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
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and
human rights
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. 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, 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
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian political philosophers
20th-century Canadian philosophers
21st-century Canadian philosophers
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