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Christian Braun

@christianbraun612.bsky.social
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Director Institute for Peace and Military Ethics (IFME), Saarländer.

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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 23h
In his guest edited special section, @christianbraun612.bsky.social and Jonathan David Thompson analyse the ethics of proxy warfare through the lens of jus ad vim. Read their examination of the March 23 Movement: doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag123
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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If jus ad vim is to provide to provide practical guidance, it must account for how such force can be terminated responsibly and how political actors can facilitate peace’ write @christianbraun612.bsky.social, Daniel Brunstetter & Esther Reed. doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag125
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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Investigating Rwanda's March 23 Movement, @christianbraun612.bsky.social and Jonathan David Thompson use a jus ad vim lens to examine how force-short-of-war complicates authority, restraint and escalation. 📖 doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiag123
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International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT! The Sept issue features a special section on Jus ad vim at 20: on the continued relevance of force-short-of-war with 11 articles on the ethics of force-short-of-war. It also includes 6 articles, a policy paper and 14 book reviews. academic.oup.com/ia/issue/102/5
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Eamon Aloyo @eamonaloyo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My latest article is now out (open access) in @iajournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... Many thanks to @christianbraun612.bsky.social, Esther G. Reed, and Daniel R Brunstetter for editing the special section.
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Forecasting-informed foreign policy decision-making: the case of jus ad vim
This article looks at how forecasting techniques can mitigate cognitive biases and improve decision-making procedures, using evidence-based forecasting ana
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📣 Our New Logo – Institute for Peace and Military Ethics (IFME) 📣 At its heart are the dove of peace and the oak leaf. Catholic tradition challenges us to seek, promote and preserve peace. At the same time, peace cannot be taken for granted and may need to be defended. #peace #ethics #military
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I am deeply honoured and grateful to share that I have been inaugurated as the new Director of the Institute for Peace and Military Ethics (IFME). I am excited for this new chapter and for the opportunity to help shape the future work of IFME.
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Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz @atlantakademie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Heute um 12 Uhr! Lunch Lecture: Donald Trump vs. Leo XIV? Der Irankrieg aus Sicht der katholischen Friedenslehre! Wir sprechen mit Dr. @christianbraun612.bsky.social über den Zwist zwischen Papst und Präsident - join us: atlantischeakademie.clickmeeting.com/pope/register
Share Pic der Veranstaltung, US-Flagge im Hintergrund, Holzkreuz im Vordergrund. Lunch Lecture: Donald Trump vs. Leo XIV? Der Irankrieg aus Sicht der katholischen Friedenslehre, Dr. Christian Braun, Dienstag, 26. Mai, 12-13 Uhr.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
📣We are hiring!📣 The Institute for Theology and Peace and the Center for Ethical Education in the Armed Forces are accepting applications for the first Pater Reinisch Fellowship, aimed at outstanding early-career scholars working on ethics in international security.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
📣WE ARE HIRING📣 Das Institut für Theologie und Frieden (ithf) und das Zentrum für ethische Bildung in den Streitkräften (zebis) vergeben erstmals ein Fellowship für herausragende Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen, die sich mit Ethik in der Sicherheitspolitik beschäftigen.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Exciting news: I have been appointed director of the Institute for Theology and Peace (ITHF) & the Centre for Ethical Education in the Armed Forces (zebis). In the coming months, both institutions will merge into a new think tank—linking theology, ethics & security policy in fresh dialogue. #PME
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Seit gestern habe ich eine neue Aufgabe: Ich leite jetzt das Institut für Theologie und Frieden & das Zentrum für ethische Bildung in den Streitkräften. Beide Einrichtungen werden bald zu einem neuen Think Tank zusammengeführt – an der Schnittstelle von Theologie, Ethik & Sicherheitspolitik.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Delighted to receive a physical copy of my latest publication. In this new book on Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence, Bernhard Koch and I argue about the morality of fully autonomous armed drones. We ground our argument in the Catholic tradition.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I've published a thing! Here's a link to my Defence-in-Depth blog entry titled "Germany, Weapons for Ukraine, and Jus ad Vim." www.kcl.ac.uk/germany-weap...
