Can humanitarian intervention be used to alleviate human suffering and rights abuses? The clash between state sovereignty and the protection of human rights abuses through humanitarian intervention remains prominent in international relations today. The international community faces the dilemma of allowing human rights abuses in defense of maintaining sovereignty and state intervention (Ludlow 1999). Humanitarian intervention can be understood as the use of coercive action or military force in another State without its permission aimed at "preventing or putting an end to the widespread and serious violation of the fundamental human rights of individuals other than its own citizens ” (Kantareva 2011, p. 1 ). As Helen Burkhalter, human rights activist, there have been many recent circumstances where human rights have been violated that can be used to analyze the negative effects of failure to intervene. Attention will be focused on the genocide and civil war in Rwanda in 1994, which killed 800,000 Rwandans (Pape, 2012), and is often considered one of the international community's greatest failures. Although international law has codified the standard against genocide, instead of increasing UN involvement as the situation worsened, the United Nations (UN) reduced the UN Mission for Rwanda's peacekeeping force ( UNAMIR) (Ludlow, 1999). Ludlow (1999) writes that only when several warnings of a grave humanitarian crisis had escalated in Rwanda did the United Nations send UNAMIR II troops and the French-led Operation Turquoise to ensure security in the region, notably without other important interventions. powers that make their forces available. Ultimately, these actions came too late. UNAMIR commander Major General Romeo Dallaire claims that the expansion of peacekeeping troops could have “prevented the massacres in the south and west of the country because they only began in early May, almost a month later the war. had begun” (Ludlow, 1999, p. 17). Failure to intervene or inaction in Rwanda was consequently more costly than resorting to humanitarian intervention. However, even if humanitarian intervention is a simple and short-term solution, this does not mean that action, which can prevent loss of life and serious violations of human rights law in the case of Rwanda, should not be pursued. Rather, it suggests that the international community should also commit time and resources to economic and social development programs (Ludlow, 1999). Similarly, R2P integrates humanitarian intervention with assistance for long-term peace and the promotion of development and effective governance (Lu