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The responsibility to protect, the use of force and a permanent United Nations peace service

The United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) is a civil society-led idea to establish a permanent service that would improve United Nations peace operations and operationalise the emerging norm, the ‘responsibility to protect’. The idea, however, has encountered multiple obstacles, especially in relation to its proposed capacity to use of force. This article argues that when the right conditions have been met, there may be cases where force could be applied by the proposed UNEPS. Support for a UNEPS might also be found if its deployments were conditional on UN Security Council authorisation and backed by the consent of the host country.