Gulfstream: 31 July 2003

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/iciss-ciise/report2-en.asp

Canadian Government-sponsored report on “when, if ever, it is appropriate for states to take coercive—and in particular military—action, against another state for the purpose of protecting people at risk in that other state” (synopsis, pdf)—a response to a question Kofi Annan directed at the international community: “if humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenica—to gross and systematic violations of human rights that affect every precept of our common humanity?”