Religion and Justice in the War Over Bosnia

by G. Scott Davis (editor)

This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers, working in ethics, religion and history, to explore moral and religious issues that underlie the violence in Bosnia. ********************************************************* This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers to explore the moral and religious issues that underlie the violence and atrocities in Bosnia. From diverse academic and philosophical perspectives, the works of Jean Bethke Elshtain, James Turner Johnson, Michael Sells, John Kelsay, and G. Scott Davis will inform not just scholars of ethics, politics and religion, but everyone concerned with the prospects for justice in the post Cold War world.

204 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Hana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, but not what I was looking for.

I picked this up because I’ve been looking for books on the history of the genocide in Bosnia, but this is actually a collection of essays about the philosophy and ethics of war, which just happens to have been written in 1995 with the genocide as a backdrop (think equivalent to a book written today about war crimes, in the context of the ongoing Gaza genocide but referencing it only infrequently)

I was loosely familiar with just war principles before, and to an extent these were interesting ideas, but at times they felt overly theoretical. Philosophy is not my field so others may disagree with me, but part of me wondered whether there was even a point to asking these questions, considering most of the essays don’t reach an answer and the discussions seem so far removed from the actual realities of war.