This week you will learn about the practice of UN peacekeeping and the controver
This week you will learn about the practice of UN peacekeeping and the controversy surrounding humanitarian interventions. These are interventions undertaken by a state or a group of states in the internal affairs of another state without their consent in order to prevent an atrocity like genocide, ethnic cleansing or war crimes. Opponents of humanitarian interventions argue that they violate the principle of sovereign non-interference and potentially encourage forms of neo-imperialism by the great powers. Proponents argue that the right…