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The process of legitimizing peace coercive operations by international organizations is described. The focus is on the coercive peace operations in accordance with the norms and principles of the UN Charter and military interventions. The interdependence between coercive peace operations and mechanisms for legitimizing the actions of a state or a coalition of states during such operations through the mediation of international intergovernmental global and regional organizations is highlighted. However, it became clear that the aggravation of the domestic political situation in the host country due to its escalation into conflict becomes a pretext for raising a question before an authorized international organization about the start of such operations by a state or a coalition of states. At the same time, the decisive factor is the compliance of such operations with norms and principles of the United Nations Charter on coercion for peace and peacekeeping. Most of such operations started after the decision of the UN or other regional international organizations. Foreign military interventions with questionable legitimacy usually began military interventions and only then did attempts to legitimize decisions, as a rule, by regional organizations, and sometimes UN. Despite the fact that such interventions were often preventive or part of a larger peace-enforcement operation, the issue of obtaining a mandate for its implementation from international organizations remained the important element of the policy initiators of such interventions. Key words: United Nations Organization; international regional organization; coercive peace operation; foreign military intervention; international legitimacy.