Blog – Views on War in Ukraine
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Human dignity is inviolable - Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar
By Bishop Dr Franz-Josef Overbeck, Catholic Military Bishop for the Federal Armed Forces
Bishop Overbeck's perspective on the war against Ukraine
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Orthodox churches in the war in Ukraine
By Kathy Rousselet, researcher at the CERI, Sciences Po. / translated by Katharine Throssell
More than two months ago, Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine. On February 21, he recognised the independence of the two separatist Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”. On February 24, he ordered Russian troops to enter Ukraine to “maintain peace”, yet the war has already claimed thousands of lives. The Russian army is bombing the birthplace of Rus’ Christianity, the origin of today's Ukraine and Russia. It was in the Rus’, that the Grand Prince of Kiev, Vladimir, was baptised in 988.
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Human rights don't know national flags
By Prof. Dr. Ulrike Kostka
Human rights do not recognise national ensigns. Regimes like Putin's machinery of power can only be opposed if humanity and democracy apply to everyone. Especially in this time when democratic states should stand together and use democracy and humanity as the best defense - of course with all clarity and the necessary measures against dictators who trample on human rights.
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Krieg und Zeitenwende – War and Dawn of a New Era
By Dr. Sebastian von Münchow, Course Director, George C. Marshall Center
The list of requirements was tough: Russia claimed against NATO, among other things, not to affiliate any further Eastern European states. This was rejected by the West. On February 24, 2022, Russian forces attacked Ukraine from multiple directions. What does the Kremlin want to achieve? What is at stake for the West? How does Germany react?
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War of Aggression – A New Reality?
By Prof. Dr. Thomas R. Elßner, Vice President, EuroISME
How should a Christian deal with war and unjustness? Everyone has the inherent right of self-defense. But violence is a means of last resort.
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A catastrophe with an announcement
By Prof Dr. Johannes Varwick
A permanent escalation cannot be the solution. So we have to freeze the conflict, thereby stabilizing the situation and intellectually preparing for better times. This is not happening at all in western politics at the moment. One acts as if sanctions would solve the problem. But that's just where the problem begins, because a state that's been hit to the core won't play by our rules.
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A turning point in security policy
By Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler
We glossed over the circumstances, pushed aside what we didn't want to see, suppressed what we saw, and from a security policy point of view we declared the worst-case scenarios to be quite improbable so that we could concentrate entirely on the best-case scenarios.
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An Epic of Defiance? Ukraine 2022
By Patrick Mileham, EuroISME BoD member
This brief statement is to warn against indiscriminate reliance on the term ‘narrative’. While events unfold day-by-day participants can be deceived about ‘war aims’ and ‘campaign-plans’ and, how the actual fighting is progressing towards hypothetical ‘end-states’, acceptable or unacceptable.
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