Can forcible humanitarian intervention ever be justified

Developments in the modern structure of international relations for the past twenty years, i.e. the period directly experienced a significant impact after the collapse of the USSR, raise questions over the issue of legitimacy and legality of such an act as a humanitarian intervention. There are an increasing number of ethnic and religious conflicts of internal characters that often results in a bloody civil war. Thus, there are mass violations of basic human rights. Naturally, the international community will find effective tools to address and counter the event. Peacekeeping and humanitarian interventions are a kind of means of involvement in the internal affairs of a particular state in order to prevent massive violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms (Gorbatov, 2011). Therefore the problem of the role and place of peacemaking, including, of course, and humanitarian intervention in the modern structure of international relations requires careful study and analysis.