Distributing the Harm of Just Wars: In Defence of an Egalitarian Baseline

This book argues that the risk of harm in armed conflict should be divided equally between combatants and enemy non-combatants.

International law requires that combatants in war take ‘all feasible precautions’ to minimise damage to civilian objects, injury to civilians, and incidental loss of civilian life. However, there is no clear explanation of what ‘feasible precautions’ means in this context, or what would count as sufficiently minimised incidental harm. As a result, it is difficult to...