By Kenneth L. Vaux

ISBN-10: 1498268056

ISBN-13: 9781498268059

ISBN-10: 1625641834

ISBN-13: 9781625641830

Ethics of Wars of Insurgency is my 5th examine on "the ethics of warfare and peace." It spans a twenty-year interval of puzzling battle and peace background concentrating on the theological and moral elements of yankee overseas coverage research from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia, concluding with current actions regarding Syria--and the concurrent occasions of finishing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This examine highlights the theological issues of prophecy and biblical instructing and the moral subject matters of human rights, violence, and peacemaking. The thesis of Ethics and the Wars of Insurgency is that simply theological and moral research can fathom the depths of that means and acceptable motion in those very important parts of coverage and method in American and global affairs.

Kenneth L. Vaux is Professor Emeritus in Theology and Ethics at Garrett Seminary and Fellow on the Divinity school in Cambridge. For Wipf and Sock, he has authored Ethics and the struggle on Terrorism (2002) and America in God's World (2009).

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