ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses key issues of global conflict, particularly whether or not the use of force can ever be justified. It explains an equally challenging issue for global ethics: that of war, conflict, terrorism and all forms of military intervention. A key difference between war and conflict and issues of global poverty is that the suffering and violations of human rights that arise in war and conflict are always caused by human agency. The chapter considers contemporary forms of warfare, terrorism, and the extent to which traditional frameworks for assessing the ethical validity of war are appropriate, and build on the discussion of torture in to continue the debate about individual and communal rights. Two types of conflict that are particularly difficult to accommodate in the just-war framework are those of terrorism and humanitarian intervention about duties to those who are suffering from conflict. Aspects of the global-ethics debate is how balance the rights and interests of individuals and groups.
