Table Of ContentDEVELOPING A UNITED
NATIONS EMERGENCY
PEACE SERVICE
Meeting Our Responsibilities to
Prevent and Protect
H. Peter Langille
Developing a United Nations Emergency Peace Service
DOI: 10.1057/9781137514349.0001
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Developing a United
Nations Emergency
Peace Service: Meeting
Our Responsibilities to
Prevent and Protect
H. Peter Langille
DOI: 10.1057/9781137514349.0001
developing a united nations emergency peace service
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Will we never learn? To date, ‘saving succeeding genera-
tions from the scourge of war’ has attracted lofty rhetoric
and numerous pragmatic, incremental steps, but too few
bold ideas or coherent plans
This book is dedicated to Genevieve, Ben and kids
everywhere. They will have to do better than the current
generation
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Contents
Foreword vii
Tom Woodhouse
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction 1
2 What May Be New? 6
3 UNEPS’ Roles and Ten Core Principles 36
4 The Arguments: Why Not? 60
5 The Initiative for a United Nations
Emergency Peace Service 88
6 Conclusion 118
Appendix 121
Bibliography 126
Index 145
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Foreword
The proposed United Nations Emergency Peace Service
(UNEPS) is beginning to enter the policy and academic
discourse now to define a broader and more relevant mode
of UN peace operations. UNEPS has been developed and
given credibility by Peter Langille and those associated
with him and this publication is the latest and fullest
explanation of the need for and nature of a UN Emergency
Peace Service. It offers a full and well-balanced account of
the UNEPS concept and its relevance.
This timely book will inform and influence an ongoing
debate over the future of UN peace operations. Although
we are now at a pivotal time in the evolution of peace
operations, questions related to its strategic direction and
normative values are too often lost in a maze of detailed
but limited case studies and policy analysis. This book
describes where peace operations are currently placed and
where they might and should be heading as an instrument
of conflict resolution capable of responding to twenty-
first-century conflict.
Langille offers a distinctive, creative and original contri-
bution to this rethinking process. He makes a case for new
priorities and a new standing integrated UN service, and
sets the case in a way that is both visionary and pragmatic,
and linked to real and pressing concerns around the new
forms of warfare and how to effect R2P commitments in
the prevention of armed conflict and the protection of
civilians. Most importantly, he outlines a new mode of
peace operations which is doctrinally and operationally
defined in order to deliver these objectives.
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viii Foreword
Well written, scholarly and accessible, this book shows a commanding
and impressive knowledge of peacekeeping literature, policy and politics.
It takes scholarship forward in the sense that it effectively merges two
fields of literature – conflict analysis on the one hand and military
peacekeeping on the other, to make a case for a blended or hybrid form
which balances military and civilian conflict resolution assets. In doing
so it opens up understanding of a more sophisticated concept and oper-
ational model relevant to twenty-first-century global security challenges.
Opposition to UN reform is inevitable but, the need for a United Nations
Emergency Peace Service – a cosmopolitan alternative – is increasingly
urgent.
Tom Woodhouse, Adam Curle Professor of Conflict Resolution,
Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University
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Acknowledgments
This book was only made possible thanks to the excep-
tionally generous assistance of David Langille and Susan
McMurray, as well as the ongoing support of Ben and
Genevieve Langille. At some point, I hope to be able to
repay the kindness and debt owed to each. Within the
World Federalist Movement – Canada, Robin Collins
and Fergus Watt continue to provide much-needed
perspective, insight and encouragement. Similarly, the
enduring support of our colleagues, Larry Kazdan and
Cameron Lang, is deeply appreciated. Linda McQuaig was
also uniquely generous in backing my early efforts. The
International Peace Institute’s “Providing for Peacekeeping
Project,” directed by Adam Smith, Alex Bellamy and Paul
Williams, was most helpful in clarifying recent develop-
ments in UN rapid deployment. Despite our differences,
I am grateful to Don Kraus, former Executive Director of
Citizens for Global Solutions and David Krieger, Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation, as well as to Saul Mendlovitz and
Bob Zuber for their ongoing efforts at Global Action to
Prevent War.
As noted within, the proposal for a UN Emergency
Service and its subsequent iteration as a UN Emergency
Peace Service stemmed from the earlier national studies
and multinational initiative to develop a UN rapid deploy-
ment capacity in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
In that endeavor and others since, numerous UN officials
contributed ideas and expertise beyond the call of duty. In
particular, special thanks are due to Sir Brian Urquhart.
In an earlier period, I was exceptionally fortunate to have
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