Article Title

Reforming Humanitarian Rescue

Authors

Brent J. Steele, University of Kansas

Abstract

There is much to commend in Morton Abramowitz and Thomas Pickering’s article “Making Intervention Work.” They propose to reform the United Nations’ capacity for intervention with the creation of an autonomous U.N. force largely constituted with forces contributed by the Security Council’s member-states. If such a force were kept to a minimal operational mission, “a small rapid-deployment force with special engineering, logistical, medical, and police skills,” as the authors suggest, then I think this is a good idea. If such a force would, however, become more than this—an autonomous army of military personnel meant to intervene with force into any humanitarian crisis in which it is needed or sanctioned—then I fear this would be a counter-productive entity.

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Recommended Citation

Steele, Brent J. (2008) "Reforming Humanitarian Rescue," Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 8: Iss. 10, Article 5.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/hrhw/vol8/iss10/5