Format:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9789086865901
Content:
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, PresidentPugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Content:
Intro -- 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 -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Most of the contributors are participants of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Most of the contributors are participants of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which will focus on the theme of human security. The local concern with the achievement and future of human security wich is one of the underlying motivations for the coming into being of this book
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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
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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
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Index of SubjectsIndex of Names
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9086860168=9789086860166
Additional Edition:
Print version Human Security And International Insecurity
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.3920/978-90-8686-590-1
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