AGENDA FOR PEACE WITH Mr.Rights: Justifying the unjust war
AGENDA FOR PEACE WITH Mr.Rights: Justifying unjust war By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat During my extensive reading about the concept of ‘’just war’’ or ‘’holy war’’, I came across several discuss about the morality of just war. In this wide discussion, several references were made to definitions, concepts and examples to justify the concept of war tagged as “just war” or ‘’holy war’’. Some of the examples that caught my attention were the references made to religious concepts both Christianity and Islam which is being cited as justification for war. Before going deep into this discussion, let me define what I mean by just war in this concept. By just war, I mean that war action undertaken by a party or a group of parties to contain the activities of an aggressor or a group of aggressors. It is a war that is waged with justification. Here, we are talking about justice in war-making based on the goodness in the motive behind the violent attitude and action, which is in reaction to an offensive