Human security as a military security leftover, or as part of the human condition?

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Abstract

This brings us, in conclusion, to a new definition of human security. Summarizing the previous discussion, human security can be defined as one of the foundational conditions of being human, including both (1) the sustainable protection and provision of the material conditions for meeting the embodied needs of people, and (2) the protection of the variable existential conditions for maintaining a dignified life. Within this definition it then makes sense that the core focus of human-security endeavours should be on the most vulnerable. It makes sense that risk management should be most responsive to immediate events or processes that have both an extensive and intensive impact in producing material and existential vulnerabilities of people in general or a category of persons across a particular locale. Within this definition we can thus analytically distinguish two kinds of human security. Negative human security concerns the process of overcoming the violation of human rights. Positive human security concerns the process of sustaining the variable and contingent conditions of vibrant human life across all the domains of social life" economic, ecological, political and cultural.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster: Responding to the 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
EditorsPaul Bacon, Christopher Hobson
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages72-88
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9781138013131
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Keywords

  • freedom
  • human rights
  • human security

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