Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want

Hanlon, Robert J.; Christie, Kenneth

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“…For older persons living in extreme poverty, fear and uncertainty are experienced with great intensity and contribute to their ill‐being. One of the most popular understandings of human security deploys the notions of “freedom from want” and “freedom from fear,” as promoted through the United Nations Human Development Report 1994 (Hanlon & Christie, 2016). In Bangladesh, we find that “freedom from fear” is inherently embedded within moral calculations and spiritual aspirations towards oneself.…”

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Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Akram

Maîtrot

2023

Development Policy Review

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Motivation: Many mainstream welfare theories developed by social scientists and applied by economists and policy-makers underestimate families' roles in providing welfare to citizens. This is surprising given that the family constitutes one of the main welfare pillars across typologies of the welfare state.Purpose: This article seeks to explore the role of the family as a welfare pillar with an ageing perspective. We aimed to test whether the family serves as a space for negotiations to improve wellbeing and achieve security in the absence of effective formal mechanisms Methods and approach: Applying the framework of "informal security regimes," this article draws on 37 life-history interviews collected from older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Recurring themes are identified and analysed to explore the relationship between family and wellbeing/security. Findings: We find that family relationships are often central in the pursuit of security. This shows how welfare delivery in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), in this case Bangladesh, is deeply rooted in reciprocal family systems where all members actively fulfil moral and material expectations.Pursuing this collective goal can take different forms relative to each member's physical and mental capacity, position, gender, and age. Building on the empirical evidence,

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Section: Discussion: Towards the Notion Of “Relational Security”mentioning

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Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Akram

Maîtrot

2023

Development Policy Review

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“…Therefore, while we do not fundamentally disagree with the view that the freedom to live in dignity is a part of human security conceptually, from an analytical point of view it is best left out of the measurement itself for reasons of empirical validity and parsimony. It is also worth noting that we are not alone in this approach, with even recent work on human security maintaining a focus on freedom from fear and freedom from want (Hanlon and Christie, 2016).…”

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“…Finally, we include three indicators that do not fit neatly into either dimension but are nonetheless constitutive of human security (Andersen-Rodgers and Crawford, 2018;Annan, 2000;Hanlon and Christie, 2016). In our view, these are cross-cutting indicators that capture aspects of both freedom from want and freedom from fear.…”

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Revisiting the security–development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programmes

Reinsberg

Shaw

Bujnoch

2022

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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The concept of ‘human security’ holds promise of capturing the strong connections between economic development and personal security that has ushered in the debate about the ‘security−development nexus’ in policy circles. Human security is understood as the ability of states to protect the security of their citizens and to cater to their basic socioeconomic needs. However, the literature on human security is fragmented, leaving applied researchers without a workable definition and a convincing measurement strategy. Part of this problem is due to the fuzziness of the concept and the ambition to associate an ever-increasing set of dimensions with the concept, which renders empirical analysis moot. Following a review of the related literature, we collect measures aligning with ‘freedom from fear’ and ‘freedom from want’, representing the varied discourse on the human security concept. Employing confirmatory factor analysis on 11 indicators, we demonstrate the existence of a single latent factor and extract their common variation to generate a new Human Security Index. We validate the index by comparison against known proxies and related measures. We then present a first empirical application examining the human security implications of IMF programmes, finding that IMF programmes undermine human security, accounting for non-random selection into IMF programmes.

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Human Security

Gilder

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

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A contested concept such as human security is not easily defined in concrete terms. Instead, human security has two key elements: (1) it aims to shift the referent object of security from the state to the individual giving the individual intrinsic value and placing the interests of the individual ahead of the state;(2) it gives rise to a broader view on what can cause insecurity and that many threats are interconnected and reinforcing.The Palme Commission in 1982, chaired by former Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme, used the term 'common security' when reporting on key international security concerns. The report considered nuclearweapon free zones and regulations on conventional weapons sales, but importantly

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Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want

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Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Family's roles as a welfare pillar: The case of older persons living in extreme poverty in Bangladesh

Revisiting the security–development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programmes

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