Diverse Perspectives on Military Ethics in Asia and the Pacific. Conference of the International Society for Military Ethics: Asia-Pacific Chapter

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1 Diverse Perspectives on Military Ethics in Asia and the Pacific Conference of the International Society for Military Ethics: Asia-Pacific Chapter

2 Welcome Welcome to the inaugural conference of APAC-ISME, the Asia-Pacific chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics, proudly hosted by the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (ACSACS) at the University of New South Wales in Canberra. The conference brings together academics and practitioners from across the globe to promote high-quality research on professional military ethics within the regional security environment. ACSACS is a multi-disciplinary Centre researching aspects of Conflict and Society, Ethics, Military History, Transnational Security issues, and Civilian Leadership in Defence. Our research, databases, and publications examine the effects of past, present and the likely future impact of armed conflict on society, in order to enhance public policy. We assess its impact on the people at home, on those at the battlefront, on politics, on the victors and on the vanquished.

3 Day 1 Tuesday 7 November 2017 Time North Lecture Theatre Registration Welcome and Opening Dr Rita Parker UNSW Canberra (MC) Professor John Arnold (Deputy Rector, UNSW Canberra) Dr Shannon Ford (President, APAC-ISME) Time North Lecture Theatre Plenary Session #1:Toni Erskine (UNSW Canberra) Reinforcing R2P: Moral Agents of Protection and Supplementary Responsibilities to Protect Coffee break Time North Lecture Theatre Plenary Session #2: P.C. Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University) Divergent Understandings of Just War : China and the West Lunch Time North Lecture Theatre 9 North Lecture Theatre 6 North Lecture Theatre 12 Chair: Adam Henschke Chair: Ned Dobos Chair: Shannon Ford Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 The Spectrum of Defence Ethics: Between Military Ethics and Police Ethics Asa Kasher (Tel Aviv University, Israel) The Global Poverty Objection to Intervention and War James Pattison (Manchester) Remote Advise and Assist Deane-Peter Baker (UNSW) A Problem of Paradigms: Contextual Asymmetries and the Permissible use of Force Adam Gastineau (UNSW Canberra) On the Relationship between Proportionality and Likelihood of Success Kieran McInerney (Melbourne) The US Drone Program and Obama s Policy of Targeted Killing Sari Kilevski (CUNY) Military and Police Roles: A Normative Institutional Analysis Seumas Miller (CSU/Delft/Oxford) The Misleading Self- Defence Paradigm for the Justification of Harming in War Uwe Steinhoff (Hong Kong) China s Counter- Insurgency Strategy in the Xinjiang Province Stefanie Kam Li Yee (ANU) Coffee Break 1

4 Day 1 Tuesday 7 November 2017 Time North Lecture Theatre 9 North Lecture Theatre 6 North Lecture Theatre 12 Chair: Fritz Allhoff Chair: Rita Parker Chair: Ned Dobos Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Sustaining War: Reconceptualising the Military in the Face of Environmental Degradation Dustin VanPelt (SUNY) Consenting to Soldier Sarah Hitchen (Lancaster University) Emotion and Peacebuilding Steven Steyl (Notre Dame, Australia) Chair ` Protecting Cultural Artefacts in War Helen Frowe (Stockholm) Let Them Say No: The Executive, The Generals, and the Exception Richard Adams (Royal Australian Navy) Values, Virtues, and Valour PMEE in the APAC Region David Whetham (KCL) The Distribution of Responsibility for Jus in Bello Across the Defense-Industrial Complex: The Case of Computer Simulations in Military Procurement Patrick Taylor-Smith (Singapore) TBA Just War and Freedom of the Seas Bernard Koch (Hamburg) Time North Lecture Theatre Plenary Session #3: George R. Lucas Jr. (US Naval War College) Rethinking the Basis of Cyber Conflict Reception 2

5 Day 2 Wednesday 8 November 2017 Time North Lecture Theatre 9 Chair: Fritz Allhoff Plenary Session #4: Seth Lazar (ANU) Sparing Civilians Respondents: Suzanne Uniacke (CSU) Scott Sagan (Stanford) Coffee Break Time North Lecture Theatre 9 North Lecture Theatre 6 North Lecture Theatre 12 Chair: Ned Dobos Chair: Rita Parker Chair: Shannon Ford Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 The Ethics of Suicide Attacks Shunzo Majima (Hokkaido) Between the Reality of Conflict and the Hypotheticals of Philosophers; or, a Teleology for Trolleyology Adam Henschke (ANU) Autonomous Weapons Leonard Blazeby (ICRC) We Need to Talk About Marine A : Constant War, Diminished Responsibility and the case of Alexander Blackman Tom McDermott (Australian Army) The Ethics of Legal Advice in Military Decision-making Anne Goyne and Charles Weller (Australian -Defence College) Space Debris: The Landmines of Earth Orbit? Stephen Coleman (UNSW Canberra) The Ethics of Nuclear Deterrence Sue Wareham (Vice-President in Australia of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize) Against the Doctrine of Double Effect Natalie Beghin (ANU) Autonomous Weapons Systems, Kantian Violence, and the Dignity Objection Julian Tattersall (R.A.A.F) Lunch 3

6 Day 2 Wednesday 8 November 2017 (contd) Time North Lecture Theatre 9 Chair: Rob McLaughlin Plenary Session #5: Scott Sagan (Stanford University) Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran Respondents: TBA Seth Lazar (ANU) Closing Remarks Rob McLaughlin (Director, ACSACS) Asia-Pacific Military Ethics Roundtable and Annual General Meeting (AGM) Shannon Ford (ANU) Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University) Adam Henschke (ANU) 4

7 Keynote Speakers Professor Toni Erskine Toni Erskine is Professor of International Politics at UNSW Canberra, where she is Associate Head (Research) in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Director (Politics & Ethics) of the Australia Centre for Cyber Security, and Convenor of the International Ethics Research Group. She has held previous appointments at Cambridge University and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (where she held a Personal Chair in International Politics). She is past Chair of the International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association, and recently served as an elected member of its Governing Council and as a member of its Executive Committee. Her research interests include: moral agency and responsibility in relation to formal organisations; the ethics of war, with a recent focus on artificial intelligence; cosmopolitan theories and their critics; and the responsibility to protect ( RtoP ). Her publications include Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of Dislocated Communities (Oxford University Press). She is in the process of completing a book titled Locating Responsibility: Institutional Moral Agency and International Relations. Professor PC Lo Professor Ping-Cheung Lo is Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he has served for 28 years as the Head of Department and for seven years as the Associate Dean of the Arts Faculty. He is the co-editor of Chinese Just War Ethics: Origin, Development, and Dissent (Routledge, 2015), and is the author of eight books and 70 journal articles and book chapters in the area of Chinese-Western comparative ethics, Chinese-Western bioethics, and Confucian-Christian comparative ethics. His current research project is on Realism and Warfare Ethics in Early China: A Cross-cultural Analysis. Professor George R. Lucas Jr. Professor George Lucas Jr. is Distinguished Ethics Chair, Professor Emeritus, at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis), and President of the original chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics. His books include Ethics and Cyber Warfare (Oxford 2017), Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford 2016), Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology (Lanham 2009), and the Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics, which he edited in He has held positions Georgetown University, Emory University, Randolph-Macon College, the French Military Academy (Saint-Cyr), and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, and was previously professor of ethics and public policy at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California). 5

8 CONTACT US If you would like further information, please contact: ACSACS T F E UNSW Canberra PO Box 7916 Canberra BC ACT 2610 Cricos Provider Code: 00098G APAC-ISME 6