Case Study

The UN’s ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) doctrine is the enabling principle that first obligates individual states and then the international community to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. It gives the power and justification to countries for carrying out armed humanitarian interventions in other countries in order to protect foreign country natives from atrocities. India is actively involved in UN Peacekeeping Operations and contributes its troops for such UN mandated humanitarian interventions (UN intervention in Mali in 2014).

Q. Highlight the ethical issues involved in such interventions. Do you think such interventions and India’s support ....