Cingitaş , Aytek

Violations of human rights to justify intervention on the basis of the responsibility to protect (R2P) Cingitaş , Aytek

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 8 / 10, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, language: English, abstract: In this essay, I will try to find an answer to the question; "Do violations of human rights justify intervention on the basis of the responsibility to protect? In what cases?" with a specific focus on NATO intervention to Kosovo that took place in 1999. In the first part of the paper, I will analyze the history, development, principles and background of Responsibility Protect principle (R2P in short) in a summary. In the second part of the paper, I will show the reader at which cases (when) this principle may be justified by human rights violations. In this part, I will mainly analyze which level of human rights violations should be present in order to justify a military intervention as a part of R2P. In the third part of the paper, I will study on 1999 NATO intervention to Kosovo as a case study and I will try to find an answer to the question; "Was 1999 NATO intervention to Kosovo an example of R2P?"