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United States Military Involvement in Somalia after 1992
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| Nr. | Sadaļas nosaukums | Lpp. |
| 1. | Introduction | 3 |
| 1. | Background | 4 |
| 2. | What is humanitarian intervention? | 4 |
| a) | Lawfulness of Humanitarian intervention | 5 |
| b) | The Ethics on Humanitarian Intervention | 7 |
| 3. | Somalia in Cold-War era | 8 |
| 4. | Somali Civil War | 9 |
| 5. | Operations | 9 |
| a) | Operation Provide Relief | 10 |
| b) | Operation Restore Hope | 11 |
| c) | Operation Continue Hope | 11 |
| 6. | US in Somalia | 11 |
| 7. | Conclusions | 16 |
7. CONCLUSIONS
In my own simple words humanitarian intervention is military process aimed to protect citizens of another state, in case of human right violations. Many scholars have offered their own definition, but there still are not any right one, because of interpretation of word humanitarian and intervention.
Oxford dictionary states that humanitarian is concerned with seeking to promote human welfare. The main question is – what is the right way to accomplish this welfare? Is the right way to send humanitarian aid with food, water, and other essential necessities for living or is it military help, what, basically mean, fighting for citizens against their own state? In this case humanitarian intervention was a little bit from both – US sent humanitarian aid to people, provided them with shelters and safety at the same time fighting for them.
And what does the intervention mean? Again, by Oxford dictionary intervention means simply intervening in other states affairs. And there also can be interpretation in what affairs exactly intervening is aimed at? In economic affairs, by, for example, promoting sustainable economic growth, or in harsher way, by transforming whole government. In this case US, for example, when embassy of United States in Somali was left empty and all the officials left with their families and colleagues. They never formally suspended their relations, but there was silence between them and that also somehow changed processes in Somalia. At that time there were no intervention, but when United State official offered their help by providing humanitarian aid, intervention from their side begun.…
US Military Involvement in Somalia after 1992: a case of humanitarian intervention? Hypothesis – United States intervention in Somalia were humanitarian not driven by material self-interest. Aim – to clarify what is humanitarian intervention and how United States intervened Somalia is considered as the most dangerous place in the World and has topped Foreign Policy’s Failed State Index. Civil war begun more than 20 years ago and people has suffered from famine since more than half century ago. It has gone through power of democracy and totalitarianism, rule of France, Italy and Britain, supported both by United States and Soviet Union at the Cold War era, still is fighting through nature disasters and protecting itself from neighbors.
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