Soldier Meets Citizen: a public debate

General Sir Mike Jackson and academic panel discuss the moral and ethical challenges posed by war and security today.

Soldier Meets Citizen: The Ethics of War in Theory and Practice was held in George Square Lecture Theatre on Thursday, 4 December 2008.

This stimulating debate celebrates the launch of the Just World Institute in the School of Social and Political Science.

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[jaalmorrell]

these people live in a world of their own; put them in the front line, when the enemy's bullets and rpg's are flying at them then they can philosophise and debate whether a lawyer can advise whether to shoot or not. actually put the lawyer in the front line and let him/her debate the finer points of law with the enemy.

[anything4ai]

Thank you for the upload.

[thegreeensky]

well discussed.. nice video...

[felpaluche]

It's a clash of principles as military men really hold a different principle as citizens.

[kaferere]

The General lies for a living. "It all began when Saddam invaded his neighbour Kuwait.." No no, General, it all began when the U.S. paid a young thug called Saddam to assassinate the then leader of Iraq. It went wrong and the young Saddam shot himself accidentally in the thigh. He escaped capture by swimming across the river. Later the US installed him as their puppet dictator. The Kuwaiti's were slant-drilling and stealing his oil. They refused him OPEC membership while his country starved.

[PostBun1964]

every where the british army navy and airforce went you caused nothing but trouble.

They are regarded as scum and rightly so in many countries. To this very day no proper investigations of Murder where ever you went. Africa Asia America Arab Countries even Ireland the country closest to you. Queen and country don't make me laugh. So brave kicking down doors hoping to get your dirty little hands on others oil and call it democracy. while health services ignored you waste money on this. MURDER

[theblackmafia71]

It always makes me laugh when I listen to these so called (experts) usally from the liberal elite, love to point the finger with there indepth knowledge of combat and combat operations , when they have never served in a front line unit and never fired a weapon in there life!

fuckin no mark clowns!

[crewmason7]

@Redcarpet01 the above comment does list a definition of citizen which i did look up in two separate sources and there is no mention of anything else in relation to edmocracy or republics and im sure the UK is a democracy. the queen is a figure head of continuity only. call urself what u will u are a citizen and subject they are not mutaully exclusive terms and most brits woudlnt call themselves subjects.

[crewmason7]

@Redcarpet01 im not sure what your point is exactly whether u want to use the term citizen or subject really in this case these coudl be interchangable by the standard applied here. you are a citizen of the UK. When u travel overseas and they see ur passport and ask u which country u are a citizen from that woudl be the UK. this discussion adds nothing to the wider debate argued by this conference, so i will no longer waste my time arguing over defienitions of a word. the above is a definition

[Redcarpet01]

@crewmason7 No we are not citizens of the UK. We are subjects of the monarch of the day. Look up the word yourself.

[crewmason7]

@Redcarpet01 First, I am not sure why this was a response directed toward me, however, since you are wrong I will reply. Brits are citizens of the UK. A citizen is defined as a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection. China is a communist country and it still has citizens, the idea that the word citizen encompasses only residents of republics or even democracy is false.

[Redcarpet01]

@crewmason7 Well they're not citizens. They're subjects of the Queen, Britain isn't a republic.