Brian Orend is the Director of International Studies and a professor of
Philosophy
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at the
University of Waterloo
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in
Waterloo, Ontario
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.
Orend's works focus on
just war theory
The just war theory ( la, bellum iustum) is a doctrine, also referred to as a tradition, of military ethics which is studied by military leaders, theologians, ethicists and policy makers. The purpose of the doctrine is to ensure that a war i ...
and
human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
. He is best known for his discussions of ''
jus post bellum'' (justice after war), which deals with the termination phase of war.
Works
* ''War and International Justice: A Kantian Perspective'' (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000)
* ''Michael Walzer on War and Justice'' (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001)
* ''Human Rights: Concept and Context'' (
Broadview Press
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, 2002)
* ''The Morality of War'' (Broadview Press, June 2006)
* "War", ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Online: Fall 2008 Edition)
See also
*
List of University of Waterloo people
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References
External links
Professor Brian Orend's webpageat University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian political philosophers
Canadian philosophers
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