Lawfare Archive: Samuel Moyn on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End"

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

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From October 22, 2016: This week, Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, closed out a one-day conference on “The Next President's Fight Against Terror” at New America with a talk on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End.” He argues that we’ve moved toward a focus on ending war crimes and similar abuses, rather than a focus on preventing war’s outbreak in the first place. And in his view, the human rights community shares culpability for this problem. It’s an issue that will be of great consequence as the next president takes office amidst U.S. involvement in numerous ongoing military interventions across the globe.

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1:07.8	archive for November 23, the Biden administration has faced growing pressure to push for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza, increased humanitarian aid, and reconsider its relationship in Israel.
1:19.0	Last week, two Palestinian human rights organizations filed a lawsuit against President Biden alleging he failed to prevent genocide in Gaza and seeking to limit US assistance to Israel going forward.
1:29.0	For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from October 22nd, 2016, in which Samuel Moyne discussed how the
1:35.9	international community focuses on ending war crimes and similar abuses rather than on preventing
1:40.5	wars outbreak in the first place. He argued the human rights
1:43.6	community shares culpability for this problem and that it'll continue to be an
1:46.5	issue going forward. I'm Quinta Jurassic and this is the Law Fair Podcast, October 22nd, 2016.
2:03.2	That was Samuel Moyne, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University.
2:07.6	On October 19th, he closed out a one-day conference on the next President's Fight
2:12.4	Against Terror at New America
2:14.4	with a talk on how warfare became both more humane and harder to end. He argues
2:20.3	that collectively we've moved toward a focus on ending war crimes and similar abuses
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