ATS2640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Just War Theory
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It won"t capture cases where it is plausible to argue that combatants were the target of violence. Force political concessions: rarely, if won concessions are usually granted to organisations which themselves are not actively involved in terrorist struggle. Inspire rebellion: hard to judge, to provoke repression, good at this, provoke further violence, good at this, other political goals. What about state terror: ultimate goals are, the security of regime, national security, keeping a particular government in power, proximate ends, supressing dissent, eliminating political opponents, provoking a violent response, terrorising potential political opponents, liquidating oppression. Justification of state terror: state terror looks much harder to justify than terrorism by non-stat groups, the people in whose name it is being carried out are the same people who are being terrorised. Domestic, racist, gendered or homophobic terror: rape as a terroristic tactic, a feminist argument, rape is directed at all women.
