Institutional Doctrine

IVAP — Principle of Deferred Intervention

Descriptive text. No injunction. No promise. No personalization.

Nature of the Doctrine

IVAP is neither a moral stance, nor a strategy of restraint, nor an ideological framework, nor a method of influence.

IVAP describes a temporal law of intervention observed in the real functioning of complex institutions.

This law does not depend on actors, intentions, or differences of opinion.

In any institutional system:

This sequence is not theoretical. It is documented by administrative, legal, academic, and organizational practices.

IVAP deliberately positions itself after the emergence of real risk, once system operation has made its constraints visible.

Any intervention prior to this threshold produces declarative value, not structural value.

IVAP does not anticipate reality. IVAP does not replace it. IVAP aligns with it.

Institutional value is not created by intention, but revealed by the gap between usage and formal recognition.

The longer a system operates without an explicit framework, the more silent value accumulates, until the absence of securing becomes a risk.

IVAP neither accelerates this process nor slows it down. IVAP becomes legitimate at its tipping point.

IVAP requires no doctrinal adherence.

A successor needs only one operational rule:

Never intervene before usage has produced risk.

This rule is temporal, binary, observable, and independent of individuals.

IVAP is not subject to debate.

It applies mechanically to any organization confronted with time, decision-making, and responsibility.

Institutions do not debate with time. They comply with it.