Monday, January 13, 2003

Political Violence and Questions of Legitimacy Christina Sherlock No one concerned with history or politics can remain unaware of the enormous role that political violence has always played in human affairs. Traditional research has focused on the causes of political violence and the response of the authorities in order to prevent any future episodes. Analyses have tended to be divided into two camps with liberals rejecting the notion that violence can be permissible in the confines of liberal democracies and radicals endorsing the selective use of violence on democratic or humanitarian grounds. It was the radical challenge to the dominant liberal orthodoxy concerning violence that generated much of the re-evaluation of the concept of political violence. [The Blanket: Political Violence and Questions of Legitimacy] Comments: Google It! 8:48:39 AM

Nelson and Mallon family seek justice "There remains only one avenue to establish the truth and that is the setting up of a fully independent judicial inquiry," relatives of the murdered Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson said this week. [AP/RN: Nelson and Mallon family seek justice] Comments: Google It! 8:46:19 AM

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