International Relations Humanitarian Interventions Questions
A humanitarian intervention refers to the use of military force or other forms of intervention by one or more states or international organizations to protect individuals or groups from severe human rights abuses or humanitarian crises, such as genocide, ethnic cleansing, or mass atrocities. The primary objective of a humanitarian intervention is to alleviate human suffering and protect the rights and well-being of affected populations. It is often justified on moral grounds and the responsibility to protect (R2P) principle, which asserts that states have a responsibility to protect their populations from mass atrocities and that the international community has a responsibility to intervene when states fail to do so.