Samuel Moyn on "How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End”
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🗓️ 22 October 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On October 19th, 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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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.5 | The human rights community, since obviously the continuation of war has served states and |
| 0:38.6 | militaries, has nonetheless stood by in relative silence as constraints on going to war in |
| 0:48.4 | the first place have been eroded. |
| 0:51.4 | So this is I think one of the most remarkable phenomena of the era since roughly 1989. |
| 0:59.3 | There seems to be some kind of hydraulic relationship between crystallizing constraints on fighting |
| 1:06.4 | dirty and whittling away on constraints on fighting in the first place. |
| 1:13.7 | And we have to see not just states and militaries, but our humanitarian movements as part of |
| 1:20.7 | that result. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, October 22, 2016. |
| 1:29.7 | That was Samuel Moyne, professor of law and history at Harvard University. |
| 1:34.1 | On October 19, he closed out a one day conference on the next president's fight against terror |
| 1:40.0 | at New America with a talk on how warfare became both more humane and harder to end. |
| 1:46.3 | He argues that collectively we've moved toward a focus on ending war crimes in similar |
| 1:51.2 | abuses rather than a focus on preventing war's outbreak in the first place. |
| 1:56.6 | And as a result, we're continues to break out. |
| 2:00.1 | It's an issue that will be of great consequence as the next president takes office amidst US |
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