Humanitarian Interventions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Military Intervention ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
Humanitarian Work ◽  
Religious Philanthropy

This chapter explores the anthropology of humanitarianism in relation to regulation, governance, and law. Humanitarian agencies and individuals navigate multiple intersecting social-legal fields of international and domestic law in their efforts to address human need and suffering. Building on rich ethnographic studies of humanitarian practitioners, the chapter surveys different regional contexts for humanitarian work as well as varied approaches, including: bureaucratic and charismatic modes of humanitarian authority, military intervention through ‘humanitarian wars’, reconciliation in post-conflict settings, judicial advocacy, religious philanthropy, and vernacular aid. While some humanitarian interventions are highly regulated, other types exist outside regulatory frames, and some others use the logic of humanitarian intervention to change law itself.

Between rhetoric and reality: exploring the impact of military humanitarian intervention upon sexual violence – post-conflict sex trafficking in Kosovo

2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (877) ◽  
pp. 235-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha T. Godec
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
International Law ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Nato Intervention

AbstractAdopting a feminist perspective, this paper analyses the doctrine of humanitarian intervention and its impact on women in recipient states, particularly with regard to sexual violence. By analysing the phenomenon of post-conflict trafficking in Kosovo following the NATO intervention, the author presents a challenge to the ‘feminist hawks’ who have called for military intervention in situations of systematic sexual violence. It is the author's contention that such intervention would be counterproductive for women's rights and thus constitute a disproportionate response to sexual violence in terms of the international law governing the use of force.

Debating Humanitarian Intervention

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Tesón ◽  
Bas van der Vossen
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Just Cause ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Almost All

The book offers contrasting views of humanitarian intervention—a war aimed at ending tyranny or violence. Fernando Tesón argues that humanitarian interventions are sometimes permissible; Bas van der Vossen argues that as a rule they are not. The authors use the tools of modern analytic philosophy, in particular just war theory, to substantiate their claims. According to Tesón, a humanitarian intervention has the same just cause as a justified revolution: ending tyranny. He analyzes the different kinds of just cause and whether or not an intervener may pursue other justified causes. For Tesón, the permissibility of humanitarian intervention is almost exclusively determined by the rules of proportionality. Bas van der Vossen, by contrast, holds that military intervention is morally impermissible in almost all cases. Justified interventions, van der Vossen argues, must have high ex ante chance of success. Analyzing the history and prospects of intervention shows that they almost never do.

scholarly journals Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration in Violent Conflict Settings

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Clarissa Augustinus ◽  
Ombretta Tempra
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Fit For Purpose

According to the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, there were 79.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide by the end of 2019. Evictions from homes and land are often linked to protracted violent conflict. Land administration (LA) can be a small part of UN peace-building programs addressing these conflicts. Through the lens of the UN and seven country cases, the problem being addressed is: what are the key features of fit-for-purpose land administration (FFP LA) in violent conflict contexts? FFP LA involves the same LA elements found in conventional LA and FFP LA, and LA in post conflict contexts, as it supports peace building and conflict resolution. However, in the contexts being examined, FFP LA also has novel features as well, such as extra-legal transitional justice mechanisms to protect people and their land rights and to address historical injustices and the politics of exclusion that are the root causes of conflict. In addition, there are land governance and power relations’ implications, as FFP LA is part of larger UN peace-building programs. This impacts the FFP LA design. The cases discussed are from Darfur/Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Iraq, Jubaland/Somalia, Peru and South Sudan.

scholarly journals Health care workers in conflict and post-conflict settings: Systematic mapping of the evidence

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. e0233757
Author(s):  
Lama Bou-Karroum ◽  
Amena El-Harakeh ◽  
Inas Kassamany ◽  
Hussein Ismail ◽  
Nour El Arnaout ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
Care Workers

scholarly journals Bridging Gaps: From a Descriptive to a Practical Mid-Space Actor Typology?

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Anna Deekeling ◽  
Dahlia Simangan
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Specific Skill ◽  
Favourable Environment ◽  
Bridge Building

AbstractThe concept of hybridity sheds light on the complexity of conflict settings. It helps to analyse the participation of all parties and actors involved and entangled in a social network of normative and political power, while avoiding theoretical binaries that over-simplify the process of post-conflict peacebuilding. What lacks, however, is a practical application of hybridity in peacebuilding that actively engages with bottom/local or grassroots, top/national and international actors through mediation in the mid-space to create sustainable peace. Given this practical shortcoming of hybridity, this chapter examines mid-space actors as gatekeepers and their capacities to enable dialogue among opposing parties. The aim is to offer insights for the international community, as outside intervenors, in promoting the bridge-building potentialities of gatekeepers. Specifically, externally led efforts to engage with the specific skill sets of mid-space local actors are explored. It is argued in this chapter that such engagement provides a favourable environment for sustaining peace by overcoming power struggles in and around the mid-space.

scholarly journals Introducing Jus ante Bellum as a cosmopolitan approach to humanitarian intervention

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 897-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett Wallace Brown ◽  
Alexandra Bohm
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
International Community ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
Public Right

Cosmopolitans often argue that the international community has a humanitarian responsibility to intervene militarily in order to protect vulnerable individuals from violent threats and to pursue the establishment of a condition of cosmopolitan justice based on the notion of a ‘global rule of law’. The purpose of this article is to argue that many of these cosmopolitan claims are incomplete and untenable on cosmopolitan grounds because they ignore the systemic and chronic structural factors that underwrite the root causes of these humanitarian threats. By way of examining cosmopolitan arguments for humanitarian military intervention and how systemic problems are further ignored in iterations of the Responsibility to Protect, this article suggests that many contemporary cosmopolitan arguments are guilty of focusing too narrowly on justifying a responsibility to respond to the symptoms of crisis versus demanding a similarly robust justification for a responsibility to alleviate persistent structural causes. Although this article recognizes that immediate principles of humanitarian intervention will, at times, be necessary, the article seeks to draw attention to what we are calling principles of Jus ante Bellum (right before war) and to stress that current cosmopolitan arguments about humanitarian intervention will remain insufficient without the incorporation of robust principles of distributive global justice that can provide secure foundations for a more thoroughgoing cosmopolitan condition of public right.

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