humanitarian intervention

(noun)

Deployment of army personnel for humanitarian motivated goals.

Related Terms

  • human rights
  • USAID

Examples of humanitarian intervention in the following topics:

  • International Humanitarian Policies and Foreign Aid

    • Humanitarian policies are ostensibly intended to help other countries, and include human rights policies, aid, and interventions.
    • International humanitarian interventions are military or non-military interventions into another country to halt widespread violence or war.
    • In this humanitarian intervention, NATO forces intervened in Kosovo.
    • Humanitarian interventions are frequently controversial, and the motives of the intervening force are often called into question.
    • Analyze the emergence and justification for humanitarian intervention in world politics
  • Humanitarian Efforts

    • Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
    • Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
    • The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity.
    • The funding and delivery of humanitarian aid has become increasingly international in scope.
    • With humanitarian aid efforts sometimes criticized for a lack of transparency, the humanitarian community has initiated a number of inter-agency initiatives to improve its accountability, quality and performance.
  • Hoover and the Limits of Individualism

    • Hoover saw volunteerism as preferable to governmental coercion or intervention, both of which he felt opposed the American ideals of individualism and self-reliance.
    • Providing large-scale humanitarian efforts, Hoover feared, would injure "the initiative and enterprise of the American people. " Unfortunately, this approach had little effect, and the economy continued to suffer for years.
    • Analyze the relationship between Hoover's "rugged individualism" and his understanding of government intervention in the national economy
  • The Promotion of Global Human Rights

    • While the recent intervention in Libya may show how far the United States has come, the situation in Syria may shows how much more work needs to be done.
    • Derian as Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and in August 1977, had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State.
  • UN Intervention

  • Foreign Intervention in Korea

  • Farm Policy of the 20th Century

    • Widespread government intervention in the farm economy began in 1929, when President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) created the federal Farm Board.
    • Humanitarians saw the program as a way for America to share its abundance.
  • The Debate over American Imperialism

    • The anti-imperialists opposed the expansion because they believed imperialism violated the credo of republicanism, especially the need for "consent of the governed. " They did not oppose expansion on commercial, constitutional, religious, or humanitarian grounds; rather they believed that annexation and administration of 3rd world tropical areas would mean the abandonment of American ideals of self-government and isolation—ideals expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence, George Washington's Farewell Address and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
    • Despite its anti-war record, the League did not object to U.S. entry into World War I (though several individual members did oppose intervention).
  • Confederate Diplomacy

    • Despite the Confederacy's efforts at diplomacy, the European states in large part refused to recognize or aid the Confederacy, for a combination of economic and humanitarian reasons.
    • After the war with the United States began, the Confederacy pinned its hopes for survival on military intervention by Britain and France.
  • Foreign Policies

    • Derian as Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and in August of 1977, he had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State.
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