In the meantime, other changes need to be taken into cognizance. One is that the dichotomy between traditional and non-traditional security issues has become blurred to a large extent. What we see today is a continuum, with nontraditional and traditional issues forming two ends on a spectrum, and the transition from one to the other is indeed subtle. More noticeable is the second change, that is, the irrelevance of traditional tools of conflict management and resolution like third party mediation and problem solving approaches. Although we are talking about a new world order and cooperative security,