Legal Аspects of Humanitarian Intervention

Kostić, Marina and Schopf, Karl (2012) Legal Аspects of Humanitarian Intervention. International journal of economics and law, 2 (5). pp. 48-57. ISSN 2217-5504

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Abstract

This paper considers legal aspects of humanitarian intervention through examination of basic international conventions and international customary law that regulates the use of force in international relations. It deals with the various conceptions and justifications of humanitarian intervention by using the examples of NATO intervention on FRY, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and tries to examine whether they were justified eider by the some international convention such as the UN Charter or by some international customary norm. It, also, touches the question of ethics of international interventions i.e. the use of force for humanitarian purposes. The use of force in contemporary international relations today is referred by the “Responsibility to protect” principles which provides the situations in which the military intervention could be justified.

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