What is a just war?

Leslie Stevenson explores the criteria and applies them to Afghanistan

Are the rights of non-combatants being respected? | Photo: DVIDSHUB/flickr CC

There have been two broad traditions about war within Christianity. Pacifism was dominant in the first three centuries, but the theory of a ‘just war’, developed by Augustine and refined by others, has since been the majority Christian view.

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