"It is the responsibility of the international community, of the global civil society, to come and take care and assist the transformation of Syria, in collaboration with the Syrian civil society," says the exiled leader of the Deir Mar Musa monastery near Damascus.

In a new book called "The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama," Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter ponders the vocabulary of just and unjust war and the significance of using the American military for humanitarian intervention.

The challenge in Libya, according to David Cortright, director of policy studies at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is to "use just means in achieving the declared just ends."

Along with a responsibility to protect, international coalition military forces intervening in Libya also have a responsibility to respect.

The UN has demanded a cease-fire and authorized military action. What moral considerations should underlie international intervention?

In a new book, this historian and professor of international relations writes that America's long military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq "demonstrated the folly of imagining that war could be mastered" and demolished "Washington's pretensions to moral superiority."

Anna Greenberg, senior vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, presented the results of a Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly/UN Foundation national survey on how religion shapes American perceptions about US foreign policy priorities and commitments.