Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response by Wicker, Brian

Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409408079)

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Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response by Wicker, Brian

Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response

$54.99
Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response by Wicker, Brian

Just War on Terror?: A Christian and Muslim Response

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror. In the succeeding years, Western governments have struggled to find the right way to respond to the new and deadly threat posed by terrorism. With the election of President Obama the rhetoric has softened and policies have been adjusted but the underlying problems and challenges remain the same. Meanwhile, the war on terrorism in Afghanistan has been intensified. Drawing on just war teaching as developed within both Christian and Muslim traditions, this book examines whether, and how, liberal democracies can combat the new global terrorism both effectively and justly. The authors, including distinguished academics from both sides of the Atlantic, Christian and Muslim theologians, former senior civil servants and a General, deploy a wide range of experience and expertise to address one of the most difficult and pressing ethical challenges to contemporary society.

Author: Brian Wicker
ISBN-10: 1409408078
ISBN-13: 9781409408079
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2010
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Brian Wicker
By Brian Wicker
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David Fisher was a senior official in the Ministry of Defence and Defence Adviser to the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office. He is now undertaking research in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. He regularly contributes to books and journal on defence and ethical issues and is the author of Morality and the Bomb, written when he was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is Co-Chairman of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament. Brian Wicker was Principal of Fircroft College of Adult Education, Birmingham, having previously lectured in the Department of Adult Education in Birmingham University. He has been concerned with the ethics of war and nuclear deterrence for many years and has been Chairman/Vice-President of Pax Christi since the 1970s. He is Chairman of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament for whom he has edited and contributed to several books, including Britain's Bomb: What Next? (SCM Press, 2006) and Witnesses to Faith? Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam (Ashgate, 2006).

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