Criticism
There is a consensus that preventive war "goes beyond what is acceptable in international law" and lacks legal basis. While the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change stopped short of rejecting the concept outright, it suggested that there is no right to preventive war - if there are good grounds for initiating preventive war, the matter should be put to the Security Council, which can authorize such action if it chooses to.
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