ABSTRACT
This section of the volume focuses attention on a range of late-and post-conflict issues, from the terms of settlements to justice for wrongdoing to efforts at conciliation. This area of intellectual endeavor is actually quite new. Historically, political leaders made the decision to go to war, and war was fought by military men. It was then up to diplomats to strike a deal managing the conclusion and aftermath of the conflict. This practical division of labor paralleled elements of the just war tradition itself, with its primary focus on the ethics of going to (jus ad bellum) and fighting war (jus in bello). There was no classical jus post bellum, even though the ethical concerns included in the jus ad bellum and jus in bello carried important implications for the end of conflict.
