The just war tradition, also refer to as Just War Theory (JWT) is a ‘set of guideline or procedures for determining and judging whether and when entity may have recourse to war and how it fight the war’ (Shapcott, 2008,201). Just War theory entwine with applying the moral to entities recourse to war and to limiting harms that entities can commit against each other, military force and innocent civilians. Theorists of JWT categorise it into two distinct part with similar message. Just War Theory, according to Walzer, consists of jus ad bellum, known as justice of war and the jus in bello, refer to justice in war’ (Walzer 1977, p.166). Notion of jus ad bellum, based on this argument refers to the accusation of going to war, while jus in bello, refers to the means or the tactic of warfare such as the targeting, and weaponry used at war. According to the analysis of theorises like Walzer, Shapcott, Fotion, Hensel and many other others, the aim of JWT is not to legalised the war as they obtain accused, nor do they want to justified all kind of wars, like the wars designed to spread specific political system or religious through force (crusading). JWT seek a ‘moral consensus concerning the justifiable ground for going to war, or waging the violent’ (May el at.2006, p.1). What is more specific in JWT argument is to limit wars by restricting the acceptability of war based on norms and principles. The theoretical assertion of jus ad bellum or justice of war sought that war should not occur unless all the necessary criteria are met. Meeting the criteria for going to war means war can be fought morally in conjunction with the knowledge of knowing right and wrong. In defends of JWT permission to some wars and not all war, theorises, especially Walzer present those who are contemplating going to war with six restricting principles. Those principles acts as the impediments or hurdles to battles grounds. State or any other entity, in order to wage legitimate war, must abide by the principle concepts of JWT. The top principle of JWT is Just Cause. The empirical assumption of just cause principle tell us that we must have good reasons to resort to violent, and indeed a very good one for state or other entity to go to war (Partner 1997). Just cause does more than telling us that we must have good reason to go to war. Its theoretical argument is that, ‘if one nation or group is presently being attack by another, that represents good reason for the victim to send troop to battle ground’(Fotion,2007,p.10).
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