International Organization - Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Search for Justice

This lecture examines the often complicated relationship between the pursuit of human rights and international law. Essentially, the main question this lecture asks is what is the relationship between what might be moral and what is legal, with the two often conflicting. Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 - 00:09:40 - Towards an Understanding of International Law 00:09:40 - 00:23:00 - Some Opening Points 00:23:00 - 00:31:48 - Promoting Human Rights 00:31:48 - 00:38:52 - Morality and IR Theory 00:38:52 - 00:54:29 - Theoretical Foundations of International Human Rights 00:54:29 - 01:03:40 - The Varying Roles of International Organizations 01:03:40 - 01:09:24 - Ongoing Issues in Human Rights Principles 01:09:24 - 01:18:51 - Who Decides? Who Arbitrates? 01:18:51 - 01:34:36 - Human Rights and Reconciliation of Conflict 01:34:36 - 01:42:38 - Ongoing Issues of Human Rights in the World Today