The JOINT SERVICES CONFERENCE ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Examines
The Status of Noncombatants
Brigadier General Charles Dunlap, USAF
“Terrorism and Response: A Moral Inquiry into the Killing of Noncombatants”
Dr. Camillo C. Bica, School of Visual Arts
“Nonlethal Weapons and Noncombatant Immunity: Can We Ever Justify Attacking Noncombatants?”
Captain Christopher Mayer, USM Academy at
“The Ethics of Complex Contingencies: Operation IRAQI FREEDOM”
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Pfaff,
“On the Moral Importance of Noncombatants”
Major Michael Carlino,
“Are there Noncombatants in MOOTW and Homeland Security Activities?”
Dr. Eric Wingrove-Haugland,
Some New Ideas about Right Intention
“Warfare, Hell, and the Best Intentons: Getting Rid of Right Intentions as a Jus ad Bellum Criterion”
Captain Marc O. Hedahl,
“Giving Right Intention Its Due”
Major Charles McIntyre,
“Double Effect, Double Intention, and Asymmetric Warfare”
Dr. Steven Lee, Visiting Fellow,
Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey S. Wilson, USM Academy at
Lieutenant Keith Ryan, USCG Reserve, US Department of Health and Human Services
“The Maritime War on Terror and the Rights of Neutrals: In Need of a Course Change”
Midshipman Frank Megna, US
Jus ad Bellum: Protecting Noncombatants and the Causes of War
“War on Behalf of Noncombatants?”
Lieutenant Commander John D. Carlson, USNR,
“Worthy and Unworthy Wars: A Critique of Just War Reasoning”
Dr. Tim Challans, US Army Command and
“Protecting the Innocent and Intervention”
Dr. Stephen D. Wrage,
“Protecting Noncombatants from Biological Weapons: The Rights and Obligations of States”
Captain Michael W. Brough, USM
Academy at
Jus in
“Moral Obligations to a Modern Enemy: The Combatant/Noncombatant Distinction in Light of Terrorism”
Cadet First Class Brandon B. Cole,
“Five Steps to Noncombatant Protection”
Dr. Pauline M. Kaurin,
“Engaging Noncombatants and the Use or Moral Imagination”
Ms. Julia Ragatz,
“From Three to One: “Rethinking the ‘Three-Block War’ and Humanitarian Operations in Combat”
Dr. Reuben E. Brigety II,
Jus in
“Beyond Precision: Issues of Morality and Decision Making in Minimizing Collateral Causalities”
Lieutenant Colonel Dwight A. Roblyer, USAF, National Defense Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The Moral Case for Improved Technology, Training and Intelligence”
Mr. Michael Skerker,
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Cathcart, USAF, National Guard Bureau Staff
Jus in
“May the Well-Being of Noncombatants be Directly Attacked as a Tool of War?”
Dr. Robert G. Kennedy,
“Countervalue Nuclear Warfare: The Limit Case of Noncombatant Immunity”
Lieutenant Colonel John Mark Mattox, USA, Headquarters, United States European Command
“Noncombatant Immunity and Truman’s Decision”
Dr. Richard Schoonhoven, USM Academy at
Jus in
Dr. Davida Kellogg,
“The Ethics of Assassination: When are Political Leaders Legitimate Targets?”
Dr. Whitley R. P. Kaufman, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
“Applying the Rules of Just War Theory to Engineers in the Arms Industry”
Dr. Aaron Fichtelberg,
Major William D. Casebeer,
Midshipman John Pierczynski,
Midshipman Tyson Meadors,
Midshipman A.S. Martin,