International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 10(3), pp. 65-73, November 2022

 ISSN: 2360-7831

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijelc2022215

 

Review

 

Abstract

 

States have a duty to protect their own people from harms, lives of citizens and promotions of their welfare. The failure to protect them from chronic insecurities of hunger, disease, inadequate shelter, crime and so forth may necessitate the involvement of humanitarian intervention. Ethiopian scholars seem to be cynical about the likely contribution of R2P. The main aim of the paper is to explore the debates put forth about responsibility to protect and to see the relevance of exigencies of great powers especially the third pillar. It also assesses the humanitarian intervention in the Ethiopian Northern armed conflict. The time frame the paper covers is since 2018. To achieve the objectives, primary and secondary sources were used. The paper argued that the incumbent government of Ethiopia has failed the internal responsibility to protect thus; exigencies of great powers would be viable for reinvigorating the state capacity to discharge their responsibility however the intervention is challenged by impure motives, grounds, means, and results of the intervention. The fear of unilateral intervention and subjective regulatory frame work could possibly be resolved by the invitation of more super powers.

 

Keywords: Ethiopia, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to protect, R2P  

 

Cite This Article As: Mengistu, A.A. (2022). Responsibility to Protect: the Legitimacy of Exigencies of Great Powers Interference in Ethiopia’s Northern Armed Conflict, Nostrum or Venom?. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 10(3): 65-73