...principles for military intervention, the Commission put forward "the just cause threshold". In its view, military intervention for human protection purposes...imminently likely to occur, of the following kind: (a) large scale loss of life, actual or apprehended, with genocidal intent or not, which is the product...

...action in support of human rights and those in which it would not. The Commission gave its answer: 'Military intervention for human protection purposes is an exceptional and extraordinary measure'. In other words. it reaffirmed that the general rule of international affairs remains one of a norm...

...appropriate use of force. The ICISS defines a "just cause threshold" that sanctions military intervention as "an exceptional and extraordinary measure. To be warranted,...and irreparable harm occurring to human beings, or immediately likely to occur."17 The commission defines large-scale loss of life and large-scale ethnic...

...avert it, the principle of non-intervention yields to the international responsibility to protect . . . Military intervention for human protection purposes...imminently likely to occur, of the following kind: A. large scale loss of life, actual or apprehended, with genocidal intent or not, which is the product...

...coercive and intrusive ones are applied. Principles for military intervention (1) The just cause threshold Military intervention for human protection purposes...imminently likely to occur, of the following kind: A. Large scale loss of life, actual or apprehended, with genocidal intent or not, which is the product...

...6.1 The responsibility to protect: principles for military intervention (1) THE JUST CAUSE THRESHOLD Military intervention for human protection purposes...and irreparable harm occurring to human beings, or immediately likely to occur, of the following kind: A. large-scale loss of life, actual or apprehended,...

...for human protection purposes must be regarded as an exceptional and extraordinary measure and for it to be warranted, there must be serious and irreparable...occurring to human beings, or imminently likely to occur' (St John's Telegram, 19 December). They also found, however, that when these extraordinary cases occur,...

...responsibility to protect'.16 There would be a just cause for military intervention where there is: serious and irreparable harm occurring to human beings...imminently likely to occur of the following kind: first, large-scale loss of life, actual or apprehended, with genocidal intent or not, which is the...

...protection is recognized as 'an exceptional and extraordinary measure'. To be necessary and obligatory, there must be 'serious and irreparable harm occurring...to human beings' or 'imminently likely to occur'. Such acts or threats would include: actual or threatened large scale loss of life, with or without...

...economic sanctions and arms embargoes, and international criminal prosecution. After mentioning that "military intervention for human protection purposes is an exceptional and extraordinary measure," the ICISS report specifies what warrants such an unusual military response. The "just cause threshold"...