"ethical intervention" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to actions or interventions meant to improve the ethical standards of a person or organization. For example, an organization might require that all staff members receive regular ethical intervention training in order to ensure that they are mindful of ethical standards.
Clearly, there is a need for NGOs to balance ethical intervention with consistent funding.
"What kind of process of ethical intervention have any of these interventions gone through?" he asked.
His former aide, David Clark, wrote that Iraq shattered the "post-Kosovo consensus" for ethical intervention.
Mr Blair's "Chicago Doctrine" was an attempt to insert a norm of ethical intervention into a world long dominated by the principle of state sovereignty.
Making the noble choice easier and more enticing for leaders is the most prudent and ethical intervention we can make.
Ethical intervention may provide clarification in a way that is supportive, educational and advisory rather than prescriptive.
If the ethical theory applied does not fit the stakeholders' actual moral thinking, ethical interventions might not be successful ([ 24], p. 321).
Another example would be the "evaluation" stage, where a normative background was needed to determine whether the ethical quality of the practice had improved subsequent to the empirical-ethical intervention.
The combination of diverse ethical theories and, thus, different approaches to ethical justification (e.g. virtues ethics and Kantian accounts) became necessary due to the comprehensive structure of the overall project, which is an empirical-ethical intervention study and, therefore, combines different aims.
In the ETHICO project, we had to face the challenge that the ethical theory selected was supposed to serve a variety of aims during the different stages of the research (see section The ETHICO project ("Empirical-ethical interventions in oncology")).
Our own ETHICO project ("Empirical-Ethical Interventions in Oncology"), which forms a multistep empirical-ethical study for the development of interventions supporting clinical decision-making, made us aware of key aspects which are relevant for the selection of a normative background.
