%0 Journal Article %T Escenarios para justificar (o no) la violencia pol¨ªtica %A de Carrea-Lugo %A V¨ªctor %J Papel Politico %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X political violence is a mechanism of conflict resolution used as much as denigrated. despite the risk to justify such mechanism, there is a series of socio-political scenarios in which political violence may be justified. based on the review of different contexts as well as international law applicable in each case, i present some contexts in which political violence could be a probable mechanism to resolve a conflict. this paper is articulated in three sections: some initial considerations in order to delimit the debate and to avoid unnecessary diversions, a presentation of cases and, finally, a general discussion. %K political violence %K armed conflicts %K international law %K peace %K political sociology %K political conflicts %K conflict research %K conflict resolution %K case studies. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0122-44092011000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en