Whether through the organizational structure of the United Nations, NATO, or other supranational institutions, the new norm of acceptable intervention stresses the use of multilateral or collective intervention in response to the demands of a collective security. Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collective intervention...

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Whether through the organizational structure of the United Nations, NATO, or other supranational institutions, the new norm of acceptable intervention stresses the use of multilateral or collective intervention in response to the demands of a collective security. Acceptable collective intervention includes both responses to illegal (under international law) acts (e.g., Iraq's invasion of Kuwait) as well as intervention taken for humanitarian purposes (e.g., UN action in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia) or in response to threats to the collective security of a region (e.g., collective intervention...

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A.J Ayres, as with other situational ethicists, views this criteria (logic, validity of data, and the consequences) as an acceptable substitute for "objective" standards. ... This is analgous to the photon which has a dicotamy of both particle and wave like behaviors infused within it. ...

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. ... In 1990, the UN's Economic and Social Council adopted a resolution recommended by the Commission on the Status of Women stati...

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