Journal of Military Ethics 7 (4):262-283 (2008)
Abstract |
The International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty's report, The Responsibility to Protect, argues that when a state is unable or unwilling to uphold its citizens? basic human rights, such as in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, the international community has a responsibility to protect these citizens by undertaking humanitarian intervention. An essential issue, however, remains unresolved: which particular agent in the international community has the duty to intervene? In this article, I critically examine four ways of assigning this duty. Although I highlight the benefits of institutionalising the responsibility to protect, I argue that we should adopt, in the short term at least, a consequentialist solution: humanitarian intervention should be the responsibility of the intervener that will be the most effective
|
Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
DOI | 10.1080/15027570802510015 |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
The Preventive Use of Force: A Cosmopolitan Institutional Proposal.Allen Buchanan & Robert O. Keohane - 2004 - Ethics and International Affairs 18 (1):1-22.
Humanitarian Intervention an Inquiry Into Law and Morality.Fernando R. Tesón - 1988 - Brill - Nijhoff.
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?James Pattison (ed.) - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
The Internal Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention.A. Buchanan - 1999 - Journal of Political Philosophy 7 (1):71–87.
View all 16 references / Add more references
Citations of this work BETA
Humanitarian Intervention and Historical Responsibility.Fredrik D. Hjorthen & Göran Duus-Otterström - 2016 - Journal of Global Ethics 12 (2):187-203.
Moral Justification of Humanitarian Intervention in Modern Just War Theory.Arseniy D. Kumankov - 2021 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63 (11):58-73.
Allies in Tension: Identifying and Bridging the Rift Between R2p and Just War.Henrik Friberg-Fernros - 2011 - Journal of Military Ethics 10 (3):160-173.
Response to Pattison: Whose Responsibility to Protect?H. M. Roff - 2009 - Journal of Military Ethics 8 (1):79-85.
Similar books and articles
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?James Pattison (ed.) - 2010 - Oxford University Press.
Humanitarian Military Intervention: Wars for the End of History?Clifford Orwin - 2006 - Social Philosophy and Policy 23 (1):196-217.
Responsibility to Protect and Militarized Humanitarian Intervention.Esther D. Reed - 2013 - Journal of Religious Ethics 41 (1):183-208.
The Principled Case for Employing Private Military and Security Companies in Interventions for Human Rights Purposes.Deane-Peter Baker & James Pattison - 2012 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 29 (1):1-18.
Religion, Violence, and Human Rights.James Turner Johnson - 2013 - Journal of Religious Ethics 41 (1):1-14.
In Defense of the Responsibility to Protect.Luke Glanville - 2013 - Journal of Religious Ethics 41 (1):169-182.
From Humanitarian Intervention (HI) to Responsibility to Protect (R2P).Dorota Gierycz - 2010 - Criminal Justice Ethics 29 (2):110-128.
Selective Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Reason and Collective Agents.Jennifer Szende - 2012 - Journal of Global Ethics 8 (1):63-76.
Legitimacy, Humanitarian Intervention, and International Institutions.Miles Kahler - 2011 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 10 (1):20-45.
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Redefining a Role for “Kind-Hearted Gunmen”.Francis Kofi Abiew - 2010 - Criminal Justice Ethics 29 (2):93-109.
Humanitarian Intervention and Human Rights Education.Josef Bordat - 2008 - Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 11:15-24.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2010-08-24
Total views
148 ( #79,150 of 2,508,046 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
6 ( #117,805 of 2,508,046 )
2010-08-24
Total views
148 ( #79,150 of 2,508,046 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
6 ( #117,805 of 2,508,046 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads