IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 213 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a United Nations 
Emergency Peace Service capable of intervening in the early stages 
of a humanitarian crisis could save millions of lives, billions of dollars, 
and is in the interests of the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 5, 2007 
Mr. WYNN (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. WALSH of New York, 
Mr. BLUMENAUER, and Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
a United Nations Emergency Peace Service capable of 
intervening in the early stages of a humanitarian crisis 
could save millions of lives, billions of dollars, and is 
in the interests of the United States. 
Whereas genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity 
have occurred in Rwanda, Cambodia, the former Yugo-
slavia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo, Uganda, Liberia, and elsewhere; 
Whereas the United States Government has found that geno-
cide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are occur-
ring in the Darfur region of Sudan; 
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Whereas, at the September 2005 World Summit, the Member 
States of the United Nations declared that the inter-
national community has a responsibility to protect these 
populations when countries are unable or unwilling to 
prevent genocide, war crimes, and crimes against human-
ity; 
Whereas, at the 2005 World Summit, over 150 heads of state 
signed a document which the United Nations General As-
sembly adopted, declaring that ‘‘we are prepared to take 
collective action, in a timely and decisive manner, 
through the Security Council . . . should peaceful means 
be inadequate and national authorities manifestly fail to 
protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, eth-
nic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.’’; 
Whereas failed and failing states can become breeding 
grounds for terrorism, crime, trafficking, humanitarian 
catastrophes, and other threats to the United States; 
Whereas the 2006 National Security Strategy clearly states 
that preventing humanitarian disasters and strengthening 
fragile states is in the national security interests of the 
United States; 
Whereas numerous studies have shown that early intervention 
in humanitarian crises could save millions of lives and 
billions of dollars; 
Whereas the international community spent approximately 
$200,000,000,000 on conflict management during the 
1990s; 
Whereas approximately $130,000,000,000 of that amount 
could have been saved through a more effective preven-
tive approach to conflict management; 
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Whereas the United Nations does not have a rapid deploy-
ment capacity to intervene to avert humanitarian catas-
trophes; 
Whereas there is a need for a United Nations Emergency 
Peace Service (UNEPS) that could be rapidly deployed 
during the early stages of a humanitarian crisis to save 
lives; 
Whereas UNEPS could assist in the early implementation of 
peace accords by providing a ready reserve corps that 
could be deployed immediately; 
Whereas UNEPS would complement, but not replace, exist-
ing peace operations of the United Nations, regional or-
ganizations, and national governments; 
Whereas, if UNEPS had existed at the time that the Govern-
ment of Sudan and the rebels in Darfur signed the May 
2006 Darfur Peace Agreement, UNEPS could have been 
quickly deployed to cement peace before it unraveled and 
prevented the loss and displacement of thousands of indi-
viduals; 
Whereas, if ongoing ethnic and sectarian mass killings and 
crimes against humanity continue to occur in Iraq and if 
the Iraqi Government does not have the capacity to pro-
tect its citizens from these crimes, then all members of 
the international community, should, through the United 
Nations, exercise their mutual responsibility to protect 
the citizens of Iraq; 
Whereas, if the Security Council and the Iraqi Government 
identified the need for a peacekeeping force to guarantee 
a negotiated agreement between factions in Iraq and 
UNEPS existed, a UNEPS force could be quickly de-
ployed to seize the opportunity and help facilitate the im-
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plementation of that agreement in advance of a tradi-
tional United Nations peacekeeping force or as a surge 
capacity to buttress peacekeepers already in place; and 
Whereas UNEPS could be created for a start-up cost of 
$2,000,000,000 
and 
annual 
costs 
of 
less 
than 
$1,000,000,000: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the United States should use its voice, vote, 
and influence at the United Nations to facilitate and 
support the creation of a United Nations Emergency 
Peace Service (UNEPS); and 
(2) UNEPS— 
(A) should be a permanent entity based at 
designated sites of the United Nations, should 
include mobile field headquarters, and should be 
able to act immediately to address an emerging 
humanitarian crisis; 
(B) should be comprised of individuals who 
are recruited from United Nations Member 
States and who are carefully selected, expertly 
trained, and coherently organized; 
(C) should be a dedicated service with a 
wide range of professional skills within a single 
command structure, prepared to conduct mul-
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tiple functions in diverse United Nations oper-
ations; and 
(D) should be able to provide an integrated 
service encompassing 12,000 to 18,000 civilian, 
police, judicial, military, and relief profes-
sionals. 
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