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DEVELOPING 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 Other Palgrave Pivot titles Christina Papagiannouli: Political Cyberformance: The Etheatre Project Lorann Downer: Political Branding Strategies: Campaigning and Governing in Australian Politics Daniel Aronoff: A Theory of Accumulation and Secular Stagnation: A Malthusian Approach to Understanding a Contemporary Malaise John Mohan and Beth Breeze: The Logic of Charity: Great Expectations in Hard Times Carrie Dunn: Football and the Women’s World Cup: Organisation, Media and Fandom David R. Castillo, David Schmid, Dave Reilly and John Edgar Browning (editors): Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics G. Douglas Atkins: Strategy and Purpose in T.S. 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ISBN: 978-1-349-88815-3 E-PDF ISBN: 978–1–137–60313–5 DOI: 10.1057/9781137603135 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan®, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress A catalogue record for the book is available from the British Library 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 DOI: 10.1057/9781137514349.0001 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 vi DOI: 10.1057/9781137514349.0001 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. DOI: 10.1057/9781137514349.0002 vii 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 DOI: 10.1057/9781137514349.0002 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 DOI: 10.1057/9781137514349.0003 ix
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