Thom Brooks (Newcastle University - Newcastle Law School) has posted Justifying Terrorism
on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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Virginia Held’s recent How Terrorism is Wrong offers us any number of important contributions to how we think about terrorist violence. My discussion will focus on only one of these contributions, namely, how terrorism may be justified. This justification rests upon a group being denied a voice. Thus, terrorism may become justified where this demand to be heard is denied, coupled with the corollary that all non-violent options have been exhausted. I will argue that we should require a more narrow justification of terrorism. This is because I believe Held’s understanding may be open to abuses which we should close off.
