Apply by January 21, 2024 for consideration.
The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence awards an annual prize for the best papers in military ethics from current graduate and professional students and recent graduates to promote active involvement in the study and the pursuit of graduate degrees in this field.
2024 PRIZE WINNERS
1st Place: Tony Lupo, Major, United States Army
Proportionate to What?
The prevailing view of the proportionality criterion of just war holds that an act in/of war is proportionate if it achieves a qualified net benefit. (hf. QNB) QNB is a variant of net-benefit that departs from consequentialism by asserting that the benefits and harms involved in proportionality judgments are incommensurate and must be morally relevant and morally weighed relative to one another. Though pitched as compromise between consequentialist and deontological approaches to just war theory, I argue QNB is tacitly committed to a teleological view of just war against which proportionality judgments are intelligible. I contend proportionality judgments involve analogies of proportion whenever incommensurate goods are at stake.
2nd Place: Chaplain Brett Newman, Major, United States Army
Christianity and Espionage: The Ethical Application of Lying and Deception for National Security
2022 PRIZE WINNER
1st Place: Sara Gaines, MA
Artificial Intelligence as Clinician: An Argument for Ethical use of Future Technology in a Medical Setting
2021 PRIZE WINNERS
1st Place: Laura K. Graham, PhD, Executive Director, Yemen Accountability Project
Malum In Se: Starvation Crimes in International Law
2nd Place: Nathan J. Riehl, Captain, United States Army
The Virtuous (Human) Soldier: A MacIntyrian Approach to Moral Education in the US Army
We are proud to present a special volume of The International Journal of Ethical Leadership, which includes 2021 and 2022 Inamori International Writing Prize in Military Ethics winners' contributions in English, Spanish, and French. The publication can be viewed online in the CWRU School of Law's Scholarly Commons and print versions are also available at the Inamori Center or here.
The aim of Inamori International Writing Prize is to promote involvement in the study and application of Military Ethics. In order to improve the accessibility of the field, the Inamori Center publishes the winning theses in at least two non-English languages.
Presentations at EuroISME Annual Conference
The 10th EuroISME Annual Conference 2021 Online-Conference June 3, 10, 17
2020 PRIZE WINNERS
1st Place: Kevin Cutright, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
Empathy and Jus in bello
2nd Place: Joseph O. Chapa, Major, United States Air Force
Just War Traditions and Revisions
2019 PRIZE WINNERS
1st Place: Hunter Cantrell, CPT, LG - Instructor Department of English and Philosophy, United States Military Academy
Arguments for Banning Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Critique
2nd Place: J. Davis Winkie
Thin Red Lines: Early Cold War Military Censorship of Hollywood War Movies
We are proud to present a special volume of The International Journal of Ethical Leadership, which includes 2019 and 2020 Inamori International Thesis Prize in Military Ethics winners' contributions in English, Spanish, and French. The publication can be viewed online in the CWRU School of Law's Scholarly Commons and print versions are also available at the Inamori Center or here.
The aim of Inamori International Thesis Prize is to promote involvement in the study and application of Military Ethics. In order to improve the accessibility of the field, the Inamori Center publishes the winning theses in at least two non-English languages.