Bring Them Home: Creating a Humane and Enforceable POW Parole System

Journal of Military Ethics 23 (3):182-200 (2024)
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Abstract

There are several strong moral reasons for restoring the practice of parole for prisoners of war (POWs), that is, allowing them to spend their POW internment in a neutral country or in their own country provided they abstain from any military activity. This article makes an ethical case for parole, while discussing thoroughly theoretical as well as practical arguments against its reintroduction. The article suggests ways to create a reliable, internationally recognized way of paroling POWs. It concludes that the reintroduction of parole as such is both ethically required and practically possible, and that it would reduce the needless suffering among POWs that exists under a system that does not allow for parole.

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Maciej (Maciek) Zając
Polish Academy of Sciences

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