Just war theory
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Just war theory (or Bellum iustum) is a doctrine of military ethics of Roman philosophical and Catholic origin, studied by moral theologians, ethicists and international policy makers, which holds that a violent conflict ought to meet philosophical, religious or political criteria.
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List of just war theorists
- Cicero (106 BC–43 BC)
- Ambrose (337/340–397)
- St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
- Gratian (Christian) (12th century)
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
- Stanislaw of Skarbimierz (1360–1431)
- Francisco de Vitoria (1492–1546)
- Francisco Suarez (1548–1617)
- Alberico Gentili (1552–1608)
- Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)
- Samuel Pufendorf (1632–1694)
- John Locke (1632–1704)
- Emerich de Vattel (1714–1767)
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
- George Barry O'Toole (1886–1944)
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
- H. Richard Niebuhr (1894–1962)
- Paul Ramsey (1913–1988)
- John Rawls (1921–2002)
- Murray Rothbard (1926–1995)
- Michael Quinlan (1930–2009)
- Michael Novak (1933–)
- Michael Walzer (1935–)
- Ron Paul (1935–)
- Robert L. Holmes (193?–)
- Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939–)
- Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013)
- Oliver O'Donovan (1945–)
- Louis Iasiello (1950–)
- George Weigel (1951–)
- Jeff McMahan (1954–)
- Brian Orend (1970–)
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