Religion, Violence, and Human Rights
Protection of Human Rights as Justification for the Use of Armed Force
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Turner Johnson (0000-0003-3555-169X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12000 |
| OpenAlex | W1790866956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Beginning with the support given by religious groups to humanitarian intervention for the protection of basic human rights in the debates of the 1990s, this essay examines the use of the human rights idea in relation to international law on armed conflict, the “Responsibility To Protect” doctrine, and the development of the idea of sovereignty associated with the “Westphalian system” of international order, identifying a dilemma: that the idea of human rights undergirds both the principle of non‐intervention in the internal affairs of states and the idea of an international responsibility for humanitarian intervention in cases of oppression. The pre‐Westphalian conception of sovereignty as moral responsibility for the common good is then examined as an alternative that avoids this dilemma, and the essay concludes by suggesting that religious ethics also has other resources that, if used, may shed useful light on resolving this problem
Dilemma · Doctrine · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Humanitarian intervention · International human rights law · International law · International relations · Intervention (counseling · Law and economics · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Sovereignty · Westphalian sovereignty · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |