Process Reengineering

The past few decades have been witness to some incredible accounts of cruelty, violence and gross human rights violations all across the world. The conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka bring back vivid memories of the helplessness of people that were affected. It is in this regard that the whole issue of International Intervention assumes and deserves heightened importance. While the reluctance of nations to get involved in pressing political, social and diplomatic issues in their geographical neighborhood in spite of their apparently deep sense of morality and all the extensive media coverage is hard to believe, the problem is, of course, more complicated. In the prevailing world scenario, the unilateral intervention of US in Iraq and the subsequent quagmire in which the US finds itself has opened the debate on the right to mediation in the internal affairs of the other country. Is the intervention on the grounds of humanitarian violations justified even if it impinges on the concept of territorial sovereignty and a country’s right of self determination. The traditional