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Just War
3rd June 2020: 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm BST
The end of glory: Why contemporary war has few big battles, much devastation and very little justice – Frank Ledwidge
Warfare changes over time, and the philosophers of just war struggle to keep up. Frank Ledwidge, author and military historian, and Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, will help restore the balance with two lectures on 3rd June and 10th June 2020 at 6pm. The first deals with the decreasing ability to win conventional military conflicts and military forces’ increasing reliance on destroying the lives and livelihoods of non-combatants. The second lecture argues for a philosophical reevaluation of war, since these trends sharply reduce the possibility of justice in warfare.
Frank Ledwidge is a barrister and senior lecturer in Strategy and Law at Portsmouth University. Frank also served for several years as a military intelligence officer on operations in recent conflicts. He is the author of ‘Losing Small Wars’ (Yale 2017) and ‘Aerial Warfare’ (OUP 2020).
The event is free and open to all.
Contact:
Las Casas Institute
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk