Welcome to Human Rights in Global Perspective! Armed conflict invariably threatens the human rights of very many people. In this episode, Lachlan and Nin discuss just war theory – the branch of moral philosophy devoted to debating and understanding the ethics of war – and how it connects to some important claims about human rights.

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The music in this episode is the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, played by William McColl and the University of Washington Symphony, conducted by Abraham Kaplan. Available here, and used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.