Beyond Compliance Symposium – Buddhism’s Psycho-ethics of Non-harm and Restraint for All Sentient Beings During Armed Conflict

by | Nov 12, 2024

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The following post by Andrew Bartles-Smith focuses the importance of looking to religious and non-Western thought systems to complement and reinvigorate dominant Western conceptions of humanitarian action. The post was published on Armed Groups and International Law as part of the joint Articles of War and AGIL Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict.

 

 

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