Militarised Approach to Human Rights: An Epistemological Challenge

Abstract

The international community has struggled for decades to protect the basic human rights of people around the world where the use of force has been engaged between nations in the name of protecting human rights. Rising from the disagreements between and within nations on approach, timing, political alignment, economic progress, and far more, is a charitable program-based approach to assuaging the needs of people affected by the many vicissitudes of modern life and global conflict. While every need met by these programs is substantial, meaningful progress is yet to take place in meeting their claims for human rights and having input on their own priorities. This approach fundamentally constrains the necessity of tailoring aid and intervention to the needs of those offering support and fundamentally inhibits fulfillment of the duties to provide human rights owed by occupying nations to the populations under their control. Millions feel the damage of the use and misuse of this approach, and its continued utilization will serve to further alienate these people from their rights and from progress. Given an alarming lack of international accountability for human rights violations committed by intervening nations during international interventions meant to address them, these problems are likely to worsen until we engage our capabilities to reframe and readjust the models for intervention and aid that the international community is currently operating under