1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910896528403321

Autore

Singh Danny

Titolo

Applied Afro-Communitarian Ethics and Foreign Armed Intervention / / by Danny Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031641107

3031641108

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Disciplina

341.584096

Soggetti

Ethics

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

Political science

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

African Culture

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. - Chapter I. Principles of Afro-communitarianism and permissible violence -- Chapter II. Rwanda, the United Nations and intervention -- Chapter III. The United Nations and Britain in Sierra Leone -- Chapter IV. The Afghan invasion and fight against terrorism -- Chapter V. United States and allied unilateral intervention in Iraq -- Chapter VI. African-led military interventions -- Chapter VII. Implications of non-interventions in Nigeria, the Niger Delta and Syria -- Chapter VIII. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Just war theory concerns the morality of engaging in warfare, the conduct in war and justice – including democratization and reconstruction – in the aftermath to end war. The morality of war can be measured from a variety of military and philosophical ethics that include theological, consequentialist and realist schools of thought. Various military interventions, such as Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, have been analyzed and evaluated and criticized from a Western and,



especially, liberal point of view. In this book, Danny Singh addresses foreign interventions from a different normative paradigm. Namely, he addresses the morality of foreign military interventions in light of Afro-communitarianism, a dominant philosophical approach in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Afro-communitarianism, positive communal relationships/social harmony are the greatest good that can be achieved to form friendship (which can be understood as the combination of shared identity and goodwill). Even though Afro-communitarianism prioritizes peaceful communal relations, enmity-behavior and violence are morally permissible if it either leads to a less disharmonious state of affairs or to a harmonious state of affairs or there are no friendly alternatives to achieve any of both desired outcomes but the initiator of conflict desires to promote them. Moreover, Afro-communitarianism prescribes dialogue as a guiding action to avoid military conflict. The book provides an alternative, and non-Western, approach to the morality of war and efforts to promote sustainable peace in the aftermath of conflict between warring belligerent parties. Danny Singh is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Teesside University, UK.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956877303321

Autore

Canfield Michael R.

Titolo

Field notes on science & nature / / edited by Michael R. Canfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-674-07206-5

0-674-06084-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CanfieldMichael R

Disciplina

570.72

Soggetti

Biology - Fieldwork

Natural history - Fieldwork

Note-taking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Edward O. Wilson -- Introduction / Michael R. Canfield -- The pleasure of observing / George B. Schaller -- Untangling the bank / Bernd Heinrich -- One and a half cheers for list-keeping / Kenn Kaufman -- A reflection of the truth / Roger Kitching -- Linking researchers across generations / Anna K. Behrensmeyer -- The spoken and the unspoken / Karen L. Kramer -- In the eye of the beholder / Jonathan Kingdon -- Why sketch? / Jenny Keller -- The evolution and fate of botanical field books / James L. Reveal -- Note-taking for pencilophobes / Piotr Naskrecki -- Letters to the future / John D. Perrine and James L. Patton -- Why keep a field notebook? / Erick Greene.

Sommario/riassunto

Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, this book allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.