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Site of the French organization Doctors without Borders, that pioneered the idea of a right to humanitarian intervention in the 1960's.
In December 1991, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 46/182, designed to strengthen the United Nation's response to both complex emergencies and natural disasters. In addition it aimed at improving the overall effectiveness of the UN's humanitarian operations in the field.
Aeberhard, Patrick. "A Historical Survey of Humanitarian Action," Health and Human Rights, 2, 1 (1996): 30.
Africa Rights. "Humanitarianism Unbound? Current
Dilemmas Facing Multi-Mandate Relief Operations in Political Emergencies,"
Discussion Paper, 5, London (November 1994).
Andreopoulos, George J. "Refining War: Civil Wars
and Humanitarian Controls," Human Rights Quarterly, 18, 4
(November, 1996): 747-781.
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BBC. "Article 28: Right to social
and international order permitting these freedoms to be realised,"
Case study analyzing practical application and the historical context
of article 28 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), many
useful terms and examples.
Available at (12-12-2003): http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/ihavearightto/four_b/casestudy_art28.shtml
Bettati, Mario . "The Right of Humanitarian Intervention
or the Right of Free Access to Victims?" International Commission
of Jurists: The Review, 49 (1992): 1-11 .
Bok, Sissela. "Complex Humanitarian Emergencies:
Moral Quandaries," Medicine and Global Survival, 1, 3 (1994):
220-228 .
DeMars, William. "Mercy Without Illusion: Humanitarian
Action in Conflict," Mershon International Studies Review: Supplement
to the International Studies Quarterly, 40, 1 (1996): 81-89 .
De Waal, Alex and Rakiya Omaar. "Can Military Intervention be"Humanitarian"?," Middle East Report, 41, 2-3 (1994): 3-8.
Donini, Antonio. "Beyond Neutrality: On the Compatibility
of Military Intervention and Humanitarian Assistance," The Fletcher
Forum of World Affairs, 19, 2 (1995): 31-45.
Duffield, Mark. "Complex Emergencies and the Crisis
of Developmentalism," IDS Bulletin, 25, 4 (1994): 37-45 .
Available at (5-6-2005):
http://www.disaster-info.net/LIDERES/english/jamaica/bibliography/GeertHaeghebert_ComplexEmer
genciesandIHL/MarkDuffield_UniversityofBirmingham_Complex%20Emergencies.pdf
Duffield, Mark. "The Symphony of the Damned: Racial
Discourse, Complex Political Emergencies and Humanitarian Aid," Disasters,
20, 3 (1996): 173-193.
Ebersole, Jon. "The Mohonk Criteria for Humanitarian
Assistance in Complex Emergencies," Human Rights Quarterly,
17, 1 (1995): 192-208.
Edkins, Jenny. "Legality with a Vengeance: Famines
and Human Relief in 'Complex Emergencies'," Millenium, 25,
3 (1996): 547-575.
Falck, Hans S. "Reaction Paper: Medical Humanitarianism
and Human Rights; Reflections on Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of
the World," (comment on article by R. Fox in this issue, p. 1607)
Social Science & Medicine, 41, 11 (December, 1995): 1621-1622.
Falk Richard. "The Failures of Intervention From
Above: Is there an Alternative Model for Humanitarian Intervention?,"
Medicine and Global Survival, 1, 4 (1994): 229-233.
Farer, Tom J. "Intervention in Unnatural Humanitarian
Emergencies: Lessons of the First Phase,"
Human Rights Quarterly, 18, 1, (February, 1996): 1-22.
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Farer, Tom J. "The Ethics of Intervention in Self-determination
Struggles," Human Rights Quarterly, 25, 2 (May, 2003): 382-406.
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Gillespie, Thomas. "Unwanted Responsibility: Humanitarian Intervention to Advance Human Rights," Peace and Change, 18, 3 (1993): 219-246.
Gómez-Robledo Verduzco, Alonso. "Jurisdicción
Interna, Principio de no Intervención y Derecho de Injerencia Humanitaria,"
Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, 26, 76 (Enero-Abril,
1993): 79-97.
Available at (1-10-2005): http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/publica/librev/rev/boletin/cont/76/art/art3.pdf
Helton, Arthur C. "Forced Migration, Humanitarian
Intervention, and Sovereignty," SAIS Review, 20, 1 (Winter-Spring,
2000): 61-86.
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Helton, Arthur C. and Robert P. DeVecchi. "Human
Rights, Humanitarian Intervention & Sanctions," Council on Foreign
Relations.
Available at (12-12-2003): http://www.foreignpolicy2000.org/library/issuebriefs/IBHumanRights.html
Hoffman, Stanley. "The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention,"
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Working
Paper Series, 2 (1992)
Howland, Todd. "Mirage, Magic, or Mixed Bag? The
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' Field Operation in
Rwanda," Human Rights Quarterly, 21, 1 (February, 1999): 1-55.
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Kent, Ann E. "China and the International Human Rights
Regime: A Case Study of Multilateral Monitoring, 1989-1999," Human
Rights Quarterly, 17, 1 (February, 1995): 1-47.
