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Philosophy

The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect

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The Responsibility to Protect was adopted unanimously by the UN in 2005, but it has been invoked only a few times, and its record is highly controversial—as in Libya in 2011, where intervention led to regime change.

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Imagine a state is slaughtering its own citizens. Should other nations use force to stop it? This is the pressing ethical question behind humanitarian intervention.