War (VIOLENCE) Education. Dr Katerina Standish National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies University of Otago

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War (VIOLENCE) Education Dr Katerina Standish National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies University of Otago Interactive Presentation delivered at the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship Study day 14-10-2017 Introduction Defining War vs. Violence War is considered an organized form of violence with political goals and codes of conduct. Violence is a deliberate act or threat of an act of harm War uses violence but all violence is not war What is Culture? Cultures are comprised of shared symbolic landscapes and we perform our culture both privately and publically 1

Education systems are cultural expressions of the values and ideals of a cultural group (the government usually) Spectating violence is a part of history education and forms a part of a nations shared symbolic landscape Education systems normalize: they create a standard that most children and young adults, in most countries in the world consider normal or expected If we normalize war we make the experience of violence normal or expected which also acts to make it acceptable and condoned Cultures that justify war = justify violence JUST WAR DOCTRINE JUSTIFIED WAR Early Christians abandoned their pacifist roots when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. In the 4 th Century, the Christian Theologian, Saint Augustine, saw war as a pathway to peace and necessary in the realm of men that war is immoral but to not rise to the defense of the defenseless is more immoral. 2

St Augustine believed that in certain circumstances (in defense of a greater evil) war was justified; his view of just war did not ignore the horror of war but it considered the act of war to be appropriate in certain circumstances. the real evils in war are love of violence (nocendi cupiditas), revengeful cruelty (ulciscendi crudelitas), fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power (libido dominandi) [but] war undertaken in obedience to GOD [was] a righteous war (1887, p.301). After Augustine Christian war (VIOLENCE) was considered a sacred act of submission, not an act undertaken by individuals but a form of obedience to a honorable authority. This subservience to a higher moral authority made the participants of war soldiers innocent. Just War Doctrine Just War Doctrine emerged in the modern era after the First World War. International institutions emerged to manage inter-state aggression and to manage war (League of Nations). 3

War was still a legal act that was morally sanctioned but legal covenants sought to delay war at all cost. After World War II the United Nations altered the language of the League of Nations Covenant replacing the word war with force and included not just actions but threats of actions. JUST WAR DOCTRINE LED TO THE CREATION OF International LAW Current International Law permits warfare (VIOLENCE) but has legal conditions that delineate illegal and legal war (VIOLENCE). The next section will briefly explain how war (VIOLENCE) obtains legal status in the modern era. Jus ad Bellum: the justice of going to war Jus in Bello: justice in war Jus ad Bellum Going to war Satisfying the requirement of Jus ad Bellum means that war is a last resort, that it has a reasonable chance to succeed, that its aim is peace, that the order to go to war originates from a legitimate state authority and that it is for the right reasons external aggression or self-defense. Jus in Bello involves restraint in the act of war. Jus in Bello war actions must be proportional to the benefits achieved in battle. Proportionality means that the actions of the military must be in proportion to the presumed moral and strategic benefit of the actions. 4

Good actions employ the most minimal use of force. Bad actions cause disproportional death and destruction in relation to the military aim of the action. A justly fought war must satisfy the doctrine of proportionality and be discriminate the principle of discrimination means that in the act of war, civilians (noncombatants) must not be direct targets. Good actions employ restraint when choosing military targets to attack. Bad actions target civilian populations (directly or indirectly). Justify my war Just War may have been repudiated in 2016 by the Catholic Church but many still use the tenets to justify war and there are many other cultural ways of sanctifying war (Jihad, Holy War, Race Theory ). In the Western Tradition, Just War Doctrine made the act of war both acceptable and civilized. Acts of aggression considered illegal and immoral in all human societies, when sanctioned by states, in accordance to Just War Theory are considered permitted and legitimate. Educating for WAR (VIOLENCE) Foucault (1977) imagined that violence was a form of power put into action, a panopticon a social form that acts to disindividualize and exercise control. Foucault saw power as an extension of the anatomy of bureaucracy in that modern disciplinary society is a mechanism that employs a variety of epistemes or discursive formulations that normalize social control. The big picture 5

In each of these structures persons are disindividuized and become units controlled by a central eye. Representing Foucault s Panopticon humans become segments of action without personal identity or agency. This automatonization of humans is a form of violence that is enmeshed in many cultural structures (many shared Symbolic Landscapes) including education systems. The same logic of schooling is applied in the logic of militarism, obey, comply and work for a purpose given to you by others. Propaganda is a form of communications concerned with influencing its audience, it is not neutral Propaganda is used to disindividuize and dehumanize the other. Germans in WWI Japanese in WWII Genocide in Rwanda Propaganda is highly gendered and normally conforms to gendered nationalism standards as in real men protect their country the weak and helpless women and kids. Over 86 million people died in war in the 20 th century most of us can name multiple instances of war. Is teaching about war a kind of propaganda? Is teaching about war a way of camouflaging violence? Does teaching about war make violence permissible? If war education normalizes war doesn t war education normalize violence? War is legitimized VIOLENCE Educational content that does not problematize violence (WAR) legitimizes violence. 6

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