Abstract

This chapter considers the following two questions: if belligerents, though willing to stop fighting in principle, are nevertheless unable on their own durably to end violence as a precondition for reaching a peace settlement, is outside intervention in the form of the deployment of peacekeeping forces morally justified? If so, how may or must those forces conduct themselves vis-à-vis belligerents? Second, if a belligerent has been so comprehensively defeated on the battlefield that its regime is no longer able to govern, and if there are no available local actors yet with the requisite legitimacy to succeed it, may the victorious party turn itself into a military occupier and take on the tasks of government? It answers in the affirmative in both cases.