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SEP 18, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Choosing Among Alternative Responses to Mass Atrocity: Between the Individual and the Collectivity

MARK OSIEL When a country pursues only a single mode of atrocity response, it will over-individualize or over-collectivize its treatment of wrongdoer and victim, in ...

Bomb damage in Serekaniye, Syria, 2013.CREDIT: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-132791996/stock-photo-serekaniye-syria-march-view-of-war-damage-from-serekaniye-syrian-war-plane-bombed-serekaniye.html">Shutterstock</a>

SEP 15, 2015 Article

No Peace in Syria without Justice

"Only when the culture of impunity in Syria is addressed will the prospect for a political solution become genuinely viable, and can we begin to ...

Syrian refugees in Europe, September 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/syriafreedom/21076344700/" target="_blank">Freedom House</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank">CC</a>)

SEP 15, 2015 Article

Refugee Mass Exodus: Need for a UN-led World Conference

"Only a UN-led world conference with adequate research and prior broad discussion can meet the challenges of worldwide migration and continuing refugee flows. This year's ...

SEP 13, 2015 Article

Democracy as Myth and Fact

Myths give meaning to our lives. They are stories created to explain the human condition—creation, death, heroism, dignity, pain, pride, and suffering. There is ...

"We became brothers." Bassam Aramin (left) and Rami Elhanan. CREDIT: Peter Singer

SEP 11, 2015 Article

Talking Peace in Person

Middle East peace talks have stalled. The 2014 war in Gaza caused the deaths of more than 2,000 people. Yet a group of 600 Palestinians and Israelis who ...

U.S. Air Force jets fly over burning oil field sites in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. CREDIT: <A HREF="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usairforce/6144567886/">U.S. Air Force</a>

SEP 11, 2015 Article

Let's Be Realistic About the "Military Option" Against Iran

Three dozen retired generals and admirals recently signed a letter supporting the agreement with Iran and declaring it a better option than military action. Why? ...

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Briefly Noted

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Michael Blake's Border Controls

Michael Blake's rules for global justice are too rigid. They misinterpret the commitment to the moral equality of all humans everywhere, which is supposed to ...

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Justice and Foreign Policy: A Reply to My Critics

Sustained debate on the ethical dimensions of foreign policy is no longer a rarity. I thank Caney, Gilabert, Miller, and Stilz for their arguments, and ...

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Unethical Consumption and Obligations to Signal

To bring about an end to the harms involved in the production of everyday goods, what should the individual do?