relationship, the intention is provide some critical balance and coherence to a contentious not to say often divisive aspect of research ethics in the securitised university.

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics

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Moral philosophy, pragmatism, and the larger cause: why “war” metaphors are needed during pandemics

Moral philosophy, pragmatism, and the larger cause: why “war” metaphors are needed during pandemics

Research Ethics in the Securitised University

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