Ideas from the National Humanities Center, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2001

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Vol. 8, No. 2, 2001

	Just War and Humanitarian Intervention by Jean Bethke Elshtain
It is now so easy to determine just how to assay questions of global inequality in relation to decisions of whether to intervene in local or regional conflicts. . . . There is a long tradition of reflecting on questions of war and violence in the language of justice: the just war tradition. Available in PDF format. (512 KB)

From Hanover Street to the Garvaghey Road: Growing Up in Portadown
by George Watson

The title of this essay is intended to suggest the polarities inside which I was raised, as a Catholic in that town in the nineteen-forties and fifties.
Available in PDF format. (262 KB)

Spaces of the Dead
by Thomas W. Laqueur
This article is about the origin and meaning of the new spaces where we put the dead, about the history of the cemetery . . .
Available in PDF format. (558 KB)

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