Hard Choices Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention

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• ISBN13: 9780847690312
• ISBN10: 0847690318
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-19
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. More attention must be paid to the complexity of issues and moral dilemmas involved. This volume of original essays by international policy leaders, practitioners, and scholars brings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in different kinds of interventions ranging from Rwanda and Somalia to Haiti, Cambodia, and Bosnia. Together the authors make the case that moral reflection and content can improve the quality of decisionmaking and intervention in internal conflicts, especially those that involve sanctions, refugees, human rights, development, and arms. Published under the auspices of The International Committee of the Red Cross.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
From War and Peace to Violence and Intervention: Permanent Moral Dilemmas under Changing Political and Technological Conditions	p. 9
Military Intervention and National Sovereignty: Recasting the Relationship	p. 29
Peacekeeping, Military Intervention, and National Sovereignty in Internal Armed Conflict	p. 55
The End of Innocence: Rwanda 1994	p. 71
Mixed Intervention in Somalia and the Great Lakes: Culture, Neutrality, and the Military	p. 87
Military-Humanitarian Ambiguities in Haiti	p. 99
Weaving a New Society in Cambodia: The Story of Monath	p. 119
"You Save My Life Today, But for What Tomorrow?" Some Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid	p. 137
Hard Choices after Genocide: Human Rights and Political Failures in Rwanda	p. 157
Refugee Camps, Population Transfers, and NGOs	p. 177
Bringing War Criminals to Justice during an Ongoing War	p. 195
Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of Human Rights Violations and War Crimes	p. 211
The Morality of Sanctions	p. 229
Moving in Vicious Circles: The Moral Dilemmas of Arms Transfers and Weapons Manufacture	p. 251
A Future, If One Is Still Alive: The Challenge of the HIV Epidemic	p. 269
The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid	p. 287
Index	p. 303
About the Authors	p. 317
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