ABSTRACT
The unstable "peace" of the post Cold War era is manifest by myriad instabilities. The politically correct argument is ambiguous: "the magnitude of the human tragedy constitutes a threat to international peace and security." The traditional peacekeeping environment is one in which all parties involved in the conflict seek an outside party such as the United Nations to come into the conflictive area and help implement a formally agreed upon accord. Traditional peace operations show several important elements of the peace keeping process which will be salient in both wider peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations. Success in countering the new world disorder and in fulfilling the hope for a better international peace will be constructed on the same pillars that supported favorable results in the past, including a theory of engagement derived from the SWORD Model. However, Unity of Effort and Legitimacy provide only the framework for successful peace enforcement.
