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A Christian and Muslim Response

By David Fisher (Edited by), Brian Wicker (Edited by)

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Table of Contents

Foreword, Lord Harries of Pentregarth; Introduction: a clash of civilisation?, David Fisher and Brian Wicker.; Part 1 The Role of Religion in Shaping Terrorism and Responses to It: Terrorism and Islamic theories of religiously-sanctioned war, Tim Winter; Challenging Al-Qa'ida's justification of terror, Ahmad Achtar; Challenging the political theology of a war on terror, Richard Lock-Pullan.; Part 2 Responding to the Terrorist Threat: Philip Bobbitt's Terror and Consent: a brief critique, Michael Howard; Just war and the problem of state sovereignty, Brian Wicker; Terror and pre-emption - can military pre-emption ever be just?, David Fisher; How much of our liberty and privacy do we need to give up for public security?, David Omand.; Part 3 New Ways to Counter the Threat: Just wars, just outcomes - reconciling just outcomes in military intervention, Shenaz Bunglawala, Rosemary Durward and Paul Schulte; 'Eating soup with a knife': counterinsurgency doctrine and just war, Hugh Beach; Going off the reservation into the sanctuary - cross border counterterrorist operations, 4th generation warfare and the ethical insufficiency of contemporary just war doctrine, Paul Schulte; Countering the threat of nuclear terrorism, Nick Ritchie.; Part 4 Afterword: A reemphasis more than a reply, Philip Bobbitt; Countering terrorism justly - reflections 9 years after 9/11, David Fisher and Brian Wicker; Index.

About the Author

David Fisher was a senior official in the Ministry of Defence and Defence Adviser to the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office. He is now undertaking research in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. He regularly contributes to books and journal on defence and ethical issues and is the author of Morality and the Bomb, written when he was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is Co-Chairman of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament. Brian Wicker was Principal of Fircroft College of Adult Education, Birmingham, having previously lectured in the Department of Adult Education in Birmingham University. He has been concerned with the ethics of war and nuclear deterrence for many years and has been Chairman/Vice-President of Pax Christi since the 1970s. He is Chairman of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament for whom he has edited and contributed to several books, including Britain's Bomb: What Next? (SCM Press, 2006) and Witnesses to Faith? Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam (Ashgate, 2006).

Reviews

'It is a satisfying volume; manageable, readable and liberal without being smug.' Times Higher Education '...educated, challenged and occasionally bemused by this excellent collection of essays, to which I shall return again and again and for which I am immensely grateful...' RUSI Journal 'This book provides and unusual array of insight - from military as well as theological perspectives...' Church Times 'Readers of these essays cannot fail to be stimulated by the insights brought by minds highly trained in religion, philosophy and military matters.' The Tablet 'This is the very best analysis of the Al-Qaeda threat and our response to it yet published... essential reading for all with an academic and professional interest in the justice of this 'war'...' British Army Review