Ethik und Militär

Ethik und Militär – Kontroversen der Militärethik und Sicherheitskultur is a bilingual electronic journal devoted to current ethical questions in military ethics, security culture and international law. It addresses security-policy challenges facing armed forces and society, and each issue focuses on a single topical theme. Contributors come from academia, politics and the military; the German Wikipedia entry names authors such as Ronald C. Arkin, Karl Müllner, Stefan Oeter, Götz Neuneck and Sönke Neitzel, and notes an interview with BSI president Michael Hange. The journal is a free, non-commercial, journalistically edited digital offering of the Zentrum für ethische Bildung in den Streitkräften (zebis), a centre for ethical education in the armed forces. zebis was established on behalf of the Catholic Military Bishop for the German Bundeswehr at the Institut für Theologie und Frieden (ithf). The English-language version appears under the title Ethics and Armed Forces and carries the ISSN 2199-4137. The editorial team is led by editor-in-chief Veronika Bock. The publishers listed are Veronika Bock, Thomas Elßner, Bart van Dijk, Andrea Ellner, Alexander Merkl, Johannes J. Frühbauer and Norbert Stäblein. As of October 2025 the advisory board comprised Lothar Bendel, Heinrich Dierkes, Angela Reinders, Cornelius Sturm and Kristina Tonn. Each issue is dedicated to a thematic focus. Recent issues shown on the journal's website include 2026/01 on Europe's security in a changing world order, 2025/02 on moral injury, 2025/01 on reconciliation as a guiding concept of peace ethics, 2024/02 on war-fitness, defence capability and peace capability, and 2024/01 on AI and autonomy in weapons. The 2024/01 issue marked ten years since the first issue of Ethik und Militär, which had addressed anonymous killing through new technologies and the soldier between conscience and machine.

Ethik und Militär – Kontroversen der Militärethik und Sicherheitskultur is a bilingual e-journal published by the Zentrum für ethische Bildung in den Streitkräften (zebis), a centre for ethical education in the armed forces. zebis was established on behalf of the Catholic Military Bishop for the German Bundeswehr at the Institut für Theologie und Frieden (ithf). The journal is a free, non-commercial, journalistically edited digital offering of zebis, produced in cooperation with academics. The first issue appeared in 2014, as indicated by the journal's own note in the 2024/01 issue that it marked ten years since the first edition. That first issue addressed the theme 'Anonymes Töten durch neue Technologien? Der Soldat zwischen Gewissen und Maschine' (anonymous killing through new technologies? The soldier between conscience and machine). The 2024/01 issue revisited that theme under the title 'KI und Autonomie in Waffen: Kriege und Konflikte außer Kontrolle?' (AI and autonomy in weapons: wars and conflicts out of control?). Each issue is dedicated to a single thematic focus. The German Wikipedia article lists the issues and themes up to December 2021. Contributors have included figures from science, politics and the military, such as Ronald C. Arkin, Karl Müllner, Stefan Oeter, Götz Neuneck and Sönke Neitzel, and the journal has featured an interview with BSI president Michael Hange. The English-language version of the journal appears under the title Ethics and Armed Forces and carries the ISSN 2199-4137. The editor-in-chief is Veronika Bock. The publishers are Veronika Bock, Thomas Elßner, Bart van Dijk, Andrea Ellner, Alexander Merkl, Johannes J. Frühbauer and Norbert Stäblein. As of October 2025, the advisory board (Beirat) consisted of Lothar Bendel, Heinrich Dierkes, Angela Reinders, Cornelius Sturm and Kristina Tonn. Recent issues documented on the journal's website include 2026/01 on Europe's security in a changing world order, 2025/02 on moral injury, 2025/01 on reconciliation as a guiding concept of peace ethics, 2024/02 on war-fitness and defence capability, and 2024/01 on AI and autonomy in weapons. The journal thus continues to provide a forum for critical debate on military ethics, security culture and international law.

• 2026

  Issue 2026/01 on Europe's security in a changing world order published.

• 2025

  Issues 2025/01 (reconciliation) and 2025/02 (moral injury) published.

• 2024

  Issue 2024/01 marks ten years since the first issue, revisiting the theme of AI and autonomy in weapons.

• 2014

  First issue of Ethik und Militär published, themed 'Anonymes Töten durch neue Technologien? Der Soldat zwischen Gewissen und Maschine'.

A free, non-commercial, journalistically edited digital journal for critical debate on military ethics, security culture and international law, published by a Catholic-inspired centre for ethical education in the German armed forces.

• Ethik und Militär (German-language e-journal)

• Ethics and Armed Forces (English-language e-journal, ISSN 2199-4137)

1. 1Ethik und Militär – Kontroversen in Militärethik & Sicherheitspolitikethikundmilitaer.de
2. 2Ethik und Militär – Wikipedia (German)de.wikipedia.org
3. 3Ethik und Militär – Wikidatawikidata.org