GUIDING QUESTIONS
- Does the international community have a moral obligation to intervene in foreign conflicts and humanitarian crises in order to minimize harm?
- Does the United States have a special responsibility to provide support—or to exercise caution--when engaging in foreign conflicts?
- What concerns or potential consequences must countries and non-state actors consider before intervening (what principles shall guide intervention)?
- What forms of intervention, short of military engagement, are effective at reducing harm from genocide, migration crises, famine, ethnic conflict and genocide? Is military intervention ever an effective response?
Master document for Humanitarian Intervention
What is Humanitarian intervention?
- Getting started: Introduction to Humanitarian Intervention
- Class Notes: Introduction to Humanitarian Intervention
- Debate: Humanitarian Intervention
- The dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention (CFR)
- The moral arguments for intervention? (Foreign Affairs, New Yorker, other)
- Walking a Fine Line: The Pros and Cons of Humanitarian Intervention (CFR)
- International legal frameworks for humanitarian action (Governance and Social Development Resource Centre)
POLICY BRIEF PROJECT
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case study: the rohingya crisis
BACKGROUND
- Reading: Introduction to the Rohingya Crisis (Council for Foreign Relations)
- Note taking: Introduction to the Rohingya Crisis
- Documenting atrocity in Rakhine State:
- The Daily Podcast: Unearthing the Truth in Myanmar
- Case Study#1: Solutions for Intervention
- Principles of Humanitarian Action in Practice (Humanitarian Policy Group)
- Joint Response for Rohingya Crisis
- Refugees International: 5 Priorities
- Policy memo
case study: Uighurs
The World has not stood up to China (The Intelligence/Economist 6/6/20)
case study: YEMEN
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BOSNIA, Rwanda and post-conflict justice
- Defining War Crimes and Genocide
- The Reckoning: A film + resources on the ICC
- There's more to peace than solving violent extremism and Mercy Corps: What we do
BOSNIA
- Speaker questions and reflections: War Crimes Prosecutor
- Bosnia case study note taking handout
- In a divided Bosnia, segregated schools persist (NY Times 12/1/18)
- Background: Bosnia Conflict: Overview and Timeline: Bosnia-Herzegovina (BBC)
- Video: Srebrenica massacre and aftermath (BBC)
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- See page 8: Should we hold trials for war crimes? Maya Graca, 1st prize youth contest in Bosnia and Herzegovina
RWANDA
- Rwanda: Intervention? Note taking handout: Talk on Rwanda
- VIDEO: 'Black Hawk Down' 25 Years later
- TIMELINE: Rwandan history
- Kofi Annan...Rwanda was where he fell short (Tim Longman, Washington Post)
- Coexist: Excellent film; begins with historical background
- Background information (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)