Moral competence is important for soldiers who have to deal with complex moral dilemmas in practice. However, openly dealing with moral dilemmas and showing moral competence is not always easy within the culture of a military organization. In this article, based on analysis of experiences during a train …

If one of the most important aims of education on military ethics is to strengthen moral competence, we argue that it is important to base ethics education on virtue ethics, the Socratic attitude and the process of ‘living learning’. This article illustrates this position by means of the example of a …

Militairen worden niet alleen tijdens uitzendingen maar ook in hun dagelijkse praktijk geconfronteerd met morele dilemmas. Ethiekonderwijs richt zich op het versterken van de morele competentie. Hoe werkt dat? Er zijn drie uitgangspunten: de deugdethiek, de zogeheten Socratische houding, en het proces …

Discussing the visibility and cultural factors that inf luence the position of women in the armed forces is the object of the study that is presented here. The Netherlands do not have a martial tradition and are believed to have a feminine ‘soft’ culture , but nevertheless women have always been underrepresented. Nowadays …