dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Philips, Jos | |
dc.contributor.author | Impelen, N.H. van | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-05T17:04:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-05T17:04:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/27371 | |
dc.description.abstract | How can the
international community overcome objections to humanitarian intervention in cases of
genocide? In this thesis I will attempt to link non-interventionism to radical relativism, a moral theory
that considers the culture of an ethnic group the sole source of the validity of a moral right
or rule. The argument goes that, as culture decides morality and cultural beliefs differ from
society to society, genocide cannot be considered universally morally wrong.The extreme implication would be that even in cases of genocide
outside actors lack the moral authority to intervene in the domestic affairs of societies. Starting for an overview on the history of non-interventionism, I will link the non-intervention norm to cultural relativism via the right to self-determination,
another important norm in international relations. In examining the moral
underpinnings of this right to self-determination I will conclude that they are based in radical
relativism. Then, in order to overcome relativist objections to outside interference in internal
affairs of societies I will attempt to provide a value-free approach to justifying intervention in
cases of genocide, with the purpose of providing an argument for intervening forces to
sidestep the non-intervention norm. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 835293 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | In Search of a Value-Free Justification for Intervention in Cases of Genocide: Overcoming Issues of Relativism and National Self-Determination | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | relativism, genocide, humanitarian intervention, non-internventionism, human rights, right to self-determination, R2P | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Applied Ethics | |