Dimensions of Human Security
Debates about Human Security
Defining Events of Human Security
Human Security in Practice
What is human security?
100
This dimension of human security includes an assured basic income for individuals.
What is economic security?
100
An early criticism of human security came from these scholars, who argued human security it too hard to measure, unlike military capabilities.
Who are the realists?
100
The increase in the number of this type of war in the 1990s indicated classic security discussions were ill-equipped to deal with changes in conflict and security.
What are civil wars?
100
The United Nations Development Program published its Human Development Report in this year, which many consider the beginning of human security discussions in the intl. system.
What is 1994?
100
Human security emerged and expanded the discussion of what defines protection, moving beyond this concept, which emphasizes a state's right to determine domestic politics.
What is sovereignty?
200
This dimension of security focuses on guaranteeing a minimum protection from diseases, such as malaria.
What is health security?
200
These scholars emerged with a criticism of human security that its apparent neutral universal use of human obscures the very gendered forms of insecurity and security that exist for feminized groups, such as women and poor men.
Who are feminists?
200
This event marked a major turning point in security discussions, as classic security did not account for non-state actors, such as terrorist organizations.
What is 9/11?
200
The banning of this military device in 1997 marked a success for human security activists, as it had long-term effects that specifically targeted civilians in rural areas.
What are land mines?
200
While classic security definitions begin with the state as the referent or point of focus, but for human security, the referent is this.
What is the individual?
300
This dimension of security seeks to protect people from short and long term effects of threats and degradation of natural resources and climate.
What is environmental security?
300
Freedom from "this" defines one conception of human security, which focuses on poverty and disease and seeks to promote human capabilities for development.
What is want?
300
This disease epidemic, which has killed an estimated 20 million people worldwide, illustrated how state and economic security is directly linked to health security.
What is AIDS?
300
The conflict in this region of Sudan is indicative of the importance of environmental security which focuses on the impact of changing climate patterns in shaping different groups' access to scarce resources, such as water and arable land.
What is Darfur?
300
One major instrument of human security is this international organization, which has established several War Crimes Tribunals.
What is the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
400
This dimension seeks to ensure people live in a society that honors their basic human rights and ensures freedoms of individuals and groups.
What is political security?
400
One criticism of human security is that its bottom-up approach actually obscures the central importance of "this," which is integral to providing and maintaining security.
What is the state?
400
This process of time-space compression of economic, cultural and political forces and exchanges, also known as this, has indicated a need for a broader and more encompassing definition of security.
What is globalization?
400
Rather than just focus on obvious incompatibilities as cause of conflict, human security also includes this, which includes poor economic growth, disease, ecological stress and general issues in typically poor countries.
What is underdevelopment?
400
Rather than focus on Great Powers alone, human security better includes this geopolitical region, a popular term among postcolonial and Marxist scholars for marginalized 3rd world nations.
What is the Global South?
500
This dimension seeks to protect people from loss of traditional relationships and values and sectarian and ethnic violence.
What is community security?
500
Some scholars argue human security and its moral undertones have backfired in justifying this form of action in which outside states promote and provide military action against leaders in their own states citing threats to civilians from such leaders.
What is humanitarian intervention?
500
This debate/dilemma, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, argued that defense spending takes away important resources from development and human security demands more resources for development and fewer for arms.
What is the guns versus butter debate?
500
In 2000 the UN Security Council passed this resolution which focused on human security for women, especially in situations of conflict. Provide either the name or number of the Resolution.
What is 1325 On Women, Peace and Security?
500
The promotion of human security, which includes states, international organizations, transnational activist networks and NGOs is a great example of this concept, which focuses on coordination and cooperation without world government.
What is global governance?
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