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Issue 2025/01

Reconciliation: Potential and Limits of a Guiding Concept in Peace Ethics

Early last year, the German bishops published their peace statement “Peace to this household”. In it, they reaffirm the central theme of Christian peace ethics: reconciliation and the associated process of dealing with a violent past. The…

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Issue 2024/02

Ready for War, Defense-Capable - and Peaceable?

Dear readers, the German term “kriegstüchtig” (war-capable or ready for war) received the third-highest number of votes in this year’s poll for Germany’s “Words of the Year”. The German Language Society offers the following commentary:…

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Issue 2024/01

AI and Autonomy in Weapons: War and Conflict out of Control?

Dear readers, the first issue of “Ethics and Armed Forces” was published ten years ago. We are therefore revisiting the topic of that issue – “Anonymous Killing by new Technologies? The Soldier between Conscience and Machine”. In addition to…

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Issue 2023/02

Core Issues of European Military Ethics

In October 2023, servicemen and women from 19 nations participated in the first military exercise for the planned EU Rapid Deployment Force in Rota, Spain. The sheer practical dimensions of such multinational operations are likely to pose…

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Issue 2023/01

Resilience - aspects of crisis competence

The cover photo of this issue shows a Ukrainian soldier in the trench near Bakhmut. The photographers Kostyantin and Vlada Liberov took this and other harrowing pictures of the Ukrainian war. It is emblematic of the Ukrainians’ spirit of…

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Issue 2022/02

War in Ukraine

The Russian invasion of the neighboring state on February 24, 2022, is now almost automatically associated with the buzzword of the "turning point" or the beginning of a "new era". Even if this term expresses the widespread shock about the…

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Issue 2022/01

Women, Peace & Security: The Long Road to Gender Justice

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine. Although preparations for this edition of “Ethics and Armed Forces” had already reached an advanced stage, the question arose of whether the “war in Europe” might not…

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