ABSTRACT
The humanitarian crisis emerged in Somalia soon after, the United Nations Security Council's adoption of resolution 688 and its decision to classify the flow of Kurdish refugees as a threat to international peace and security. The Security Council members had to cope with a failed state in which the national government had collapsed and civil order had disintegrated. A second problem of a consent-based approach was revealed when the United Nations Operation in Somalia proved ineffective in the anarchic atmosphere of Somalia. By taking action to neutralise the threat to international peace and security that emanated from the Somali conflict, as well as working to restore a viable Somali government, the Council sought to shore up a crumbling sovereign state. Its action was also an attempt to protect the non-derogable human rights of the Somalia people, by assuming the sovereign responsibility to protect these rights that normally would have been the job of the national government.
