ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Humanitarian Intervention, Noble Eightfold Path

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

Internaional commission on intervenion & state sovereignty (2001) Avoid future situaions like kosovo crisis: where security council is blocked. Avoid situaions like rwanda srebrenica: where the world stood aside as the genocide unfolded. Establishment of a threshold and criteria for humanitarian intervenions. Moving the debate from human rights vs. sovereignty to how to beter protect endangered people. Idea of commission is to move from a culture of reacion to a culture of prevenion. 1 the state has a responsibility to protect its populaion from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. 2 the internaional community has a responsibility to assist the state to fulill its primary responsibility. 3 if the state manifestly fails to protect its ciizens from the 4 above mass atrociies and peaceful measures have failed, the internaional community has the responsibility to intervene through coercive measures such as economic sancions. Imperialisic intervenionism: impose your own deiniion of humanitarian intervenion.