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The Pros: - 1. In the context of peacekeepers who help keep combatants apart and prevent or delay conflict. You can look at several peacekeeping cases such as in Darfur, Liberia etc. UNDPKO website has a list.
- 2. International intervention to address grave human rights situations can perhaps prevent those situations from escalating to civil conflict. I don't think there are actual examples where this happened but examples could be found to say where this could be prevented. Perhaps you could look at Burundi and the Maldives.
- While they don't have civil wars, the human rights abuses seem to be contributing to growing civil unrest.
- Of course in the case of human rights, intervention would not mean a physical intervention but more like preventive diplomacy
- the cons:
- 1. Intervention often causes even greater political and economic instability . I am not aware of any examples of pre-conflict intervention, but Afghanistan is a good case of where intervention seemed to make the situation worse. (If possible please include relevant examples outside of Afghanistan)
- 2. Problems with peacekeepers being attacked; they can't actually get involved in conflicts even if unfolding before their eyes; they themselves commit abuses. Democratic Republic of Congo provides some examples of peacekeeping's failings
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There has been rapid transformation in the approach of dealing with conflicts across the globe. Democratization, increasing globalization of economic power and information, international coordination of security policy, redefinition of sovereignty and open expressions of claims to rights based on cultural identity, impose new responsibilities on states towards citizens and the world community (Brune et al., 2015). Over the decades, there is an increased awareness of the various destructive consequences of conflicts, which has highlighted the issue of crisis and as such conflict prevention is very crucial and needs to be addressed by international community (Yilmaz, 2011). Conflicts between the nations and within the nations are addressed using different approaches. There have been successes and failures of international intervention in preventing and addressing the conflicts (Nye & Welch, 2016). International intervention is good for preventing and addressing conflicts as it helps addressing the situation based on different perspectives and solutions. International intervention covers a broader area and not just overcome the conflict but also enables the nation facing the conflict to develop its political and economic systems. This essay discusses whether international intervention is good or bad for preventing conflicts.
