Terrorism and Justice de Tony Coady

Terrorism and Justice: Moral Argument in a Threatened World

Tony Coady

Michael O'Keefe

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2003

The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 were profoundly shocking to the international community. New dilemmas now face policy-makers increasingly aware of the inadequacy of existing frameworks for dealing with them, or how to find the answer to the vexed questions: Can terrorism be justified, and, if not, what are the grounds for condemning it? Is 'one man's terrorist another's freedom fighter'? What are the morally appropriate responses to terrorism-diplomatically, militarily and ethically? Terrorism and Justice brings together authors with different attitudes and original perspectives on ethical and practical justifications for terrorism, and different conceptual frameworks for assessing and justifying responses to terrorism - some defend the immunity of non-combatants, others argue that traditional distinctions between combatants and non-combatants do not

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Professor C. A. J. (Tony) Coady is ARC Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Head of the ARC Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics established by the Australian Research Council. Michael O'Keefe is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.Other contributors are: Sir Ninian Stephen, former Governor-General; Associate Professor Robert Young, Department of Philosophy, La Trobe University; Associate Professor Igor Primoratz and Professor Seumas Miller, ARC Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics; Associate Professor Aleksandar Pavkovic, Department of Politics, Macquarie University; Associate Professor Abdullah Saeed, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne; Associate Professor Janna Thompson, ARC Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and Department of Philosophy, La Trobe University; Professor Raimond Gaita, Australian Catholic University and King's College, London.