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Please post your response to the following questions - and/or, you might like to pose a question of your own.

JUST WAR, JUST PEACE

1. What is the meaning of jus ad bellum, and what are its criteria?

2. Is warfare ever justifiable?

3. Martin Van Creveld argues that "war without rules is impossible". Do you agree? Why/why not?

4. How, and why, have Europeans rationalised mass murder in modern history?