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Thu, Sep 29th 2011, 17:42

Zainab A

While I agree that this intervention may have been a "win" for NATO- and one that can be viewed a precedent for future intervention, whether it was authorized or not is another story altogether. As Africana studies speaker Roland Adjovi recently pointed out, Article 39 of Chapter 7 of Resolution 1973, states that, there must be a "threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression" prior to UN action. At the onset, the Libyan uprising did not pose "a threat to the peace", -such developments occurred afterwards, and as such the use of force was not warranted. Furthermore, Adjovi claims, the UN has done nothing to protect the Libyan people- which is the greater issue at hand .