After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice

While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the conflict. What must be done to restore justice? In the words of the authors, “’Victory’ is declared by presidents and other leaders, yet all too often no just peace is to be found in the wake of today’s conflicts. . . . After the smoke clears, the powers that be may declare ‘mission accomplished’ when, as Ezekiel long ago said, there really is no peace.”

Tobias Winright is professor of moral theology at Saint Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland, and he is an associate member of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Previous academic appointments include Saint Louis University (2005-2022), Walsh University (2003-2005), and Simpson College (1998-2003). His most recent publications are Serve and Protect: Selected Essays on Just Policing (Cascade, 2020) and the T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics (2021).

Tobias Winright is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. Among his publications, he coauthored After the Smoke Clears: The Just War Tradition and Post War Justice (2010), edited Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment (2011), and coedited Can War Be Just in the 21st Century? Ethicists Engage the Tradition (2015). He was also coeditor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.