recourse

1. N-UNCOUNT If you achieve something without recourse to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have recourse to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something. 依靠[正式]

It enabled its members to settle their differences without recourse to war. 它使其成員不必訴諸戰爭來解決他們的分歧。