This problem has not been resolved due to many things; the question still stands with many obstacles that create disagreements among the international community. The problem roots at human greed. Politics, conflicts over resources, money, land, and power. After World War II, the international community swore genocides would never happen again under their watch, but they have, and plenty of them. Thanks to globalization and the scars and lessons from history, many people nowadays are sensitive to humanitarian problems across the world. The international community has put pressure into each government to be responsible for their own people and when a government fails to protect their people, the rest of the world is now watching. Now, there is
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The people, who commit genocides or something of that magnitude, whether they are the leaders, public officials, or separate individuals, should be punished. But when that happens, when there are crimes of the state committed against their own populations, who stops them? It is easy to say that the answer to that is that the international community is the one that should intervene, since the core meaning and purpose of humanitarian intervention is about protecting the people. But it is more complex than that, we live in an intertwined world, where our actions have consequences and where there is self-interest to consider and allies of allies. Something should be done without a doubt, but the question is how, by who, and what precisely should be done. In 1990 the challenge of civil wars and civilian casualties was presented to the international community. The Serbians started to commit atrocities, and after diplomatic efforts had failed, NATO intervened through the use of bombings to stop the conflict even though they did it without the approval of the UN Security Council in fear of a Russian veto. And so the question rose, was it right for them to intervene to stop the systematic abuse of human rights ignoring the international laws? Years later after this conflict had happened and not getting closer to solving it, we were proven once more of the consequences of just standing by and watch when the Rwandan genocide happened. The world failed to respond, we were all too busy trying to coordinate international law with the right to intervene. Once more the world had let sovereignty trump humanity. This was momentarily solved when the Canadian government established the “International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty”. International human right leaders were
The people, who commit genocides or something of that magnitude, whether they are the leaders, public officials, or separate individuals, should be punished. But when that happens, when there are crimes of the state committed against their own populations, who stops them? It is easy to say that the answer to that is that the international community is the one that should intervene, since the core meaning and purpose of humanitarian intervention is about protecting the people. But it is more complex than that, we live in an intertwined world, where our actions have consequences and where there is self-interest to consider and allies of allies. Something should be done without a doubt, but the question is how, by who, and what precisely should be done. In 1990 the challenge of civil wars and civilian casualties was presented to the international community. The Serbians started to commit atrocities, and after diplomatic efforts had failed, NATO intervened through the use of bombings to stop the conflict even though they did it without the approval of the UN Security Council in fear of a Russian veto. And so the question rose, was it right for them to intervene to stop the systematic abuse of human rights ignoring the international laws? Years later after this conflict had happened and not getting closer to solving it, we were proven once more of the consequences of just standing by and watch when the Rwandan genocide happened. The world failed to respond, we were all too busy trying to coordinate international law with the right to intervene. Once more the world had let sovereignty trump humanity. This was momentarily solved when the Canadian government established the “International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty”. International human right leaders were