| Description |
xiii, 322 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Cornelio Sommaruga -- Introduction / Jonathan Moore -- 1. From War and Peace to Violence and Intervention: Permanent Moral Dilemmas under Changing Political and Technological Conditions / Pierre Hassner -- 2. Military Intervention and National Sovereignty: Recasting the Relationship / J. Bryan Hehir -- 3. Peacekeeping, Military Intervention, and National Sovereignty in Internal Armed Conflict / Kofi A. Annan -- 4. The End of Innocence: Rwanda 1994 / Romeo A. Dallaire -- 5. Mixed Intervention in Somalia and the Great Lakes: Culture, Neutrality, and the Military / Mohamed Sahnoun -- 6. Military-Humanitarian Ambiguities in Haiti / Colin Granderson -- 7. Weaving a New Society in Cambodia: The Story of Monath / Mu Sochua -- 8. "You Save My Life Today, But for What Tomorrow?" Some Moral Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid / Mary B. Anderson -- 9. Hard Choices after Genocide: Human Rights and Political Failures in Rwanda / Ian Martin |
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10. Refugee Camps, Population Transfers, and NGOs / Rony Brauman -- 11. Bringing War Criminals to Justice during an Ongoing War / Richard J. Goldstone -- 12. Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of Human Rights Violations and War Crimes / Jose Zalaquett -- 13. The Morality of Sanctions / Larry Minear -- 14. Moving in Vicious Circles: The Moral Dilemmas of Arms Transfers and Weapons Manufacture / Roger Williamson -- 15. A Future, If One Is Still Alive: The Challenge of the HIV Epidemic / Elizabeth Reid -- 16. The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid / Michael Ignatieff |
| Summary |
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, and military and civilian agencies alike find themselves in the midst of confusion and weakness where what they seek are clarity and stability. Competing needs, rights, and values can obscure even the best international efforts to quell violence and assuage crises of poverty. More attention must be paid to the complexity of issues and moral dilemmas involved. This volumebrings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in different kinds of interventions. Although there are no easy answers, moral reflection and content can improve the quality of decision making and intervention in internal conflicts |
| Notes |
"Under the Auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Canberra Defence Reference |
| Subject |
Humanitarian assistance -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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War victims -- Services for -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Humanitarian assistance.
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War victims -- Services for.
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| Author |
Moore, Jonathan, 1932-2017.
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International Committee of the Red Cross.
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| LC no. |
98019157 |
| ISBN |
084769030X : |
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0847690318 : |
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