Those who strive in Christian faith for a balanced reflection on peace and armed conflict face the always incomplete challenge of allowing morality to be reasonable. In other words, he or she must be careful to choose neither the wrong path of mortality nor that of illusion; that is, neither the management of injustice and suffering nor the blinding of these events. This requirement must also be met by scientific and theological approaches. A balanced view on peace and armed conflict from the perspective of theological ethics means to consider peace as a guiding principle and target for attitude and action as well as not to ignore the existence of armed conflict and to describe the use of force as legitimate in certain extreme cases according to strict criteria. It is a question – by no means symmetrical! – of an inevitable interrelationship between ethics of peace and conflict. However, the proprium of theological ethics – that is, what constitutes its distinctiveness and emerges from the thought-constitutive space of the community of believers – comes into play more strongly in the ethics of peace than in the ethics of conflict, because, with regard to peace, ethics consists in the development…