Just War theory "one of the most influential ethical frameworks used to assess the morality of war." Agree/Disagree

Strengths of the Just War theory?

• Justifies Defence and Protection of Human Rights

• Prevents war through strict conditions

• Promotes moral conduct during war

Weaknesses of the Just War theory?

• Too simplistic and impractical, it is an unenforceable theoretical framework.

• Reliance on Hindsight - eg// Bowie (2004) uses the Vietnam War which the USA thought they could win easily.

• All war involves killing innocents - regardless of discrimination amongst combatants and non-combatants.

• The impact of Nuclear weapons and modern warfare- Jenkins (1999) takes the view that they “make a nonsense of the theory.”

Give 4 causes of extensive human suffering from conventional warfare?

• Use of child soldiers

• Creation of refugees

• Use of barbaric weapons (Landmines) /nuclear weapons

• Genocide

• War can have a detrimental effect on human experience, what book and verse in the Old Testament do Christians call upon when referring to the intrinsic sacredness of human life and that any action that deliberately leads to death and suffering, is therefore viewed as immoral?

• Genesis 1:27

• What international ‘watch’ organisation highlights the severity of the issue of child soldiers?

• Human Rights Watch

• Genocide is the deliberate attempt to destroy an entire group of people based on ethnicity, race or religion. Who coined the term in 1944, (hint: Raphael)

• Raphael Lemkin

• What is term which refers to the assassination of a tyrant for the greater good?

• Name the German Lutheran pastor example who was involved in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler and was executed for his role and regarded as a martyr?

• Pope Leo XIV in April of 2026 said that the “world is run by t… initiating wars”.

• Tyrannicide

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• tyrants