Excerpts from Dr. Langille's Conclusions:
Recommendation 23 -- There is an urgent need for a UN Emergency Service - a dedicated, multidimensional "UN 911" that can address human needs, including protection, security, health and hope. This service should be composed of military, police and civilian volunteers that are recruited globally, selected for high standards of professionalism and commitment, and then directly employed by the UN.



Recent discussions on improving UN rapid deployment continue to focus on the relative merits of three options: either coordinate better arrangements for the prompt provision of contingents within the UN Standby Arrangements System; organize partnerships among committed Member States to establish additional SHIRBRIGs; or, initiate a UN Police and Security Force (UN PSF) or UN Emergency Service (UN ES), composed of volunteers. Since 1995, there has been a tendency to regard such proposals as distinct, if not mutually exclusive. Yet in a stage-by-stage cumulative development process, there is the prospect of a coherent, accelerated evolution; one that integrates the strengths of potentially compatible and reinforcing options.