Ad Securitatem - Copy

According to the UN Charter, Article 2 (4), the threat of and use of force is not allowed, except: under the authorisation of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which has the responsibility to maintain or restore peace and security worldwide, in accordance with Chapter VII of the UN Charter (UN, 2020); for individual and collective self-defence if one of the members of the United Nati. [...] The use of force in Iraq was not only condemned by the international community (UN, 2003), but also held little to no legitimacy in the eyes of the Iraqi people whose perception of the US as a liberator in the initial phase of the intervention transformed itself into that of invader for almost the entire duration of the campaign (Shehata, 2005, p. [...] Where the Iraq example demonstrates the ongoing failure of using force to restore peace and stability and promote democracy, the Syrian war highlights the equally disastrous consequences of the absence of an international intervention to stop what has deteriorated into one of the biggest humanitarian crises the world has seen in the last century (Ferris, et al., 2016, p. [...] The UNSC’s inability to act collectively, the incompetence of the government to manage the situation and the absence of security which allowed different terrorist organisations to fill the vacuum and expand their influence within the country, generated an apocalyptic scenario in which the population was forced to flee the country or be displaced. [...] In a situation in which the government is the primary enforcer of the violation of human rights against its own people and all diplomatic attempts have failed, could the use of force to re-establish peace and security and promote democracy be the only option available? Conclusion The cases of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Syrian crisis - which began in 2011 and continues to this day - de.