State Sovereignty And Humanitarian Intervention A Reflection On The Nato Intervention In Libya 2011

OSINDE KASISI 77 PAGES (21930 WORDS) Law Dissertation

TABLE OF CONTENT 

2.3 NATO INTERVENTION IN LIBYA ................................................................................... 31

CHAPTER THREE ....................................................................................................... 34

3.0 LEGAL FRAMEWORK ........................................................................................... 34

3.1 The Law on the Use of Force ....................................................................................... 35

3.2 Collective action .......................................................................................................... 36

3.3 Self-defence ............................................................................................................... 36

3.3.1 Pre-emptive force ..................................................................................................... 37

3.4 States sovereignty- the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ...................................................... 38

3.5 STATE RESPONSIBILITY .............................................................................................. 38

3.5.1 Draft Articles ............................................................................................................ 39

3.5.2 Conditions for an act to qualify as internationally wrongful, .......................................... 39

3.5.3 Internationally wrongful acts ..................................................................................... 39

3.5.4 Attribution ............................................................................................................... 40

3.5.5 Consequences of breach ........................................................................................... 41

CHAPTER FOUR ......................................................................................................... 43

4.0 DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS ................................................................ 43

4.1 Does state sovereignty exist in the United Nations organization ...................................... 43

4.2 Did the NATO intervention in Libya violate stated sovereignty ......................................... 44

4.3 Responsibility to protect .............................................................................................. 51

4.4 The challenges to humanitarian intervention ................................................................. 61

CHAPTER FIVE ······································••a••···••aa•a••···················································· 65

5.0 FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ........................................... 65

5.1 Findings ..................................................................................................................... 65

5.2 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 67

5.3 Recommendations ....................................................................................................... 68

BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................ 70