Humanitarian Intervention and the UN and NATO

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In this world conflict and crisis are constant occurrences within and among nations. With the variety of cultural differences, it is common for disagreements to start out as just small arguments and soon becoming wars. When something happens in a country and it starts to get out of control, attention from those who can help is needed. Ideas such as the UN and NATO have been in existence to attempt to help resolve conflicts and crises. It is also a way to unite countries by making stronger alliances and helping to support and protect each other. Humanitarian intervention has been known for both positive and negative effects and definitely has its pros and cons. The strategic efforts of humanitarian intervention are inoperative because the efforts are not heartfelt but are only done to keep their own citizens from becoming obstreperous.
The whole purpose of the UN is to have a strong international force to help make the world a safer place by providing a way to bring justice and peace to the world. When a country is in need of an intervention in the midst of their crisis, the UN decides on how they will intervene. Similar to the UN, NATO’s whole purpose is to protect its member’s freedom and security by means of political and military means. Both of these have great purpose and have been fairly successful at times but they have faced some issues. In 1998, President Milosevic of Serbia was plotting attacks with hope of “cleansing the Serb homeland of its Albanian interlopes in a matter of weeks” (Jones 329). European countries then released the Kosovo Verification Commission to help ceasefire between KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and the Serbian paramilitaries who had already murdered masses of Kosovo men. Western countries that wer...

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... if they only intervene for themselves or if they avoid the issues. It is time for humanitarian intervention to take the next step. The only way to achieve their goals of world peace and justice to all is to take action in the right way with the right means.

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