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Germany, Weapons for Ukraine, and "Jus ad Vim"
Dr Christian Braun examines Germany’s evolving stance on arming Ukraine through the ethical lens of jus ad vim, highlighting the moral dilemmas of force short of war.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Fantastic conference on "Just War and Just Peace" organised by the Ludovica University of Public Service and Pázmány Peter Catholic University. A keynote by Card. Michael Czerny SJ as well as thought-provoking discussions. And all of that in stunningly beautiful Budapest.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Very exciting to see the cover of this forthcoming book on Just War Theory and AI. To this volume, Bernhard Koch (Institut für Wehrmedizinische Ethik der Bundeswehr) and I contribute a chapter titled “On the Morality of Fully-Autonomous Armed Drones.” @dsdkings.bsky.social
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
📚Book Review📚 Amazing review of Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition in Ethics & International Affairs by the fantastic @rorycox.bsky.social. @dsdkings.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition, by Christian Nikolaus Braun, (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2023), 288 pp., cloth $134.95, paperback $44.95. | Ethics & Int...
Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition, by Christian Nikolaus Braun, (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2023), 288 pp., cloth 44.95.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
#Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory, #internationalrelations, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
📚Author copy📚 Wonderful to receive a physical copy of the latest International Affairs issue that includes my #openaccess article “Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war.” @chathamhouse.bsky.social @dsdkings.bsky.social Here is a link to the article: academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
❗ Review ❗ 📷Fantastic to see my book Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition reviewed in the Journal of Religious Ethics by the most wonderful John Kelsay (Florida State University). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Peacebuilding and the Use of Force: A Review Essay
Discussion of the ethics of war has long been a subject of essays published in the Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE). This essay focuses on three recent books that deal with various aspects of that t...
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Holy War to Justify an Unjust War? Please join us for a fascinating talk by Dr Yuri Stoyanov @soasuni.bsky.social on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the War against Ukraine. 📅 21 Jan | 📷13:00 | 📷 online @dsdkings.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/holy-...
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Holy War to Justify an Unjust War? The Role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the War against Ukraine
Discover how the Russian Orthodox Church’s "holy war" ideology is reshaping geopolitics with Dr Yuri Stoyanov.
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Defence Studies @dsdkings.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
What are the ethical implications of sending weapons to #Ukraine under "jus ad vim"? Dr @christianbraun612.bsky.social's new article explores the moral challenges of providing lethal aid, focusing on the German debate & principles like the "probability of escalation." Read: 👉 bit.ly/3CafSvT
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
❗Publication❗ Delighted to see “Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war” published in #InternationaAffairs. Concentrating on the German 🇩🇪 debate, I explore the supply of weapons to Ukraine 🇺🇦 through the prism of jus ad vim (the just use of force-short-of-war). academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...
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Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war
Using the framing of jus ad vim–the just use of force-short-of-war–this article situates the polarized debate over the ethics of supplying weapons to Ukrai
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Delighted to have received a physical copy of Just War Thinkers Revisited. This edited volume includes my chapter on Pope Francis.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Very honoured to be speaking to the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union on ethical issues related to the war against Ukraine this afternoon.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Good news! The introduction to my Ethics&InternationalAffairs roundtable on the war against Ukraine has now been made available #openaccess.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Excellent @thetimes.com essay by @edwardlucas.bsky.social on the challenge of subthreshold/greyzone action. We urgently need to refine our thinking on how to respond to such action. Scholarship on jus ad vim (the just use of force-short-of-war) needs more attention! www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Russia’s war in the grey zone is chipping away at Nato
An insidious form of conflict, far subtler than all-out combat, is on the rise. It involves hired thugs, spy drones and seabed sabotage. Such attacks are hard to attribute but they target the very ess...
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
❗️New Publication❗️ Just War Thinkers Revisited, edited by Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O'Driscoll, has just been published by Routledge.
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Christian Braun @christianbraun612.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Having signed up, I guess it is time for a first post... I recently organised a roundtable for Ethics and International Affairs on ethical issues related to the war against Ukraine. Here's a link to the issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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