Ethical Issues in Peacekeeping Operations in Africa
In this paper, Oluwaseun Bamidele initiates a dialogue on the fundamental issue of ethics in peacekeeping operations in Africa, particularly as it influences the adoption of a professional code of conduct. Theoretical concerns are treated in depth, various criticisms and arguments are raised, and each stage in the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating operations is considered.
Playing God with pipettes: The ethics and implications of sex-selection technology in the United States
How does sex-selection technology challenge our understandings of personal agency, gender relations, and family structures? And how do the ethical implications of this technology fit with the intersecting dynamic of class and gender in the United States? Christen Kramer asks these questions and more in a provocative consideration of “family balancing”.
Just War
Alex Powell examines the concept of just war, and if it is compatible with peace. The framework of the analysis is the nature of justice and the implication of semantics in the term “just war”.