human security, concept and practice dr mary martin, lse cn4hs, kavala august 2014
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Human Security, Concept and Practice
Dr Mary Martin, LSE
CN4HS, Kavala August 2014
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Understanding human securityCore tenets of human security different from classical state sovereignty expanding the horizon of potential
threats incorporating a bottom-up perspective
empowering individuals FREEDOM FROM FEAR,
FREEDOM FROM WANT DIGNITY
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A range of policy applications
• HS provides analytical tool : a different way of seeing insecurity
• Recognising interlinkages between disaster , conflict and global insecurity
• different responses - integrating individual needs and developing, disaster-resilient communities
• People not as passive beneficiaries but as architects of recovery and resilience .
• Not victim culture but emancipation--Closer engagement with affected communities
• a rethinking of the relationship between private and public spheres
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Overlooked dimensions Downside risks rather than an expansion of
freedom in general – the distinction between HS, HR and HD
A threshold approach Elementary rather than all human rights. Social arrangements for safety – how does human
security fit with other imperatives? Human security as a guide amidst multiple
legitimate objectives or a cross-cutting theme? The dilemma of trade-offs
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HS Challenges in this region
– Different levels and types of vulnerability
– Managing the transition
– Legacy: Security services; arms
– Crime and porous borders
– Unemployment, and creating legitimate occupations
– Reshaping the social safety net and the political contract
– An inclusive society
– The affective dimension – hope, optimism, managing expectations
– Hidden or unspoken insecurities
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Operationalising a human security approach
addressing complexity
– Grey areas : victims or perpetrators
– Coping mechanisms and survival strategies – heroic or harmful?
– Presence of ambiguous and contradictory markers of human security
Clashes between principles: - the need for trade-offs : eg human rights versus bottom up , universal norms vs particularist cultures ;-legitimating political authority : who decides?
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6 Human Security Principles:Primacy of human rights, legitimate political authority, bottom-up; effective multilateralism, transparency, regional focus
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Challenges of the approach 2...• Coping with messy
outcomes
– Undesirable and unintended consequences
– No neat edges
– Ownership of process and results
– Balance between universal templates and local translation
• Technical assistance or political intervention?
– HS is deeply political
– Outcomes are important not just process
– Examples: ‘Rule of Law’
Conditionality
Are there limits to a human security approach ? - how to address the blurring of private and public spheres -Localism versus universal values
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Human Security questions
• What should be the role of the state?
– Eg on natural disasters
– IHL and principles of neutrality and independence constrain intervention
• R2P and crisis response
– Legitimacy, damage to civilians, aftermath
• Food security, climate change, arms control
– traditional discourse , state competition and geo strategic considerations undermine collaborative action
• Risk of securitisation - biopolitics
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Bottom-up approach
How do we know which are the good bottoms? [Javier Solana 2004]• Going beyond the usual suspects in civil
society• Inclusive approaches – marginalised
groups, even spoilers • Women and young people • Relationships and networks are crucial• Danger of romanticising the local
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Human Security as Method
Good research is research conducted with people rather than on people changing the perspective of the researcher to achieve a different ethical position a different kind of knowledgeunleash social, political processes of change
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• Disconnect between new ways of conceptualising security and the application of suitable investigative tools
• Distinctiveness of HS ? lived experiences of security issues
• Requires more attention to people within the research process
• respondents are more than means of access to ‘objective’ facts
• Using research process to redress power imbalances
Human Security Methodology