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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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