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3 Critical Challenges For Global Health Security, Lawrence O. Gostin
3 Critical Challenges For Global Health Security, Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
International institutions are poised to make one of the most momentous decisions about the future of global health security since the formation of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948.
By the end of this year, 5 global commissions will have published major critiques of global health preparedness, all spurred by the Ebola epidemic, which exposed deep flaws in the international system.
Risk Taking And Force Protection, David Luban
Risk Taking And Force Protection, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This paper addresses two questions about the morality of warfare: (1) how much risk must soldiers take to minimize unintended civilian casualties caused by their own actions (“collateral damage”), and (2) whether it is the same for the enemy's civilians as for one's own.
The questions take on special importance in warfare where one side is able to attack the other side from a safe distance, but at the cost of civilian lives, while safeguarding civilians may require soldiers to take precautions that expose them to greater risk. In a well-known article, Asa Kasher and Amos Yadlin argue that while …