ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the importance of preparedness for an ethical delivery of post-emergency assistance as well as what preparedness alone cannot do. It then articulates the policy proposal – jus ad interventum – which is based on the six criteria of Just War Theory. The chapter discusses the possible implications of developing and using the proposal. It focuses on the possible objections to intervention in natural hazard emergencies and responses. These include imperialism, long-term effects of an intervention, dirty hands, demandingness and the lack of political will. The chapter offers a framework for the development of a natural hazard intervention policy, which provides the necessary conditions in which a post-natural hazard intervention would be justified. It provides a summary of the framework for a military disaster intervention policy in the aftermath of a natural hazard.
