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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 20.1 (Spring 2006) > Special Section on Justice after War |
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The Ethics of Lustration [Abstract]
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April 24, 2006
One of the most important challenges for the occupation of Iraq has been making
decisions about the status of people who were either responsible for or who
passively benefited from the regime’s past injustices. But how should such
people—in this case, members of the Baath Party—be dealt with? And how have they
been dealt with under the U.S. occupation? Although lustration is just one of
many institutions of jus post bellum, it is arguably one of the most important.
The pursuit of administrative justice affects the reconstitution of the public
sphere—literally and figuratively—in more fundamental ways than most other
institutions of transitional justice. Yet our understanding of the ethics of
occupation in the twenty-first century continues to be incomplete, and ethical
principles are needed for guiding and clarifying how occupations may justly be
carried out and for establishing a legitimate role for international morals in
the conduct of peace. This article develops three such principles for guiding
the practice of lustration, and argues that they have been widely flouted during
the occupation of Iraq. This is problematic from the perspective of jus post
bellum, for to paraphrase Michael Walzer’s argument in Just and Unjust
Wars, the restraint of peace is the beginning of peace.
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