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Innocent Civilians : The Morality of Killing in War

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Why is it that soldiers may be killed in war but civilians may not be killed?

By tracing the evolution of the principle of non-combatant immunity in Western thought from its medieval religious origins to its modern legal status, Colm McKeogh attempts to answer this question.

In doing so he highlights the unsuccessful attempts to reconcile warfare with our civilization's most fundamental principles of justice.

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Palgrave Macmillan
1349429643 / 9781349429646
Paperback
15/04/2002
212 pages
140 x 216 mm, 253 grams