Question

Explain the correlation between the following.

Human Rights - Humanitarian Intervention

Answer 1

1. The process of disintegration of states and the creation of new states was not always peaceful. In Yugoslavia, for example, there was a lot of bloodshed in Bosnia Herzegovina between different ethnic groups.
2. Conflicts also occurred in Chechnya, East Timor, and Eritrea. It is in response to such situations that people started to be concerned about the violation of human rights.
3. The United Nations, an important global organization would intervene in countries to prevent conflict from escalating. This is one of the main tasks of UN Peacekeeping.
4. In the post-cold War era, the United Nations continued to intervene in conflict situations to bring about a peaceful resolution of the dispute.
5. But now the rationale for intervention was not just to stop the ongoing war but also to prevent the reoccurrence of conflicts in the future, maintain peace and protect the human rights of the affected people. The United Nations intervened in Cambodia, Somalia, and Yugoslavia for this purpose.
6. The increasing awareness about human rights and their protection in international law gave rise to a new phenomenon for the protection of rights in the form of 'humanitarian intervention'.
7. The 1990s are sometimes seen as the golden age of humanitarian intervention.