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8 - Pacifism: Designing a Moral Defence Force

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2017

Jeroen van den Hoven
Affiliation:
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
Seumas Miller
Affiliation:
Charles Sturt University
Thomas Pogge
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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Designing in Ethics , pp. 157 - 172
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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