ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ethical dimension of issues associated with war as well as terrorism have become among the most pressing issues currently. Terrorism is the strategy of influencing the behavior, perceptions, beliefs, or attitudes of others than the immediate victims or targets of its violence by the threat, made credible by a corresponding act or series of acts, of repeated violent and intentional severe rights violations. Versions of “realism” and pacifism would like to get rid of just war theory. The former claims that morality cannot be applied to relations between states. The pacifist critique often charges just war theory with giving states and other agents ideological carte blanche for waging the war because just war theory can allegedly be abused to justify almost anything.
