The effectiveness of the use of military force for the purpose of humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect with the prohibition of non-intervention with domestic affairs

Abstract

The subject of this paper is the military intervention for humanitarian purposes in order to stop gross human rights violations. And analysis the debates over its legitimacy and legality. It will examine the relationship between humanitarian intervention and the norm of Responsibility to Protect, as well as the conflicts of military intervention with the principle of prohibiting the use of force and with the principle of noninterference in state affairs. In addition, it will take Libya as a case study regarding the humanitarian military intervention in Libya in 2011, discuss all the implications of the United Nations resolution on military intervention and present a description of different opinions about the legitimacy of this intervention. This paper concludes that humanitarian intervention should be legal and met all the international requirements for taking such an act. Additionally, The international community and the security council should pay more attention to the responsibility to rebuild to achieve the ideal goal of the intervention and maintain real peace in the state after the intervention