Collective Security, Militarism or Humanitarianism: Decoding Interventionism in Africa (11 – 12 April 2019, School of Law, Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia) Since the early 1990s, the new international activism to use force for the purpose of preventing wide spread human suffering led to a significant change in international political decision making, legal thinking and practice. Thus, we have observed some unexpected developments in forcible military interventions (such as in northern Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, East Timor, Bosnia, Cote d’Ivoire, Libya and Syria), or the failure to intervene in complex humanitarian emergencies (such as in Rwanda or Congo). Considering that the principle of non-intervention is continued to be accepted as the fundamental rule of international law, a question often arise