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Cheyney C. Ryan is a research fellow at Oxford University and a professor of philosophy and professor of law at the University of Oregon, where he co-founded the graduate program in conflict and dispute resolution. He has published widely in the areas of political philosophy, philosophy of law, and continental philosophy. He received the Joseph ...
Self-Defense, Pacifism, and the Possibility of Killing* Cheyney C. Ryan A decade and a half ago, on my eighteenth birthday, I registered as a conscientious objector with the Selective Service System. The sources of my pacifism were more philosophical than religious: it seemed to me then that no adequatejustification could be given for the ...
Vita. Senior Research Fellow, Director of Human Rights Programs. Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. Blavatnik School of Government. University of Oxford (Merton College SCR) cheyney.ryan@bsg.ox.ac.uk. Emeritus Professor, Philosophy and Law.
Pacifism: The Basics (Routledge, 2021 forthcoming). I am currently collecting my published and unpublished writings on non-violence, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, and other activists for a collection titled A Revolution of the Heart. ARTICLES: "Pacifism, Self Defense, and the Possibility of Killing", Ethics, Jan. 1983.
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Cheyney Ryan was a fellow of Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) from 2010-2023, and before that was a fellow of the Oxford Changing Character of War Program. He was Director of ELAC’s human rights programs, which included workshops on humanitarian aid, nuclear weapons, and other issues. He is co-chair of the […]
Cheyney C. Ryan argues that the chickenhawk issue is not just a matter of personalities—it will remain with us for a long time even though the Bush administration has left office. Ryan poses fundamental questions of war and personal sacrifice, pointing to the basic disconnection in American politics generally between the support for war and ...
