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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Humanitarian intervention"”.
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Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Perspectives
This thesis addresses primary concepts in the humanitarian intervention debates. I argue that humanitarian intervention is a perfect duty. The global community has a moral obligation to act decisively in the face of extreme human rights abuses. There are two contrasting theoretical perspectives …
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The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
… definition, the conduct, and the occasions for humanitarian military intervention. I argue that properly-called humanitarian interventions must be directed by partly-altruistic intentions, and just war theorists should resist the emerging trend that discards right intention as a central …
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An analysis of humanitarian intervention in action
This submission examines the doctrine of humanitarian intervention by focusing on the Western involvement in the violent breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the 1990s and the wars that this ignited. It draws on several publications written over the past decade including …
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The practice of humanitarian intervention after the end of the Cold War: emerging norm or just practice?: humanitarian intervention and international law
This thesis examines the practice of humanitarian intervention after the end of the Cold War. In the 90s there was an evident willingness of the world community to promote and protect human rights. The Security Council got involved in matters traditionally regarded internal affairs of states and …
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Humanitarian intervention: legality, legitimacy and the search for solutions
Humanitarian intervention refers to the use of force for the protection of human rights in a foreign state and usually against the will of the state in which force is used. The legality of unilateral humanitarian Intervention is a widely contested area in contemporary international law. It is a …
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Humanitarian Intervention at Mt. Sinjar, Iraq: A Complex Adaptive System Analysis
… strategies that worked to produce a positive humanitarian outcome at Mt. Sinjar are identified. The results suggest that only the humanitarian community was effective in assessing the onset of the crisis, while the task of protecting civilians against a murderous military force was left to the …
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'Atrocity Suppression': an alternative to 'Humanitarian Intervention'
The concept of humanitarian intervention has been around for centuries but came to particular prominence in the mid-1990s on foot of Genocides in Rwanda and at Srebrenica, Bosnia. The shocking brutality and scale of these events and the steadfast failure of the international community to defend the …
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Redefining state sovereignty: The complexities of Humanitarian intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
… community was engulfed in a debate concerning humanitarian intervention and its effect on state sovereignty. Recent interventions in states such as East Timor, Haiti and Kosovo had sparked off concern regarding the tension between sovereignty and the recognition of human rights norms which has …
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Global responsibility : humanitarian intervention as a justified mechanism to end post-conflict widespread and systemic sexual violence
Sexual violence and conflict go hand in hand. In ancient warfare, sexual violence was a common procedure, perceived as an inevitable consequence of war. Soldiers needed to 'release' after heavy fighting; sexual distraction would reward, motivate and relax them. In other words, sexual violence was …
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Tragic challenges and the moral hazard of humanitarian intervention : how and why ethnic groups provoke genocidal retaliation
This dissertation explores the causes of, and possible remedies for, extremely violent ethnic conflict. It starts from a robust yet under-explored finding in the literature: Most groups that fall victim to genocidal violence actually trigger their own demise by launching armed secessions or …
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Ugandan Drama and the War in the North (1987–2006): Resisting Approaches to Post-Conflict Transition and Humanitarian Intervention
… Asiimwe Deborah Kawe contest the approaches to humanitarian interventions by Europe, the United States of America, and international agencies: the World Bank, United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund. The study argues that these plays are designed to haunt and provoke any individuals …
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On the concept of humanitarian intervention, with particular reference to New Labour theorising about an ethical dimension to foreign policy
… assumptions contained within the concept of humanitarian intervention in the three areas of political science, political philosophy and politics itself.It is argued that far from shedding light on the concept, many attempts at definition have been built on assumptions regarding the moral and …
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Choices to Save the Suffering: What Prompts Humanitarian Military Intervention
Forceful military humanitarian intervention in complex humanitarian emergencies has become a more frequent activity of states in the post-Cold War era. New notions that intervening militarily to alleviate human suffering is legitimate have challenged traditional views of state sovereignty and …
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Privatizing the Cosmopolitan Responsibility to Protect. : Considering a Normative Argument for Why the Contractor Might Be Better Suited Vis-à-Vis the State Soldier to Serve Common Humanity
… state motivations for conducting military humanitarian intervention1. Learning about the reluctance of liberal states to commit wholeheartedly to the protection of strangers overseas, I started asking the question of how to ensure that liberal states commit to their responsibility to …
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The politics and dilemmas of humanitarian assistance
… of the Cold War has rejuvenated the debate of humanitarian intervention. The opportunity to employ armed force in a humanitarian role is said to have expanded with the end of the bipolar stalemate. Such forums as the United Nations Security Council are no longer held in check by concerns for …
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Knights in shining armor? : when humanitarian military intervention works and when it does not
Military intervention for stated humanitarian purposes has been undertaken on several occasions since the end of the Cold War. It is bound to be attempted again, yet academics and policy makers have left fundamental questions unanswered. Have past humanitarian military interventions saved lives? …
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Michael Walzer on the Moral Legitimacy of States and the Morality of Killing in War
… Walzer's account of state legitimacy and humanitarian intervention with that of David Luban. Next, I develop a Rawlsian account of state legitimacy and humanitarian intervention and argue that this account is more plausible than both Walzer's and Luban's accounts. The second chapter is …
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