What do we owe refugees

Jus ad bellum , duties to refugees from armed conflict zones and the right to asylum

Bibliographic Data

ID12893166
AuthorsJovana Davidovic (0000-0002-8998-5496, University of Iowa, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume12
Issue3
Pages347-364
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Global Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9626 • E-ISSN: 1744-9634
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449626.2016.1245677
OpenAlexW2565434552
LanguageEN
References cited15

In this paper I focus on duties we owe refugees from conflict zones. I argue that it is important to distinguish between two types of duties one might have with respect to refugees from conflict zones. Belligerents from wars that resulted in excess numbers of refugees, I argue, have a stringent duty to remedy past harms and provide for resulting refugees. Other states have a duty to aid which is context-dependent and can be in some cases as stringent as the duty to remedy past harms. I argue that making a distinction between the grounds and types of duties different actors have with respect to refugees from conflict zones has significant consequences both for just war theory (and in particular proportionality calculations ad bellum and in bello), but also for practical questions about how best to discharge our duties to refugees from conflict zones

Armed conflict · Criminology · International law · Jus ad bellum · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Use of force · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification

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