• Annan Calls For Military Intervention to Prevent Genocide -- (January 26, 2004) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for “strong and united political action and, in extreme cases,…military action” by states to combat acts of genocide. Annan said intervention to prevent genocide was not a “right to intervention,” but at root a responsibility of the entire human race to protect fellow human beings from extreme abuse. (Added: 13-Jul-2004 Hits: 598 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Annan Justifies UN's "Preemptive Strike" Against Sierra Leone Militia -- (July 25, 2000) The UN Secretary General gets tough on the Sierra Leonean rebels as he warned that rebels plotting attacks on the UN peacekeepers would have to pay the price. (Added: 19-May-2004 Hits: 238 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Blair's 'International Community' Doctrine -- (March 6, 2004) Critics are concerned British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “international community” doctrine seeks to justify the US/UK war in Iraq, validates unilateral (i.e. non-UN sponsored) interventions, and offends the principle of territorial integrity enshrined in Article 2 of the UN Charter. (Added: 13-Jul-2004 Hits: 185 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Doing It Right: The Future of Humanitarian Intervention -- Using military force to save lives is difficult, dangerous, rarely politically rewarding—and yet somehow here to stay. American presidents, UN Security Councils, and western publics will almost always want to do something when thousands or tens of thousands of innocent people are dying as a result of war. (Added: 30-Jun-2004 Hits: 449 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA -- Humanitarian intervention, particularly after NATO action in Kosovo, has become a new justification for military action. Political leaders, scholars, and commentators are now regularly enunciating this concept. Humanitarian justifications for military action are nothing new but there is a perception that the post-cold war environment is more conducive to successful interventions. (Added: 30-Jun-2004 Hits: 368 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Humanitarian and Human Rights Emergencies -- The proliferation of civil wars over the past decade has produced a growing number of humanitarian emergencies that require international attention. As the world's only superpower and a major humanitarian aid donor, the United States has a critical role in shaping the response to these emergencies. (Added: 30-Jun-2004 Hits: 219 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Humanitarian Intervention -- Humanitarian intervention without an UN Security Council mandate is illegal in international law. Yet there is sometimes a moral imperative to intervene in the case of intense human suffering. (Added: 14-Jul-2004 Hits: 322 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Humanitarian Intervention: Policy Library -- List of links to reports and articles on humanitarian intervention. (Added: 30-Jun-2004 Hits: 155 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Humanitarian Intervention: Two Views -- Ian Williams argues that progressives should not allow Bush's misappropriation of humanitarian intervention to force them to abandon a principle that is both moral and urgently required. John R. MacArthur counters that liberals have long been lobbying for interventions that would override international law. (Added: 14-Jul-2004 Hits: 196 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Intervene with Caution -- (July 28, 2003) Ian Williams argues that the benefits of humanitarian intervention almost always outweigh the potential risks. However, the international community should only intervene when there is “serious and irreparable harm occurring to human beings.” (Added: 13-Jul-2004 Hits: 183 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Preventing Conflicts, Protecting Civilians -- “Humanitarian intervention has been controversial both when it happens, and when it has failed to happen. Rwanda in 1994 laid bare the full horror of inaction. The UN Secretariat and some permanent members of the Security Council knew that officials were planning genocide; UN forces were present and credible strategies were available to prevent, or at least greatly mitigate, the slaughter which followed... (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 330 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Process Needed To Know When to Intervene to Protect Human Rights -- (July 13, 2003) With the backing of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Crétien wants to build a coalition of countries that are ready to employ “humanitarian intervention” when a state commits serious human rights violations. At a high-level meeting in the UK, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder expressed opposition to the plan, which has previously encountered hostility at the UN. (Added: 13-Jul-2004 Hits: 158 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Report of the Int'l Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty -- This report is about the so-called "right of humanitarian intervention": the question of when, if ever, it is appropriate for states for take coercive - and in particular military - action, against another state for the purpose of protecting people at risk in that other state. The Commission was asked to wrestle with the whole range of questions - legal, moral, operational and political - rolled up in this debate... (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 175 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Revisiting Humanitarian Intervention: Post-September 11 -- The Winter 2001 issue of Human Rights Dialogue addressed the human rights consequences of humanitarian intervention. It examined how different groups are affected by conflict and intervention, and the short- and long-term impacts armed intervention can have on human rights work. (Added: 14-Jul-2004 Hits: 207 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Saving Lives With Force: How to Stop Genocide -- In recent years, the world has witnessed the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war, and the 1992-1993 war-induced famine in Somalia. Even today, wars that have taken many more lives than the conflict over Kosovo remain unresolved in places such as Angola and the Sudan. (Added: 30-Jun-2004 Hits: 126 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

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