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Routledge
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These papers are the proceedings of the 3rd international working conference on violence and non-violent action in industrialized societies, held in Brussels, on November 3rd-5th, 1976. Political violence is generally understood to be violence used by people who seek to change the existing power structure through rebellion, revolution, coup d’état, etc. It is much less studied from its opposite... Read more
Introduction 2. Moral Reasoning and Repressive Violence 4 3. Repression and Democratic Theory, Some Sceptical Remarks 4. Political Violence and Peace Research 5. Tbram de Swaan: Terror as a Governmental Service 6. Repressive Violence: a Legal Perspective 7. The Draft for a Uniform Police Code - an Example of Executive Perception of Law 8. The Predominance of Facts and Practice in the Legislative Process - Development Towards a Police State? 9. In Memoriam: Constitutional Rights and the Liberal State. A Worst Case Analysis in Peace Research 10. A Theory of Unconventional Political Action: The Dynamics of Confrontation 11. Steve Wright: An Assessment of the New Technologies of Repression 12. Psychological Genocide
Biography
Marjo Hoefnagels Polemological Centre of the Free University of Brussels (v u b )
