Just war in comparative perspective / edited by Paul Robinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Judaism and justice in war / George Wilkes -- Catholicism and the just war tradition: the experience of moral value in warfare / Paul Dearey -- Justifiable war in eastern Orthodox Christianity / Alexander F.C. Webster -- The justification of war in Russian history and philosophy / Paul Robinson -- War, peace and the imperatives of justice in Islamic perspective: what do the 11 September 1001 attacks tell us about Islam and the just war tradition? / John Kelsay -- Buddhism and the justification of war: a case study from Sri Lanka / Elizabeth J. Harris -- Pain but not harm: some classical resources toward a Hindu just war theory / Francis X. Clooney -- Sikhism and just war / Gurharpal Singh -- Inauspicious tools: Chinese thought on the morality of warfare / Thomas M. Kane -- The Arabs, the Byzantine state and the Islamic law of war / Frank R. Trombley -- The rules of war in Sub-Saharan Africa / Alexander Moseley -- Justifying killing: U.S. Army chaplains of World War II / Jenel Virden -- Conflicting normative dimensions of justification: the Gulf War / Brendan Howe -- Just war and the perspective of ethics of care / Rob van den Toorn.