Humanitarian Invervention During the Process of Doctrinization : Nato’s Invervention in Kosovo and the Concept of Responsibility to Protect

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During the disintegration of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in Kosovo a civil war between Albanian gerilla fighters called Kosovo Liberation Army and Serbian paramilitary forces backed by Serbian police with Yugoslav army started in 1998. After the failure of mediator states and international organizations in preventing war, North Atlantic Treaty Organization had started a military intervention on March 24, 1999 in order to stop the increasing amounts of civilian deaths and attacks. This intervention which started without the permission of United Nations Security Council has argued, during and after, in terms of legal and humanitarian aspects. In this paper, it is mentioned firstly the disagreements, between ethnic-Serbians and ethnic-Albanians, leading the way to the 1998-1999 Kosovo War. After that, main legal and humanitarian arguments about NATO’s intervention in Kosovo are examined. Then the evolution of the concept of Responsibility to Protect created by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 is explained. In the end, by evaluating the NATO’s Kosovo intervention in accordance with Responsibility to Protect’s criterion, it is discussed the effect of NATO’s intervention in Kosovo on the formation of these criterion and rules.

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NATO , Humanitarian Intervention , Kosovo , Responsibility to Protect , RtoP

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