THE PRACTICES OF THE USE OF FORCE IN HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: THE CASE OF UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN (UNMISS) (2014-2016)

Abstract

The international community has actively response the humanitarian crisis resulted by the civil war between the government and opposition forces in the Republic of South Sudan. Regional organizations, United Nations and sovereign states have agreed that the humanitarian crisis occurred within the state needs to be addressed soon. On the behalf of international community, the United Nations has reinforced its peacekeeping operation, United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). To ensure the fulfillment of human security, UNMISS has authorized to practice the use of force during its operation. However, the use of force in UN humanitarian intervention created debates at the international level. In order to avoid the pros and cons, the UN has set the requirements before the use of force in the humanitarian intervention is practiced. This research has proved that the practices of the use of force conducted by UNMISS are legitimate because UNMISS has proved to be able to accomplish most of the requirement which has been set.