ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews just war framework. It presents a rough and informal argument about how it is used and what we should conclude as a result and discuss how we ought to precede in light of all this. Michael Walzer has claimed that in the battle of ideas about military violence, at the dawn of the 21st century the just war theory has triumphed. Different moral theorists have importantly different understandings of the just war framework and its use. The causes of war are ubiquitous, multifaceted and astonishingly effective and hard to control. Rather, Kant gestures toward international agreements of global reach that criminalize military violence in all its forms and a global federation for the limited purpose of enforcing that body of law. In the long history of humanity, serious attempts to outlaw warfare and use the military forces of the world to actually keep the peace are barely 100 years old.
