1. Collective responsibility, armed intervention and the Rwandan genocide
- Author
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Miller, Seumas
- Subjects
Rwanda -- Social aspects ,Rwanda -- Ethical aspects ,Rwanda -- International aspects ,Intervention (International law) -- Ethical aspects ,Genocide -- Ethical aspects ,Genocide -- International aspects ,Social conflict -- International aspects ,Social conflict -- Ethical aspects ,Philosophy and religion ,Social sciences - Abstract
In this paper I explore the notion of collective moral responsibility as it pertains both to nation-states contemplating humanitarian armed intervention in international social conflicts, and as it pertains to social groups perpetrating human rights violations in such conflicts. I take the Rwandan genocide as illustrative of such conflicts and make use of it accordingly. I offer an individualist account of collective moral responsibility, according to which collective moral responsibility is a species of joint responsibility.
- Published
- 1998