Human Insecurity

Author : Georg Frerks,Berma Klein Goldewijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789086865901

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Human Security and International Insecurity by Georg Frerks,Berma Klein Goldewijk Pdf

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 alternative discourses, the actors involved, and the new forms of governance that are required. It outlines the challenges human security faces in different parts of the world due to conflict, terrorism and new wars; globalisation and the resurgence of religion; development cooperation, environmental problems and the role of science. Facing the challenges, this book aims to raise human security out of the status of a contemporary ‘problématique’ by bringing it closer to a ‘résolutique’. 'I am convinced that this book provides an original contribution and a further impetus to developing well-grounded academic and policy responses to world-wide problems that so urgently require solutions.' M.S. Swaminathan, President Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136991

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Human Insecurity by David Roberts Pdf

Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings. David Roberts claims that by facing up to this relationship between social structures and massive avoidable human suffering we can create another system less prone to global violence. This book is a powerful intervention in the debate on human security and an urgent call to face up to our responsibilities to the millions killed needlessly each year.

Author : Thanh-Dam Truong,Des Gasper,Jeff Handmaker,Sylvia I. Bergh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642280122

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Migration, Gender and Social Justice by Thanh-Dam Truong,Des Gasper,Jeff Handmaker,Sylvia I. Bergh Pdf

This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam spearheaded a project intended to distill and refine the research findings, connecting them to broader literatures and interdisciplinary themes. The book examines commonalities and differences in the operation of various structures of power (gender, class, race/ethnicity, generation) and their interactions within the institutional domains of intra-national and especially inter-national migration that produce context-specific forms of social injustice. Additional contributions have been included so as to cover issues of legal liminality and how the social construction of not only femininity but also masculinity affects all migrants and all women. The resulting set of 19 detailed, interconnected case studies makes a valuable contribution to reorienting our perceptions and values in the discussions and decision-making concerning migration, and to raising awareness of key issues in migrants’ rights. All chapters were anonymously peer-reviewed. This book resulted from a series of projects funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.

Author : Hans Günter Brauch,Úrsula Oswald Spring,Czeslaw Mesjasz,John Grin,Pál Dunay,Navnita Chadha Behera,Béchir Chourou,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,P. H. Liotta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783540759775

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Globalization and Environmental Challenges by Hans Günter Brauch,Úrsula Oswald Spring,Czeslaw Mesjasz,John Grin,Pál Dunay,Navnita Chadha Behera,Béchir Chourou,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,P. H. Liotta Pdf

Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. In this new work on global security thinking, 91 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the worldwide reassessment of the meaning of security triggered by the end of the Cold War and globalization, as well as the multifarious impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.

Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen,Ellen Bal,Oscar Salemink
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000067769186

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A World of Insecurity by Thomas Hylland Eriksen,Ellen Bal,Oscar Salemink Pdf

A pioneering contribution to the emergent anthropology of human security that brings classic concerns of the field into the 21st century.

Author : John Michael Ashley
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128110539

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Human Resilience Against Food Insecurity by John Michael Ashley Pdf

Human Resilience against Food Insecurity focuses on the human factors involved in building resilience against food and nutrition insecurity in perpetuity through better managing risks (such as ‘better-spacing’ of children), diversifying the asset portfolio, behavioral change, and communication strategies for to help achieve these goals. The better the coherence and convergence amongst these human factors that promote sustainable food and nutrition security, the lower the need to rectify their absence through post-facto, unsustainable ‘firemen’s work’ of humanitarian assistance and CMAM clinics. The book includes references to countries which are not in the lowest of the categories prescribed in the UNDP Human Development reports, also including minority groups in developed countries, such as the hunter-gatherer Inuit communities of Canada, to provide an inclusive view of the issues and concerns relevant to addressing food insecurity. Includes a global array of case studies Presents stories of success and failure in building resilience against food insecurity with the causative human aspect underlying each Addresses the social and cultural anthropological foundation of combatting food and nutrition insecurity

Author : Lincoln C. Chen,Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Ellen Seidensticker
Publisher : Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015058127898

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Human Insecurity in a Global World by Lincoln C. Chen,Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Ellen Seidensticker Pdf

This book explores the complex challenges that globalization poses for human security, many of which are already high on the agenda of the international community. By adding a human security dimension to their analysis, the authors provide new insight into attempts to reduce our vulnerability to the new forces unleashed by global changes.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1955-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466801165

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Insecurity of Freedom by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

The Insecurity of Freedom is a collection of essays on Human Existence by one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of our time, Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Author : Jorge Nef,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780889368798

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Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability by Jorge Nef,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The global political economy of development and underdevelopment (Second Edition)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814462754

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Human Security: From Concept to Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michio Umegaki,Lynn Thiesmeyer,Atsushi Watabe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015080721759

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Human Insecurity in East Asia by Michio Umegaki,Lynn Thiesmeyer,Atsushi Watabe Pdf

Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster, nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps. This publication explores less obvious threats to human security and how people and communities face them.--Publisher's description.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp,Myra Marx Ferree,Christina Ewig
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814764909

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Gender, Violence, and Human Security by Aili Mari Tripp,Myra Marx Ferree,Christina Ewig Pdf

The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions of human security and violence through a feminist lens, drawing on both theoretical perspectives and empirical examinations through case studies from a variety of contexts around the globe. This fascinating volume goes beyond existing feminist international relations engagements with security studies to identify not only limitations of the human security approach, but also possible synergies between feminist and human security approaches. Noted scholars Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, and Christina Ewig, along with their distinguished group of contributors, analyze specific case studies from around the globe, ranging from post-conflict security in Croatia to the relationship between state policy and gender-based crime in the United States. Shifting the focus of the term “human security” from its defensive emphasis to a more proactive notion of peace, the book ultimately calls for addressing the structural issues that give rise to violence. A hard-hitting critique of the ways in which global inequalities are often overlooked by human security theorists, Gender, Violence, and Human Security presents a much-needed intervention into the study of power relations throughout the world.

Author : Paul J. Carnegie,Victor T. King,Zawawi Ibrahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811022456

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Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia by Paul J. Carnegie,Victor T. King,Zawawi Ibrahim Pdf

This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of ‘insecurities’ that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to ‘human security’ within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia.

Author : Maria Pisani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9287189331

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Between Insecurity and Hope by Maria Pisani Pdf

Author : Alison Brysk,Gershon Shafir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520098602

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National Insecurity and Human Rights by Alison Brysk,Gershon Shafir Pdf

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