IAFS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Human Security, Mass Atrocity Crimes, 2005 World Summit
21 Dec 2016
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Humanitarian intervention: revolves around the question of whether individual states can intervene during a humanitarian crisis. It is unclear if there should be exceptions during a humanitarian crisis. Instances where the government is either the cause of a humanitarian crisis or is unable to address the crisis are examples of when territorial integrity is impeding the human security of the population. The uk, the united states, and france cited un security council. The security council did not secure enough votes to condemn this action and although the un did not approve the deployment of nato forces, the un never condemned nor outright approved the action. The restoration of democracy used as a justification of intervention: humanitarian intervention is often justified by arguing that it is being used to restore democracy. For example, the united states intervention in panama in. 1989 was said to be done in order to restore democracy. Global centre for the responsibility to protect reading.
