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HIGHLIGHT

2010 Report
20th Anniversary Edition

The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development is available for free downloading

Human Security Resources

Publications

General

Human Security in Theory and Practice: Application of the Human Security Concept and the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security [1,565 KB]

UN Commission on Human Security: http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/

Putting the Human Security approach into practice
HDR-net Consolidated reply, 2006

Human Security Now: Final Report
Commission on Human Security, New York, 2003

  • Human security Report of the Secretary-General (2010) [88 KB]
  • Delivering Human Security through multi-level Governance [1,041 KB]

Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, John Grin, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Navnita Chadha Behera, Béchir Chourou, Heinz Krummenacher (Eds.): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 4 ( Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009).

HD Insights - February 2008 - Human Security
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Director, Program for Peace and Human Security, CERI/ Sciences Po, Paris, France

Human Security and National Human Development Reports
Richard Jolly and Deepayan Basu Ray

A Conceptual Framework for Human Security
Sabine Alkire, CRISE Working Paper No. 2, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, 2003

Why Human Security?
Amartya Sen, Presentation at the International Symposium on Human Security, Tokyo (July 2000)

Human Security: Concepts and Implications
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Etudes du CERI, No.117-118, Paris, CERI, September 2005

Human Development Report 1994 - New Dimensions of Human Security
UNDP, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994

UNESCO series of regional publications on Human Security in different parts of the world

  • Arab States
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Eastern Europe
  • Western Europe
  • Central Asia
  • East Asia

Developing the Concept
Alkire, S. (2003) "A Conceptual Framework for Human Security", CRISE Working Paper 2
Rothschild, E. (1995) "What is Security?", Daedalus, 124 (3), The Quest for World Order (Summer), pp. 53-98
Waisova,S. (2003) "Human Security - The Contemporary Paradigm?", Perspectives, 20, pp. 58 - 72

Clarifying Human Security
Tadjbakhsh, S. (2005) "Human Security: Concepts and Implications" , Les Études du CERI, No.117-118
Fouinat, F.(2004)"A Comprehensive Framework for Human Security", Conflict, Security & Development, 4(3), pp.289 - 297
Stewart, F. (2004)"Development and Security", Conflict, Security & Development, 4(3), pp.261 — 288

Measurement
King, G. and Murray, C. J. L. (2001) "Rethinking Human Security", Political Science Quarterly, 116(4), pp. 585-610
Benini,A., T. Owen and H. Rue (2008) "A Semi-Parametric Spatial Regression Approach to Post-War Human Security: Cambodia, 2002–2004", Asian Criminology, 3(2), pp. 139-158
Owen, T. (2008) "Measuring Human Security" in Environmental Change and Human Security (eds.P.H. Liotta et al.), Springer
Owen, T. and O. Slaymaker (2005) "Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS: Case Study Cambodia", Ambio, 34(6), pp. 439 - 443

Policy and Human Security
Ewan, P. (2007) "Deepening the Human Security Debate: Beyond the Politics of Conceptual Clarification", Politics, 27(3), pp.182–189
Glasius, M. (2008)"Human Security from Paradigm Shift to Operationalization: Job Description for a Human Security Worker", Security Dialogue, 39(1), pp.31–54
*Kaldor, M., M. Martin and S. Selchow (2007) "Human Security: A New Strategic Narrative for Europe", International Affairs, 83(2), pp.273–288
Tadjbakhsh, S. and O.Tomescu-Hatto, eds. (2007) Promoting Human Security: Ethical, Normative and Educational Frameworks in Eastern Europe, UNESCO
Tobias D. and S. Werthes, eds.(2006) Human Security on Foreign Policy Agendas: Changes, Concepts and Cases, Duisburg: Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen (INEF Report, 80/2006)

Human Rights and Human Security
Hicks, P. (2005)"Correct Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription: The Human Rights Component of Security" , Security Dialogue, 36(3), pp. 378–380
Sfeir-Younis, A. (2004)"Violation of Human Rights is a Threat to Human Security", Conflict, Security & Development, 4(3),pp.383 — 396

Criticisms and Discussions
Chandler,D. (2008) "Human Security: The Dog That Didn’t Bark", Security Dialogue, 39(4), pp. 427–438 (for follow-up see Ambrosetti and Owen in the same issue and Chandler's response)
Hudson, H. (2005) "Doing Security As Though Humans Matter: A Feminist Perspective on Gender and the Politics of Human Security", Security Dialogue, 36(2), pp.155–174
Nuruzzaman, M. (2006) "Paradigms in Conflict The Contested Claims of Human Security, Critical Theory and Feminism" , Cooperation and Conflict, 41(3),pp.285–303
Owen, T. (2004) "Human Security – Conflict, Critique and Consensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold-Based Definition", Security Dialogue, 35(3), pp. 373 – 387 (This is a special issue on Human Security with 20 other contributors)
Paris, R. (2001) "Human Security: Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?", International Security, 26(2), pp. 87-102

Websites

Academic and practical work in the field of peace studies and Human Security, and available training in Human Security by the Peace Center of Science Po, Paris

Digital Library on Human Security prepared by the United Nations Trust Fund on Human Security, OCHA

Human Security Gateway

Related Human Development Reports

Afghanistan 2004 NHDR

Latvia 2003 NHDR

Philippines 2005 NHDR


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