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CATEGORIES:Violence and Conflict Graduate Workshop\, Faculty 
 of History
SUMMARY:Declared War according to Hugo Grotius: Lawful but
  Immoral and Sinful - Tobias Schaffner (Pembroke)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20110524T173000
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UID:TALK31057AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/31057
DESCRIPTION:Declarations of war characterised the opening of w
 arfare in Europe until the twentieth century. Toda
 y we regard this practice to belong to an age of w
 armongers and militarists. These conflicting views
  on declarations of war are already reflected in H
 ugo Grotius' famous treatise on the law of war\, t
 he De Jure Belli ac Pacis\, first published in 162
 5. Grotius\, a Dutch scholar (1583-1645)\, held th
 at a sovereign nation may lawfully declare and wag
 e war against another nation\, for instance in pur
 suit of territorial aggrandizement. At the same ti
 me\, he considered such a war immoral and sinful. 
 My talk will briefly discuss the two rival traditi
 ons to which these conflicting views belong and ex
 plain the synthesis that Grotius sought to establi
 sh between human law on the one hand and morality 
 and divine law on the other. \n\n
LOCATION:Graduate Union\, 17 Mill Lane\, Meeting Room
CONTACT:Christian Schlaepfer
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