The Individualization of War: From War to Policing in the Regulation of Armed Conflicts

Blum, Gabriella

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“…On the one hand, it seems likely—commonsense and intuitive—that discontinuities between the two contexts exist. Traditional just-war theory is explicit about the morality of war being different from the morality of peace (Shue, 2008; Walzer, 2006); the international community has (with some success) developed a separate legal framework for judging armed conflict that is independent from domestic law (Blum, 2014); and outside of academia, writers (James, 1910/1968), soldiers (Harrison, 2002; Hedges, 2002), journalists (Junger, 2016), and filmmakers (Mechanic & Gibson, 2016) have long observed how starkly different the war context is to the peace context, including the moral aspects of this context.…”

Section: Alternative Approaches To Morality and Warmentioning

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“…Although previous research on, for example, moral disengagement has been extremely influential in our understanding of (the perpetration of) violence and intergroup conflict, the uninvolved third-party perspective is also important because most people in the world today are not (direct or indirect) perpetrators of war (Hayes, 2012), and wars do not tend to break out within the territories of modern democracies (Wimmer, 2014). Further, war (and the judgment thereof) is being increasingly individualized in that the laws of war now consider combatants as “individual men and women, capable of and responsible for independent decision-making” to a greater degree than in the past (when they were more likely to be considered as “mere instruments or agents of an all-powerful sovereign,” Blum, 2014, p. 62). In line with this individualizing movement, the recent edited volume Just and Unjust Warriors (Rodin & Shue, 2008) complements Walzer’s original Just and Unjust Wars (1977) with a focus specifically on the individuals fighting in war and how we judge their conduct.…”

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The Morality of War: A Review and Research Agenda

Watkins

2020

Perspect Psychol Sci

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What is judged as morally right and wrong in war? I argue that despite many decades of research on moral psychology and the psychology of intergroup conflict, social psychology does not yet have a good answer to this question. However, it is a question of great importance because its answer has implications for decision-making in war, public policy, and international law. I therefore suggest a new way for psychology researchers to study the morality of war that combines the strengths of philosophical just-war theory with experimental techniques and theories developed for the psychological study of morality more generally. This novel approach has already begun to elucidate the moral judgments third-party observers make in war, and I demonstrate that these early findings have important implications for moral psychology, just-war theory, and the understanding of the morality of war.

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The Morality of War: A Review and Research Agenda

Watkins

2020

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…31 Domestic jurisprudence seems to be following this line of thought. 31 Blum 2010;Solomon 2007. These domestic decisions raise the question of combatants' judicial protection to another, higher level. Accordingly, the State was found accountable for not providing the soldiers with the necessary equipment and conditions for the better protection of their lives.…”

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Applying International Humanitarian Law in Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Bodies

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Solomon

2014

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“…Furthermore, in tandem with the "individualization of warfare" (Blum, 2014), the security state requires that the surplus-qua-enemy populations can be disaggregated to the scale of the individual. This exerts an inexorable push towards the further technologization of security.…”

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The Urbanization of drone warfare: policing surplus populations in the dronepolis

Shaw

2016

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Abstract. This paper explores the urbanization of drone warfare and the securitization of the "surplus population". Defined as a bloc of humanity rendered as structurally unnecessary to a capital-intensive economy, the surplus population is an emerging target for the post-welfare security state. If we now live in an age of a permanent conflict with uncertain geographies, then it is at least partly fueled by this endemic crisis at the heart of the capitalist world system. Of key significance is the contradictory nature of the surplus population. The "security threat" generated by replacing masses of workers with nonhumans is increasingly managed by policing humans with robots, drones, and other apparatuses. In other words, the surplus population is both the outcome and target of contemporary capitalist technics. The emerging "dronification of state violence" across a post-9/11 battlespace has seen police drones deployed to the urban spaces of cities in Europe and North America. The drone, with its ability to swarm in the streets of densely packed urban environments, crystallizes a more intimate and invasive form of state power. The project of an atmospheric, dronified form of policing not only embodies the technologization of state security but also entrenches the logic of a permanent, urbanized manhunt. The paper concludes by discussing the rise of the dronepolis: the city of the drone.

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The Individualization of War: From War to Policing in the Regulation of Armed Conflicts

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The Morality of War: A Review and Research Agenda

The Morality of War: A Review and Research Agenda

Applying International Humanitarian Law in Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Bodies

The Urbanization of drone warfare: policing surplus populations in the dronepolis

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