Peace enforcement is the coercive use of civil and military sanctions and collective security actions by legitimate, international intervention forces, to assist diplomatic effort to restore peace between belligerents, at least one of whom does not consent to their intervention.
Peace enforcement is a practice of ensuring peace in an area or region. Part of a three part scale between peacekeeping and peacemaking, it is sometimes considered to be the midpoint. Peace enforcement is different than peacemaking where options, possibly including force, are used to bring conflicting parties to negotiations.