Humanitarian intervention

I. INTRODUCTION The international community appears to believe that there is a direct correlation between military intervention and cessation of gross violations of human rights that are being committed by the government of a state, supposing that there will be an improvement in the conditions for those against whom these violations are being committed if there is a legal humanitarian intervention. This assumption is largely based on the concept that if an intervention is legal, it will be controlled, carefully planned, and done to an international legal standard. NATO has intervened in both Kosovo and Libya over the past 16 years, however only one of these interventions was deemed to be “legal” by the UN Security Council (UNSC). The UNSC found…

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…

Should the UN legitimise humanitarian intervention? Humanitarian intervention will not be required in Europe for the conceivable future. Consequently, applying an archaic framework of international relations, typically entrenched in European thought and ideals, onto the modern necessity and moral imperative of humanitarian intervention is foolish. The primary contestation is between the importance of sovereignty and basic human rights. The violation of sovereignty, especially of weak and…

Decline of Public Support for Humanitarian Intervention One of the key differences when it comes to Libya and Syria is how western public perception of humanitarian intervention has shifted. In the few short months following NATO intervention in Libya, support for humanitarian intervention in the United States (US) shrunk substantially and in a democratic country taking unpopular moves like promoting another intervention is likely a prominent concern domestically. US President Barack Obama…

2003 be characterised as an example of humanitarian intervention? The invasion and occupation of Iraq began in March 2003 and is now a highly focused debate as to whether it can be characterised as an example of humanitarian intervention. Iraq represents a nemesis, a point that states should perhaps intervene elsewhere, as we are living amongst the consequences caused by ‘humanitarian intervention’. The social fabric of Iraqi society today, is spread with sectarian civil war, the rise of…

political rights and civil liberties”. Given this, it could also be said that despite its undesirability, Western democratic states would be in the best position to undertake humanitarian intervention. This is what Fiala (2008, p 48) brands as “American exceptionalism”. It also goes to the very crux of the imperialism argument. However, as…

different civilization” as the law does not explicitly state that there is a distinction between civilized and barbaric peoples (Wright 266). The role of international law during France military interventions in Syria was questioned by Wright. France claimed that using force on Syria was legitimatized because it was not technically regulated…

(4) humanitarian intervention (class 12) (25 points) Please explain: (a) the arguments why humanitarian intervention in Kosovo was legitimate under international law; While the U.N. Charter does not say anything about humanitarian intervention, Article 2(4) of the Charter does prohibit “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state…” (Cited handout) Some feel that this prohibits any type of humanitarian intervention, wherein one state…

For any intervention in the world, the international community should have some strong reasons. The United Stated Before considering the changing nature of humanitarian intervention under international law, it is necessary to consider briefly why humanitarian intervention was appeared as a justification for the 2003 war against Iraq. The cruel and brutal nature of the Iraqi regime is indisputable. For a long time, the former regime oppressed a system of persecution that contained widespread…

of the R2P and humanitarian intervention come, as without defined expectations intervention can potentially magnify devastating situations and cause further international disorder. The effectiveness of intervention be debated and even with the parameters of the R2P, the intervention in Libya was not entirely successful, with the international community failing to fulfil the ‘responsibility to rebuild’ criteria for which they should have assisted Libya in restabilising after the conflict (Berti,…