ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a broad panorama of motivations, moral considerations and sceptical reflections among individual interveners in Goma and New York to provide texture and a feel for the practice of intervention. Intervention in the Congo be a routine practice shaped by the Western structural privilege, by a pathologizing Congo discourse and the requirements of the project market, but on the operational face of intervention exists a lot of doubt. The paradox between the public and operational faces of intervention. The intervention is made self-evident and necessary by turning the Congolese government into a weak and destructive one publicly. In private conversations, when pressed about personal experiences, interveners describe the government as capable to grant or withdraw legitimacy from intervention. A perspective on intervention takes the operational reality of intervention into account by engaging with the individuals carrying out intervention in New York and Goma to pose numerous challenges to self-evidence of intervention claimed on the public face of intervention.
