Within NATO, there are now two broad categories of crisis management operations that member countries may consider, namely operations calling for collective defence, and other crisis response operations in which collective defence is not involved.... Other crisis response operations include all military operations that the Alliance may decide to conduct in a non-Article 5 situation. They may be designed to support the peace process in a conflict area and, in those circumstances, are referred to as peace support operations. However, they include a range of other possibilities including conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peace enforcement measures, peace-making, peace-building, preventive deployment and humanitarian operations. NATO’s involvement in the Balkans and Afghanistan are examples of crisis management operations in this category.
