Morality Of Conflict Research Articles

Individuals Accused of International Crimes as Delegitimized Agents of Truth

The workings of international criminal trials situate themselves in an era where the concept of truth is heralded as a key aspect in the production of understandings of the past within transitional justice (TJ) settings. Yet, in such contexts where representations of the past are multilayered, trials tend to put to the fore certain narratives as legitimate readings, while excluding many others. This article explores the discourses of 18 individuals accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). It focuses on their role as generally delegitimized agents of truth and analyzes how they reconstruct their justice experience, focusing particularly on how they make sense of the judicial truths stemming from their case. It reveals how they reconstruct the ICTY as a hegemonic arena which produces judicial truths, which cannot be considered as legitimate and complete accounts of the past and which are at odds with their authoritative perspective of the “truth.” These findings are analyzed against the backdrop of increasing scholarly debates about the legitimacy, which can be attributed to perpetrators’ perspectives given the tendency, within TJ discourses and practices, to position international criminal justice as a universal and authoritative arbitrator of morality in conflict.

Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches, and the Morality of Conflict, written by Andrew Todd

Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches, and the Morality of Conflict, written by Andrew Todd

Book Review: Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches, and the Morality of Conflict. Edited by Andrew Todd

Book Review: Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches, and the Morality of Conflict. Edited by Andrew Todd

Andrew Todd (ed.), Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches and the Morality of Conflict; Michael Snape and Edward Madigan (eds), The Clergy in Khaki: New Perspectives on British Army Chaplaincy in the First World War

Andrew Todd (ed.), <i>Military Chaplaincy in Contention: Chaplains, Churches and the Morality of Conflict</i>; Michael Snape and Edward Madigan (eds), <i>The Clergy in Khaki: New Perspectives on British Army Chaplaincy in the First World War</i>

The Morality of Conflict: Reasonable Disagreement and the Law by Samantha Besson

The Morality of Conflict: Reasonable Disagreement and the Law by Samantha Besson

The Heroic Outlaw in Irish Folklore and Popular Literature

As a symbolic figure in Irish folklore and popular literature, the outlaw embodies folk morality in conflict with the self-interest and inequity of the state. In the aftermath of British colonisation, the Irish outlaw is represented as more than a criminal. He provides a hero through whom ordinary Irishmen and women can vicariously enjoy brief victories, and imagine their collective dignity in the midst of political defeat and its consequences. Legends, ballads and chapbooks portraying the outlaw are the products of hard-pressed people representing themselves to themselves, reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses, and contemplating issues of morality and justice.