Document Type

Video

Publication Date

1-27-2012

Keywords

Humanitarian law; Military law; Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Civilians in war

Abstract

Adil Ahmad Haque, Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Law - Newark, speaks about a deontological alternative to the Balancing Approach that weighs the balance between military and humanitarian considerations when soldiers decide whether to attack a combatant or civilian during war. He notes that this approach ignores the moral asymmetries between killing and letting die and between intentionally and unintentionally killing civilians. Deontological Targeting establishes a minimum threshold of certainty that soldiers must reach before using deadly force.

Respondent: Mohamad Al-Hakim, York Philosophy, Nathanson Graduate Fellow.

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Presented by Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security, Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership and Osgoode Hall Law School.

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