Journal article
The role of distinction, necessity and proportionality in Afghan civilians' attitudes towards wartime harm
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How do civilians react to being harmed in war? Existing studies argue that civilian casualties are strategically costly because civilian populations punish a belligerent who kills civilians and support the latter's opponent. Relying on eighty-seven semi-structured interviews with victims of coalition attacks in Afghanistan, this article shows that moral principles inform civilians’ attitudes toward their own harming. Their attitudes may therefore vary with the perceived circumstances of an at...
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- Publication status:
- Accepted
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 749.9KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S0892679419000376
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John Fell Fund
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Ethics and International Affairs Journal website
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 315-342
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-06-05
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1747-7093
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1010879
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uuid:231fc842-fdd9-47b2-a013-00fdaa247e03
- Local pid:
- pubs:1010879
- Source identifiers:
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1010879
- Deposit date:
- 2019-08-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- © 2019 Cambridge University Press. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: 10.1017/S0892679419000376
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