This study focuses on the questions of when and how military intervention in conflicts can achieve humanitarian benefits. It uses the standard that an intervention should do more good than harm to evaluate the successes and failures.

Taylor B. Seybolt is Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute for Peace.

• 1: Controversies about humanitarian military intervention


• 2: Judging success and failure


• 3: Humanitarian Military interventions in the 1990s


• 4: Helping to deliver emergency aid


• 5: Protecting Humanitarian aid operations


• 6: Saving the victims of violence


• 7: Defeating the perpetrators of violence


• 8: The prospects for success and the limitations of humanitarian intervention