What is it about?
The right of resistance is an essential part of a plausible conception of human rights. It is the ultimate remedy that makes human rights actual rights rather than simple appeals or rhetoric. This is not just conceptually necessary, but it is also found in fringes of the human right regime that has developed since the end of Second World War.
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Why is it important?
Resistance has become an important part of the political discourse around the world since the Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Arab Spring. Its relationship with human rights is often under-conceptualised. This article corrects this.
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How does one justify resistance? The Marxist revolutionary tradition seems out of steam in the 21st century, but the tradition of the right of resistance provides the basis of thinking about contemporary resistance. It just needs to be translated into the language of human rights.
Dr Gwilym David Blunt
City University
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This page is a summary of: Is There a Human Right to Resistance?, Human Rights Quarterly, January 2017, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2017.0052.
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