Renée Nicole Souris
Biographic Data
| ID | 4398126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renée Nicole Souris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renée Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Souris |
| SIGNATURE | SOURIS R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8096-498X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Good Are We Seeking? Child Soldiers and Thick Ethical Concepts
In this paper, I show how a virtue ethics approach to child soldiering is centered on thick ethical concepts that seek to capture in a descriptively and evaluatively rich way how child soldiering affects children’s moral character development and their relationships with others. Virtue ethics thus provides a new perspective that departs from the standard ethical approach, which focuses largely on thin questions of the rights and responsibilities …
The Cruelty is the Point
Child Soldiers, Agency, and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
The international community first responded to child soldiering by embracing within law and policy a narrative that saw child soldiers largely as passive victims. Empirical work with child soldiers has since revealed a more complex picture of children’s agency and actual experiences. From this work, a more recent narrative – which I call the political actor narrative – has taken shape within scholarly work on child soldiers. While the former narr…
What is so wrong with using child soldiers
My paper examines moral claims made by two international legal scholars, Margaret deGuzman and William Schabas, that support the view that the crime of using child soldiers is closer to a malum prohibitum than a malum in se crime. After critically examining deGuzman's legitimacy-based view, I then show that Schabas’ fundamental values view, which considers child soldiering less serious than other international crimes because it does not threaten …
Dignity, Development, and the Gravity of Child Soldiering
This paper critically examines two formulations of the view that the crime of using child soldiers is less serious than other international crimes. The first formulation presents a sociological argument that using child soldiers is not as serious as other international crimes involving rape or murder, and the second formulation relies on deontological moral norms to argue that using child soldiers is less serious than crimes involving murder beca…
Virtue Ethics, Criminal Responsibility, and Dominic Ongwen
In this article, I contribute to the debate between two philosophical traditions—the Kantian and the Aristotelian—on the requirements of criminal responsibility and the grounds for excuse by taking this debate to a new context: international criminal law. After laying out broadly Kantian and Aristotelian conceptions of criminal responsibility, I defend a quasi-Aristotelian conception, which affords a central role to moral development, and especia…
Child soldiering on trial
‘How can we tell what happened to us? There are no words to describe what we have witnessed. What we saw, what we heard, what we did, and how it changed our lives, is beyond measure. We were murdered, raped, amputated, tortured, mutilated, beaten, enslaved and forced to commit terrible crimes.’ (Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report for the Children of Sierra Leone)
The Cruelty is the Point
Virtue Ethics, Criminal Responsibility, and Dominic Ongwen
In this article, I contribute to the debate between two philosophical traditions—the Kantian and the Aristotelian—on the requirements of criminal responsibility and the grounds for excuse by taking this debate to a new context: international criminal law. After laying out broadly Kantian and Aristotelian conceptions of criminal responsibility, I defend a quasi-Aristotelian conception, which affords a central role to moral development, and especia…
Child soldiering on trial
‘How can we tell what happened to us? There are no words to describe what we have witnessed. What we saw, what we heard, what we did, and how it changed our lives, is beyond measure. We were murdered, raped, amputated, tortured, mutilated, beaten, enslaved and forced to commit terrible crimes.’ (Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report for the Children of Sierra Leone)
Child soldiering on trial
‘How can we tell what happened to us? There are no words to describe what we have witnessed. What we saw, what we heard, what we did, and how it changed our lives, is beyond measure. We were murdered, raped, amputated, tortured, mutilated, beaten, enslaved and forced to commit terrible crimes.’ (Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report for the Children of Sierra Leone)
Virtue Ethics, Criminal Responsibility, and Dominic Ongwen
In this article, I contribute to the debate between two philosophical traditions—the Kantian and the Aristotelian—on the requirements of criminal responsibility and the grounds for excuse by taking this debate to a new context: international criminal law. After laying out broadly Kantian and Aristotelian conceptions of criminal responsibility, I defend a quasi-Aristotelian conception, which affords a central role to moral development, and especia…
Dignity, Development, and the Gravity of Child Soldiering
This paper critically examines two formulations of the view that the crime of using child soldiers is less serious than other international crimes. The first formulation presents a sociological argument that using child soldiers is not as serious as other international crimes involving rape or murder, and the second formulation relies on deontological moral norms to argue that using child soldiers is less serious than crimes involving murder beca…
What is so wrong with using child soldiers
My paper examines moral claims made by two international legal scholars, Margaret deGuzman and William Schabas, that support the view that the crime of using child soldiers is closer to a malum prohibitum than a malum in se crime. After critically examining deGuzman's legitimacy-based view, I then show that Schabas’ fundamental values view, which considers child soldiering less serious than other international crimes because it does not threaten …
Child Soldiers, Agency, and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
The international community first responded to child soldiering by embracing within law and policy a narrative that saw child soldiers largely as passive victims. Empirical work with child soldiers has since revealed a more complex picture of children’s agency and actual experiences. From this work, a more recent narrative – which I call the political actor narrative – has taken shape within scholarly work on child soldiers. While the former narr…
What Good Are We Seeking? Child Soldiers and Thick Ethical Concepts
In this paper, I show how a virtue ethics approach to child soldiering is centered on thick ethical concepts that seek to capture in a descriptively and evaluatively rich way how child soldiering affects children’s moral character development and their relationships with others. Virtue ethics thus provides a new perspective that departs from the standard ethical approach, which focuses largely on thin questions of the rights and responsibilities …
The Cruelty is the Point
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (4 works) · Virtue (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)