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The 50 pages that link to Just war theory, each with the reason it gives.

• Augustine of HippoRelated: Augustine’s reflections on coercion, peace, and political authority shaped later Christian accounts of war.

• Thomas AquinasRelated: Aquinas’s account of just war helped shape later Christian criteria for legitimate warfare.

• PacifismCompared with: It permits some wars, challenging pacifism’s rejection of armed conflict.

• Humanitarian interventionRelated: Its criteria test whether protective aims justify force and whether methods remain proportionate.

• Catholic social teachingRelated: Catholic social thought applies moral limits to political authority and the use of force.

• Christian ethicsCompared with: It offers criteria for force where Christian pacifism rejects war altogether.

• Strategic bombing during World War IIRelated: Its principles of distinction and proportionality frame debates over attacks on cities.

• ChivalryRelated: It offers a broader framework for judging violence than chivalry's status-bound duties.

• AhimsaCompared with: It permits some uses of force that strict interpretations of ahimsa reject.

• Moral judgmentRelated: It applies moral standards to force, civilian harm, and political ends.

• Bartolomé de las CasasRelated: Las Casas challenged claims that Spanish conquest met the conditions for a just war.

• Total warRelated: Its limits on targets and conduct challenge the logic of treating entire societies as war-making resources.

• Hugo GrotiusRelated: Grotius organized arguments about the justice of war that shaped his account of international law.

• Jane AddamsCompared with: Addams rejected war as a solution where just-war arguments allowed limited military force.

• Sermon on the MountCompared with: Its acceptance of some warfare contrasts with strict readings of Jesus’ commands against retaliation.

• WarRelated: It evaluates the moral grounds for entering war and the limits on conduct within it.

• University of SalamancaRelated: Salamanca theologians applied it to Spanish conquest and the treatment of Indigenous peoples.

• Anti-war movementCompared with: It can condemn particular wars while allowing others, unlike principled opposition to war.

• NonviolenceCompared with: It permits some uses of force that nonviolent principles reject.

• Peace movementCompared with: It accepts the possibility of justified war, unlike the movement's more consistently pacifist currents.

• Doctrine of double effectRelated: The doctrine became a way to assess civilian deaths foreseen during military attacks.

• ThomismRelated: Thomist discussions of legitimate authority, cause, and intention shaped later just-war reasoning.

• JihadCompared with: Comparison reveals overlapping questions about authority and conduct without making the traditions identical.

• Moral absolutismRelated: It debates whether rules against harming civilians allow exceptions in war.

• Francisco de VitoriaRelated: His account rejects religious difference as sufficient cause for war and limits permissible force.

• Preventive warNarrower topic: Its tests of necessity, imminence, and proportionality expose the moral problem of fighting over possible future threats.

• Christian pacifismCompared with: It shares Christian moral concerns with pacifism but allows some wars that pacifists reject.

• Drone warfareCompared with: Its principles frame debates about remote killing, risk, and responsibility.

• Operation Iraqi FreedomNarrower topic: Its criteria provide a framework for evaluating the invasion’s stated grounds and conduct.

• Christian anarchismCompared with: Christian anarchist pacifism generally rejects the state-sanctioned violence this tradition can justify.

• NonresistanceCompared with: It permits some uses of force that nonresistance rejects.

• Religious ethicsRelated: It shows religious moral principles being used to judge organized violence.

• United States invasion of PanamaRelated: Debates over the invasion's justification and civilian harm invoke its criteria for legitimate force.

• Manuel NoriegaRelated: The invasion prompted debate over whether removing Noriega met standards for justified intervention.

• Paul RicœurRelated: Ricœur's political writings apply ethical judgment to violence, responsibility, and institutions.

• AntimilitarismCompared with: It permits some wars, unlike antimilitarist positions that reject militarism as a political system.

• DawnCompared with: Its criteria illuminate the gap between judging a cause and judging a particular execution.

• Strategic studiesCompared with: It evaluates the moral permissibility of force, not only its strategic effectiveness.

• Anarcho-pacifismCompared with: It permits some uses of force that anarcho-pacifism rejects.

• Casus belliRelated: Its criteria distinguish a morally adequate cause from a mere public pretext.

• Declaration of warNarrower topic: Its criteria shaped arguments about whether rulers could justly announce and wage war.

• Military science fictionRelated: Fictional conflicts test the moral grounds and limits of military action.

• Peace and Truce of GodRelated: Both address limits on violence, though the movement focused on protected people, places, and times.

• World peaceCompared with: It tests whether peace requires rejecting war or regulating its permissible use.

• Alberico GentiliRelated: Gentili treated the lawfulness and conduct of war as central questions for jurists.

• G. E. M. AnscombeRelated: Her opposition to nuclear warfare drew on moral limits concerning intentional killing.

• Good and evilRelated: It applies moral limits to violence undertaken for supposedly good ends.

• Religious warRelated: Its criteria show how religious authorities have judged when war may be justified.

• War studiesCompared with: It asks normative questions that empirical study of war alone cannot settle.

• Protests against the Iraq WarRelated: Protest arguments often challenged the invasion’s legitimacy using just-war criteria.