CFP: TraCe Third Annual Conference: The Excessive Use of Force (Gießen: Justus Liebig University Gießen, 30 OCT - 1 NOV 2024) [DEADLINE 15 May 2024!]

 

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When? Wednesday, October 30 - Friday, November 1, 2024

Where? Justus Liebig University Gießen

Call for Papers

The excessive use of force has been a recurring phenomenon over time and throughout different regions in a broad variety of contexts as part of transformations of political violence. Integral to our agenda as a Research Center are efforts to analyze, to better understand and to reduce or at least manage the many conflicts that have again increased in intensity. We are faced with new forms of war and terrorist violence, and there is a systematic disregard for international humanitarian law (and human rights law). Humankind is under pressure in light of these developments that challenge existing norms and practices for containing political violence. However, historically such excessive uses of force have not been unique. It is challenging to socio-culturally (historically and empirically) understand these phenomena, and to ask for normative responses to such developments.

Our annual conference will be held at Giessen, Germany, from October 30, 2024, until November 1, 2024. We want to organize the conference alongside four sections:

1. socio-cultural (including historical) analyses of excessive use of force;
2. empirical studies of excessive use of force;
3.  the role of international law to avoid excessive use of force;
4. normative responses to excessive use of force beyond international law. In each of the four sections we want to cover a variety of situations extending from revolutionary and post-revolutionary violence, across civil wars, up to international armed conflicts.

Propositions covering history, social science, political theory, international relations and international law (both international humanitarian and international human rights law) can be sent in English (yet, French, German and Spanish can be also accepted) by email to raphael.cahen(at)recht.uni-giessen.de and thilo.marauhn(at)recht.uni-giessen.de. All applications must be sent by May 15, 2024, with an abstract of 250 words and a short CV. Accepted papers will be informed until the end of June 2024.

The Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence” (TraCe) is an inter­disciplinary research network of five Hessian research Institutions: The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Philipps University Marburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt. The proceedings will appear in a peer-reviewed publication. We aim at covering transportation and accommodation for accepted panelists.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Panel on “Civil Wars and Postwars in the Contemporary Era, 1776-2020. A Transnational and Global Approach” at the 15th Meeting of the Spanish Association of Contemporary History (Albacete, 17-19 September 2020)

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Via Hsozkult, we learned of a call for papers for a panel on civil wars and postwars in the contemporary era.

“In the last years we are witnessing one of the most serious migratory crisis since the Second World War. Some of these migrants decide to leave their countries due to economic, political, social or climate motivations. Nonetheless, a significant part of them have in war, and more specifically in civil wars, their main reason to abandon their lives. In this sense, the internal conflicts that have recently aroused in some parts of the world, as well as the endemic and chronic wars in regions such as Latin America, Middle East or Central Africa, are having a more decisive influence on a global scale. The widespread (and growing) existence of these internal conflicts around the globe places the concept of civil war as a key element to understand nowadays’ world, connecting to the relevance that this type of conflict had in the previous 19th and 20th centuries […]”

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BOOK: Nesrine BADAWI, Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2019). ISBN 978-90-04-41062-6, €154.00

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Brill is publishing a new book on the regulation of armed conflict in Islamic jurisprudence.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict: Text and Context, Nesrine Badawi argues against the existence of a “true” interpretation of the rules regulating armed conflict in Islamic law. In a survey of formative and modern seminal legal works on the subject, the author sheds light on the role played by the sociopolitical context in shaping this branch of jurisprudence and offers a detailed examination of the internal deductive structures of these works.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nesrine Badawi, Ph.D (2011), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is an Assistant Professor of Public and International Law at the American University in Cairo. Her work focuses on the regulation of armed conflict in Islamic law.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

 1 How Do We Study Islamic Legal History?

 2 Indeterminacy in Islamic Jurisprudence on the Regulation of Armed Conflict

 3 Primary Concerns of Classical Jurisprudence

1 Islamic Jurisprudence in the Expansive Empire

 1 Al-Shaybānī: a Jurist-Judge

 2 Al-Shāfiʿī and the Exclusionary Project

 3 Conclusion

2 The Muslim World at the Frontiers: Al-Andalus

 Section One: Andalusī Jurisprudence

 1 Al-Andalus: Loss of Muslim Power

 2 Ibn Ḥazm and the Ṭāʿīfa States

 3 The Jurist-Judge in al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd al-Jadd

 4 Remarks on Andalusī Jurisprudence

 Section Two: the Mongol “Threat”

 5 Ibn Taymiyya and “Quasi”-Muslims

3 Mainstream Narratives

 1 Official Institutions

 2 Mainstream Independent Scholarship

 3 Mainstream Scholarship: a New Consensus?

4 Contemporary Militant Approaches

 1 The Complexity of Militant Literature

 2 al-Qāʿida Debated

 3 ISIS: the “Fear Doctrine”

 4 Militant Groups: Concluding Remarks

Conclusion: Authority and the Classical Tradition

 1 Personal Ra⁠ʾy: Employed by Its Critics

 2 Modern Projects: Eclectic Approaches to Classical Legal Authority

 3 Modern Institutions: What Can They Do?

Bibliography

Index

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BOOK: Daniel R. BRUNSTETTER and Cian O’DRISCOLL, eds., Just War Thinkers : From Cicero to the 21st Century (London: Routledge, 2018). ISBN 9781138122482, £28.99

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Routledge has just published a new volume on seminal figures in the history of the just war tradition.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition.

In what, if any, circumstances are political communities justified in going to war? And what limits should apply to the conduct of any such war? The just war tradition is a body of thought that helps us think through these very questions. Its core ideas have been subject to fierce debate for over 2,000 years. Yet they continue to play a prominent role in how political and military leaders address the challenges posed by the use of force in international society. Until now there has been no text that offers concise and accessible introductions to the key figures associated with the tradition. Stepping into this breach, Just War Thinkers provides a set of clear but detailed essays by leading experts on nineteen seminal thinkers, from Cicero to Jeff McMahan. This volume challenges the reader to think about how traditions are constituted—who is included and excluded, and how that is determined—and how they serve to enable, constrain, and indeed channel subsequent thought, debate, and exchange.

This book will be of much interest to students of just war tradition and theory, ethics and war, philosophy, security studies and IR.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Daniel R. Brunstetter is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

Cian O'Driscoll is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword, Joel H. Rosenthal

Introduction, Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll

1. Cicero, Gavin Stewart

2. Augustine, James Turner Johnson

3. Gratian, Rory Cox

4. Thomas Aquinas, Gregory Reichberg

5. Christine de Pizan, Cian O’Driscoll

6. Francisco de Vitoria, Alex Bellamy

7. Bartolome de las Casas, Daniel Brunstetter

8. Francisco Suarez, Grady Scott Davis

9. Alberico Gentili, John Kelsay

10. Hugo Grotius, Anthony F. Lang, Jr.

11. Samuel Pufendorf, Luke Glanville

12. Emmerich de Vattel, Theo Christov

13. Immanuel Kant, Brian Orend

14. Francis Lieber, Stephanie Carvin

15. Paul Ramsey, Adam Hollowell

16. Michael Walzer, Chris Brown

17. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Nicholas Rengger

18. James Turner Johnson, Nahed Artoul Zehr

19. Jeff McMahan, Heather Roff

Conclusion, Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll

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