ETIKA OKONČANJA RATA: PRILOG TEORIJI PRAVEDNOG RATA
THE ETHICS OF WAR ENDING: AN ADDITION TO THE THEORY OF RIGHTEOUS WARFARE

Summary/Abstract: The asymmetric nature of recent wars, in which victory plays neither a constituting nor regulatory role — which thereby do not yield clearly defined winners or losers — calls for a renewed analysis of the concept of war ending. Operating within the bounds of the legalistic paradigm of just war theory, this work is based on an elementary assumption embedded in the ethics of war ending: that conflict circumstances are prone to change, and therefore examining ad bellum criteria ex ante during newly emerged circumstances can be inaccurate. The aim of this article is to examine and determine if ethics of war ending constitute a separate entity within the theory of just war and what does it encompass, as well as what the appropriate criteria is for determining the moral justification for ending or continuing a conflict.

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