Conclusion

Abstract

My primary observations about the solidarist approach to humanitarian intervention were directed at its method of theorising. I considered this approach to be limited, in the sense that it focuses primarily on the process of deciding whether or not to intervene in situations of SHE. I argued that this method was unsustainable because it failed to address the contextual basis upon which SHEs have developed in the past. This seemed to me an important limitation in view of its immense implications and consequences for what international society understands as the provision of ‘moral duties’ (Wheeler and Bellamy, 2001: 477) and of taking on the ‘guardianship of human rights everywhere’ (Bull cited in Wheeler, 2000: 12).