ABSTRACT

TITLE: SCOPE OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION UNDER

INTERNATIONAL LAW: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SYRIAN
CRISIS

Key words: Humanitarian intervention, responsibility to protect, Syria, United Nations

Security Council, human rights

The protection of basic human rights has remained one of the most pressing and yet elusive
goals of the international community. Though fashioned to counter one of the most insidious
dangers that threaten the very foundation of modern-day international order, the number of
deaths related to armed conflict and the collateral damage caused by international warfare has
remained frightening. With the demise of Ghaddaffi, world attention shifted to Syria,
especially as it concerns intervention to put a stop to the protracted killings and the human
rights violations as a result of the heavy clamp down on citizens by the Assad regime.
However, the inability of the international community to effectively respond to the Syria
crisis through the humanitarian intervention responsibility to protect doctrine and the
geopolitics between the United States, Russia and China mean that a dangerous stalemate
remains in the Syria crisis. The researcher argues that for the responsibility to protect to
silence its critics, world leaders need to agree on a common ground for the protection of
civilians through a strict monitoring and evaluation of the intervention process and the actors
involved, enforcing an arms embargo, and committing to support local cease fires.

LOKACHARI TEJASRI

BC0140034

3rd YEAR B.COM LLB (Hons.)