“We are focusing on regime change, not just protecting the Libyan civilians, and that will likely prolong the war and increase the risk to the very civilians we’re purportedly there to protect,” says Gerard Powers, director of Catholic peacebuilding studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute.

Watch more of our conversation about Libya, humanitarian intervention, the use of force, and some of the ethical questions being raised by NATO’s current military campaign and tactics.

As debate grows over US involvement in NATO’s intervention in the Libyan civil war, watch an excerpt from our recent interview with the force commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda in 1993-1994 and the author of “Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.”

Christians, Jews, and Muslims have a sacred connection to the city of Jerusalem, says author James Carroll, and “that sacred connection, even though at the present moment it’s a source of contention, is actually a profound source of union.”

Osama bin Laden is dead. Can Americans experience a moment of national unity without waving a bloody shirt?

“We are Jews. We don’t have to save the Palestinian heritage,” says Itzik Shweky of the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites. But an American Jew from Brooklyn says the abandoned Palestinian village of Lifta is important for Jews as well as Arabs.

A law professor and author asks what force should be used for in a just world and observes that deciding to intervene militarily to protect people who are being slaughtered by their own government is "an enormous break with America’s practice."

The much-praised French film "Of Gods and Men" dramatizes the essence of universal Christian love, according to the author of the book on which the movie is based.

"If Libya is not clearly distinguished by extraordinary violence, then the president’s claim that protecting civilians is the primary purpose of intervening in Libya is very weak indeed."

Emory University philosophy professor Nicholas Fotion weighs the arguments for and against intervention in Libya.