“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. More →

July 31, 2012

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 interventions. More →

April 15, 2011

The challenge in Libya, according to director of policy studies David Cortright, is to “use just means in achieving the declared just ends.” More →

March 23, 2011

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

March 21, 2011

The UN has demanded a cease-fire and authorized military action. What moral considerations underlie international interventon? More →

March 18, 2011

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.” More →

August 6, 2010

At an October 22 briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, 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 … More →

October 24, 2008