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Humanitarian Success Post Bellum

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The likelihood of success criterion makes armed humanitarian action politically and morally prohibitive. Yet, the just war tradition is designed to confront egregious moral evils. To help reconcile these tensions, this essay questions the applicability of the success principle to armed humanitarian intervention. This questioning provokes reflection on how the just war theory’s high threshold for success can rarely be achieved in the direct aftermath of humanitarian interventions. A low likelihood of success post bellum leads to the suggestion that the full demands of just war theory’s tranquilitas ordinis definition of peace ought not to be required in the aftermath of armed humanitarian intervention. Guaranteed failure may be a more useful criterion than likelihood of success for interventions aimed at ending acute state-sponsored human rights atrocities.

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  • Rebecca Munson, 2024. "Humanitarian Success Post Bellum," The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 51-60, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rfiaxx:v:22:y:2024:i:2:p:51-60
    DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2024.2335075
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