ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter summarizes the principles of just war thinking and reminds the reader that the principles have withstood the test of time for two millennia because they are adaptive to historical contingencies. The chapter reflects on challenges to all three building blocks of just war theory (jus ad bellum, jus in bello, jus post bellum) from the past ten years, including negotiating the decision to go to war with international institutions (i.e. the UN), dealing with non-traditional combatants (e.g. terrorists and pirates in stateless spaces like Somalia and northwest Pakistan) and whether there is a “responsibility to rebuild” in places like Iraq. These dilemmas suggest that there is more research to be done in the future.
