ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the utility of approaching the morality of security in terms of theories of just securitisation, made up of criteria. It establishes the need for moral theories of security understood as an action/process, and it wants to proceed by explaining why the most promising way to go about developing such theories is to develop criteria for just securitisation. Securitisation should not lead to more insecurity than it aims to solve, and, from the options available, the one that causes, or is expected to cause, the least insecurity should be chosen. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014 shows that sometimes at least, securitisation is morally required, because in this case the harm caused by failing to securities would have been greater than the harm caused by securitisation. Agent-neutrality is the property of those values that can be articulated without reference back to the valuer.
