Browsing W&L University Student Scholarship by Subject "Terrorism"
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The Moral Permissibility of Torture in a Terrorized World and The Problem of Dirty Hands (thesis)
In this paper, I will argue that despite philosophers' and legal theorists' attempts to justify the use of torture in certain situations, torture has always been and will always be universally morally impermissible. [From ... -
Poverty Re-Measured: A New Approach to Assessing the Role of Poverty in Facilitating Violent Conflict
The case of Rwanda raises several questions which I hope to shed light on through this research. My prevailing concern is studying the question of how the absence of human capabilities, poverty, can influence individuals ...