Humanitarian intervention:

Related Mcqs:

1. When does humanitarian intervention secure its greatest legitimization?

   A. When it is done to prevent a genocide
   B. When it is done to take down a murderous
   C. When it is done to alleviate famine
   D. When it is done through the Chapter VII enforcement provision of the Security Council

2. What is non-forcible humanitarian intervention?

   A. It is characterized by the series of peaceful actions of states, INGOs and international organization in the international scene which prove to have an impact in internal matters of the target state
   B. It is an intervention by UN peace-keeping forces
   C. It is a humanitarian intervention that was not required
   D. None of the above

3. Define ‘forcible humanitarian intervention’.

   A. The use of force to intervene in humanitarian operations
   B. A forcible breach of sovereignty that interferes in a state’s internal affairs for humanitarian purposes
   C. A humanitarian intervention that uses force to deter violence
   D. All of the above

4. What would warrant a ‘just cause’ military intervention for human protection purposes?

   A. There must be serious and irreparable harm occurring to human beings, or imminently likely to occur
   B. There must be a large scale loss of life, which is the product of deliberate state action, or state neglect, or inability to act, or a failed state situation
   C. There must be a large scale ethnic cleansing
   D. All of the above

5. What is R. J. Vincent’s definition of intervention?

   A. ‘Activity undertaken by a state, a group within a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state. It is a discrete event having a beginning and an end and it is aimed at the authority structure of the target state;
   B. ‘A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries’
   C. ‘Activity undertaken by a state, a group of states or an international organization which interferes coercively in the domestic affairs of another state’
   D. ‘Threat or use of force by a state, group of states, or international organization primarily for the purpose of protecting the nationals of the target state from widespread violations of human rights

6. Lebanon faced first military intervention from Israel in:

   A. April, 1977
   B. March 1979
   C. March 1978
   D. None of these

7. Indian Government accepted Maharaja’s accession and still sticks to that accession ignoring the will of the people. India’s military intervention on behalf of Maharaja led go to the first India-Pakistan war in 1947-1948. When both countries signed cease fire?

   A. 1 January 1949
   B. 1 January 1948
   C. 1 January 1947
   D. 1 January 1950

8. What are the objections to legitimizing humanitarian interventions?

   A. Legitimizing it would open intervention to abuse
   B. States do not intervene for primarily humanitarian reasons
   C. States apply principles of humanitarian intervention selectively
   D. All of the above

9. The Geneva Conventions established the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of the:

   A. victims of war
   B. victims of civil war
   C. victims of earthquake
   D. victims of government’s atrocities

10. Critics of human security charge that:

    A. The concept is too broad to be analytically useful
    B. That it creates false expectations of assistance which cannot be met
    C. That it marginalizes or weakens the state’s role in security
    D. All of the options given are correct