Human security and international insecurity:

Human security is about everyday realities of violent conflict and poverty, humanitarian crises, epidemic diseases, injustice and inequality. It is about freedom from fear and freedom from want. It is much different from state-related security with its emphasis on military force, territory and sover...

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Other Authors: Frerks, Georg 1954- (Editor), Klein Goldewijk, Berma 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wageningen, the Netherlands Wageningen Academic Publishers 2007
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Summary:Human security is about everyday realities of violent conflict and poverty, humanitarian crises, epidemic diseases, injustice and inequality. It is about freedom from fear and freedom from want. It is much different from state-related security with its emphasis on military force, territory and sovereignty. Human security places the security of individuals, communities and global humanity ahead of the security concerns of the state. How does human security relate to international security? Can human security still be advanced in a global climate of intrastate conflict, the war on terror and increasing nuclear tensions? This book challenges prevailing security thinking and explores basic standards of humanity. This multi-authored book deals with the origins and developments of human security as a concept and how it is used in policy practice. It presents new approaches by focusing on
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of Contents; The Need to Explore Human Security; Human Security: Mapping the Challenges; Conflict, Development and Discourse; 'New Wars' and The State: The Nexus Religion-Human Security; Is a Right to Technology an Antidote to War?; Local Discourses on War-Related Resource Predation in Sub-Saharan Africa; New Terrorism and Human Security in the Middle East: Diverging Perceptions; Military Tendencies and Global Security: Is There an Alternative?; The Sacred Realm: Domain of New Threats and Challenges; Global Security and The Unflat World
Thinking Ahead, Moving Forwards from World 'Problématique' to 'World Résolutique'Incorporating Environment into Governance and National Planning: Lessons from the Global 2000 Project and the Threshold 21 Model; Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition: Earth System Governance as a Crosscutting Theme of Global Change Research; HIV/AIDS: The Controversial Role of Discourse and Governance; Coalitions of Responsible People as Agents of Change; Towards a Non-Violent Discourse in Science; Human Security and International Security: The Quest for Humane Global Governance; Contributors
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (320 Seiten)
ISBN:9789086865901
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-590-1

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