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HUQUQ Bookreviews | Killing Civilians in Armed Conflict and human rights
In recent decades, the persistent tragedy of civilian suffering in war has inspired a growing body of scholarship seeking to understand not only how but why civilians continue to be targeted despite longstanding legal and moral prohibitions. Two important contributions to this field—Alexander B. Downes’s Targeting Civilians in War and Hugo Slim’s Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War—offer distinct yet complementary perspectives on the roots of civilian victimization. Drawing from empirical political science and philosophical humanitarianism respectively, these books together advance a multidimensional understanding of the intentional and systematic targeting of civilians in armed conflict. Both works challenge comfortable assumptions about the moral progress of warfare and compel readers to confront uncomfortable truths about strategic necessity, ideological justification, and the ambiguity of civilian identity.