While Roman Catholic ethics of war and peace develops more restrictive criteria of just war and reprioritizes nonviolence, an important strand of Protestant theology defends war as a God-given instrument of government’s multiple ends. A newer ethics of just peace and peacebuilding emerges from Christian initiatives to transform armed conflict at intra-state and cross-border levels. This essay assesses these approaches and pacifism, concluding with a perspective from the Global South.
Barry Wright, Eric Tucker, and Susan Binnie, eds., Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939, Canadian State Trials, vol. IV (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015).