This study launches a systematic inquiry into the nature of the concept of humanitarian intervention, focusing on its primary function of the protection of the endangered civilian populations who find themselves at the grave risk of genocide. This is strengthened by a recollection of selected historical examples of similar events and the responses to them by the international community, empowered by our modern understanding of the principle of state sovereignty, human rights, and anti-genocide legislation. Applying the in-statu-nascendi ontology that accounts for the latest hybridized compartmentalization of various IR-related theories, the author provides a deep ontological inquiry into the nature, origin, and genesis of the idea of humanitarian intervention and opens up a broader debate on the limits of the principle of state sovereignty as well as on the international community¿s ignorance of some of the most severe cases of human rights abuses around the world.

Piotr Pietrzak is co-founder and editor-in-chief of In Statu Nascendi ¿ Journal of Political Philosophy and International Relations, a non-profit charitable organization based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He specializes in the Middle East and the Islamic World and looks at his research area through the prism of some of the most exciting developments in the International Relations theory, geopolitics, conflict resolution strategies, and international law. His primary interests relate to recent socio-political developments in Afghanistan, Cyprus, the Former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Yemen, as well as Georgia and Ukraine. Also, Pietrzak regularly comments on matters related to the superpower competition during and after the cold war.