Human Security as Global Security: Reconceptualising Strategic Studies

Pettman, Ralph

doi:10.1080/09557570500059878

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“…6 Clarifying the distinction, Pettman has argued that under human security "state security can be seen as a means to an end… [that of s]ecuring people". 7 In making this shift it becomes essential to consider the interactions between individuals and groups that reside within the state and how they relate to the state itself. This view of security opens the practices of the state to observation and challenge from above and below.…”

Section: Positioning Political Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Human (In)Security and Democracy in Central America

O’Brien

2015

Democracy and Security

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Human security has increasingly shifted attention to the individual, while the state has become guarantor (or violator) of security given its role in governing the domestic environment. This paper examines how variations in regime forms influence security, pointing to the importance of political security in the wider human security framework. To illustrate the paper examines the nature of political security in Central America, a region with weakly democratised states and histories of political violence. The findings suggest a link between democracy and human security that is mediated by state capacity and the ability to control non-state violence against individuals.

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Section: Positioning Political Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Human (In)Security and Democracy in Central America

O’Brien

2015

Democracy and Security

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“…According to Akokpari [16], the fundamentals of human security have been captured in a poetic, yet practical way by Pettman [17]. Pettman believes Human Security is; about the young child that did not die of neglect, the serious epidemic that did not break out, the job that was not cut, the gun that was not run, the ethnic prejudice that did not result in violence, the dissident voice that was not made silent, the landmine that was not sold and installed, the woman who was not trafficked across state borders and sexually abused, the agricultural product that was not dumped to the detriment of the poor farmers, the short-term capital investment that was not allowed to wreck an infant industry, the addictive product that was not produced and shipped, the refugee that was not forced to flee and remain abroad and so on ([17] p. 140).…”

Section: Human Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Security and Developmental Crisis in the Contemporary West Africa

Aduloju

Pratt

2014

Journal of Human Security

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The last two decades were characterized by severe conflicts in the West Africa subregion. The era of conflict resolution, management and peace building thus came to define the region. The destruction left by long years of protracted conflicts and the present state of development is reason enough to warrant attention both from within and beyond. The study expounds, operationalizes and clarifies the concept of human security and development, and how human security issues lead to underdevelopment. The paper investigates the human security concerns in the post-conflict period and also looks at the crisis of development in the sub-region. It highlights details on the developmental crises that have bedevilled the sub-region and at the same time exposes the threats these crises pose on national security and peace in the subregion. This paper concludes that there is no appreciable effort in operationalizing human security in West Africa and this will lead to instability. The paper maintains that human security issues now complicate the developmental crisis in the sub-region due to its ambiguity. The paper suggests that policy makers should address human security issues in order to tackle developmental crisis in the sub-region.

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“…The main process for this was identified by reconceptualising security through threats outside of traditional notions of national security (Mathews, 1989;Miller, 2001;Walt, 1991). Pettman (2005) tried to invert this relationship, by seeing security studies as subordinate to human security. Yet it is problematic for security studies to still hold a primacy in analysis.…”

Section: Securitizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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MacCallion¹

2011

JOHS

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The ongoing situation in Afghanistan highlights the deadly implications that the convergence of security and development can create. The article argues that prior to the current focus on the securitydevelopment nexus, the convergence was first evidenced by the creation of human security. The article reviews the power relationships involved in the processes that have affected understandings of security and development in the process of the creation of human security. By investigating how the securitisation process operates with regards to human security, the ongoing convergence of security and development will be made evident. The implications for humanitarian workers in Afghanistan will be used to highlight that a clearer delineation is needed between security and development, both in discourse and in practice.

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Human Security as Global Security: Reconceptualising Strategic Studies

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

Human (In)Security and Democracy in Central America

Human (In)Security and Democracy in Central America

Human Security and Developmental Crisis in the Contemporary West Africa

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