Humanitarian Intervention

WHY, WHEN & HOW

David Hollenbach November 1, 2010 - 10:43am

In the aftermath of the 1990s genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, an International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty was convened in order to determine the legitimacy of acting across national borders to stop grave human-rights violations. In 2001 the...

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David Hollenbach, SJ, holds the University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College.

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