Intervention

Intervention may refer to:

• Interventionism (politics)
  • Humanitarian intervention, an attempt to reduce suffering within a state through armed conflict
  • Entente intervention in the Russian Civil War at 1918-1925
  • Invasion or military offensive
• Intervention (counseling), an attempt to compel a subject to "get help" for an addiction or other problem
  • Cognitive interventions, a set of techniques and therapies practiced in counseling
• Economic interventionism, when a central bank buys or sells foreign currencies in an attempt to adjust exchange rates
• Intervention (law), a legal procedure for a nonparty to enter an ongoing lawsuit
• Health intervention, an effort to promote good health behaviour or to prevent bad health behaviour
• Art intervention, an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, or venue/space
• The Ottaviani Intervention, a study written by Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani and Antonio Bacci to Pope Paul VI concerning changes to the Catholic Mass
• Well intervention, a term for the maintenance and repair of oil and gas wells
• Another name for the Northern Territory National Emergency Response
• CheyTac Intervention, a long range sniper rifle
• Intervention (consulting), term used in the field of Organizational Development
• Northern Territory National Emergency Response, often referred to as "the intervention", changes to welfare provision introduced by the Australian government in 2007