Transforming Humanitarian Intervention from an Expedient Accident to a Categorical Imperative

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Mirko Bagaric

Director of the Evidence-Based Sentencing and Criminal Justice Project, Swinburne University Law School

John R. Morss

Deakin University, Geelong, Australia - Deakin Law School

Date Written: 2005

Abstract

History, even if one focuses on the past fifty years, is replete with almost countless instances of preventable mass killings of people at the hands of their own government. In nearly all cases, the rest of the world has stood idly by, sometimes apparently frozen into inaction. Wealthy nations have remained deliberately ignorant of events, their citizens glued to MTV or the next major sporting event. Despite their power, these nations consistently fail to intervene militarily in order to bring a quick end to government-sponsored mass killings.

Suggested Citation

Bagaric, Mirko and Morss, John R., Transforming Humanitarian Intervention from an Expedient Accident to a Categorical Imperative (2005). Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2725732

Mirko Bagaric (Contact Author)

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John R. Morss

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