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That is to complement the UN's justification for intervention in another country's affairs under the rubric "Responsibility to Protect" with "Responsibility while Protecting" after it has gone in.
There obviously are humanitarian issues of concern to all, but they usually offer a terrible justification for intervention and war.
While this was used as George W. Bush's supposed justification for intervention in Iraq, he overlooked the fact that when his father was vice president under Reagan, their administration continued to support Saddam Hussein as he gassed the Kurds in 1988.
Given the levels of acute malnutrition seen in the population in the months leading up to the program, there was clear justification for intervention.
QI evaluations have been criticised based on numerous criteria beyond the risk of bias domains, including short duration of intervention, lack of justification for intervention design and poor generalisability.
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When I ask about the speech, he says, "I personally think the best justification for interventions there [Iraq] and elsewhere is the need to get rid of dictators.
When seen from a population-based perspective that counts the number of lives saved, paternalism becomes a plausible justification for interventions that do not pose a truly significant burden on individual liberty, but go a long way towards safeguarding the health and well-being of the populace.
The recognition of the increased costs within the VHA's integrated system due to unmet health literacy needs provides the justification for interventions within and beyond the VHA system to reduce costs associated with patients' unmet health literacy needs.
However, justifications for intervention must now be done on universal, "humanitarian" grounds instead of the "white man's burden".
A list of other potential justifications for interventions, ranging from agglomeration economies to network effects, can be found, for instance, in Kline and Moretti (2013a) and Neumark and Simpson (2014).
Nor do I think much of the so-called "responsibility to protect" as a justification for humanitarian intervention, not least because the evidence that such interventions actually save lives in the aggregate is relatively weak: They're just as likely to embolden outgunned rebellions and accelerate attacks on civilians by the government being targeted.
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