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1. thesocietypages.org › webers-monopoly-on-violenceDividing Legitimate from Illegitimate Violence - Sociological ...

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   May 15, 2015 · Dividing Legitimate from Illegitimate Violence. Lisa Wade, PhD on May 15, 2015. Flashback Friday. Sociologist Max Weber argued that the nation-state can be defined by its monopoly on violence. For most of us, most of the time, violence exercised by the state is assumed to be legitimate (unless shown otherwise).

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   later wrote, "Violence can be justifiable, but it will never be legitimate" (1970, 52). I will suggest that the notion of justifiable but illegitimate violence is an important corrective to just war theorists like Michael Walzer, whose discourse slips easily from the notion of necessary evil to that of just war. In maintaining

3. link.springer.com › article › 10Fighting the good fight? Legitimating violence in a world of ...

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   Oct 19, 2012 · Thus, by employing some different version of the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate violence to the seemingly illegitimate violence that one has just experienced, one decides that new, ‘legitimate’ violence is warranted in return, and cycles of violence emerge and persist with both/all sides firmly believing in the legitimacy of their own use of violence (Calhoun, 2002, pp. 97 ...

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   Dec 18, 2023 · The principle of humanity inscribed in the conscience of every person and all peoples includes the obligation to protect civil populations from the effects of war. This too is built into just war ...

5. arcapologetics.org › war-and-peace-and-politicalWar and Peace and Political Wisdom: Just-War Moral Reasoning ...

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   Mar 14, 2024 · JUST-WAR MORAL REASONING: A CLOSER LOOK AT ASSUMPTIONS. Just-war theory, it needs emphasis, is not first and foremost about military tactics and strategy; nor is it about justifying warfare that has been undertaken. Rather, properly viewed, it is a morally-guided approach to statecraft that views “peace” as the result of just relationships.

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   Just war theorists may have attempted to limit the role of violence in human affairs, and the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages certainly did try to use its influence to ban certain weapons and enforce truces, but these measures were always subverted by the basic logic of the just war, which, according to Schmitt, by inviting the judgement that one side in a conflict is ‘just’ involved ...

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   Is just war illegitimate violence?

   • Just War and the Problem of Evil In this essay, Robin May Schott criticizes leading proponents of just war theory and introduces the notion of justifiable but illegitimate violence. Instead of legitimating some wars as just, it is better to acknowledge that both the situation of war and moral judgments about war are ambiguous.

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   Is violence illegitimate?

   • This is simply “keeping the peace” or “following orders.” But violence exercised by individuals and other entities is (unless shown otherwise) illegitimate. In fact, when individuals or other entities do violence, it is often called “criminality” or “terrorism.” A powerful cartoon by Andy Singer illustrates the phenomenon well. Words are powerful.

   Dividing Legitimate from Illegitimate Violence

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   Can the future hold more violence?

   • In this intractable scenario, one that has been going on for many decades, the future can only hold more violence. All wars are horrendous, even if fought according to the laws of war. In Gaza, the innocent are the victims, and as such the laws of war and the morality war have become detached.

   Illegitimate violence and the morality of war: Evaluating the justness

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   Does just war theory require a legitimate authority?

   • Since its earliest incarnations, just war theory has included the requirement that war must be initiated and waged by a legitimate authority. However, while recent years have witnessed a remarkable resurgence in interest in just war theory, the authority criterion is largely absent from contemporary discussions.

   Just War Theory, Legitimate Authority, and Irregular Belligerency

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   Can a just war limit international violence?

   • Far from limiting international violence, thinking in terms of the just war is in danger of having the opposite effect, being excessively permissive of the use of force, encouraging a crusading mentality, and providing ethical justifications for policies that do great harm.

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   Is political violence a war?

   • When you commit an act of political violence, people are going to die. When your side does it, you tend to forgive those deaths, or at least see a larger framework in which the killings helped prevent some larger-scale negative outcome. It's an act of war.

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   Mar 6, 2015 · Since its earliest incarnations, just war theory has included the requirement that war must be initiated and waged by a legitimate authority. However, while recent years have witnessed a remarkable resurgence in interest in just war theory, the authority criterion is largely absent from contemporary discussions. In this paper I aim to show that this is an oversight worth rectifying, by arguing ...