Anti Riot police officers lob teargas to National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition supporters along Moi Avenue on Friday. [Photo: The Star]NRM leader Raila Odinga has called on the international community to intervene after accusing some leaders of inciting communities against each other."The international community must intervene at this stage and help to remove this country from the precipice. There is going to be turmoil in our country," Raila said on Sunday after visiting Mathare where several people were hacked to death on Saturday night by unknown assailants.This is after Raila accused the Church of remaining mum in the face of ruthless executions orchestrated by the State.But what does the intervention of the international community really entails? The interventions can take various shapes. Here are some of them.Negotiated talks. The international community through bodies like the UN, AU, EU, EAC and many others can step in and help strike a deal between the two opposing sides through negotiated talks. It happened in Kenya after the disputed 2007 General Elections, where the end result was the formation of a national unity government.Sanctions. Where dialogue may seem hard to achieve and perhaps untenable, the international community may impose a raft economic sanctions, an arms embargo and so on aimed at pressuring more so the government to enter into dialogue with the opposition. Sanctions can cripple a functional and economically thriving State like Kenya as they did to Zimbabwe after EU and US imposed sanctions on the South African country.Travel bans and assets freezing. Many foreign governments may impose travel bans on key political leaders in the country and freeze the assets and money they abroad. This has a direct effect on ensuring that these leaders have no safe haven to go and hide at if they decide to 'burn' Kenya.International Criminal Court. I need not state that ICC is a feared and a loathed animal in Kenya. The international community more so via the United Nation Security Council, may decide to authorize ICC to begin investigations into crimes against humanity when it becomes evident they have began to take place when anarchy and lawlessness take the upper hand.Finally, military intervention by foreign governments. While this is an unlikely option, you cannot keep it off the table. It happened in Ivory Coast in 2011 when Laurent Gbagbo was deposed by French military, in Libya and elsewhere in the world. It is, however, extremely unlikely to happen in Kenya's situation.

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