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Colloquium: Towards a history of humanitarian intervention
18 septembre 2008
Cambridge, Grande-Bretagne
This colloquium brought together historians of different periods and regions to discuss the history of international interventions on behalf of oppressed people-groups. At present, considerations of the problem of how to protect human rights in the international community are substantially or wholly contemporary in focus; the lack of historical context is a major flaw, because many diverse strands fused to make the modern concept of 'humanitarian intervention'. Papers highlighted the different ways interventions have been regarded since their origins in early-modernity, and the different views of the international system and different intentions that have been attached to interventions.
Conference organisers:
David Trim, Brendan Simms
Venue:
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Contact:
Brendan Simm, e-mail: bps11@cam.ac.uk
Centre of International Studies, First Floor, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
Submited by: Armelle Le Goff
conservateur en chef du patrimoine, Section du XIXe siècle
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