2014 Papers and Presentations
Background reading requirement- Center for the Army Profession and Ethic (CAPE) –
America’s Army: Our Profession
Army Ethic White Paper (CAPE draft-10MAR14)
Ethics Symposium Read Ahead (ppt presentation)
Personal Morality and Professional Ethics: Overcoming the Division (Symposium Introduction paper)
Daniel M. Bell, Jr. – General Hugh Shelton Chair in Ethics
Clashing Moral Civilizations: Why is Relativism a Threat to the Military? (paper)
Daniel M. Bell, Jr. – General Hugh Shelton Chair in Ethics
Uprooting the Culture of Sexual Assault of the Armed Forces through a Gender Aware Perspective (paper)
Cheryl Abbate
Our Profession of Arms: Ethical Principles in the 21st Century Army (abstract & paper)
David K. Beavers
Developing Good Soldiers: The Problem of Fragmentation within the Army (paper)- Note: This link goes to an external website where the article must be purchased ($39) before download.
Paul T. Berghaus and Nathan L. Cartagena
Just War in Combat Boots (abstract & paper)
Mike Burgess
Spiritual Dormancy: the Strategic Effect of the Depravation of God (abstract & paper)
James G. Erbach
Adaptive Disclosure: Critique of a Descriptive Intervention Modified for the Normative Problem of Moral Injury in Combat Veterans (abstract & paper)
Paul D. Fritts
The Strategogia: A (Newly Recovered) Socratic Dialogue (abstract & paper)
Prisco Hernandez
Character Development of U.S. Army Leaders: The Laissez-Faire Approach (paper previously published in the Sept-Oct 2013 edition of Military Review) Abstract
Brian M. Michelson
Moral Injury and the American Service Member:
What Leaders Don’t Talk About When They Talk About War (abstract & paper)
Douglas A. Pryer
The Importance of Unit Climate in Effecting Moral Injury (abstract & paper) – Note: Paper not available online.
Rhonda Quillin
Ethics and the “Professionalization” of the U.S. Military
James E. Roper
Bigelow’s Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty: Virtue Ethics and the War on Terror (paper)
Matthew Shadle
A Soldier’s Morality, Religion, and Our Professional Ethic:
Does the Army’s Culture Facilitate Integration, Character Development, and Trust in the Profession? (paper published by the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute)
Alexander Shine and Don M. Snider
Stewardship and the Retired Senior Leader: Toward a New Professional Ethic (paper)
George R. Smawley
Finding Inspiration (abstract & paper)
George M. Stephenson
For Man and Country: Atheist Chaplains in the U.S. Army (abstract & paper)
Valeria R. Van Dress
Technological Innovation: Challenges to the Profession for Army Stewards (abstract & paper)
John A. Vermeesch
The Evolution of Military Ethics in the United States Army (paper)
Sean Wead
Dealing with Contemporary Moral Challenges by Re-discovering Historic Military Virtues (abstract & paper)
James Welch
Department of the Army Pamphlet 165-16 (DRAFT): Moral Leadership
To be presented by Chaplain (Lt. Col.) James Welch
2014 Other Papers
Ethics Can Be Taught (previously published in the December 2012 edition of Proceedings Magazine)
David G. Bolgiano, Lee DeRemer and A. Edward Major
Warrior Resilience and Thriving (abstract & paper)
Thomas A. Jarrett
Ethics Education of Military Leaders (previously published in the March-April 2014 edition of Military Review)
A Edward Major
2014 Presentations
Uprooting the Culture of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces through a Gender Aware Perspective
(136kb ppt file)
Cheryl Abbate
Religion & Moral Injury (253kb ppt file)
James G. Erbach
Power, Ethics, and Leadership (420kb ppt file)
Dr. George E. Reed
Bigelow’s Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty: Virtue Ethics and the War on Terror (483 kb ppt file)
Matthew Shadle
The U.S. Army as a Military Profession (After a Decade plus of War and During a Defense Reduction) – (6mb ppt file)
Dr. Don M. Snider
Additional Presentations
U.S. Military Academy- Lesson plan — “Morality of Killing”
Previous symposia
2012 Symposium
- Papers Presented (6mb zip file)
- Other Papers (1mb zip file)
- Presentations (12mb zip file)
2011 Symposium Report (2mb pdf)
2010 Symposium Report (4mb pdf)
2009 Symposium Report (2mb pdf)