Author: Trudy Govier
Trudy Govier is a Canadian philosopher and professor emerita of the University of Lethbridge. Her many books and articles include A Practical Study of Argument, Forgiveness and Revenge, and Taking Wrongs Seriously.
Thinking about Property Violence
If a peaceful demonstration ends in smashing, looting, and burning, hard questions arise. Do these actions amount to justifiable violence? Excusable violence? Do they amount to violence at all? A study by Crowd Counting at the University of Connecticut estimated that in the spring and summer of 2020, 98 percent of Black Lives Matter demonstrations …
A Troubling Case: The International Trial of a Ugandan Soldier
As I write, Dominic Ongwen is on trial before the International Court in The Hague. Ongwen was a child soldier, then an adult soldier, and eventually a brigade commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.). That brutal force operated primarily in northern Uganda but also in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.), South Sudan, and …