Volume 10 (2024), Edition 4

The concept of violence is central to contemporary debates, marking legitimacy in social and political contexts. Interdisciplinary disagreements concern its empirical, social, political, theoretical, and epistemic dimensions. The editors introduce...

Violence is not an isolated event. It is an event that can only be identified as violence within the framework of an interpretive order. Only by understanding the discursive rules and moral norms of a context can we speak meaningfully about...

This article elaborates on how structural vulnerabilities can emerge in an institutional context. Looking at the structural violence-vulnerability nexus, we argue that there are vulnerant factors that constitute the link between a violent context...

Butler’s concept of nonviolence aims at questioning narratives that validate violence. In this paper, I evaluate the efficacy of her analysis by examining the most cogent instance of violence justification, i. e., the institution of self-defense....

In digital protest, leaking and doxing differ fundamentally in their ethical implications as acts of civil disobedience. Leaking – defined as the careful, unauthorized release of confidential information – can be seen as a justified, non-violent...

I discuss Article 2(4) of the UN Charter on the prohibition on the threat or use of force in the light of cyber-attacks and cyberwarfare. The article highlights that States could skirt this rule by employing so called cyber proxies who are not only...

This paper challenges the idea of the protection of innocence as a shield against violence. The social, political, and legal treatment of children most clearly articulates how violence and the protection of innocence are but two sides of the same...