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This Handbook will serve as a standard reference guide to the subject of human security, which has grown greatly in importance over the past twenty years. Human security has been part of academic and policy discourses since it was first promoted by the UNDP in its 1994 Human Development Report. Filling a clear gap in the current literature, this volume brings together some of the key scholars and policy-makers who have contributed to its emergence as a mainstream concept, including Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen and Sadako Ogata, who jointly chaired the 2001 Commission on Human Security. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical analyses, the Handbook provides examples of the use of human security in policies as diverse as disaster management, arms control and counter-terrorism, and in different geographic and institutional settings from Asia to Africa, and the UN. It also raises important questions about how the concept might be adapted and operationalised in future. Over the course of the book, the authors draw on three key aspects of human security thinking: 2. Theoretical issues to do with defining human security as a specific discourse 6. Human security from a policy a

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Author
Mary Martin; Taylor Owen; Taylor & Francis (Londyn)
Publisher
Routledge/Taylor Francis Group
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9781315885926
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Political Science, History, Military
Updated
2026-03-24

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