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Abstract: The moral and legal problems raised by the use of military force to aid human rights victims. Relevant Bahá’í ethical principles and how these might assist us to reform existing international law to better protect all members of the human family. Notes: Mirrored with permission from journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/article/view/102 |
Protecting the Human Family:
Humanitarian Intervention, International Law, and Bahá'í Principles
by Brian D. Lepard
published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 13:1-4, pages 33-54Ottawa: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America, 2003
About: This article explores the moral and legal problems raised by the recent experiments of the world community with using some kind of military force to come to the rescue of human rights victims—or “humanitarian intervention.” It then examines a variety of ethical principles in the Bahá’í Writings that bear on these problems. Finally, it investigates how these principles might assist us to discover and implement practical measures to reform existing international law to better protect all members of the human family.
Download: lepard_protecting_human_family.pdf.
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