Fredsetikk etter den kalde krigen. Nye etiske utfordringer etter den senere tids endringer i norsk forsvars- og sikkerhetspolitikk

English summary: «Peace Ethics after the Cold War: Recent Changes in Norwegian Security Policy and its Ethical Implications.» The article addresses the post-Cold War era from an ethical perspective. First, the author sets out to examine the claim that a «new world order» has emerged since 1989. Reviewing what he calls six important steps towards a new world (dis-)order, it is argued that the events in Europe 1989, Panama 1989, the Gulf 1990-1991, Somalia 1993-1995, Bosnia during the early nineties, and finally, the Paris agreement between NATO and Russia of May 1997, point to a rather ambiguous development. Regardless of how this new (dis-)order is to be assessed, it represents a framework for ethical reflection on international politics which is drastically changed in the course of a short time-span. Moving to the Norwegian scene, the second part of the article sketches in what ways this global change has effected Norwegian security policy and defence strategy. The critical question is asked whether the broadening of the scope of security politics may have as an unintended consequence a certain «militarization» of political areas that have not traditionally been regarded as security concerns. In the third and last part of the article, basic themes in a peace ethics within this new global and national situation are outlined. Disarmament, peace-building, dilemmas related to the «new interventionism» with the renewed interest in the applicability of the Just War-tradition, and the need for a strengthened dialogue for peace between the world religions are held as major ethical concerns in the present situation.