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dc.contributor.authorAbumere, Frank
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-29T11:37:00Z
dc.date.available2021-04-29T11:37:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-25
dc.description.abstractThe world is littered with wars in which innocent individual human beings, helpless groups of persons and harmless institutions are casualties because they are directly or indirectly targeted and attacked. The nature or composition of such casualties calls for a revision of, or at least leads one to question, the dominant approach to the principle of non-combatant immunity. In the just war theory, moral and political philosophers mostly approach the theorisation about the principle of the immunity of non-combatants from what may be termed the individualist approach. In this approach, combatants and non-combatants are conventionally conceived as individual human beings only, or groups of persons. Consequently, the approach cannot show us how institutions cause or participate in war, and it cannot tell us how institutions should be treated in war, whether they should be treated as combatants or non-combatants, and when they should be treated as combatants or non-combatants. For this reason, the individualist approach is insufficient. However, in what may be referred to as the institutional approach, combatants and non-combatants can also be conceived as institutions rather than individuals or groups of persons. If this is the case, then arguments for and against the immunity of non-combatants can be proffered based on this institutional conception. This article contends that we need to supplement the individualist approach with the institutional approach to be able to: (i) ascertain the causal, constitutive, contributory and participatory roles of certain institutions in a particular war; and (ii) determine whether they are legitimate targets of attack.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in South African Journal of Philosophy on 25. march 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2020.1809121.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAbumere. The problem with the individualist approach to the principle of the immunity of non-combatants. South African Journal of Philosophy. 2020;39(3):274-284en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1838421
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02580136.2020.1809121
dc.identifier.issn0258-0136
dc.identifier.issn2073-4867
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21092
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.journalSouth African Journal of Philosophy
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2020 Informa UK Limiteden_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophical disciplines: 160en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160en_US
dc.titleThe problem with the individualist approach to the principle of the immunity of non-combatantsen_US
dc.type.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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