PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Humanitarian Intervention, Non-Interventionism, Mass Atrocity Crimes
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Should be allowed to act when there is humanitarian claims: forcibly protect civilians that are under threat of mass killings/atacks. Scholars that are for the humanitarian intervenion are called counter-restricionists . Aggression is deined according to the un as, the use of force (or imminent threat to use it) against territory or sovereignty : ex. Tanks swarming a boarder to cross or about to cross. Aggression is allowed when, responding to an atack self defence: ex. Coaliion of state that responded to the invasion of kuwait using military force. Aricle 51 nothing in the present charter shall impair the inherent right of the individual or collecive self-defence if an armed atack occurs against a member of the. Humanitarian intervenion: using aggression for humanitarian purposes, should be allowed to act when there are humanitarian claims. Why are they in conlict: sovereignty does not allowed for intervenion and interference in domesic afairs. Legal case for intervenion is based on: 1.
