In the face of modern warfare with 'WMDs' or weapons of mass destruction, it is argued that no war can be considered just. From your reading:
"the changing realities of modern warfare have
inspired the church’s awareness of a greater need
for nonviolent conflict resolution. Never have
humans been able to inflict so much damage on
such a massive scale. Because WMDs can not discriminate
between combatant and non-combatant,
they violate a main Jus in Bello tenet. From this
perspective, Just War Theory can no longer apply
to modern warfare. Thus the only option to address
conflict is through nonviolent means."
What do YOU think? Based on all you have learned throughout the course and in your other classes, life, etc... is nonviolent resolution to conflict an option? ? How can we change our culture to be a culture of life and not a culture of death, as Pope John Paul II reminds us? How can you be an agent of change and nonviolence?
