Classification of Practices of Humanitarian Interventions in the Perspective of 'Ethical / Non-Ethical' : Preparation for "Ethics of Killing"

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870877
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations; Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Nanzan University
• Principal Investigator: OHBA Hirotsugu 南山大学, 社会倫理研究所, 非常勤研究員 (00609795)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 人道的介入 / 保護する責任 / 国連平和維持活動 / 奪命の倫理 / よりマシな悪

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Evaluation of ethical / unethical in humanitarian intervention is not always evaluated as the same as the number of people that could be protected / non-protected. If the humanitarian intervention success, there is no sacrifice of one million people by Genocide, but there is the sacrifice of tens of thousands by intervention. This fact leads the conclusion by common people that "humanitarian intervention caused the sacrifice and such an action was unethical".
As a preparation in order to overcome this aporia, this study had focused on the point of view of people who are beneficiary of humanitarian intervention. By the result of my field survey, the intervened (Congo, former-Yugoslavia) are skeptical about intervention, on the contrary, the non-intervened (Rwanda) are favorable to the intervention. Taking into this given aporia, my next challenge is the "consensus" building to humanitarian intervention by the people to be protected.

Free Research Field

国際政治学