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Video

Publication Date

2-19-2010

Keywords

War--Moral and ethical aspects; Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Civilians in war

Abstract

Cécile Farbe, Chair in Political Theory, University of Edinburgh, talks about the coercive use of civilians as shields "a depressingly familiar feature of contemporary wars."

Respondent: Idil Boran, York University, Philosophy

Comments

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

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