humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect who should intervene apr 2010

[...]... version of the responsibility to protect we prefer affects how we view the issue of who should intervene and which forms of humanitarian intervention can be included under the responsibility to protect To see this, consider some of the key differences between the ICISS doctrine and the agreement at the World Summit.15 On the ICISS version of the responsibility to protect, (a) the responsibility to protect. .. tackling a serious The Problem of Who Should Intervene 13 humanitarian crisis It is important to note, however, that the responsibility to protect is both broader and narrower than humanitarian intervention, and, more generally, the status of the responsibility to protect is still subject to much dispute On the one hand, the responsibility to protect is much broader than humanitarian intervention It comprises... suspended In such cases, the responsibility to protect these citizens transfers to the international community The international community’s responsibility to protect involves the responsibility to prevent’ the crisis, the responsibility to react’ robustly to it, and the responsibility to rebuild’ after The responsibility to react’ may, on occasion, require humanitarian intervention, providing that... humanitarian intervention It should also be noted that the ICISS (2001a) argue for the abandonment of the term humanitarian intervention in favour of the language of the responsibility to protect The reasons they give include the international opposition to the notion of humanitarian intervention (ICISS 2001a: 9) and that the language of the humanitarian intervention focuses attention on the. .. there are, the less the likelihood of the chances of rescue But when there is only one potential intervener or a clearly identified agent, the likelihood of rescue increases Similarly, without having a stronger sense of who should act, states and other agents can use the ambiguity surrounding 10 Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect who should intervene and the responsibility to. .. secondly, consider the more empirical question of whether (and to what extent) the current agents of humanitarian intervention actually possess these qualities, and therefore should intervene How effective can we expect UN action to be 8 Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect in the future? Is NATO likely to use humanitarian means? Are Western states likely to have the support of those... I will use the phrase who should intervene to denote who may intervene as well Nothing substantive will turn on this 1.2 HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION A N D T H E RE S PONS I BI LI TY TO P ROT ECT On the face of it, the question, who should intervene? ’, seems very similar to the question, who has the responsibility to protect? ’ Both questions ask us to consider which international actor should be tasked... be collective and to be taken through the Security Council.16 (e) No reference is made to criteria for intervention The Problem of Who Should Intervene 15 These five central differences affect what it means to ask who should intervene? ’ in the context of the responsibility to protect If we endorse the ICISS version of the doctrine, the question is: Amongst the interveners that meet the precautionary... or who may intervene? ’ and 2 Who has the duty to intervene? ’ or who should intervene? ’ I answer both questions with the conception of legitimacy defended throughout the book (the Moderate Instrumentalist Approach) In the answer to the first question ( who has the right to intervene? ’), any intervener that possesses an adequate degree of legitimacy according to this account will have the right to intervene. .. obligation to look after the welfare of its citizens and would therefore have neither a duty nor a right to intervene This leads us to an important point To have the right to intervene, an intervener needs to possess the qualities necessary for its intervention to be justifiable It needs, for instance, to follow international humanitarian law, to be welcomed by the victims of intervention, and to have . h1" alt="" HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT This page intentionally left blank Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect Who Should Intervene? JAMES. community. The international community’s responsibility to protect involves the responsibility to prevent’ the crisis, the ‘responsi- bility to react’ robustly to it, and the responsibility to rebuild’. more detail the issue of who should intervene in relation to the responsibility to protect and, in particular, con- siders how this question varies according to how the responsibility to protect is