1213No Ought without an Is: Prospects for Peace in the Russian-Ukrainian War from a Peace and Conflict Research Perspective
Year: 2025

Some normative views do not need to consider empirical scholarship on peace and conflict. 1Deontological positions of extreme pacifism would fall under this rubric, as would stances positing that normative thought is only applicable outside of war (Lazar 2020).If exerting violence is wrong no matter the circumstances, the circumstances do not matter.And if war-related actions cannot be right or wrong, the exact features of war are normatively irrelevant.However, even under a strictly Humean dist