{"id":935,"date":"2015-03-28T19:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T00:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2015-04-02T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:31:19","slug":"west-point-conference-on-the-ethics-of-war-an-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"West Point conference on the Ethics of War (an oxymoron)."},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended \u00a0a two-day Ethics of War conference held at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I was the sole pacifist in attendance, and my attendance was publicly acknowledged at a plenary session. \u00a0I had some concern about attending, <\/p>\n

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Lunch at the cadet mess, complete with my peace buttons.<\/p><\/div>\n

particularly that I not be co-opted. I am grateful that I had opportunity to make my position and reasoning known to many of those in attendance, including students\/cadets. This occurred during the Q&A periods as well as breaks between sessions. I had a briefcase of literature with me and gave some away. \u00a0I had deep conversations with a few individuals, including two chaplains who were my partners at the reception\/dinner at the West Point Club. I also managed to leave a few FCNL buttons proclaiming that WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER at Cullum Hall and the Jefferson Library. \u00a0A Quaker in Cold Spring, just across the river from West Point, kindly offered me accommodations for two nights. I found the conference exhausting but worthwhile. I\u2019m hoping to educate the organizers, who are philosophers of just war theory, that jus ad bellum requires hearing from those who work to keep us from going to war (e.g. nonviolent activists). The conference assumed militarism, while my focus is on demilitarization and civilian defense as ways to avoid war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended \u00a0a two-day Ethics of War conference held at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. I was the sole pacifist in attendance, and my attendance was publicly acknowledged at a plenary session. \u00a0I had some concern about attending,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}