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Lewy, Guenter. "The Case for Humanitarian Intervention,"
Orbis, 37, 4 (1993): 621-632.
Mandelbaum, Michael. "Foreign Policy as Social Work,"
Foreign Affairs, 74, 1 (1996):16-32.
Maxwell, Simon and Margaret Buchanan-Smith. "Linking
Relief and Development," IDS Bulletin, 25, 4 (1994): 2-16.
Monshipouri, Mahmood. "The Search for International
Human Rights and Justice: Coming to Terms with the New Global Realities,"
Human Rights Quarterly, 23, 2 (May, 2001): 370-401
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Pease, Kelly Kate and Forsythe, David P. "Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and World Politics," Human Rights Quarterly, 15, 2 (1993): 290-314.
Rakiya, Omar and Alex de Waal. "Humanitarianism Unbound?
Current Dilemmas facing Multi-Mandate Relief Operations in Political Emergencies,"
Discussion Paper, 5, Africa Rights, 1994.
Rieff, David. "The Humanitarian Trap," World
Policy Journal, 12, 4 (1995-96): 1-11.
Roberts, Adam. "Humanitarian War: Military Intervention
and Human Rights," International Affairs, 69, 3 (1993): 429-449.
Sandoz, Yves. "Droit or Devoir d'Ingerence and the
Right to Assistance: The Issues Involved," International Commission
of Jurists: The Review, 49 (1992): 12-22. Also available at: International
Review of the Red Cross, 28 (1992): 215-227.
Available at (5-10-2005): http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList141/29D09E1A0194B749C1256B66005912BC
Shotwell, Charles B. and Kimberly Thachuk. "Humanitarian
Intervention: The Case for Legitimacy," National Defense University,
Institute for National Strategic Studies (1999).
Available at (03-05-05):
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/strforum/SF166/forum166.html
Smith, Michael. "Humanitarian Intervention Revisited," Harvard International Review, 22, 3 (Fall, 2000): 72-76.
Tanja, Gerard J. "Humanitarian Intervention and Humanitarian Assistance: An Echo from the Past and a Prospect for the Future," Law in Humanitarian Crises, 2 (1995): 67-96.
Tharoor, Shashi and Sam Daws. "Humanitarian Intervention: Getting Past the Reefs," World Policy Journal, 18, 2 (Summer, 2001): 21-30.
Torrelli, Maurice. "From Humanitarian Assistance
to 'Intervention on Humanitarian Grounds'," International Review
of the Red Cross, (May-June, 1992): 228-248.
Warner, Daniel. "An Ethic of Responsibility in International
Relations and the Limits of Responsibility/Community," Alternatives,
18 (1993): 431-452.
Warner, Daniel. "Levinas, Buber and the Concept of
Otherness in International Relations: A Reply to David Campbell,"
Alternatives, 25, 1 (1996): 111-128.
Walzer, Michael. "The Argument about Humanitarian
Intervention," Dissent, 49, 1 (Winter, 2002).
Available at (5-10-2005): http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/archives/2002/wi02/walzer_hum.shtml
Walzer, Michael. "The Politics of Rescue," Dissent,
42, 1 (1995): 35-41.
Weiss, Thomas. "Researching Humanitarian Intervention:
Some Lessons," Journal of Peace Research, 38, 4 (July, 2001):
419-428.
Weiss, Thomas. "Triage: Humanitarian Interventions in a New Era," World Policy Journal, 11, 1 (1994): 59-68.
Williams, Bernard. "Is International Rescue a Moral Issue?," Social Research, 62, 1 (Spring, 1995): 67-75.
Zalewski, Marysia. "All These Theories yet the Bodies Keep Piling Up: Theories, Theorists and Theorising," in Steve Smith, Ken Booth, and Marysia Zalewski, (eds.), International Theory: Positivism and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
Bhatia, Michael V. War and Intervention: Issues for Contemporary Peace Operations, Kumarian Press, Inc., Bloomfield, CT, USA, 2003.
Cahill, Kevin, (ed.). A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights,
and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters, Basic Books,
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, USA, 1993.
Chatterjee, Deen K. and Don E. Scheid. Ethics and Foreign Intervention, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 2003.
Chesterman, Simon. Just War or Just Peace: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2002.
Clarke, Walter and Jeffrey Herbst, (eds.). Learning from Somalia: the Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1997.
Clarke, Walter. Somalia and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention, Princeton University, Center of International Studies, Princeton, N.J., USA, 1995.
Crawford, Neta. Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization and Humanitarian Intervention, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 2002.
Damrosch, Lori Fisler, (ed.). Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts, Council on Foreign Relations Press, New York, USA, 1993.
Davis, Michael C., [et al.] (eds.). International Intervention in
the Post-Cold War World: Moral Responsibility and Power Politics,
Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, N.Y., USA, 2004.
DiPrizio, Robert C. Armed Humanitarians: U.S. Interventions from Northern Iraq to Kosovo, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, 2002.
