POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Peremptory Norm, Humanitarian Intervention, Gulf Cooperation Council

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2940
• Professor: Prof. Monika Thakur

Document Summary

Humanitarian intervention, r2p: concepts - briefly, case for and against humanitarian intervention, responsibility to protect (r2p) Intervention: activity undertaken by a state, a group within a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state". Legal argument: legal right of individual and collective hi rests on two claims: 1) un charter. [article 1(3)] commits states to protecting fundamental human rights; universal declaration of. Human rights; 2) right of humanitarian intervention in customary international law (jus cogens . Compelling law": moral argument: common humanity; there is a moral duty to intervene to protect civilians from genocide, mass killings, gross violations of human rights or wide-scale human suffering. [the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, 1948] Case against hi: no other exceptions to article 2(4) of un charter (except self- or collective- defence)