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- Title
Just war theory after colonialism and the war on terror: reexamining non-combatant immunity.
- Authors
Mares, Gabriel
- Abstract
I challenge a recent trend in just war theory – that civilians might be complicit with terrorists and lose non-combatant immunity – by reversing the gun sights and asking whether colonizing populations complicit with empire might compromise their non-combatant status. Employing colonial settlers as a thought experiment, I demonstrate the logic of expanded civilian culpability that has been proposed in the wake of the War on Terror would be unacceptable in other scenarios, and that these revisionist proposals are in service of ends incompatible with just war. In the process, I identify an important ambiguity regarding the performativity of non-combatant status, and show how this is used to aggressively expand civilian culpability for violence.
- Subjects
JUST war doctrine; TERRORISTS; NONCOMBATANT immunity; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009; AMBIGUITY; LEGAL liability; VIOLENCE
- Publication
International Theory, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 3, p483
- ISSN
1752-9719
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1752971920000482