Finnemore, Martha. The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force, Cornell University Press, USA, 2003.
Garrett, Stephen A. Doing Good and Doing Well: An Examination of Humanitarian Intervention, Praeger, Westport, CT, USA, 1999.
Gordon, D.S. and F.H.Toase. Aspects of Peacekeeping, Frank Cass, London, 2001.
Harriss, John. The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention, Pinter,
New York, USA, 1995.
Hawk, Kathleen Hill. Constructing the Stable State: Goals for Intervention and Peacekeeping, Praeger, Westport, CT, USA, 2002.
Heiberg, Marianne, (ed.). Subduing Sovereignty: Sovereignty and the
Right to Intervene, St. Martins Press, NY, USA, 1994.
Hironaka, Ann. Neverending Wars: The International Community, Weak States, and the Perpetuation of Civil War, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2005.
Hoffmann, Stanley, (ed.). The Ethics and Politics of Intervention, University of Notre Dame, 1996.
Holzgrefe, J.L. and Robert O. Keohane, (eds.). Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dillemmas, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2003.
Hopkinson, Nicholas. Humanitarian Intervention?, HMSO, London,
UK, 1995.
Independent International Commission on Kosovo. The Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2000.
Jokic, Aleksandar, (ed.). Humanitarian Intervention: Moral and Philosophical Issues, Broadview Press, Ontario, 2003.
Lang, Anthony F., (ed.). Just Intervention, Georgetown University Press, Washington D.C., USA, 2003.
Laremont, Ricardo René. The Causes of War and the Consequences of Peacekeeping in Africa, Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, USA, 2002.
Lepard, Brian D. Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions, Pennsylvania University Press, University Park, PA, USA, 2002.
Lewer, Nick and Oliver Ramsbotham. "Something Must Be Done":
Towards an Ethical Framework for Humanitarian Intervention in International
Social Conflict, University of Bradford, Dept. of Peace Studies, West
Yorkshire, UK, 1993.
Lewis, Ioan. M. Making History in Somalia: Humanitarian Intervention
in a Stateless Society, Centre for the Study of Global Governance,
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 1993.
Lyons, Gene M. and Michael Mastunduno. Beyond Westphalia?: State Sovereignty and International Intervention, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA, 1995.
Macrae, Joanna and Anthony Zwi. War and Hunger: Rethinking International
Responses to Complex Emergencies, Zed Books, London, UK, 1994.
Makinda, Samuel M. Seeking Peace from Chaos: Humanitarian Intervention
in Somalia, L. Rienner, Boulder, Colorado, 1993.
Maren, Michael. The Road to Hell. The Ravaging Effects of Foreign
Aid and International Charity, Free Press, New York, USA, 1997.
Mercier, Michele. Crimes Without Punishment. Humanitarian Action in
Former Yugoslavia, Pluto Press, London, UK, 1994.
Mills, Nicolaus and Kira Brunner, (eds.). The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of International Intervention, Basic Books, New York, UK, 2002.
Minear, Larry and Thomas Weiss. Mercy under Fire: War and the Global
Humanitarian Community, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1995.
Minear, Larry and Thomas Weiss. Humanitarian Politics, Foreign
Policy Association, New York, USA, 1995.
Murphy, Sean D. Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an
Evolving World Order, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia,
USA, 1996.
O'Halloran, Patrick J. Humanitarian Intervention and the Genocide
in Rwanda, Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism,
London, UK, 1995.
O'Hanlon, Michael E. Expanding Global Military Capacity for Humanitarian Intervention, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., USA, 2003.
Prins, Gwyn. The Heart of War: On Power, Conflict and Obligation in the Twenty-first Century, Routledge, London, 2002.
Phillips, Robert L. and Duane L. Cady. Humanitarian Intervention:
Just War vs. Pacifism, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., USA,
1996.
Ramsbotham, Oliver and Tom Woodhouse. Humanitarian Intervention in
Contemporary Conflict : A Reconceptualization, Polity Press, Cambridge,
1996.
Rathbun, Brian C. Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, USA, 2004.
Robinson, William. Promoting Polyarchy. Globalization, US Intervention,
and Hegemony, Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1996.
Sarooshi, Danesh. Humanitarian Intervention and International Humanitarian
Assistance: Law and Practice, HMSO, London, 1994.
Scheffer, David, Richard N. Gardner, and Gerald B. Helman. Post - Gulf War Challenges to the UN Collective Security System: Three Views on the Issue of Humanitarian Intervention, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, USA, 1992.
Solomon, Peter H. Jr. and Todd S. Foglesong. Courts and Transition
in Russia. The Challenge of Judicial Reform, Westview Press, Boulder,
CO, USA, 2000.
Teson, Fernando R. Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law
and Morality, Transnational Publishers, Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA,
1988.
Weiss, Thomas George. Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention: World Politics and the Dilemmas of Help, Boulder, Westview Press, Colorado, USA, 1996.
Weiss, Thomas George. Military-civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2005.
Wheeler, Nicholas J. Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
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