ABSTRACT
T HE world is a dangerous place. At any time across the globe there are wars, revolutions, genocides, ethnic cleansings, and terror campaigns. Since World War II, these conflicts have been considered “low intensity” because they have affected a relatively limited number of individuals. A better term may be “limited scope” because if it is your village being sacked, your wives and daughters being raped, or your children being killed, the intensity of the conflict is at its maximum level. The scope of a conflict is extremely important and international efforts can be observed in a number of arenas in which attempts to limit the scope of conflicts have been frustrated. For instance, the Western world plunged into its most extensive and expensive war in 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo. Because of treaties and international agreements, the major Western powers had to enter a war that none of them really wished to pursue.1
