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Conference Announcement Theme: How to End a War Subtitle: Peace, Justice, and Repair Type: 2019 Ethics of War and Peace Conference Institution: Department of English and Philosophy, United States Military Academy West Point Location: West Point, NY (USA) Date: 11.–12.10.2019 __________________________________________________ 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which officially ended World War One. The treaty is infamous for failing to resolve the conflict and setting the stage for World War Two. As the United States struggles to find resolutions to its two longest wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we will gather to examine the theme, "How to End a War: Peace, Justice, and Repair." This topic incorporates the issues of jus post bellum: justice in settlements, punishments, and reparations. However, the theme is broader than typical jus post bellum discussions, involving general social and political issues including reconciliation, forgiveness, tolerance, memorialization, moral injury and repair. Invited speakers for the conference include: Alex Bellamy, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia. Author of Responsibility to Protect: A Defense (Oxford, 2015) and Massacres and Morality (Oxford, 2012). Nir Eisikovits, Associate Professor and Director of the Applied Ethics Center, University of Massachusetts Boston. Author of A Theory of Truces (Palgrave/MacMillan 2015) and Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation (Brill-Nijhoff/RoL 2009). Catherine Lu, Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Author of Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Darrel Moellendorf, Professor of International Political Theory and Professor of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Author or editor of numerous books on global justice and several groundbreaking articles on justice and ending a war. Colleen Murphy, Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, and Director of Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010). John Nicholson, former commander of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan and NATO Resolute Support Mission. Linda Radzik, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University. Author of Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2009). David Rodin, Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for the Ethics and Law of Armed Conflict. Author of War and Self-Defense (Oxford University Press, 2002). Nancy Sherman, University Professor, Georgetown University. Author of numerous books including Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers (Oxford University Press, 2015). Lisa Tessman, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University. Author of Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles (Oxford University Press, 2005). For more information please see: https://www.westpointaog.org/Ethics-War-and-Peace-Conference __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
