Sentences with phrase «international intervention»

Likewise, where countries are not immediately open — allowing international intervention in an outbreak — the consequences could be dire.

It would be highly irresponsible to conduct a massive international intervention on our planet without being virtually certain there would be no side effects making the cure worse than the disease.

My own fieldwork from Gulu suggests that whatever the intentions might be of interveners, their presence is not conceived or evaluated in the manner critical scholarship discerns, begging many questions on our understanding of the role of international intervention in the politics of building peace.

Early in 2001 an international commission of experts submitted a policy paper to the UN titled «The Responsibility to Protect,» which made the case for international intervention in cases of human rights violations and humanitarian emergencies.

A group of Christians in the North, under the aegis of Arewa Christians and Indigenous Pastors Association, has called on Nigerians to rescue the country from President Muhammadu Buhari's «bad leadership» The group is also seeking international intervention to save Nigerians from President Buhari's grip.

Arms embargoes, trade sanctions, the severing of transportation, sports, fiscal and cultural links and divestment rules that prohibited businesses from doing business in South Africa were examples of international intervention about apartheid.

There are concerns, however, that further international intervention risks a confrontation between Russia and the United States.

Meanwhile, an Indonesian government reluctant to confront the extremists is refusing to allow international intervention.

And where does the U.S. or international intervention end?

First international intervention, particularly if intended to bring about an epistemological or cultural shift may, in some contexts, have negligible impact.

By jettisoning the liberal - illiberal binary and giving international intervention only its due attention, it may be possible to consider a network of fluid and multifaceted «international - local» interactions, much like Frederick Cooper has analysed colonial - subject relations during the imperial era.

If international intervention has a limited place in moulding popular discourses, there is a need to question the extent to which we unduly privilege studying interveners and instead turn towards a nuanced and fine - grained analysis focusing on the inhabitants of war - affected regions, with only proportionate attention to international actors.

Though these observations are preliminary at best, and may indicate little more than the fact that Uganda has not seen international intervention on the same scale as DRC, Bosnia or Afghanistan, they elicit several conclusions that beg further consideration.

Significantly, the intimation that international intervention propounded a specific narrative of the conflict that lends legitimacy to Museveni's regime may be true, but it was evident that such a discourse did not gain traction across society.

One trend was particularly evident: no one I spoke to equated international intervention with the work of peacebuilding or human rights NGOs.

The Bosnian War had raged from 1992 to 1995, and had stopped only after the NATO led an air campaign against the Serbian backed facted, and that only after a more moderate international intervention by the United Nation peacekeeping forces failed to stop the fighting and the massacres.

The prime minister's comments were rejected by Dr James Smith, chief executive of the anti-genocide Aegis Group, who called for much greater international intervention into Darfur.

On good neighborliness on the continent, President Mahama called for unity among all African countries to solve their common challenges without attracting international interventions.

«This self - serving stance ultimately blocked all beneficial bilateral engagements that could have helped secure the much needed international interventions in those critical areas.

The Today programme's Tom Bateman tries to understand what Syrians think about possible international intervention in their country, from an ice cream seller to a student.

The Liberian war ended with the ECOWAS - led international intervention.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

Sir Aaronson is Co-Director of cii, the Centre for International Intervention at the University of Surrey, and former head of Save the Children UK.

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Atiku urged President Goodluck Jonathan to seek international intervention to end the Boko Haram insurgency

Relief workers from all organizations were caught in a nightmare of warring factions and bloodshed that led most of them to call for international intervention.

International intervention in war - affected regions is the subject of much academic attention.

After the UN's massive failure to intervene and stop the Rwandan genocide in 1994, there was a new wave of momentum in global NGOs and states to establish some principle of international intervention and to bring perpetrators to justice.

The international intervention is a defeat for the Libyan revolution because the insurgents have had to seek protection... from those same international powers that up until yesterday had done business with Gaddafi over oil and stopping the movement of migrants.

In Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention: Strategic, Ethico - Legal and Decisional Implications, edited by Mike Aaronson, Wali Aslam, Tom Dyson and Regina Rauxloh: Routledge, 2014.

With no international intervention, Syrian civilians on all sides of the conflict will be thrown back on the usual options in most wars — their own initiative, luck, local military protection and humanitarian action.

This suggests that international intervention to support democracy should seek to marry projects that build legislative capacity with opportunistic engagement around key issues.

This was particularly evident in the many voices calling for greater, even militarized, international intervention; as one woman implored me «take the right information from us to the international community so we can also be assisted in the best way possible, we need a change in the government just like what happened in Iraq and Libya.»

Britain's leading politicians have united behind the most significant decision to use the UK military in an international intervention since the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Superman is also a little like America in terms of international intervention: He requires you to trust that his actions are all in the interest of the greater good — because what are you going to do, fight the guy?

But they also suggest the possibility that government and international intervention had the effect of crowding out private enterprise.

He has taught couple therapy, psychopathology, international intervention, and trauma and attachment disorders His other areas of clinical expertise include the emotional aspects of attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities.