ABSTRACT
In Chapter 7 we explored perhaps the most pressing issue of global ethics: the huge injustice of global poverty and global disparities in wealth. is chapter will address an equally challenging issue for global ethics: that of war, con ict, terrorism and all forms of military intervention. A key di erence between war and con ict and issues of global poverty is that the su ering and violations of human rights that arise in war and con ict are always caused by human agency. War and con ict is always someone’s responsibility, so if the “harm principle” (a negative duty not to harm) we discussed in Chapter 3 holds, it should be at least possible to map duties of compensation and redress, even if it is di cult to enforce these in practice. In Chapter 6 we considered arguments about who had duties to meet the needs of the poor and, in this chapter, similar arguments will be considered about duties to those who are su ering from con ict, particularly in the nal section on humanitarian intervention. In addition, issues that we have discussed in all the previous chapters about the scope of global duties and whether or not there are duties to distant others come to the fore when we consider the ethics of war and con ict.
