Assembling the Moral Puzzle – Just War Tradition and Karabakh
Assembling the Moral Puzzle – Just War Tradition and Karabakh By Hans Gutbrod - 25 February 2021 Hans Gutbrod examines the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the just war tradition and asks whether it is still useful for unpicking modern conflicts. Last fall saw an intense conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh. Next to heavy fighting on the ground, Armenians and Azerbaijanis also clashed on social media. This clash was often couched in moral terms. The ensuing discussion, however, was mostly fragmented, resembling a ‘heap of broken images’, as T.S. Eliot put it in his postwar poem....