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TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
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Following 9/11, the United States government has made war on terrorism
its number one priority. But how should we understand the terrorism that
the U.S opposes? Is it something only our enemies have engaged in or have
our allies and we also engaged in terrorist acts? More importantly, is
terrorism always wrong, or are there morally justified acts of terrorism?
When we actually confront wrongful acts of terrorism, what are the morally
defensible responses? Is war a morally defensible response to the terrorism
of 9/11? If war is a morally defensible response to terrorism, how is
terrorism related to issues of international justice? Do failures of international
justice motivate acts of terrorism? Did they do so in the case of 9/11?
Are morally defensible responses to terrorism required to correct for
related failures of international justice? If so, what implications, if
any, does this have for the U.S. achieving a morally defensible response
to 9/11? This seminar will focus on evaluating competing answers to these
and other central questions relating to 9/11.
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James P. Sterba is professor of philosophy and a founding faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He has published 23 books, most recently the award-winning Justice for Here and Now and Three Challenges to Ethics: Environmentalism, Feminism and Multiculturalism. He is past president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace and is currently editing and contributing to a collection of essays titled Terrorism and International Justice for Oxford University Press.
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