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Human Security

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Deterrence is a form of violence

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Disciplinary society: “for your own safety”

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Definitions of security are usually cast in terms of threats to societies

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Them!

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Security: National

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Security redefined

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Security: “unable to escape”

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“Human security”

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“the simple opportunity to live a decent life, to have a proper shelter and food to eat, to be able to care for their children and to live with dignity, to have good education for their charges, their health needs cared for and to have access to paid employment.”

Nelson Mandela (cited in Thomas)

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Caroline Thomas: “human beings and their complex social and economic relations are given primacy with or over states.”

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Thomas: “the pursuit of human security must have at its core the satisfaction of basic material needs of all humankind. At the lowest level, food, shelter, education and health care are essential for the survival of human beings.”

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Thomas: “The qualitative aspect of human security is about the achievement of human dignity which incorporates personal autonomy, control over one’s life and unhindered participation in the life of the community. Emancipation from oppressive power structures, be they global, national or local in origin and scope, is necessary for human security.”

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“Development” is key to Thomas’s arguments—but it can be a violent

process

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Roland Paris argues that “human security” is too vague a concept to be

useful

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But the “human security coalition” has engineered the anti-personnel land mines convention

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And the International Criminal Court

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Better to think of “human security” in relation to “multiple sustainabilities”