Humanitarian Intervention And The Right To Protect

Question 1

Kosovo (1999)

Answer 1

Ethnic conflict between Albanians and ethnic Serbs in Kosovo

Gained intl attention for the human rights atrocities committed by Yugoslavia in the process of intervention which reached the point of a humanitarian disaster in Kosovo

Question 2

Main issue with intervention

Answer 2

Violation of state sovereignty

Question 3

Responsibility to Protect

Answer 3

Emerging norm in IR seeking to prevent mass atrocities within the borders of sovereign states.

Controversial due to lack of opinio juris and the overlap with pre-existing rules about self defense

Question 4

ICISS

Answer 4

International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Coined “Right to Protect”

Question 5

Right to Protect

Answer 5

P5 members of the Security Coincil should agree not to apply veto power to resolutions authorizing intervention for humanitarian protections

Adopted in 2005

Question 6

Objections to Right to Protect

Answer 6

Humanitarian intervention couldn’t be customary intl law since it was lacking in opinio juris

Selectively made intervention claims

intervention without UNSC authorization was an illegitimate infringement on state sovereignty