The aim of the volume The Concept of Just War in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is to explore the respective understanding of ¿just war¿ in each one of these three religions and to make their commonalities and differences discursively visible. Can the concepts developed in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions in order to justify war serve as a foundation for contemporary peace ethics? Or do religious arguments always add fuel to the fire in armed conflict? The contributions in this volume will help provide answers to these and other socially and politically relevant questions.

Georges Tamer and Katja Thörner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.