Humanitarian violence: how Western airmen kill and let die in order to make live

Masculinité et maintien de la paix : les Casques bleus brésiliens en Haïti

“…Cet élément structurant de la relation d'entretien cache autant qu'il montre. Les enquêtes de Mathias Delori [2021] auprès des pilotes de chasse français impliqués dans des bombardements en Iraq, Libye et autres théâtres des opérations extérieures françaises récentes, interrogent ces limites. Ses réflexions, tout comme les miennes, s'appuient sur les travaux réalisés par Carol Cohn [1987] concernant le langage techno-stratégique des spécialistes nucléaires américains, dans lesquels elle analyse la manière dont des spécialistes et responsables de la politique nucléaire des États-Unis décrivent les armes qu'ils développent et leurs stratégies d'utilisation.…”

Moral Injury and the Psyche of Counterinsurgency

“…Kelly's immediate experience is not reducible to something so straightforward as 'dehumanization' -Kelly imaginatively inhabits and identifies with her potential target's humanity in multiple ways (cf. Delori, 2017;Stone, 2018). Nor does her story depict an instance of morally anguished trade-off and the associated confession and self-indictment suggested by moral injury.…”

“…4 The use of force is subsequently deemed an unequivocal 'necessity', one rooted in a right and duty to self-defense and response against perceived threats (Crawford, 2013;Gregory, 2019). Framing of violence as regrettable exigency and necessary responsibility, ROE validate the endangerment and death of local civilians as a justifiable cost and a moral imperative to the mission of keeping soldiers safe (Delori, 2017;Kinsella, 2015). 5 By generating a sense of vulnerability, definitions of bad actors, and a vision of legitimate targets out of a seemingly chaotic and inscrutable environment, ROE present a basis for the morality of war violence -one ultimately located within the individual soldier's perceptual, affective, and psychic world -even when they direct soldiers to engage in putatively morally hazardous acts.…”

“…5. In his analysis of French combat pilots' perspectives on counterinsurgency violence, Mathias Delori cites Bruno Latour and Couze Venn to characterize ROE as an example of what the latter term 'moral technology' (Delori, 2017;Latour and Venn, 2002).…”