No justice, no peace : the ethics of violent protests / Avia Pasternak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasternak, Avia, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--Moral conditions.

Protest movements.

Political violence--Moral and ethical aspects.

Political violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

In a groundbreaking analysis of violent protests in democracies, Avia Pasternak provides an in-depth philosophical examination of the ethics of uncivil resistance to state-sanctioned injustice. Drawing on sociological and normative analyses, Pasternak assesses the permissibility of violent protest, demonstrating its importance in achieving instrumental and expressive goals in contemporary society.

Contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 From Civil to Uncivil Disobedience

1.2 Assessing Violent Political Resistance

1.3 The Arguments of the Book

1.4 Plan of the Book

2 What Violent Protestors Want

2.1 Violent Protests as Political Events

2.2 Violent Protests as a Response to Domestic Injustice

2.3 Violent Protestors' Goals

2.3.1 Policy Change

2.3.2 Accountability

2.3.3 Democratic Participation

2.3.4 Anger and Defiance

2.4 Violent Protests' Key Features

3 Justifying Protective Harm

3.1 Protective Harm

3.2 Necessity

3.3 Effectiveness, Risk, and Chances of Success

3.4 Proportionality and the Moral Weighing of Harm

3.5 The Full Picture: Connecting the Three Criteria

3.6 Resorting to Protest and Conduct in Protest

4 The Necessity and Effectiveness of Violence

4.1 Political Options for Oppressed Citizens

4.2 Expressive Goals and Violent Protest

4.3 Violent Resistance Campaigns and Social Change

5 The Moral Seriousness of Harm to Police Officers

5.1 Damage to State Property

5.2 Harm to State Officers: Culpable Contributions

5.3 Harm to State Officers: Participation in the Police Force

5.3.1 Intentional Participation in the Police Force

5.3.2 Liability to Harm in Violent Protests

5.4 Three Concerns About Fairness

5.4.1 Objection 1: The Police Are a Morally Necessary Institution

5.4.2 Objection 2: Levels of Participation

5.4.3 Objection 3: The Distribution of Costs between Police and Citizens

6 Harm to Fellow Citizens

6.1 Citizens' Blame and Liability

6.2 Grounding Liability in Benefits

6.3 Citizens' Participation in State Wrongdoing

6.4 Associative Political Obligations

6.5 Duties of Rescue and Assistance

7 Redistributing Protective Harm

7.1 Indiscriminate Harm and Crowd Control in Violent Protests

7.2 Lesser-Evil Justifications of Excessive Harm

7.3 Redistributing Excessive Harm

7.4 Burdening the Oppressed

7.5 Resisting Violent Protestors

8 Assessing Violent Protests

8.1 The Seriousness of Direct Harm in Violent Protests

8.2 A Duty to Collectivize?

8.3 The Problem of Brutal Response

8.4 Assessing the Benefits of Violent Protests

8.5 Core Features of the Permissible Violent Protest

9 Responding to Violent Protestors

9.1 Should the State Punish Justified Protestors?

9.2 Implications for Protestors and Fellow Citizens

9.3 Implications for the Criminal Justice System: Sentencing

9.4 Implications for the Criminal Justice System: Restorative Justice

9.4.1 What Is Restorative Justice?

9.4.2 The Moral Standing of the State to Hold Protestors to Account

9.4.3 Restorative Justice and Compromised Moral Standing

10 Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed July 1, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Pasternak, Avia, 1975- No justice, no peace.

ISBN:

9780197556719

019755671X

0197556698

9780197556696

OCLC:

1491239554

Publisher Number:

CIPO000189004

Access Restriction:

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