Thomas Aquinas' three conditions:
1. War must be started and controlled by the authority of the state or ruler.
2. There must be a just cause.
3. War must be fought to pomote good or avoid evil. Peace and justice must be restored afterwards.
Further conditions were later added by de Vitoria:
4. War must be the last resort, all other solutions must have been tried first.
5. There must be proportionality in the way the war is fought. Only enough force should be used as is needed to achieve victory.
6. War must do more good than harm.
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