ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the norms of intervention and examines the status of each under contemporary international law. It describes the norms that have developed and explores state practice regarding them. The chapter examines the norms that have developed with respect to civil conflict. It examines norms relating to mixed conflicts. The chapter evaluates these developments. A civil conflict exists when a state is experiencing domestic unrest. Various forms of civil conflict are: the traditional norm and the traditional rule; the 'neutral non-intervention' rule and the self-determination rule. The nature of mixed conflicts is when a state is experiencing civil unrest, it is not unusual for one or more of the parties to the conflict to be receiving assistance from another state or states. The greatest official support is accorded to those norms that are most consistent with the basic Charter principles: the neutral non-intervention rule and the proportionate counter-intervention rule.
