No Justice, No Peace : The Ethics of Violent Protests

著者名：Pasternak, Avia

Oxford University Press（2025/04/04発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197556689
• eISBN：9780197556702

Description

In the summer of 2020, angry citizens took to the streets of Minneapolis after a recording of the murder of George Floyd went viral. They set fire to a police station, destroyed cars and shops, and clashed with police. In the summer of 2023, violent disorder broke out across France after police killed a seventeen year-old boy. In 2011, protests spread from London across England after police murdered a young Black man during a police arrest. State authorities were quick to denounce such uprisings as callous lawlessness. Were they right? Are violent protestors unscrupulous criminals, or might their revolt be justified despite its lawlessness and the heavy costs it imposes? In No Justice, No Peace, Avia Pasternak highlights the political nature of such protests, offering an in-depth examination of these pressing questions. Violent protestors, she argues, disrupt the peace in order to achieve justice, and to express their defiance of an unjust political order. Pasternak shows that even in liberal democracies, resorting to violence on behalf of these important goals can be necessary and proportionate. Combining empirical analysis of political oppression in contemporary states with a normative assessment of ordinary citizens' duty to resist oppression, Pasternak asserts that violence in protest against state injustice can be permissible, while also acknowledging its key limits.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1.1 From Civil to Uncivil Disobedience1.2 Assessing Violent Political Resistance1.3 The Arguments of the Book 1.4 Plan of the BookCHAPTER 2: WHAT VIOLENT PROTESTORS WANT2.1 Violent Protests as Political Events2.2 Violent Protests as a Response to Domestic Injustice2.3 Violent Protestors' Goals2.4 Violent Protests' Key FeaturesCHAPTER 3: JUSTIFYING PROTECTIVE HARM3.1 Defensive and Protective Harm3.2 Necessity3.3 Effectiveness, Risk, and Chances of Success3.4 Proportionality and The Moral Weighing of Harm3.5 The Full Picture: Connecting the Three Criteria3.6 Resorting to Protest and Conduct in ProtestCHAPTER 4: THE NECESSITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VIOLENCE4.1 Political Options for Oppressed Citizens4.2 Expressive Goals and Violent Protest4.3 Violent Resistance Campaigns and Social ChangeCHAPTER 5: THE MORAL SERIOUSNESS OF HARM TO POLICE OFFICERS5.1 Damage to State Property5.2 Harm to State Officers: Culpable Contributions5.3 Harm to State Officers: Participation in the Police Force5.4 Three Concerns about FairnessCHAPTER 6: HARM TO FELLOW CITIZENS6.1 Citizens' Blame and Liability6.2 Grounding Liability in Benefits6.3 Citizens' Participation in State Wrongdoing6.4 Associative Political Obligations6.5 Duties of Rescue and AssistanceCHAPTER 7: REDISTRIBUTING PROTECTIVE HARM7.1 Indiscriminate Harm and Crowd Control in Violent Protests 7.2 Lesser-Evil Justifications of Excessive Harm7.3 Re-Distributing Excessive Harm7.4 Burdening the Oppressed7.5 Resisting Violent ProtestorsCHAPTER 8: ASSESSING VIOLENT PROTESTS8.1 The Seriousness of Direct Harm in Violent Protests8.2 A duty to Collectivize?8.3 The Problem of Brutal Response8.4 Assessing the Benefits of Violent Protests8.5 Core Features of the Permissible Violent ProtestCHAPTER 9: RESPONDING TO VIOLENT PROTESTORS9.1. Should the State Punish Justified Protestors?9.2 Implications for Protestors and Fellow Citizens9.3 Implications for the Criminal Justice System: Sentencing9.4 Implications for the Criminal Justice System: Restorative Justice10. CONCLUSIONSBIBLIOGRAPHY