Humanitarian intervention: The responsibility to protect (R2P)

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Sociology

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Summary :

Introduction.
The progressive recognition of a need to protect human rights.
1. The contrasted etymology of the notion of 'humanitarian intervention'.
2. Humanitarian crises: The reaction of scholars and of the public.
3. 1990s: A decade of development of humanitarian intervention.
Criticism towards humanitarian interventions.
1. A problem of sovereignty.
2. The questions of procedures.
The new concept of 'responsibility to protect'.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

The protection of human rights is now considered as an important element of International Law. However, if there are frequent calls for "humanitarian interventions" (that is "coercive action against a state to protect people within its border from suffering grave harm" ) like in Darfur, and if the debate concerning this notion has a long history, the real emergence of modern humanitarian interventions is relatively recent. The concept has been criticized and challenged, it has evolved and several notions are almost synonymous: "right of intervention", "humanitarian intervention" and now "responsibility to protect". The contrasted etymology of the notion of "humanitarian intervention"
The first use of the notion of "humanitarian intervention" can be found in the actions organized by the European "Holy Alliance" in 1815 against the Ottoman Empire, "in favor of presumably persecuted Christian populations."