Humanitarian Norms Have Gone Through Series Of Changes Within States Relations With Other Countries

Conflicts in the past and present have put the World into a stage of question. The concept of humanitarian norms have gone through series of changes within states relations with other states. These changes of stages in humanitarian norms and techniques, which have lasted for over decades gave raised to the principle of humanitarian intervention. The principle of humanitarian intervention have direct effect on the principle of sovereignty by the involvement of one state directly into the internal affairs of another sovereign state thereby contradicting the very principle of sovereignty which is founded on the ground of respecting state and no direct involvement of another state into the affair of another sovereign state. The arrival of

The intervention by France in the Greater Syria which was part of the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s, the intervention in the Greek war of independence by Russia in 1821-1827, the hash issuing of threat by some European countries to stop the perpetuated act of genocide against the Armenians in Turkey (1894-1917), and the involvement of Russia in Bulgaria (1876-1878) (Stefan, 2012). All these justified humanitarian intervention on the ground of protecting vulnerable population, had undergone changes with the emergence of the idea of human rights and protection

This prohibition is under two exceptional conditions (1) on the bases of individual and or collective self-defense and (2) the due application and forcible measures through the authorization of the United Nations Security council(The Charter of United Nations,1945). The sole organ that have the responsibility in the maintenance of international peace and security is the United Nations. Member states of the United Nations on their part agreed that the United Nations Security Council in carrying out these its duties under this responsibility acts on the behalf (The Charter of the UN,