[3] The concept continues to attract scholarly interest in the field of international humanitarian law.
[5] Brian Orend cites Immanuel Kant as the first to consider a three-pronged approach to the morality of armed conflict[6] and concluded that a third branch of just war theory, the morality of the termination phase of war, had been overlooked.
To achieve a lasting peace, the goal is to find a balance between transitional justice and order.
As a concept in just war theory, the jus post bellum debate considers a number of issues:[11] Thus, the areas within which jus post bellum applies can include restraining conquest; political reconstruction, especially in the case of genocide and war crimes; and economic reconstruction, including restoration and reparations.
[13] James Pattison[14] argues that the idea that the belligerent shouldn't have a responsibility to rebuild to justify the morality of a war.