The Morality of War and Peace in a Post-Liberal World Order

Abstract

This panel examines how the resort to, and justification of, war and political violence are changing amid a broader crisis of the liberal international order in general, and of international law in particular. The contributions interrogate the moral justifications of violence and nonviolence, the ethical limits of warfare and militarization, and the growing gap between legal norms and political practice under conditions of an eroding framework for conflict resolution. Rather than assuming stable moral standards or effective legal enforcement, the papers explore how the morality of war and peace is reshaped as international law loses authority and traditional restraints weaken. Together, the panel asks how global justice can still be theorized and defended when the normative foundations of war, peace, and legal accountability are increasingly contested.

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