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Volume 43 | Number 3 Summer 2008

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Questioning Civilian Immunity

by Aaron Xavier Fellmeth

Summary

  1. Introduction
  2. Ethical Challenges to Civilian Immunity
    1. Moral Innocence and the Just War
    2. Capacity to Harm
  3. Civilian Immunity as Gender Bias
    1. Intentional Attack and “Collateral Damage”
    2. Deprivation and Exploitation Among Civilians
    3. Sexual Violence as an Attack on Civilians
    4. Conclusions
  4. Discrimination, Necessity, and Proportionality as Operational Norms
    1. Ineffectual or Flexible by Design?
    2. Are the Norms Counterproductive?
  5. Balancing Military Effectiveness and Humanitarian Ideals

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