Humanitarian intervention

Question 1

UN Charter

Answer 1

• non-intervention unless it’s self-defence
• security council–internation peace and security = can intervene
• state sovereignty more important than human rights

Question 2

Examples of humanitarian intervention

Answer 2

• 1990s = era of interventions
• Iraq 1991 - Gulf war - Iraq invaded Kuwait
• 9/11 - Iraq war 2003 - self-defence???
• Rwandan genocide 1994 - killed the Tutsi - no intervention

Question 3

Against Humanitarian Intervention

Answer 3

• not actually for humanitarian reasons
• lives of armed forces are risked
• problem of abuse
• Baylis and smith- what constitutes an intervention? no one can agree

Question 4

For Humanitarian Intervention

Answer 4

• it’s a legal obligation to protect human rights

- moral duty

Question 5

Pluralists and order

Answer 5

• internation order is necessary to protect people
• acts that go against state sovereignty jeopardise international order
• humanitarian intervention is bad

Question 6

Order vs Justice

Answer 6

• states lose rights to sovereignty when they hurt their own people
• UN charter backs it up - - article 55 and 56 - human rights